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00:00:43 >> I'm delighted to be able to entertain you a little bit today and I don't know what you're expecting since we're all girls and.
00:00:53 Since we're the only girls on the show but I've got one announcement to make before we do our part.
00:00:59 This is as sexy as I'm going to get.
00:01:02 [ Laughter ]
00:01:06 >> No, this is our little family and we sing the songs mostly of the old Carter family and well we've been around these parts for a long time and we're proud to be part of the Johnny Cash show.
00:01:16 We're going to sing some new ones and some old ones so sit back, relax, take your hands out of each other's pockets and.
00:01:22 [ Laughter ]
00:01:23 >> We'll sing a few little songs for you and then you'll see who you've come to see.
00:01:27 Old Golden Throat will be right out.
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00:01:31 >> Look out Jackson town.
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00:01:52 >> I think for most people when they think about June Carter Cash they're probably thinking about Reese Witherspoon.
00:01:57 >> Will you marry me?
00:01:58 >> Because that film Walk the Line was really June's mass exposure I think to a lot of people.
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00:02:06 >> Johnny Cash and June Carter, Johnny and June, Walk the Line was the fairy tale.
00:02:13 >> The movie is about a period of time about this big and a life so large.
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00:02:23 >> There's probably going to be as much if not more of June involved in the equation than John.
00:02:28 And I'll get shot and killed here in Nashville for saying that.
00:02:32 >> What would you like to talk about?
00:02:33 >> It really doesn't matter. I thought you might ask me where Johnny was.
00:02:36 >> Where is Johnny?
00:02:37 >> He's not here is he?
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00:02:45 >> If you only know June Carter Cash you're missing a whole lot of things.
00:02:50 >> She was born with one of the most famous names in country music.
00:02:54 >> A remarkable show business career.
00:02:56 >> Well June Carter was an incredible artist in her own right.
00:03:00 >> She's one of the most charming and talented women in country music today.
00:03:03 >> A singer, a comedian, actress.
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00:03:09 >> Who is June Carter Cash to me? Well she's a badass bitch first off.
00:03:14 >> You couldn't deny her. She had this spark, the it. You can't overdub the it.
00:03:21 >> But I see you've been married so long to one man.
00:03:23 >> No, no I had two before him. I put all mine together and I'm still not nearly caught up with you.
00:03:28 [ Laughter ]
00:03:30 >> There was so much about my mother that may have been misunderstood.
00:03:34 >> Underrated and underappreciated.
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00:03:40 >> I think at the heart of it June's story hasn't been told.
00:03:45 >> Would you welcome June Carter Cash.
00:03:47 >> June Carter Cash.
00:03:48 >> June Carter Cash.
00:03:49 >> June Carter Cash.
00:03:50 >> June Carter Cash.
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00:04:13 >> Everybody here but Marty.
00:04:15 >> Oh they are? Well you might know Marty would be late.
00:04:18 >> Part of what he does. Once you get to be a big star you're really late.
00:04:22 >> I'm late because of Johnny.
00:04:25 >> How are you?
00:04:26 >> I'm good Marty.
00:04:27 >> Hi. Lord look at everybody. It feels like old times.
00:04:30 >> It does.
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00:04:39 >> Well here we are.
00:04:40 >> Hi June.
00:04:41 >> Come on in.
00:04:42 >> Come on in.
00:04:43 >> I'm excited everybody. I often wonder how I'd ever do an album.
00:04:51 And then I met this really wonderful girl named Vicki Hamilton who was mostly in the world of rock and roll.
00:04:58 >> There was an urgency that she wanted to make this record.
00:05:03 So I had shopped it around to all the major record companies.
00:05:09 And everybody passed. I like couldn't believe it.
00:05:13 There's no way we're putting out a record with a 70 year old woman.
00:05:17 >> I did one, four, five.
00:05:21 >> I was kind of incensed.
00:05:24 This is like country music royalty. How can you pass?
00:05:29 So I decided okay I'm going to like start my own record company and raise the money to make this record.
00:05:37 >> I think I've changed her whole life.
00:05:40 So I'm hoping to make some history again this morning.
00:05:45 >> That day we just gathered around to sing the songs of her family and my mom's family and things that she'd written down through the years.
00:05:55 >> I was looking for some of the good Carter family songs to sing on this album and Diamonds in the Rough is probably one of my favorites Marty.
00:06:03 So why don't you and I sing it?
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00:06:13 >> My mother was like a kid again.
00:06:16 She was eager.
00:06:18 It was as if she was ready to go get on a roller coaster.
00:06:23 [ Music ]
00:06:25 >> The day will soon be over and the digging will be done.
00:06:35 No more gems be gathered so let us all press on.
00:06:45 >> I don't think I've ever really known a life that's any different than show business.
00:06:50 >> My mother was Maybel Carter who was a part of the original Carter family.
00:06:55 >> This is my mama Maybel and then my aunt and my uncle, Sarah Carter, A.P. Carter.
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00:07:18 >> At the time that my mother was born, Maybel had been recording for a couple of years with the original Carter family.
00:07:25 [ Music ]
00:07:32 >> One day we found a man that wanted us to come up and make a record.
00:07:36 So we went up to Bristol and made our first record and it's been going ever since.
00:07:42 [ Music ]
00:07:50 >> The Carters, I mean, they were the beginning.
00:07:52 That was the spontaneous combustion of country music.
00:07:56 And June traces right into that.
00:07:59 >> They had so many tunes that formed a basis for our country and western music as we know it today.
00:08:05 And when people didn't know what kind of a melody to use,
00:08:08 they just went back and grabbed an old Carter family melody and hung on to that.
00:08:13 [ Music ]
00:08:26 >> I just thought everybody had a mother Maybel Carter that picked the wildwood flower on the guitar.
00:08:30 I didn't really know she was different.
00:08:32 [ Music ]
00:08:35 >> Maybel was one of the early female guitar players that actually slayed at guitar.
00:08:42 Like, she could straight up play.
00:08:44 [ Music ]
00:08:50 >> My little fingers were so calloused learning to play the wildwood flower.
00:08:54 That was one of the first songs I think that most country kids, boys or girls, you want to play.
00:09:00 [ Music ]
00:09:09 >> My father was instrumental in this too, Ezra Carter.
00:09:12 Daddy was a wonderful influence in our life.
00:09:15 Daddy was a brilliant man.
00:09:17 [ Music ]
00:09:23 >> She was very close to him.
00:09:25 She'd ride his motorcycle with him.
00:09:28 She saw herself kind of as a real rough and tumble little kid holding onto daddy
00:09:37 as he drove his motorcycle through that area.
00:09:41 >> I think probably the lesson that my father taught, the most important one, was that we be ourselves.
00:09:48 You develop what you have.
00:09:50 You do that as a person.
00:09:52 [ Music ]
00:09:55 >> You grow up like that, loving that place, knowing that's who you are,
00:09:59 when you just become part of the woods and the bees and the birds
00:10:03 and you're just a bunch of country little kids running around and that's your place.
00:10:07 When you have to move away in order to do what you need to do, you carry that with you.
00:10:12 [ Music ]
00:10:16 >> I'm sure you're enjoying these good old songs.
00:10:18 There's only the Carter family that can sing them.
00:10:20 Now here's the three little Carter sisters, Helen, June and Anita.
00:10:23 What's it going to be?
00:10:24 >> In the Highway.
00:10:25 >> In the Highway.
00:10:25 >> In the Highway.
00:10:26 >> In the Highway.
00:10:27 >> In the Highway.
00:10:28 >> In the Highway.
00:10:29 >> In the Highway.
00:10:30 >> In the Highway.
00:10:31 >> My sisters Helen and Anita and I went with my mother to the Texas border stations.
00:10:37 [ Foreign Language ]
00:10:39 >> That was the end of the world away from southwestern Virginia.
00:10:43 >> Well, here's something that's mighty good and that's a solo by June.
00:10:48 What's it going to be, June?
00:10:49 >> I'm going to sing in June 143.
00:10:52 [ Music ]
00:11:05 >> We get right on the stage and Mother Maybelle Carter, I guarantee you if she could hear us
00:11:10 out of tune she would just pop up and let us know about it.
00:11:13 >> You're on holy ground when you're playing those songs.
00:11:16 They'll live forever and ever and ever.
00:11:18 >> Yeah, they do.
00:11:19 >> So we're all found in them.
00:11:21 >> That goes right at the end.
00:11:23 >> Why don't we sing that one that we just tried?
00:11:26 [ Music ]
00:11:40 >> It's time for the Carter sisters, Mother Maybelle.
00:11:43 >> We left those Texas border stations.
00:11:45 >> And we worked a lot of shows.
00:11:47 >> Helen and Anita and I with my mother, just the four of us.
00:11:51 They drove for hours and hours and then did four shows a day sometimes.
00:11:56 It was relentless and sometimes brutal work.
00:12:01 [ Music ]
00:12:10 >> Well, I hope you folks like that in there.
00:12:12 I'm going to give you a little jolt now.
00:12:14 I'm going to sing one that's awful corny here for you.
00:12:18 I'm going to be loud and I reckon I'm mommy's loudest young
00:12:20 and that's all I can figure out for myself here.
00:12:22 [ Music ]
00:12:35 >> She was not the greatest singer in the whole Carter family,
00:12:38 but her personality and her emotion made her part actually sometimes even more interesting
00:12:46 and she just would get in there very much like I do and just sing right from the gut and the heart.
00:12:50 >> Maybelle just turned mama loose and let her just be as zany and crazy and a kid as she could be.
