Welcome to this programme,
in which we look back at some of the wonderful country artists
that have been on this show.
Country music has its roots in folk music.
With its direct poetry and simple melodies,
it has the ability to make a steel ball cry.
Coming up over the next hour,
we will have the likes of Willie Nelson, Alison Krauss,
Garth Brooks, Kacey Musgraves, Taylor Swift and many more.
But let's start with one of the greatest - Johnny Cash.
# I hear the train a-coming
# It's rolling round the bend
# And I ain't seen the sunshine
# Since I don't know when
# I'm stuck in Folsom Prison
# And time keeps dragging on
# But that train keeps a-rolling
# On down to San Antone
# When I was just a baby, my mama told me, "Son"
# "Always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns"
# But I shot a man in Reno
# Just to watch him die
# When I hear that whistle blowing
# I hang my head and cry
# Oh, yeah
# I bet there's rich folks eating
# In a fancy dining car
# They're probably drinking coffee
# And smoking big cigars
# Well, I know I had it coming
# I know I can't be free
# But those people keep a-moving
# And that's what tortures me
# Well, if they freed me from this prison
# If that railroad train was mine
# I bet I'd move it on
# A little farther down the line
# Far from Folsom Prison
# That's where I want to stay
# And I'd let that lonesome whistle
# Blow my blues away. #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
# I am an old woman
# Named after my mother
# My old man is another
# Child that's grown old
# If dreams were lightning
# And thunder were desire
# This old house would have burnt down
# A long time ago
# Make me an angel
# That flies from Montgomery
# Make me a poster
# Of an old rodeo
# Just give me one thing
# That I can hold on to
# To believe in this living
# Is just a hard way to go
# When I was a young girl
# Well, I had me a cowboy
# He weren't much to look at
# Just a free rambling man
# But that was a long time
# And no matter how I try
# The years just flow by
# Like a broken-down dam
# Make me an angel
# That flies from Montgomery
# Make me a poster
# Of an old rodeo
# Just give me one thing
# That I can hold on to
# To believe in this living
# Is just a hard way to go
# There's flies in the kitchen
# I can hear them, they're buzzing
# And I ain't done nothing
# Since I woke up today
# How the hell can a person
# Go to work in the morning
# And come home in the evening
# And have nothing to say
# Make me an angel
# That flies from Montgomery
# Make me a poster
# Of an old rodeo
# Just give me one thing
# That I can hold on to
# To believe in this living
# Is just a hard way to go. #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
# I remember
# Holding on to you
# All them long and lonely nights
# I put you through
# Somewhere in there
# I'm sure I made you cry
# But I can't remember
# If we said goodbye
# But I recall
# All of them nights down in Mexico
# One place I may never go
# In my life again
# Was I
# Just off somewhere
# Just too high
# But I can't remember
# If we said goodbye
# I only miss you
# Every now and then
# Like the soft breeze
# Blowing up from the Caribbean
# Most Novembers
# I break down and cry
# Cos I can't remember
# If we said goodbye
# But I recall
# All of them nights down in Mexico
# That's one place I'll never go
# In my life again
# Was I
# Off somewhere
# Maybe just too high
# But I can't remember
# If we said goodbye
# But I can't remember
# If we said goodbye
# Goodbye
# Goodbye. #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
# They packed up all his buckles
# And shipped his saddle to his dad
# And by the way the house looked
# She must have took it bad
# The workers come on Monday
# To fix the door and patch the wall
# They say she just went crazy
# The night she got the call
# He was up in Wyoming
# And drew a bull no man could ride
# He promised her he'd turn out
# Well, it turned out that he lied
# And all the dreams that they'd been living
# In the California sand
# Died right there beside him in Cheyenne
# They say she just went crazy
# Screaming out his name
# She ran out into the ocean
# And to this day they claim
# That if you go down by the water
# You'll see her footprints in the sand
# Cos every night she walks the beaches
# Of Cheyenne
# They never found her body
# Just her diary by the bed
# It told about the fight they had
# And the words that she had said
# He told her he was riding
# She said, "Then I don't give a damn"
# "If you never come back from Cheyenne"
# They say she just went crazy
# Screaming out his name
# She ran out into the ocean
# And to this day they claim
# That if you go down by the water
# You'll see her footprints in the sand
# Cos every night she walks the beaches
# Of Cheyenne
# Nobody can explain it
# Some say she's still alive
# They've even claimed they've seen her
# On the shoreline late at night
# If you go down by the water
# You'll see her footprints in the sand
# Cos every night she walks the beaches
# Of Cheyenne
# Yes, every night she walks the beaches
# Of Cheyenne. #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
# Lord, I feel like going home
# I tried and I failed
# And I'm tired and weary
# And everything I've done was wrong
# And I feel like going home
# Lord, I tried to see it through
# But it was