You don't want to give it to me now?
Nah, let's keep him in suspense.
Did you write that?
Some of them people in Washington might start watching Twain and the M.C.L.S.
Did you write the song?
Yes, we did.
It's the title song off a new album that we have coming out.
When you say, yes, we did, does that mean everybody in the band?
Yeah, the guys and myself in the band, we write most of the stuff that we do.
It's a collaborative effort.
We sit together and rehearse and write and work out musical ideas
and that sort of thing.
But this particular song, I do a lot of press and TV and newspaper interviews
and people are always asking me, Charlie, how do you feel about things?
And that's how I feel about things.
It's a shame that things have to get to that point,
but I feel that people that commit violent crimes in this society
and people that sell drugs in this society
and people that do child abuse in this society, I have no...
People come up and say, well, they're from a broken home.
Everybody from a broken home don't go around and do violent crimes.
And I am very much in...
I feel that we've got to start dealing harshly with the people
that deal harshly with society.
I don't feel any pity for people that develop crimes.
I don't.
And Mr. Bush, Mr. Congressman, Mr. Senator, Mrs. Senator, pardon me,
Ms. Senator, Ms. Senator, Ms. Congressman, whoever you are,
listen to me, I have performed this song in many, many states in this union
and I don't know about the intelligentsia and the intellectual type people,
but I will tell you this, us working people are damn sick
and tired of the crime and the drugs in this country
and you better do something about it because that's how we feel.
Charlie, do you think it is a manageable problem at this point?
Ralph, it's only money.
It only takes money to do that.
It's like, you know, it's...
Yes, what happened in the old west back in the old white earth days
and people like that, you had a bunch of lawless people running around
so they went and got some people and pinned badges on them and said,
go get them and they did and they cleaned it up.
Look, you know, I don't know where the newspapers and the Dan Rathers
and people get their information, the people they poll,
but every time I read a poll in USA Today or see a poll,
it don't reflect the opinions.
Have any of you people ever been polled by anybody?
You know, never been polled?
I never have been.
I've been here 52 years and I've never been polled.
I don't know who they polled.
I don't know who they talk to, but they don't talk to working class people.
Let me ask you a question.
Do you poll your audiences?
I poll them with my music, yes, and when I do this particular song here,
you know, I get reactions on the lines to it.
When I see I hang them up high and let them swing until the sun goes down,
you know, people say, yeah!
And I see, you know, I see ladies sitting out there with their husbands
and they'll punch their husbands and I can tell they're saying,
yeah, that's the way I think about it.
People do.
I mean, I'm not, hey, I sound like I'm on a soap box and I'm really not,
but I love this country and, you know,
I see it going downhill and downhill and downhill.
It's the same handful of people that cause all the problems all the time.
It's people, it's the same bunch all the time.
It's not these people out here.
These people here work for a living.
They get up, they go to work in the morning, they pay taxes,
they raise children.
Really, and, you know, it's the same, thank you,
it's the same small percentage of this society sneaking around in alleys
downtown waiting for somebody to mug or somebody to rape
or somebody that does all the child abuse and all.
I hear people saying, you know, the death penalty don't do any good.
I'll tell you one thing it does, it gets one dude off the street,
you ain't ever going to do anything else.
So anyway, that's what the song's about.
All right, Charlie.
Let's talk about Mr. Acuff's birthday.
Right now, I'm going to tell you about the rest of tonight's show.
We have Sha Na Na, Sam Moore, Cousin Many Pearls,
Mr. Acuff's coming over.
Yeah, I know.
Bless his heart.
He's 86.
Yeah.
And of course, Charlie Daniels.
And we'll be back in a moment.
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You know, it's kind of strange,
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Sure, we've passed the word.
In Fort Worth, Austin, Dallas.
Watching TNN is a guitar picker's dream.
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You know, I walked on, Lenny,
and I showed you our balloons
and said hello to Martha's Vineyard.
And for the gang at Martha's Vineyard,
it is time now to bring on the entire crew.
And so many of you may remember their television show.
Would you please welcome Sha-Na-Na?
Take out the papers and the trash
Oh, you don't get no spending cash
If you don't scrub that kitchen floor
You ain't gonna rock and roll no more
Yakety-yak, don't talk back
And finish cleaning up your room
Let's see that dust line with that broom
Get all that garbage out of sight
Or you don't go out Friday night
Yakety-yak, don't talk back
You just put on your coat and hat
And walk yourself to the laundry man
And when you're finished doing that
Bring in the dog and put out the cat
Yakety-yak, don't talk back
Don't you give me no dirty looks
Your father's sippy knows what cooks
Just tell your hooligan friend outside
You ain't got time to take a ride
Yakety-yak, don't talk back
Yakety-yak, Yakety-yak
Don't talk back
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Shout-out, out!
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Come over, come over and talk
How you doing, buddy?
Fine, buddy
Alright
Thank you
This is Jaco
Hello
got screaming Scott screaming Scott and Lenny and Donnie and Chico and Chico
Chico singing don't talk back today now you're gonna be in Knoxville tomorrow
night tomorrow night are there more members of the you know this this act
has been on before but we've never had the entire group no we've never had you'd
have to have