00:12:59 It's like she would do anything for a laugh.
00:13:02 >> I think I tried to be funny when I couldn't think of what else to do.
00:13:06 When you didn't know what else to do, you just talked and so I rattled away, boogity, boogity, boogity.
00:13:12 [ Music ]
00:13:19 >> There was no way that June was not going to be front and center.
00:13:22 It's hard for her to stand still and not interject.
00:13:27 [ Music ]
00:13:38 >> We had come to Nashville and we got a call to appear and so we went down and went to work at the Grand Ole Opry.
00:13:45 [ Music ]
00:14:03 >> If you were going to Nashville and your dream was to be on the Grand Ole Opry,
00:14:06 because everybody all over the country listened to it if you loved country music.
00:14:11 [ Applause ]
00:14:15 >> We've got the girl here who can put an awful lot of humor in any program.
00:14:18 Let's make welcome Miss June Carter.
00:14:21 [ Applause ]
00:14:24 >> I'm going to sing if I can swallow before I get started because this song ain't got no swallowing.
00:14:30 [ Music ]
00:14:34 >> Back in those days, Saturday night you'd turn on WSM Nashville and listen to the Grand Ole Opry.
00:14:40 [ Music ]
00:14:44 >> June Carter was an all around entertainer.
00:14:46 [ Music ]
00:14:51 >> June Carter, here we are.
00:14:53 [ Applause ]
00:14:58 [ Cheering ]
00:15:00 >> What did I do?
00:15:02 >> What did you do?
00:15:04 >> Well if it ain't June Carter.
00:15:07 [ Applause ]
00:15:14 >> Of all the knot headed people, you are the knotty headed, the snot headed.
00:15:19 Well, bless his heart, it's Carl that's really.
00:15:23 Hello Carl.
00:15:25 >> Hello June.
00:15:27 >> You've done gone good.
00:15:29 [ Music ]
00:15:43 >> Carl Smith was the preeminent honky tonk singer of the day.
00:15:48 >> He was a hot honk, one of the handsomest men in country music.
00:15:54 >> I heard what you're saying out here.
00:15:57 >> What did I say?
00:15:58 >> You said that--
00:15:59 >> I didn't think you heard me.
00:16:01 >> You said you know me quite well.
00:16:03 I just want you to know Carl that I know you quite well too.
00:16:06 >> Oh.
00:16:07 >> I don't like what I know.
00:16:11 [ Laughter ]
00:16:15 >> That's your own television, look.
00:16:17 [ Music ]
00:16:24 >> June Carter landed the star.
00:16:28 Of all the women that wanted Carl, June is the one that got him.
00:16:33 [ Music ]
00:16:38 >> They were the storybook romance of the Opry.
00:16:40 They were like, oh, June Carter of the famous Carter family and Carl Smith the biggest hit maker of the day.
00:16:46 I mean like wow, perfect chemistry, perfect timing, perfect everything.
00:16:50 They were like the couple.
00:16:53 [ Music ]
00:16:55 >> There was a lot of joy, a lot of laughter.
00:16:58 It sure had a beautiful outcome with my sister Carly.
00:17:02 [ Music ]
00:17:06 >> See, mom and daddy look like they belong together too.
00:17:10 Because they had a very similar sense of humor and they got a kick out of each other.
00:17:16 >> I'm kind of interested in you Carl Smith.
00:17:18 You're quite a ladies man and I'm kind of--
00:17:21 [ Laughter ]
00:17:26 >> Hey, don't kid me, I'm in there, I'm not--
00:17:29 >> You close yours, I'm liable to fall in.
00:17:31 >> Well, your big old ears are the holes you have.
00:17:33 [ Music ]
00:17:45 >> The character you did, was it you or was it something you created?
00:17:50 >> I created her.
00:17:51 She would do almost anything to get a laugh and did.
00:17:54 And I don't think it was sincerely me, no, it's just a crazy little girl I played.
00:17:59 [ Music ]
00:18:07 >> Because she could do it so well, people believed that June Carter really was this uncouth hick.
00:18:18 >> She made it seem effortless.
00:18:20 It was not effortless.
00:18:22 [ Music ]
00:18:24 >> She had thick binders that had jokes and songs and routines that she had honed over decades.
00:18:36 >> Miss June Carter.
00:18:37 [ Applause ]
00:18:42 >> Nashville at the time was stuck in this image of the little homemaker.
00:18:48 [ Applause ]
00:18:50 >> The opera was insistent that women should dress in those kind of gingham checks and be very conservative.
00:18:59 [ Music ]
00:19:14 >> There was a difficult time in my life and I wasn't very happy.
00:19:19 It was during the time when I was in my first marriage, I was married to Carl Smith.
00:19:27 My mother was working and she was going on the road.
00:19:31 And I think that Carl had a different vision of what a marriage was than my mom did.
00:19:37 >> He wanted her to stay home and be more of a mom and she could still go play the opera,
00:19:43 but he didn't think that she'd be out on the road.
00:19:46 And mom always said that she was covered up with ambition.
00:19:50 She was absolutely filled with ambition and she had all these things she wanted to do.
00:19:56 I think she wanted to be, I think she just wanted to be a superstar.
00:20:00 [ Music ]
00:20:04 >> I detected a little sarcasm in that voice when I heard you putting me on.
00:20:08 I said, "What's the matter with you anyway?"
00:20:10 >> Well, you know what you've done to me, don't you?
00:20:12 >> I don't know what you're talking about.
00:20:14 You mean this morning?
00:20:15 >> Tell her what you've done to me.
00:20:16 >> I've been helping you, Carl.
00:20:17 I've been helping you.
00:20:18 >> Yeah, you was helping me.
00:20:19 Tell them what you've done.
00:20:20 >> I was helping you, buddy.
00:20:21 You was in bad shape and I was just giving you a little, well, I'll tell you what.
00:20:25 He had a bad cold in his head.
00:20:28 >> Yeah.
00:20:29 >> It's not something that you really did in the mid-1950s.
00:20:33 You really didn't get divorced.
00:20:35 [ Music ]
00:20:38 >> But by 1955, and we're talking less than three years,
00:20:42 they've already decided they're going their separate ways.
00:20:45 >> You may be a good old girl, but you don't look too good.
00:20:48 >> Oh, is that so?
00:20:49 >> No, you don't.
00:20:50 You ought to put some lipstick on and bring your lips--
00:20:52 >> But they still worked together.
00:20:54 >> -- around your eyes.
00:20:56 >> Where June and Carl are on stage doing banter.
00:20:59 >> Bring your hair out a little, you know.
00:21:01 >> Why don't you try sneezing, Naught Head, and bring your teeth out a little?
00:21:05 [ Laughter ]
00:21:07 >> I like that old Carl Smith.
00:21:08 I got his picture at home.
00:21:09 >> Yeah.
00:21:10 >> I just--
00:21:11 >> I don't live here.
00:21:12 [ Laughter ]
00:21:19 >> You wouldn't know, honey.
00:21:21 You ain't been here long enough to have a picture.
00:21:23 [ Laughter ]
00:21:26 >> Her divorce from Carl Smith was a scandal.
00:21:30 Nowadays, nobody would bat an eye, but back then, it was a thing.
00:21:35 >> In the conservative Nashville, she still bore a scarlet letter.
00:21:41 You were like used goods.
00:21:43 [ Music ]
00:21:54 >> I think that she had an existential crisis.
00:21:57 I think that, you know, the divorce put her in a tailspin.
00:22:01 [ Music ]
00:22:07 >> She didn't think that anybody was ever going to love her,
00:22:10 who at the same time, we'd let her just be able to do what she wanted to do
00:22:15 because she just couldn't give it up.
00:22:17 [ Music ]
00:22:22 >> Later on in his life, right before he passed away, I said,
00:22:25 "So what happened with you and Mom?"
00:22:27 Mom always says, "She loved you so deeply and was so heartbroken."
00:22:31 [ Music ]
00:22:33 >> And Daddy said, "Your mama never loved me."
00:22:36 And I said, "What?"
00:22:38 And he said, "She loved the idea of me."
00:22:41 And I kind of understood that to a certain degree.
00:22:45 The idea of him was-- her idea was that they would just keep doing what they were doing.
00:22:50 [ Music ]
00:22:57 >> All right, now, it sounds like you're ready to hop.
00:22:59 >> That sounds great.
00:23:00 >> Yeah, you're just pressing right along.
00:23:02 [ Music ]
00:23:06 >> There you go.
00:23:07 >> Let me know when you're ready.
00:23:08 >> OK, John Carter.
00:23:10 >> OK.
00:23:12 >> This song explains itself in a way because I look back on the days
00:23:16 when I was living in New York City and for a while in my life,
00:23:20 I was part of a rock and roll bunch.
00:23:22 So this goes back to those years.
00:23:24 OK, here we go.
00:23:26 [ Music ]
00:23:28 [ Singing ]
00:23:43 >> This was the time in her life when she was absolutely heartbroken.
00:23:47 >> She was, you know, sort of asserting her independence.
00:23:50 You know, like she always said, she wasn't the best singer or the best player.
00:23:53 But she had something and she needed to find that.
00:23:57 And I think that that was partly why she ran away.
00:24:00 She went to New York.
00:24:02 [ Music ]
00:24:11 >> And so I went to New York and just took my little girl, went to New York,
00:24:15 took Carleen with me and moved into an apartment and I studied there.
00:24:19 [ Music ]
00:24:21 >> June and my sister, Rosemary, were studying with Sandy Meisner
00:24:25 at the neighborhood playhouse.