too much for me
# Now I'm coming home to you
# And I feel like going home
# Cloudy skies are closing in
# And not a friend around to help me
# Mmm-mmm
# From all the places I have been
# Now I feel like going home
# Lord, I feel like going home
# I tried and I failed
# And I'm tired and weary
# And everything I've done was wrong
# And I feel like going home
# And everything I've done was wrong
# And I feel like
# Going
# Home. #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
# I rode across the great high plains
# Under the scorching sun and through the driving rain
# And when I set my sights on the mountains high
# I bid my former life goodbye
# So thank you ma'am
# I must decline
# For it's on my steed
# I will rely
# Out underneath
# The open sky
# I'm subject to the natural forces
# Home is where my horse is
# We loaded up in Buffalo
# We took 90 South down to Ohio
# On 80 West I'm Frisco-bound
# And when I get there I'll turn back around
# So thank you ma'am
# I must decline
# For it's on these 18 wheels
# I ride
# Out underneath
# The western sky
# I'm subject to the natural forces
# Home is where my horse is
# The Cherokee and the Chickasaw
# The Creek Seminole and the old Choctaw
# They volunteered to move they say
# And we'll understand, come Judgment Day
# So thank you ma'am
# I must decline
# For it's on this trail of tears
# I ride
# Out under Oklahoma skies
# Sometimes at night I hear their voices
# Home is where my horse is
# Now as I sit here safe at home
# With a cold Coors Lite and the TV on
# All the sacrifice and the death and war
# Lord, I pray that I'm worth fighting for
# So thank you ma'am
# I must decline
# For it's on my RPG
# I ride
# Until Earth and hell are satisfied
# Well, I'm subject to the natural forces
# And sometimes at night I hear their voices
# Home is where my horse is
# Home is where my horse is. #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
# If I could reach the stars
# I'd pull one down for you
# Shine it on my heart
# So you could see the truth
# That this love inside
# Is everything it seems
# But for now I find
# It's only in my dreams
# That I can
# Change the world
# I would be the sunlight in your universe
# And you would think my love was really something good
# Baby, if I could
# Change the world
# If I could be a queen
# Even for a day
# I'd take you as my king
# I'd have it no other way
# And our love would rule
# In this kingdom we have made
# Until then I'll be a fool
# Wishing for the day
# That I can
# Change the world
# I would be the sunlight in your universe
# And you would think my love was really something good
# Baby, if I could
# Change the world
# Baby, if I could
# Change the world
# Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
# Ah-ah-ah
# If I could change the world
# I would be the sunlight in your universe
# And you would think my love was really something good
# Baby, if I could
# Change the world
# Baby, if I could
# Change
# The world. #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
# Now blue ain't the word
# For the way that I feel
# And the storm's brewing
# In this heart of mine
# This ain't no crazy dream
# I know that it's real
# You're someone else's love now
# You're not mine
# Crazy arms that reach to hold somebody new
# While my yearning heart keeps saying you're not mine
# My troubled mind knows soon to another you'll be wed
# And that's why I'm lonely all the time
# So please take the treasured dreams
# I had for you and me
# And take all the love I thought was mine
# Some day my crazy arms may hold somebody new
# But now I'm so lonely all the time
# Crazy arms that reach to hold somebody new
# While my yearning heart keeps saying you're not mine
# My troubled mind knows soon to another you'll be wed
# And that's why I'm lonely all the time. #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
# I'm not tryin' to forget you anymore
# I've got back into remembering
# All the love we had before
# And I've been tryin' to forget someone that my heart still adores
# So I'm not tryin' to forget you anymore
# You're just someone who brought happiness into my life
# And it did not last forever
# Oh, but that's all right
# We were always more than lovers
# And I'm still your friend
# And if I had the chance, I'd do it all again
# So I'm not tryin' to forget you anymore
# I've got back into remembering all the love we had before
# And the best day of my life is still
# When you walked through my door
# So I'm not tryin' to forget you anymore
# You're just someone who brought happiness into my life
# And it did not last forever
# Oh, but that's all right
# We were always more than lovers and I'm still your friend
# And if I had the chance, I'd do it all again
# So I'm not tryin' to forget you anymore
# I've got back into remembering all the love we had before
# I've been trying to forget someone
# That my heart still adores
# So I'm not tryin' to forget you anymore
# I'm not tryin' to forget you anymore. #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Willie Nelson and some of the great legends.
Like all important art forms,
country music constantly reinvents itself.
So now let's look at some of the great new stars of the genre,
starting with someone who's now a global icon,
but she's seen here making her TV debut.
This is Taylor Swift.
