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Our guests tonight are country music great Charlie Daniels.
Rock and Roll Shana Ng and Sam Moore.
The queen of country comedy, cousin Minnie Pearl.
And the king of country music, Roy Ackham.
And now, live from Opryland, USA,
here's the host of Nashville Now, Ralph Emory.
Well Gary, thank you very much and good evening everybody.
Lenny of Shana now received these from his fans up on Martha's Vineyard.
And he wanted me to acknowledge them.
Now I don't know what to do with them.
Just turn them loose?
No, the crew said no.
Here John, let me give these to you.
Anyway, Lenny thanks all his fans.
I want to start the show tonight by talking to a lady who's celebrating.
This is going to be birthday night on the show.
Later on Mr. Acuff will be here.
But out there or up there or over there at McWherter, West Virginia,
we have Dora McWherter and this is her 100th birthday.
Dora, are you there?
Hello?
Hello?
Hello.
Now Dora, are you Dora McWherter?
Hello?
Hello.
Dora, can you hear me all right?
No, I can hear you better.
You can hear me fair.
Dora, happy birthday.
How?
Happy birthday.
Thank you.
I understand.
Yes, it's my birthday.
I understand you watch Nashville now.
Yes, I watch it all the time.
Well, this is Ralph Emory.
Yes.
And I want to call you and wish you a happy birthday.
Are there a lot of folks there with you?
Thank you.
Are there a lot of people there?
No, not many here.
I understand.
Well, my birthday isn't until tomorrow.
Oh, it's not until tomorrow.
Well, we won't be here tomorrow, so we thought we would call tonight.
Yes.
I understand you've lived in the same house for 79 years.
Yes, I have.
And you're 100.
Not many people do that.
No, no, but you can pay off a mortgage that way, I guess.
I can.
Well, we just wanted to call and wish you a happy birthday,
and I hope you watch the show.
Thank you so much.
Good night.
That's Dora McWhorter of McWhorter, West Virginia.
She's 100.
Okay.
I wonder if she got a 79-year mortgage on that house.
We want you to meet somebody who is a favorite in Nashville
as a citizen and a favorite all over the world as a performer.
He lives over here in Mount Juliet, Tennessee,
with his wife, Hazel.
Would you please welcome Charlie Daniels?
Thank you.
I ain't nothing but a simple man
They call me a redneck, I reckon that I am
But there's things going on
Let me mat down to the core
I have to work like a dog to make ends meet
And there's crooked politicians and crime in the street
And I'm madder than hell
And I ain't gonna take it no more
Now we tell our kids to just say no
Then some panty-waist judge lets a drug dealer go
Slaps him on the wrist and he turns it back out on the town
If I had my way with people selling dope
I'd take a beech trawl tree and a short piece of rope
I'd hang him up a high little swing till the sun goes down
Well, you know what's wrong with the world today
People don't go and put their Bibles away
They're living by the law of the jungle, not the law of the land
A good book says it so I know it's the truth
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
You better watch where you go and remember where you've been
That's the way I see it, I'm a simple man
Now I'm the kind of man who wouldn't harm a mouse
But if I catch somebody breaking in my house
I got a 12-gate shotgun waiting on the other side
So don't go pushing me against my will
I don't want to have to fight you but a darn show will
If you don't want trouble then you better just pass me on by
As far as I'm concerned there ain't no excuse
For the raping and the killing and the child abuse
And I got a way to put an end to all that mess
You just take them rascals out in the swamp
Put them on their knees in time to a stump
And let the rattlers and the bugs and the alligators do the rave
Well you know what's wrong with the world today
People don't go and put their bibles away
They're living by the law of the jungle, not the law of the land
A good book says it so I know it's the truth
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
You better watch where you go and remember where you've been
That's the way I see it, I'm a simple man
You better watch where you go and remember where you've been
That's the way I see it, I'm a simple man
A good book says it so I know it's the truth
Charlie, come over. Good to see you. Take a bow, Charlie.
Charlie, I like your song.
Thank you, Ralph.
Chuck Connors was here a couple of nights ago
and he was advocating that more country singers sing songs
that might get people to quit turning on to drugs.
Yeah.
And songs that addressed the problems in this nation
and that song certainly does that.
I think it does too.
I got the solution for you a little later on in the show.