00:24:28 She wanted to be an actress.
00:24:31 And the greatest teacher of all was Sandy Meisner.
00:24:35 >> If you think about it, like women just didn't do that at the time.
00:24:40 Being this person on the road who lived this life that was very unorthodox,
00:24:44 especially for women at that time who had children.
00:24:47 >> It was almost impossible.
00:24:50 But June did it.
00:24:52 [ Music ]
00:24:56 >> She had this dual role that she was playing.
00:25:00 She was still coming home on the weekends to work on the Opry on Saturday nights.
00:25:07 And she would leave on Sunday and go to New York City and study all week
00:25:13 and then come back home.
00:25:16 >> She was flying back and forth on propeller planes, people.
00:25:19 There were no jets.
00:25:21 And she was also working constantly then, filming television shows.
00:25:29 >> I did several shows back during that time.
00:25:33 >> Well, there's $100 in there.
00:25:35 I want you to take it down to the jail and see what you can do for the count.
00:25:38 >> I worked wherever I could.
00:25:40 I just picked up what parts I could.
00:25:42 >> I'll kill him! You hear me, Kay? I'll kill him!
00:25:44 >> She got on an episode of Gunsmoke.
00:25:47 >> That big whiskey gun, no good, nothing?
00:25:50 I hope I die. Just show you how angry what he done.
00:25:54 >> She's a dance hall girl.
00:25:56 And she goes, "He shot me, Marshall Dillon!"
00:25:59 [ Music ]
00:26:04 >> She loved it. It was the time of her life.
00:26:07 I mean, she met a lot of people.
00:26:09 >> Jimmy Dean, Brando.
00:26:12 >> Tennessee Williams.
00:26:14 >> She was also traveling back and forth, opening for Elvis at the time.
00:26:18 [ Music ]
00:26:22 >> My mom would always get a twinkle in her eye when she talked about Elvis.
00:26:26 >> You were a friend of Elvis Presley's?
00:26:28 >> Yes.
00:26:30 [ Laughter ]
00:26:34 >> That's all I mean. I didn't know.
00:26:36 [ Laughter ]
00:26:38 >> Yes, we were friends a long time ago.
00:26:41 >> Yeah, many times I said, "Mama, come on. Tell me. You slept with Elvis, right?"
00:26:47 [ Laughter ]
00:26:49 >> She would giggle and she would blush a little.
00:26:52 But she said, "No, Elvis was just a nice young man when I knew him."
00:26:57 [ Laughter ]
00:26:59 >> A lot of women loved Elvis Presley.
00:27:01 [ Music ]
00:27:07 >> She told me that during that time, Elvis knew Mama was heartbroken,
00:27:12 and so he would come to New York.
00:27:15 And he was apparently pushing me around Central Park in a baby carriage.
00:27:20 [ Music ]
00:27:22 >> My mom had a sheet music that she had on the road.
00:27:25 It was Carl Smith's sheet music, and Elvis put a mustache on him
00:27:29 and said, "Painting by Presley," and signed it.
00:27:32 And my mother tucked that away all those years.
00:27:35 [ Music ]
00:27:40 >> I think that was when she was emerging as a person on her own,
00:27:46 and she was just becoming someone.
00:27:50 And all of these people were also just becoming someone.
00:27:54 She was one of them. She was accepted as an actress, as a singer.
00:27:59 She was June Carter.
00:28:02 And she was making it on her own.
00:28:05 [ Music ]
00:28:20 >> She came that close.
00:28:22 She was there. She was on the cusp.
00:28:24 She was standing at the Greenwich Village gate.
00:28:28 [ Background noise ]
00:28:33 >> And she just slipped away.
00:28:34 [ Music ]
00:28:44 >> And here he is again to sing our closing inspirational,
00:28:48 the Tennessee Wobblers.
00:28:50 [ Applause ]
00:28:52 >> Thank you.
00:28:54 >> You know, your life changes. You take a different course.
00:28:57 >> You know, Vernon, I got a lot of hand-holding to make up for.
00:29:02 >> I don't think she ever gave up her ambition.
00:29:05 I think life intervened.
00:29:11 >> She came home one weekend, if you will, and found herself pregnant.
00:29:17 And that was the end of her movie career.
00:29:20 [ Background noise ]
00:29:26 >> So I called him Daddy Rip, and he was the daddy of my little sister, Rosie.
00:29:32 >> June and Rip Nix were married very, very quickly.
00:29:37 >> He had nothing to do with show business.
00:29:42 >> He raced speedboats. His daddy owned a garage,
00:29:46 so he was always like building motors and hot rods, and he wanted to go fast.
00:29:54 >> She had two daughters, both of whom were under three years old.
00:29:59 And so something had to give.
00:30:02 [ Music ]
00:30:09 >> Bye, Rose.
00:30:11 >> I'll go sit down.
00:30:13 >> You're a whole singing bunch today.
00:30:16 [ Music ]
00:30:18 >> Okay, I'm going to talk a little bit.
00:30:21 >> Maybe. You're kidding.
00:30:23 [ Laughter ]
00:30:27 >> Rosie and I wrote this song together. This is my daughter, Rosie.
00:30:30 It's a tough story after you've been living in New York a long time, and you're just worn out.
00:30:34 Okay, babies, here we go. Thump, thump, thump.
00:30:38 [ Laughter ]
00:30:41 >> Come on, Velvet.
00:30:43 [ Music ]
00:30:45 >> I got a car in New York City, with a sidewalk magazine.
00:30:50 [ Music ]
00:31:01 >> I think it was about 1956.
00:31:05 I was coming home on the weekends to do that Randall Loughrie one Saturday night.
00:31:11 I was backstage. I was just coming across backstage, and this big, tall guy stops me.
00:31:20 And said, "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash."
00:31:22 >> Hello, I'm Johnny Cash.
00:31:24 [ Music ]
00:31:27 >> And I knew who Johnny Cash was.
00:31:30 I'd had to listen to Johnny Cash a lot for the past two or three months before that,
00:31:35 because I had been traveling with Elvis Presley, and Elvis was a real Johnny Cash nut.
00:31:40 He would always play John on the jukebox.
00:31:44 He liked the song "Cry, Cry, Cry."
00:31:48 "Cry, Cry, Cry" was one that Elvis used to tune his guitar by,
00:31:50 or I would tune Elvis's guitar when he would break the strings.
00:31:53 The only way he could tune his guitar would go,
00:31:55 "Everybody knows where you go when the sun goes down."
00:31:59 And Elvis would try to get the tune that way.
00:32:02 So he told me an awful lot about Johnny Cash, and I kept saying,
00:32:05 "If I ever meet this fellow, I want to see what he looks like. What does he look like?"
00:32:09 Well, he did walk up to me backstage and just said that.
00:32:12 And I said, "Well, I'm June Carter." And he said, "I know. You know, I know who you are."
00:32:18 I met her in '56. She was a performer on the Grand Ole Opry at the time,
00:32:22 and I was doing my first guest appearance there.
00:32:25 He told me that I was his favorite entertainer at that time from the show.
00:32:32 You have to put yourself in Johnny Cash's shoes.
00:32:35 I mean, he was a very, very poor son of the soil from Arkansas.
00:32:41 And he has grown up hearing June on his radio.
00:32:45 [singing]
00:32:48 She's been performing since she was six years old.
00:32:51 She was with him down on those Mexican stations when she was a little girl.
00:32:55 [singing]
00:32:59 I remember on my senior trip in 1950, we went to the Grand Ole Opry,
00:33:03 and I was sitting way up in the balcony, and there was June Carter down on the stage.
00:33:08 And I said, "One of these days, I'm going to get her autograph."
00:33:11 [singing]
00:33:14 [applause]
00:33:17 Oh, he's handsome.
00:33:19 And I imagine he sings pretty good, too.
00:33:21 So good that he's one of the biggest new stars in country music today.
00:33:25 Is that so?
00:33:26 Yes, sir. Come on over, meet him.
00:33:28 [music]
00:33:39 At that time, Air Life took us somewhere else.
00:33:42 [singing]
00:33:45 I was living in Memphis, and I just didn't see her for about five more years.
00:33:49 [singing]
00:33:52 He went his direction, and I went mine.
00:33:56 [singing]
00:34:00 By the late '50s, her options are not as wide open
00:34:06 as they may have been just a couple of years before.
00:34:10 She's got the girls.
00:34:13 Now, Mom worked, and my stepdaddy Rip did not always have a 9-5 job.
00:34:22 She used to write commercials for the Opry to make extra money.
00:34:26 She'd say to me and Rosie, she'd say, "Listen tonight,
00:34:29 because that little commercial I wrote and made 50 extra dollars,
00:34:33 it's going to be on there tonight."
00:34:35 June Carter. June Buck.
00:34:37 I like to sing old Carter family songs because I think I know them a little better.
00:34:41 She always used to say to me, "Money ain't everything, but it sure as hell helps."
00:34:45 June was working opening drug stores.
00:34:50 June was playing in the milk aisle of the grocery store.
00:34:55 [singing]
00:35:01 She became known as somebody who was reliable.
00:35:06 And when they would need the girl singer,
00:35:09 that was always what the promoters were looking for, the girl singer.
00:35:14 [singing]
00:35:17 That's where June came in.
00:35:19 [singing]
00:35:28 So, just as it happened, Johnny Cash had an opening.
00:35:35 I got invited to go on a thing with him.
00:35:42 First, I think it was Dallas, Texas.
00:35:45 June Carter.
00:35:47 And there was a magic when they got on stage together.