# We were both young when I first saw you
# I close my eyes and the flashback starts
# I'm standing there
# On a balcony in summer air
# See the lights, see the party, the ballgowns
# See you make your way through the crowd and say hello
# Little did I know
# That you were Romeo, you were throwing pebbles
# And my daddy said stay away from Juliet
# And I was crying on the staircase
# Begging you, please, don't go
# And I said
# Romeo, take me somewhere we can be alone
# I'll be waiting, all there's left to do is run
# You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess
# It's a love story
# Baby, just say yes
# So I sneak out to the garden to see you
# We keep quiet cos we're dead if they knew
# So close your eyes
# Escape this town for a little while
# Oh-oh
# Cos you were Romeo, I was a scarlet letter
# My daddy said stay away from Juliet
# But you were everything to me
# I was begging you, please, don't go
# And I said
# Romeo, take me somewhere we can be alone
# I'll be waiting, all there's left to do is run
# You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess
# It's a love story
# Baby, just say yes
# Romeo, save me, they're tryin' to tell me how to feel
# This love is difficult
# But it's real
# Don't be afraid, we'll make it out of this mess
# It's a love story
# Baby, just say yes
# Oh-oh
# Oh-oh...
# I got tired of waiting
# Wondering if you were ever coming around
# My faith in you is fading
# When I met you on the outskirts of town
# And I said, Romeo, save me
# I've been feeling so alone
# I keep waiting for you but you never come
# Is this in my head? I don't know what to think
# He knelt to the ground and pulled out a ring and said
# Marry me, Juliet, you'll never have to be alone
# I love you and that's all I really know
# I talked to your dad, go pick out a white dress
# It's a love story
# Baby, just say...
# Yes
# Oh-oh-oh
# Cos we were both young when I first saw you. #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Thank you.
# If you ain't got two kids by 21
# You're probably gonna die alone
# At least that's what tradition told you
# And it don't matter if you don't believe
# Come Sunday morning
# You best be there in the front row
# Like you're supposed to
# Same hurt in every heart
# Same trailer, different park
# Mama's hooked on Mary Kay
# Brother's hooked on Mary Jane
# And Daddy's hooked on Mary two doors down
# Mary, Mary, quite contrary
# We get bored so we get married
# And just like dust we settle in this town
# On this broken merry-go-round
# And round and round we go
# Where it stops, nobody knows
# And it ain't slowin' down
# This merry-go-round
# We think the first one's good enough
# So we hold on to high school love
# Say we won't end up like our parents
# Tiny little boxes in a row
# It ain't what you want, it's what you know
# Just happy in the shoes you're wearin'
# Same cheques we're always cashin'
# To buy a little more distraction
# Cos Mama's hooked on Mary Kay
# Brother's hooked on Mary Jane
# And Daddy's hooked on Mary two doors down
# Mary, Mary, quite contrary
# We get bored so we get married
# And just like dust we settle in this town
# On this broken merry-go-round
# And round and round we go
# Where it stops, nobody knows
# And it ain't slowin' down
# This merry-go-round
# Mary, Mary, quite contrary
# We're so bored until we're buried
# And just like dust we settle in this town
# On this broken merry-go-round
# Merry-go-round
# Well, Jack and Jill went up the hill
# Jack burned out on booze and pills
# And Mary had a little lamb
# But Mary just don't give a damn no more. #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Ha!