00:35:55 There was something that was unique that happened.
00:35:58 Thank you very much.
00:35:59 Right now, we'd like to bring out the flower of Clinch Mountain,
00:36:02 Miss June Carter.
00:36:04 Come here, June.
00:36:06 Hey, will you do a song for us?
00:36:09 So, when they got to doing more and more dates together,
00:36:12 John offered her a job as to be in his band.
00:36:15 It goes, "Love is just a thing of beauty,
00:36:20 and beauty is a blossom."
00:36:24 If you want to get your finger bit, poke it at a possum.
00:36:28 Sing one.
00:36:30 [singing]
00:36:39 By the time Johnny puts together his roadshow, he's a superstar.
00:36:44 Hi, folks, this is Johnny Cash,
00:36:46 and we're going to tear the place up, y'all stick around with me.
00:36:49 He's just this man in black, this iconic figure who commanded a stage.
00:36:57 [singing]
00:36:59 When Johnny Cash came out, he just had that magnetism.
00:37:04 It was a, I don't know, there was just some kind of a magic.
00:37:08 [singing]
00:37:20 It just got to me, you know, and I got the biggest crush on him.
00:37:26 You would not believe it. I hadn't thought about him when I was home.
00:37:28 And, you know, when I was in the sleep bed or whatever, I'd think about Johnny Cash.
00:37:33 [singing]
00:37:36 His name is Johnny Cash. He and June Carter, they've been touring around the world.
00:37:40 Oh, she's very good, Pete. I'm very proud of her.
00:37:44 We went all over the Far East, and she was so homesick, I guess,
00:37:48 that she asked me to go up to see her old home place up at Macy's Springs, Virginia.
00:37:54 [laughing]
00:37:56 [singing]
00:38:20 This was a time I woke up one morning, and I came to the realization that I thought,
00:38:26 "Oh my goodness, I think I'm falling in love with Johnny Cash."
00:38:30 [singing]
00:38:34 Scared the daylights out of me. It was not an opportune time.
00:38:38 I thought, "This is not going to work," because we had two lives of our own going in other directions,
00:38:44 and it wasn't convenient. It just wasn't.
00:38:48 She was married, and he was married. He had four girls.
00:38:54 My mom was truly in love with my dad, and they made a life together.
00:39:01 And my dad was gone all the time. June was there.
00:39:06 They had this thing about being on the road in their blood, this constant motion, this striving.
00:39:12 They were both artists.
00:39:15 [singing]
00:39:21 Everything was wrong. Everything was crazy. He was off on another planet somewhere.
00:39:28 [singing]
00:39:30 You were singing one back there in the dressing room about family.
00:39:34 That's what I understood. That within three years, dear,
00:39:37 I'll be back to--oh, pardon. There we go.
00:39:40 You're lighter, I'm sorry.
00:39:43 [singing]
00:39:46 By the time he and June were falling in love and she was traveling with him,
00:39:51 he was a full-blown addict.
00:39:53 [singing]
00:39:55 I tried to encourage him to get clean. He would try, and I wouldn't see him for a long time.
00:40:02 He'd come back on the road, and he'd be using again.
00:40:05 [singing]
00:40:10 It was a terrible cycle that he was in.
00:40:13 Rosie and I would say our prayers every night, and Mama would always say,
00:40:17 "Don't forget tonight. Pray for Johnny Cash, 'cause he's a good man."
00:40:22 So these little girls are praying for Johnny Cash, who's not their daddy.
00:40:26 [singing]
00:40:33 I didn't want to fall in love with him. Didn't mean to fall in love with him.
00:40:38 I was scared to death of him.
00:40:40 So I did a lot of just running and trying to sit in a corner by myself,
00:40:45 because I wouldn't even admit it to myself for a long time.
00:40:49 Johnny Cash in the Tennessee Free!
00:40:52 I didn't want to hurt anybody.
00:40:54 I didn't want to do anything that would hurt him or his family or me or my family.
00:41:00 And I'd always been raised a real religious girl.
00:41:05 June was a good Christian girl.
00:41:08 I mean, you didn't go to bed with somebody unless you were married.
00:41:12 And I had never in my life meant to be married more than once.
00:41:19 [cheering]
00:41:21 Mr. Johnny Cash!
00:41:23 And yet, she was deeply, deeply, fiercely in love with John.
00:41:34 So there was a real conflict going on there.
00:41:39 I tell you, you can't kill people like me when something like this happens.
00:41:46 One night, I know I woke up in the middle of the night,
00:41:51 and I was crying when I woke up, and I thought, "I can't do this. I can't.
00:41:57 This is driving me crazy." Because all I could feel was pain.
00:42:01 And I'd been writing songs with a guy named Merle Kilgore, a great songwriter.
00:42:07 And he had encouraged me to write.
00:42:10 Okay, we're ready? Give me a minute.
00:42:12 The next morning, Kilgore came in, and I said, "We've got to hone a little bit on this,
00:42:17 but I really think I've written a great song."
00:42:20 Here we go. Now.
00:42:22 All right, we're just pressing on.
00:42:24 I'm going to sing this song for you, and I'd like to try my version,
00:42:29 the way it was written in the beginning.
00:42:32 Love is a burning thing
00:42:38 And it makes a fiery ring
00:42:43 Bound by wild desire
00:42:48 I fell into a ring of fire
00:42:52 You know, I don't know if a lot of people know that she wrote "Ring of Fire."
00:42:55 I feel like people say to me all the time, "Johnny Cash wrote 'Ring of Fire,'"
00:42:58 "Johnny Cash even wrote 'Ring of Fire.'"
00:43:00 He wrote "Ring of Fire," okay?
00:43:02 And the flames went higher
00:43:04 And it burns, burns, burns
00:43:08 The ring of fire
00:43:10 My father heard this beautiful song.
00:43:14 And the story goes, he had a dream that he heard Mexicali trumpets on "The Ring of Fire."
00:43:20 [Trumpet playing]
00:43:29 Love is a burning thing
00:43:35 And it makes a fiery ring
00:43:42 Bound by wild desire
00:43:45 There is no country song better known than "Ring of Fire," I don't think.
00:43:49 It's a song that is everlasting.
00:43:52 [Trumpet playing]
00:43:54 I mean, "Ring of Fire," when Johnny recorded it,
00:43:57 you're talking about this thing that came from this really deep,
00:44:01 like, "I'm going to hell, I'm in a ring of fire, I'm going to burn in hell,"
00:44:04 because of what I feel.
00:44:06 And then you have this angelic chorus of these Carter girls up there.
00:44:12 The ring of fire, the ring of fire
00:44:16 The juxtaposition of it, there's just so many things that shouldn't work.
00:44:22 And yet it works because it is unusual.
00:44:26 That's the wonderful thing about music.
00:44:28 Sometimes those things that seem like they don't fit
00:44:31 are what make the magic of the music.
00:44:34 I'm going to burn in ring of fire
00:44:39 With down, down, down
00:44:42 And the flames went higher
00:44:45 And the flames went higher
00:44:48 The ring of fire, the ring of fire
00:44:53 She felt like the world was just going to swallow her up
00:45:00 during that time period.
00:45:02 So many religious people think, "Well, you stay married is what you do."
00:45:09 And I'm thankful to them if they can manage to do that.
00:45:13 That time came in my life when I couldn't manage to do it.
00:45:17 She took me and Rosie to New York to see the World's Fair.
00:45:25 And she told us that when we went home
00:45:28 that Daddy Rip wouldn't be there anymore,
00:45:30 that he was going to be living somewhere else.
00:45:33 I got a divorce and I got it so quietly
00:45:38 that I didn't tell John or any of them
00:45:41 that I was divorced for about two or three months.
00:45:44 They didn't know it. I was very ashamed of it.
00:45:47 She was swallowing her heart, having the courage,
00:45:51 when back then I'm sure people thought she was a whore, you know.
00:45:55 I understand him. We understand each other.
00:46:01 I understand his pain.
00:46:04 Well, she had fought that pill habit that I had.
00:46:07 She had fought it with everything she knew.
00:46:09 She was that demon in me.
00:46:12 I thank God for people like her
00:46:14 that still believe that there was a little good in me.
00:46:17 I flushed things down the commode.
00:46:20 I flushed down his amphetamines and his barbiturates.
00:46:23 I did everything that I could
00:46:25 and I did things that I would have never done ordinarily.
00:46:28 But I think I did it only because I didn't know what else to do.
00:46:31 I thought he would die.
00:46:33 There were people that said to me
00:46:37 that the only person in the 1960s
00:46:41 who believed in Johnny Cash was June Carter.
00:46:46 That there was no one else.
00:46:49 That no one saw any light at the end of Cash Tunnel
00:46:55 except for June.
00:46:58 June believed.
00:47:02 I just never did let go.
00:47:08 I think if you really feel that way about somebody,
00:47:11 you just cannot leave them.
00:47:13 How can you leave them?
00:47:15 You don't care if it hurts.
00:47:17 You go on through it, from my point of view,
00:47:20 because I loved him.
00:47:23 And I told him,
00:47:26 if he could stay clean for six months,
00:47:29 then I would consider marrying him.
00:47:36 When my father turned his life around in the late 1960s,
00:47:39 he went to the Carters for help
00:47:42 because they had so much love to lend.
00:47:45 He loved my grandma and grandfather.
00:47:49 He stayed at Grandma and Granddaddy's house.
00:47:51 He had his own room there.
00:47:53 And they were just trying to get him straight
00:47:55 and keep him straight.
00:47:57 My mother and father and a couple of other friends,
00:48:00 we did a lot of praying and fought a lot of demons.
00:48:04 ♪ His arms are on the ocean ♪
00:48:08 During that time, her deep faith
00:48:11 was something that she communicated a lot to Johnny.
00:48:16 In my troubles, in my sorrows,
00:48:19 and in my confusions in life,
00:48:22 I've looked to that higher spiritual plane.
00:48:25 ♪ It's most enough if I propose to thee ♪
00:48:31 I'm the luckiest man alive.
00:48:34 I don't think there'd be another man alive
00:48:36 that's as lucky as I am to come through.
00:48:39 (applause)
00:48:43 I would like to introduce to you a family
00:48:46 that I'm very close to and they're very dear to me.
00:48:49 Let's make welcome Mother Maybel Helen June
00:48:52 and Anita the Carter family.
00:48:54 Hi, Mama. Good morning. How you doing?
00:48:56 Hi, girls. How are you?
00:48:59 I was standing with my family
00:49:02 in front of about 7,000 people in London, Ontario, Canada.
00:49:05 ♪ Keep on the sunny side ♪
00:49:07 ♪ Always on the sunny side ♪
00:49:09 He walked up to the microphone and said,
00:49:11 "Will you marry me?"
00:49:13 Just like that? What did you say?
00:49:15 I choked. I said, "You've got to be kidding."
00:49:18 I said, "Quit. This is not happening to me. Shut up."
00:49:22 I wanted to answer with some kind of glamour,
00:49:25 but there's no glamour to it. It's yes or no.
00:49:30 The show must go on, and I said yes.
00:49:32 ♪ Clouds and storms will end time's passing way ♪
00:49:37 ♪ And the sun again will shine bright and clear ♪
00:49:42 ♪ Keep on the sunny side ♪
00:49:45 ♪ Always on the sunny side ♪
00:49:48 Well, I got married in March 1, 1968.
00:49:52 Here's your lovely wife, June Carter.
00:49:55 (applause)
00:49:59 ♪ Keep on the sunny side of life ♪
00:50:02 (applause)
00:50:05 You've been a guiding light and inspiration in John's life.
00:50:09 I had the two daughters, Carlene and Rosie,
00:50:12 and we took our suitcases and we went out to live with John.
00:50:17 June's daughters, Carlene and Rosie.
00:50:20 When Mom and John got married, Rosie and I were grooving.
00:50:26 We were really excited about having some sisters.
00:50:28 We were going to have four sisters, and it was like, "Yeah!"
00:50:32 And God loved them. They were not that thrilled,
00:50:36 and I don't blame them.
00:50:39 I remember at 12 when that happened.
00:50:42 It broke my mother's heart.
00:50:44 In some ways, I think it broke my dad's heart.
00:50:47 It was giving up a certain idea of his life.
00:50:51 I think there's times in your life where you know
00:50:55 that this is the fork you're going to take and that you have to take.
00:50:57 It doesn't mean there's not grief for what you lose.
00:51:00 Your four daughters are in school in California,
00:51:03 and they wanted to say hello to their daddy.
00:51:06 The family is really important to me, all of the girls.
00:51:09 Hi, Daddy. We love you very much, and we hope you have a wonderful...
00:51:12 Roseanne and Kathy and Cindy and Tara are all John's girls.
00:51:15 So long for now, Daddy.
00:51:17 It took a little time for us all to become family,
00:51:21 and it was kind of decided amongst everyone
00:51:24 that it was too complicated to say, "This is my stepsister."
00:51:28 I just said, "This is my sister." It seemed like the most normal thing.
00:51:32 On the far end is our daughter Rosie over there,
00:51:35 then our daughter Carlene, our daughter Roseanne.
00:51:38 Because people want to ask, "Well, whose kid is that?"
00:51:41 Carl Jenkins!
00:51:43 Miss June Curtis!
00:51:50 There's a dark and a troubled side of life
00:51:54 There's a bright and a sunny side, too
00:51:58 And though we meet with the darkness and strife
00:52:03 The sunny side we all so need
00:52:05 My mother was told that she could not have another baby.
00:52:09 But by 1969, she's 40 years old, and she's pregnant.
00:52:16 And the sun was setting in, it blew bright and low
00:52:20 And she took deep breaths
00:52:22 And they saw that as a miracle in itself,
00:52:24 that I was able to come into the world.
00:52:26 I'm a sunny side of love
00:52:29 You're in June.
00:52:31 That's a good girl.
00:52:33 John Carter's passed.
00:52:35 Hi, John Carter.
00:52:37 There's your son, John.
00:52:39 How you doing?
00:52:41 All of us felt like we were having that baby, too.
00:52:44 Oh, John and June are having a baby together.
00:52:47 This is so wonderful
00:52:49 Because it was like the icing on the cake somehow.
00:52:52 You had so many things going for your career
00:53:02 when you and John got married
00:53:04 And I realize your career has gone on in its own right
00:53:08 But do you ever think that perhaps
00:53:10 if you hadn't married John Cash
00:53:12 you might be a bigger star individually?
00:53:16 Well, I think I had to make a decision
00:53:19 when it came to John
00:53:21 And when I decided that I wanted to marry John
00:53:24 that that's what I wanted to do
00:53:26 I did make a decision that
00:53:28 where he goes, I will go
00:53:30 And what he does, I will do.
00:53:41 If I were a carpenter
00:53:44 and you were a lady
00:53:47 Would you marry me anyway?
00:53:50 Would you have my baby?
00:53:53 If you were a carpenter
00:53:55 and I were a lady
00:53:58 I'd marry you anyway
00:54:01 I'd have your baby
00:54:04 If a tinker was my trade
00:54:07 Would I still find you?
00:54:09 I'd be carrying the pot you made
00:54:12 Following behind you
00:54:16 Save me love through loneliness
00:54:19 Save me love through sorrow
00:54:21 Would you folks here at Opryland join me
00:54:23 in welcoming Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Cash
00:54:26 to Pop Goes the Country
00:54:28 During the time she was married to Carl Smith
00:54:30 she didn't take on the name June Carter Smith
00:54:33 The same when she married Rip Nix
00:54:35 she did not take on Rip's last name
00:54:38 Or my song, "You're Shining"
00:54:42 Save me love through loneliness
00:54:44 She becomes officially and commercially
00:54:48 and makes a statement to the world
00:54:51 that I am June Carter Cash
00:54:54 I'm very pleased to be any place
00:54:57 that my husband is
00:54:59 because I've been completely totally happy
00:55:02 and I guess the word is liberated
00:55:04 since I've been married to Johnny Cash
00:55:07 She felt that when she gave up her independence
00:55:11 things were different then
00:55:14 I mean she even like would change her voice
00:55:16 Since I've become Mrs. Johnny Cash
00:55:18 I've been happy since I've come to that conclusion in my life
00:55:21 I used to have great ambition
00:55:24 and I used to want to be this or want to be that
00:55:27 and now I'm just happy being Johnny Cash's wife
00:55:29 She would say, "I just paddle around after Johnny now"
00:55:32 and it's like, "What?"
00:55:36 No
00:55:38 Well go on down to Jackson
00:55:41 Go ahead and wreck your head
00:55:44 Don't play your hand you big talking man
00:55:48 and make a big fool of yourself
00:55:51 And I'm not going to feel bad about the situation at all
00:55:54 because by the time I came into his life
00:55:56 he had so many miles on him
00:55:58 there's no way I'll ever catch up with him
00:56:01 June understood that she was very important
00:56:05 to holding him up
00:56:07 and that Johnny Cash was not Johnny Cash
00:56:11 without June Carter
00:56:13 I think she was his lifeline
00:56:15 and he knew it
00:56:17 I'm going to Jackson
00:56:19 You turn the loose of my coat
00:56:22 Honey I'm going to Jackson
00:56:25 When I was born, my father was at the very top of his career
00:56:29 Well he'll laugh at you
00:56:31 They had the live television show
00:56:33 Hello I'm Johnny Cash
00:56:36 They were on the tongue tip of everyone in America
00:56:39 and Dad could also go to Germany, England, Ireland, Australia
00:56:43 and sell out many, many tickets
00:56:45 At one time he was the fifth most recognizable human on this planet
00:56:50 Oh you big talking man
00:56:52 And so they decided they would just take me with them
00:56:56 Well now we got married in a beach
00:57:00 He's a good traveler too
00:57:02 He's on planes, sleeps in cars, he's no trouble
00:57:06 And we traveled the world together
00:57:09 We even went to the White House
00:57:16 I have a boy I think I'm going to name him
00:57:29 John Carter
00:57:31 Yes John Carter, that's what we named him
00:57:34 John Carter Cash, think about it
00:57:37 There wasn't a time that I didn't go on stage and perform
00:57:43 or that I was on stage as part of a performance
00:57:46 It was just part of family, it was part of what we did
00:57:50 The Marshalls, the Marshalls
00:57:54 Thank you very much sir
00:57:59 And my mother, what she told me when I was a kid
00:58:02 was that when you walk up on that stage
00:58:05 and you stand in front of that audience
00:58:08 remember they already love you
00:58:11 It's not as if you have to prove it to them
00:58:14 Good afternoon and welcome to the home of Johnny Cash
00:58:26 We moved and suddenly we're in this giant house
00:58:30 that we're not used to
00:58:32 And we had all these people hanging around outside
00:58:35 and we had guards
00:58:37 And me and Rosie are on like one end and they're on the other end
00:58:40 It was just so different
00:58:43 What else do you do at home when you're not on the road?
00:58:48 We do a lot of different things
00:58:51 We sometimes have friends in when we get a chance
00:58:54 June made their house a North Star
00:58:58 for the music community in this city
00:59:00 It was a tradition that they would have other musicians over
00:59:04 for an evening
00:59:06 You would go downstairs and there was this blue velvet
00:59:10 rock and roll, big sofa
00:59:13 Almost always Roy Orbison was there
00:59:16 because he was our next door neighbor
00:59:18 George and Tammy would be there
00:59:20 all done up like George and Tammy
00:59:22 And you'd sit around and pass the guitar around
00:59:25 and sing your newest song
00:59:28 Shel Silverstein showed my father the lyric for "Boy Named Sue"
00:59:32 Graham Nash played Marrakesh Express for the first time ever
00:59:36 And the same thing with Bob Dylan with "Lay Lady Lay"
00:59:39 So I got the bug to write songs
00:59:43 I cut my teeth in front of a lot of really cool people
00:59:47 I had to follow Paul McCartney one night
00:59:51 That's a lot to do with good friends of ours
00:59:54 and some of them are people who've made it
00:59:56 A lot of them are young artists who haven't made it yet
00:59:59 who are struggling
01:00:01 and there's been several struggling people in our house
01:00:04 singing at some of these picking sessions
01:00:06 who have made it since then and that we're proud of
01:00:09 She was really good with young music people
01:00:12 and allowing them to bloom and wanting them to bloom
01:00:15 June heard me sing a song called "Help Me"
01:00:19 and she wrote my name down on the back of a blank check
01:00:23 and I became one of her babies
01:00:26 Larry Gatlin, Chris Christopherson
01:00:39 and of course Waylon who'd come over
01:00:41 Waylon Jennings
01:00:43 I have known Waylon since he was 17
01:00:46 She would be championing them
01:00:48 you know, like slipping tapes to John from Chris Christopherson
01:00:52 We'd like to sing a song for you
01:00:54 It's a brand new Chris Christopherson song
01:00:56 I'd like to dedicate this to my daughter Cindy who is here tonight
01:00:59 Chris Christopherson
01:01:01 He's one of my babies
01:01:03 He's one of those that was poor and trying to make it
01:01:06 and I felt that he had a real talent
01:01:08 and I talked to a lot of people about him
01:01:11 It's part of what we do
01:01:17 They hold up my arms and let me be Moses now and then
01:01:20 That's true, it's a highly spiritual time
01:01:22 but there are other things too that come along at Christmas time
01:01:25 Yeah, like Christmas presents
01:01:27 Just kind of sitting around by the fire
01:01:29 And Christmas presents
01:01:31 And Christmas presents, yes
01:01:33 I stood over on the side and I watched
01:01:36 and I learned and was grateful for it
01:01:40 And there again, were it not for June
01:01:48 So it really comes back to the matriarch
01:01:51 and any hairy-legged man who says it ain't true
01:01:56 he's lying his ass off
01:01:58 So I remember one day June said
01:02:13 "Well come on honey, let's do some Christmas shopping at Steinmark"
01:02:16 So we got in her blue Rolls
01:02:18 She took Janine off in her new Rolls Royce that John had just bought her
01:02:23 Left me with John, barely knew him
01:02:26 So I had played some of Ronnie's songs for them
01:02:29 and she said "Well, I'm just going to tell you, he's pretty good"
01:02:35 And she goes "He might have a couple of hits, he might"
01:02:44 And she says "Honey, I just need you to understand
01:02:49 It just seems like the ones that really make it
01:02:54 they're all a little crazy"
01:02:58 In other words, don't do it, you know, don't do it
01:03:02 And Janine comes back after a few hours
01:03:05 and she was just kind of pale, you know
01:03:08 I don't think, oh God, she spent a lot of money or what
01:03:12 No, it was that June had read her the right act about, you know, dating a musician
01:03:19 It was just funny
01:03:21 She was right though
01:03:23 Fair
01:03:39 The rigors of the road are difficult for a couple
01:03:44 And when you work together and live together, it's a lot
01:03:51 Plus the constant glare from the public
01:03:55 and the projections on them to live up to some kind of myth
01:04:00 I mean, that's almost impossible
01:04:03 It was like a religion
01:04:05 I said, "I don't know who this man is"
01:04:08 Hello, I'm Johnny Cash
01:04:10 I love it
01:04:12 Hello, I'm Johnny Cash
01:04:14 Hello, I'm Johnny Cash
01:04:16 We had one of those storybook kind of marriages in the beginning
01:04:19 that just was unbelievable
01:04:21 We had no problems for the first 10, 12 years of our marriage
01:04:25 I mean, it was like something you would read about in books
01:04:29 The first 10 years they were together, they were never apart
01:04:34 Ever, ever
01:04:36 If she went shopping, he went shopping with her
01:04:40 And I just was like, I would shoot myself
01:04:44 The home I grew up in, there was a beautiful, intimate relationship that was going on
01:04:51 My father was clean, he wasn't on anything in the early 1970s
01:04:55 It was very peaceful and very together as a unit
01:05:01 Up until I was 8 or 9 years old, when their relationship changed a great deal
01:05:07 By 1980 or so, my father rekindled an addiction
01:05:14 It would sneak up on him
01:05:17 Something would trigger him, or he'd get hurt
01:05:20 And you gave John a bottle of anything and didn't monitor him on it, he's going to take it all
01:05:27 June did not save my dad
01:05:31 You can't save another person from their own addiction
01:05:35 Thank you very much, I'd like to do my new record
01:05:38 Feels love in heels and drink and wine and song
01:05:44 June really struggled to keep him looking good when he was in public
01:05:50 Guarding him from people who might be disappointed if they saw him in that shape
01:05:57 He chose to, you know, just give himself to people
01:06:01 God bless you, goodnight
01:06:05 There were a lot of characters around him who were there for the wrong reasons
01:06:11 June was kind, but she could be ruthless
01:06:15 It took a lot, but if it was clear that you were not trustworthy, she'd cut you out
01:06:24 Their relationship suffered greatly
01:06:28 They were fighting every day, they were very angry with each other
01:06:33 Mostly my mom, angry with my father
01:06:36 I knew that they were having trouble
01:06:39 My mother, my sister and I were having lunch at a restaurant in New York
01:06:43 And she was there, and she said, "There's a problem
01:06:48 Either he gets straightened out or I have to leave and I don't want to leave"
01:06:54 She just was at her wits end
01:06:57 So whatever happened, it must have been something horrible
01:07:01 I was traveling with them
01:07:06 And I remember one night, hearing my dad's breathing being very labored
01:07:12 He would breathe all the way out, and then his breath would stop
01:07:18 And then after a little bit, he'd start breathing again
01:07:22 Well, at one point, it stopped and he didn't start back
01:07:27 Scenes of my life passed before my eyes
01:07:36 I saw myself at my peaks, and I saw myself walk to my deepest, darkest valleys
01:07:45 I ran in and I got my mother
01:07:47 And we got him up and we put him in the bathtub and we poured water all over him
01:07:52 I remember he woke up, and he was very incoherent
01:07:59 I was afraid, I was overwhelmed, I was crying my eyes out
01:08:04 I mean, I was a kid, you know
01:08:07 And it wasn't long after that that many changes began to occur
01:08:13 There was a time
01:08:16 There was an intervention, we had an intervention
01:08:19 We all wrote letters to my dad, it was very hard for me to do that
01:08:24 We read them all to my father, and he agreed to go to treatment at Betty Ford Center
01:08:29 When I saw him again in California, that person was back, my old dad was back again
01:08:38 (Singing)
01:08:45 And at that point, there was a great forgiveness in place
01:08:58 But my mother was like, "It's hard to be Johnny Cash"
01:09:02 How did she forgive him?
01:09:06 She had a way of forgiving as if it was from east to west
01:09:09 And maybe a lot of times they did buy into their own myth
01:09:21 For better or for worse, maybe that kept them going at a time when they could have broken up
01:09:27 It's like, well, we have this thing together that's bigger than us
01:09:31 I mean, that's what it looks like from the outside
01:09:35 And you never know what goes on in people's marriages anyway
01:09:39 It's really easy, I don't know if you can learn it fast enough or not, but we might get it down
01:09:50 It's one I wrote just before I sent him to Victor
01:09:54 It's, um...
01:09:56 (Singing)
01:10:05 (Music)
01:10:14 I was in the lobby at the Betty Ford Center
01:10:18 We went back there to visit them
01:10:21 And John was in rehab and June was at the codependency center
01:10:28 (Music)
01:10:34 When she went into Betty Ford Center, there was an education that happened in her life
01:10:38 Of what codependency is that she had never conceived of before
01:10:43 She said to me, "Oh, honey, I just learned I'm going to die before John"
01:10:49 I said, "Why?"
01:10:51 She goes, "Well, because codependency is really, really hard. We become super parents"
01:10:55 And I said, "Well, what do you do in the unit?"
01:10:57 She goes, "We paint, we play with clay, we fly kites, we learn to be kids again"
01:11:03 And I'm telling you this because you need to know this
01:11:07 Being codependent, which means sometimes you're too good for your own good
01:11:12 Where you put others too much ahead of your own needs
01:11:19 You helped him to heal a lot of those scars
01:11:22 Well, that would be nice if I could say I did that
01:11:24 I think all of us girls would like to be able to claim that we healed our husbands
01:11:28 You know, if it doesn't work, you just pop them in the head and holler "Heal!"
01:11:32 But it doesn't work
01:11:35 You sound like you kind of regret some of the things that go along
01:11:39 With the status you've achieved in the business
01:11:42 Oh, I don't regret any of that
01:11:44 There is pain in everybody's life
01:11:47 It's something we all are confronted with
01:11:49 Every one of us has pain
01:11:51 And it helps us, you know, if you put it behind you, boy, it'll push you
01:11:55 It'll stick you right through the rest of the world if you'll stick it behind you
01:11:59 Don't let it hang with you, don't put it in front of you, that's what I say
01:12:03 There comes a point in every entertainer's life
01:12:23 You're faced with the mortality of your own and the mortality of your career
01:12:29 And it happened to John and June
01:12:31 In the early 1980s, my father didn't have very many hits at all
01:12:36 And 1984, after he sort of picked back up his life again
01:12:41 He was actually dropped by his record label at the time
01:12:45 It was a dramatic slowdown
01:12:48 You know, I saw Johnny and June the first time playing for 16,000 screaming fans
01:12:53 And in the 80s, we would sometimes go to clubs with 300 people
01:12:58 They'd been the biggest stars in the world for 6, 8, 10 years
01:13:03 And then it started not being that way
01:13:09 Good night
01:13:11 I think June was unsettled by that
01:13:14 At the same time, she was so strong
01:13:17 It's like, he's going to be okay, you're going to be okay
01:13:20 [Music]
01:13:28 We went to Montreux, Switzerland at the invitation of John and June
01:13:33 They decided they wanted to do a Christmas special with their best friends
01:13:37 [Music]
01:13:39 Hello, I'm Johnny Cash
01:13:41 Hello, I'm Johnny Cash
01:13:44 Hello, I'm Johnny Cash
01:13:46 Hello, I'm Waley Chris
01:13:49 [Laughter]
01:13:51 Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Chris Christopherson, Waylon Jennings
01:13:55 All of whom were on the downside of fame at that time
01:14:00 You know, living with the likes of good old boys like John and Willie and Chris and Waylon
01:14:05 Well, it's just not that easy
01:14:07 You don't know all we know
01:14:09 Because these are a bunch of wives that have a lot to do
01:14:12 We're married to a star, yes we are
01:14:16 Our men are legends in their time
01:14:21 All these guys have been real close to us
01:14:25 We were all sitting around in the room and they were all singing
01:14:28 And they decided, this really shouldn't stop right here, we should do something else
01:14:32 And that's when they did their first Highwaymen album
01:14:35 [Music]
01:14:37 I was a highwayman
01:14:39 Along the coach roads I did ride
01:14:43 [Music]
01:14:46 And they reawakened all their careers
01:14:49 [Music]
01:14:53 And then it just evolved to a ten year touring
01:14:58 [Music]
01:15:00 On the road with the Highwaymen, my mother would have been the resounding matriarch
01:15:04 She was tough and she was funny
01:15:08 And you know, if you're married to Johnny Cash, you gotta be tough
01:15:11 [Music]
01:15:21 I'm good friends with all the wives
01:15:24 The Highwomen
01:15:26 The Highwomen
01:15:28 It was just the Highwaymen
01:15:31 And they didn't know how to add the Highwaymen and June
01:15:35 There was some discussion whether John and June could do a song together
01:15:39 It's just nobody knew quite how to work it out
01:15:42 June Carter who wrote Ring of Fire, my wife is here tonight
01:15:45 Sit down up and take a bow, will you June?
01:15:47 [Applause]
01:15:49 Come on you baby
01:15:51 Hey, here she is, back over here
01:15:54 It ended up that June, during every show, would stand up in the audience
01:16:01 And they put a spotlight on her and she would look around at everybody and wave
01:16:06 It's been the one time in my life when I've got to sit and enjoy it
01:16:10 Really have enjoyed the time with the boys and with their wives as well
01:16:16 [Music]
01:16:26 There's an awkwardness and I don't understand because I'm not an artist
01:16:29 How that decision is made
01:16:31 So how June ended up never being on stage during those years, I really don't know
01:16:36 But it probably was hard on her
01:16:38 [Music]
01:16:41 That's part of the thing that's hard about her ego
01:16:44 Because that ambition was there and she had to kind of squelch it
01:16:51 She didn't know what to do with herself
01:16:54 You can't be on the road all your entire life and suddenly not have it anymore
01:17:01 [Music]
01:17:12 She started going back to Virginia a lot
01:17:15 She started spending a lot of time in the home that she grew up in as a little girl
01:17:21 She was experiencing memories of what the fire smelled like in the fireplace
01:17:28 Of which flowers in particular grew in the woods in the backyard
01:17:32 She got back in connection with those things from when she was at a period of innocence and beauty
01:17:39 June started to look at her life to sort of remind herself, I think, of who she was
01:17:46 And to remind everybody else, you know, here's who I really am
01:17:49 I'm not Mrs. Johnny Cash, I'm June Carter and this is my story
01:17:55 [Music]
01:18:00 He said, "You need Vicki's what you need" and I said, "Okay"
01:18:04 Anyway, she's got this new record company that she started
01:18:08 I would have never thought in a million years that I would make that record with June
01:18:14 But she started calling me, you know, June said she had to get this music out
01:18:22 She had a legacy to leave behind, you know, that was what she was trying to accomplish
01:18:27 [Laughter]
01:18:29 I didn't know how I was going to pay for it or anything like that
01:18:32 But June had more faith than anybody on the planet
01:18:37 She was always optimistic, you know, something really terrible could happen
01:18:42 And she would figure out a way to take lemons and make lemonade out of it
01:18:46 That's it to it
01:18:49 She would always say, "It's okay, we'll get through this, just press on honey, just press on"
01:18:54 And that was her philosophy in life
01:18:57 Those two words are absolutely how I would and do remember June
01:19:03 Press on
01:19:05 Okay, let's press on
01:19:07 Let's start with, I used to be somebody first
01:19:10 June and I, we put on the blinders and it happened
01:19:14 We made the record
01:19:18 Alright Marty
01:19:19 My mother came to me and asked me if I would co-produce the album Press On
01:19:28 I was nervous in a certain way because this was one of the first things that I had ever recorded
01:19:34 But she gave me the energy, she gave me the strength, she's like, "Oh you can do this, oh yes you can do this"
01:19:43 Go back to the top of that verse, that different verse, because everybody's still working on that
01:20:10 It was my mother's time to shine
01:20:12 It was as if every dream that she had when she went to New York City in the 1950s, they were all coming back real
01:20:19 When are you coming back?
01:20:21 Around that time, she did The Apostle with Robert Duvall
01:20:25 I'm just a little chilly
01:20:27 Alright, hold on there, hold on
01:20:29 We did the way we were taught from Sandy Meisner who was both of our teachers in New York at the neighborhood playhouse
01:20:38 Hello
01:20:40 She was always ready, she was great to work with, just wonderful
01:20:45 She had her own sense of being strong-willed
01:20:48 She can't do that son, you know she can't
01:20:52 She was so excited to be in that film with him
01:20:56 She just adored Robert Duvall and had become good friends with him
01:21:01 I just wish he would have given me another part, why did he have to give me one where I'm older than he is when he's older than I am?
01:21:13 Good sense of humor, good sense of humor
01:21:28 Johnny's with me now, he goes wherever I go
01:21:32 And it's kind of, he likes to be where I am and I like to be where he is
01:21:37 During the recording, Johnny's health was pretty fragile
01:21:49 So John was in intensive care literally the day before the first day of recording
01:21:56 He was very shaky, his hands were shaking and he didn't have much energy for it but he said you know, he
01:22:03 I was amazed by the professionalism of this guy
01:22:06 He wanted to play backup guitar and sing harmonies with her
01:22:16 He wanted to be there for her as she was for him in so many different ways
01:22:22 I believe my steps are going very far
01:22:26 He comes up there to do "Far Side Banks of Juul"
01:22:29 Got another journey on my mind
01:22:32 That song meant so much to them, they sang that every night on stage from the late 1970s until the end of their performance career
01:22:40 And my one regret is leaving you behind
01:22:49 But if it proves to be his will that I am first to cross
01:22:55 And somehow I've a feeling it will be
01:23:01 When it comes your time to travel like wise don't feel lost
01:23:09 For I will be the first one that you'll see
01:23:15 And I'll be waiting on the far side banks of Jordan
01:23:23 People have come to me and said what's it like to be the product of the greatest love affair that ever was
01:23:29 Evidently they were not there, right, because they had struggles
01:23:34 But by the end of their life my mother and father were more in love than they ever had been
01:23:40 They loved each other and they were great friends
01:23:44 They both loved what the other did
01:23:48 Love is what made their relationship
01:23:53 It wasn't fame, it wasn't power, it was what love really is
01:23:57 And people forget what love is
01:24:00 It's patient, it's kind, it's long-suffering
01:24:04 But the beauty is what stands out
01:24:07 And what's so great is to get a window into that strength and into that beauty
01:24:13 We have but to listen to the music
01:24:16 And I'll be waiting on the far side banks of Jordan
01:24:24 I'll be sitting drawing pictures in the sand
01:24:30 I'm here mostly because my life, the way it's turned around in the last little bit
01:24:36 For the past several years I just followed Johnny Cash around the world, wherever he went
01:24:41 I've worked a whole lot harder than he did, but you all didn't know that
01:24:45 So I'm glad I had the opportunity to tell you this
01:24:49 You know, June, it's been many years since she has had a new album out
01:24:52 "Press On"
01:24:54 It's called "Press On"
01:24:56 First solo album in 25 years
01:24:58 She was one of the stars in Robert Duvall's film "The Apostle"
01:25:00 And now with a brand new CD called "Press On"
01:25:03 Here is June Carter Cash!
01:25:06 I fell into a rain of fire
01:25:10 I fell into a rain of fire
01:25:12 This is the June Carter Cash album right here
01:25:14 And I listened to this this afternoon
01:25:16 And my goodness, what a lovely, touching, sweet collection of music this is
01:25:22 "Press On" I think caught everybody by surprise
01:25:25 That is true timeless music
01:25:28 It was never trend-based, it never chased anything
01:25:31 June's songs are just based on basic human emotion
01:25:36 Things that everyone could relate to
01:25:38 It is a privilege to introduce the great June Carter Cash
01:25:41 Here's June Carter Cash
01:25:43 Here she is, June Carter Cash
01:25:45 The only June Carter Cash
01:25:47 Thank you very much
01:25:49 This is a big night for me
01:25:52 It is the true spirit of American music
01:25:58 And it won her a Grammy
01:26:07 "Press On" won a Grammy
01:26:09 It was like really surprising
01:26:11 I mean I had no idea
01:26:13 And it was just such an honor that that happened
01:26:16 Yeah, I mean she was very, very proud of that
01:26:20 You know, Johnny had countless Grammys
01:26:22 And this was her own Grammy
01:26:24 So yeah, she was really proud of that
01:26:26 Everybody pooh-poohs it
01:26:28 Everybody goes, "Oh, pfft, Grammy award"
01:26:30 But you know what, when you get one, it means something
01:26:32 It really means something
01:26:34 It's like, it's music's highest accolade
01:26:36 You might not think you wanted it, but you know, you really did
01:26:40 Please give a grand olafry welcome to June Carter Cash
01:26:44 And then they would start shouting for June
01:26:50 Thank you very much
01:26:52 Good, good luck
01:26:54 You know she had to feel vindication
01:26:58 Oh, thank you
01:27:01 You know that she, in her final years
01:27:04 People are screaming for June
01:27:07 Oh, thank you
01:27:09 You almost made me cry
01:27:12 She is standing up there
01:27:15 Giving us a life lesson
01:27:17 Of what it means to stick it out
01:27:20 Okay, sir
01:27:31 Press on, Norman
01:27:33 Yeah
01:27:34 And then she was back in the studio again
01:27:39 In Virginia, at the house where she was raised
01:27:47 She gave it every bit of energy she had
01:27:54 14 songs within 3 days
01:27:58 But I will dance, I will sing
01:28:01 In my last show
01:28:03 You know, Moss did not grow on my mama's feet
01:28:06 She had a lot of energy
01:28:08 Her work ethic, period, was like
01:28:10 She was like a superwoman to me
01:28:12 But I'm longing to see him
01:28:15 And regret the dark hour
01:28:18 He's gone and the good people
01:28:21 Okay, I'm ready to press on, son
01:28:24 One second
01:28:26 Okay
01:28:29 Sure
01:28:30 I'll tell you how it is
01:28:32 I'll just tell you again
01:28:34 We don't want to think about death
01:28:38 But sometimes I do
01:28:40 Sometimes I feel like I'm on a hill
01:28:43 And it's John's grave I'm kneeling on
01:28:46 And if you can imagine me
01:28:49 Just sitting there trying to talk to him
01:28:52 When death shall close these eyelids
01:28:57 And this heart shall cease to beat
01:29:01 And they lay me down to rest
01:29:07 In some flowery, boundary tree
01:29:16 Will you miss me?
01:29:22 Miss me when I'm gone
01:29:26 Will you miss me?
01:29:29 Miss me when I'm gone
01:29:32 Will you miss me?
01:29:35 I remember my mother was coming out the door
01:29:38 And I remember seeing her get in the car
01:29:43 And her telling me, "I've got to go to the hospital"
01:29:47 I look back now and I remember the look in her eye
01:29:50 It was this joy
01:29:52 But such sadness and weakness
01:29:55 At the same time
01:29:58 And she went to the hospital
01:30:02 When I got the phone call
01:30:10 I was shocked because John had been the one
01:30:15 I think everybody kind of expected John
01:30:17 From his illness over the last ten years
01:30:20 That he would be the first to go
01:30:23 Will you miss me?
01:30:26 Miss me when I'm gone
01:30:28 Her death was sudden
01:30:30 And it hit all of us really hard, the whole community
01:30:35 It was just confusing
01:30:37 It was like, oh no, there goes the tent pole for everybody
01:30:40 You know, it was a hard one
01:30:44 It was a hard one
01:30:46 But I could not hide my sorrow
01:30:50 As a bitter linsegreave
01:30:54 It's hard even now
01:30:57 Remembering that whole few days
01:31:01 As a bitter linsegreave
01:31:04 When we went to June's funeral
01:31:07 Johnny Cash was so sad, oh my God
01:31:10 He just could hardly sit there
01:31:14 I just remember him saying
01:31:17 He was wearing a blue dress because of her eyes
01:31:22 And then when I walked past him in the church
01:31:28 He said, is that Katie?
01:31:32 It was agonizing to watch him
01:31:44 Go through that experience
01:31:47 It was really tough
01:31:51 She was so full of life
01:31:55 We wave to her from this shore
01:31:58 As she drifts out of our lives
01:32:02 What a legacy she leaves us
01:32:06 It still, to this day, kills me
01:32:11 For her to be gone
01:32:16 She was my dearest friend and my mommy
01:32:19 Under a June blue sky
01:32:22 Waving her scarf to greet us
01:32:24 I just had this vision of June
01:32:27 I heard almost her whole life flash before me
01:32:30 And I almost felt like this song
01:32:34 She just dropped it in my lap
01:32:36 As she was flying over
01:32:38 Like, here, I'm gonna give you one more thing
01:32:41 And I wrote this song called "The Strong Hand"
01:32:45 She was the strong hand
01:32:48 A good sister and a good friend
01:32:51 I was standing next to John Carter
01:32:54 And I had my arm around him
01:32:56 Lisa Christofferson was there to support me
01:32:59 At one point, his knees were collapsing
01:33:02 And he's a large man
01:33:04 She could tell right when I emotionally cracked
01:33:07 Because I did emotionally crack
01:33:09 And I heard June say, I'm right here, son
01:33:14 And it's a miracle
01:33:18 How one soul finds another
01:33:21 And I had this super strength
01:33:23 I held up this huge man
01:33:25 Lisa held me with such love
01:33:29 Lisa held on to me like a mother
01:33:33 As they all just swirled together
01:33:36 She was a holder-upper in that moment
01:33:39 You know, in a dimension that I don't really know or understand
01:33:42 There's no doubt in my mind that it was real
01:33:47 After June died, John would call me a lot
01:33:50 And he was really down, and I could tell
01:33:54 And, you know, we'd talk about this thing or that thing
01:33:59 But what he was really wanting to do
01:34:01 Was get somebody to take his mind off of the whole thing
01:34:07 He really struggled
01:34:09 I mean, all of us children were holding our breaths
01:34:12 He's not going to last long without her, and he didn't
01:34:14 He lasted four months
01:34:18 One of the last things he wrote on a plain piece of paper was
01:34:23 I love June Carter
01:34:27 She is an angel
01:34:30 I am not
01:34:32 Oh, it's a sad thing
01:34:34 She is dead right now, Miss June Carter
01:34:38 She was very special
01:34:44 And, you know, there's nobody that could replace her
01:34:52 She was a very free spirit
01:34:57 There was a great depth of love of people
01:35:02 At the heart of it, there is this enduring personality
01:35:07 That is there of a young girl
01:35:12 Riding on the back of a motorcycle
01:35:16 When you look at little girls, they're capable of so much more
01:35:25 And life is a series of girdles
01:35:29 And corsets and bras and straight jackets and gingham
01:35:35 And sometimes it takes that little girl out of you
01:35:41 But June was able to tap into that
01:35:47 And so she kept that little girl growing and going
01:35:52 But I think a lot of times we don't see that in women
01:35:56 And we don't give them the opportunity to continue to develop
01:36:00 All those dreams and wonderful things that they thought as young girls
01:36:07 I'm gonna shout and sing
01:36:11 Until heavens ring
01:36:14 When I'm bidding this world goodbye
01:36:19 It has 580 verses
01:36:22 It's the way my family always wrote songs
01:36:25 Just in case you wanted to go sing two or three days about stuff
01:36:28 It's what you did
01:36:31 Okay, well press it on
01:36:34 Well I might have gone fishing
01:36:40 I got to thinking it over
01:36:43 The road to the river
01:36:46 It might be long way
01:36:49 It must be the season
01:36:51 No rhyme or no reason
01:36:54 I'm just taking it easy
01:36:57 It's my lazy day
01:36:59 I'm finding it easy
01:37:02 Mind my own business
01:37:04 I'm keeping my nose down
01:37:07 I'm never going to play
01:37:10 Just gonna look stupid
01:37:13 Don't wanna meet Cupid
01:37:15 Just taking it easy
01:37:18 It's my lazy day
01:37:21 [instrumental]
01:37:42 Ain't asking no questions
01:37:44 Ain't giving advice
01:37:47 Ain't doing no things
01:37:50 Ain't wanting to play
01:37:53 Just wanna look stupid
01:37:55 I don't wanna meet Cupid
01:37:58 Just taking it easy
01:38:01 It's my lazy day
01:38:05 [music fades]
01:38:07 [clap clap clap clap]
01:38:11 [music]
01:38:15 [whoosh]
01:38:19 [music fades]
01:38:22 [BLANK_AUDIO]