# Early Monday morning to Friday at five
# Man, I work, work, work but I don't climb, climb, climb
# Boss man can shove that overtime up his can
# All you got to do is put a drink in my hand
# Fill it on up, I'll throw it down
# I got a 40-hour week worth of trouble to drown
# No need to complicate it, I'm a simple man
# All you got to do is put a drink in my hand
Yeah!
# If the parking lot is muddy, can't get to the door
# I take my jack up, drop her down in four-by-four
# Chill down a long neck, warm up the band
# And all you got to do is put a drink in my hand
# Fill it on up, I'll throw it down
# I'm about to tear a new one in this old town
# Five, four, three, two, one, I'll be your rocket man
# And all you got to do is put a drink in my hand
Come on now!
# You make me want to go "ooh, ooh ooh" when you dance like that
# You got that little tattoo playing peeky-boo on your back
# And if you want to impress me, baby, here's my plan
# All you got to do is put a drink in my hand
# Fill it on up, I'll throw it down
# When you drive me home take the long way around
# You'll be my Lois Lane, I'll be your Superman
# All you got to do is put a drink in my hand
# My head Monday morning that alarm clock sings
# It goes bang, bang, bang while it ring, ring, rings
# Yeah, I'm ready to roll if you want to rock again
# All you got to do is put a drink in my hand
# Fill it on up, I'll throw it down
# I got a little hungover, still hanging around
# Yeah, that hair of the dog is howling, hey there, man
# All you got to do is put a drink in my hand
# That hair of the dog is howling, hey there, man
# All you got to do is put a drink in my hand. #
Ah-oooooh!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
# Can I get a hallelujah?
# Yeah
# Can I get a hallelujah?
# Yeah
# Can I get an amen?
# Ooh...
# I've cussed on a Sunday
# I've cheated and I've lied
# I've fallen down from grace
# A few too many times
# But I find holy redemption
# When I put this car in drive
# Roll the windows down and turn up the dial
# Can I get a hallelujah?
# Can I get an amen?
# Feels like the Holy Ghost running through ya
# When I play the highway FM
# I find my soul revival
# Singing every single verse
# Yeah, I guess that's my church
# When Hank brings the sermon
# And Cash leads the choir
# It gets my cold coal heart burning
# Hotter than a ring of fire
# When this wonderful world gets heavy
# I need to find my escape
# I just keep the wheels rolling, radio scrolling
# Until my sins wash away
# Can I get a hallelujah?
# Can I get an amen?
# Feels like the Holy Ghost running through ya
# When I play the highway FM
# I find my soul revival
# Singing every single verse
# Yeah, I guess that's my church
# Can I get a hallelujah?
# Can I get an amen?
# Feels like the Holy Ghost running through ya
# When I play the highway FM
# I find my soul revival
# Singing every single verse
# Yeah, I guess that's my church
# Hey, can I get a hallelujah?
# Can I get an amen?
# Feels like the Holy Ghost running through ya
# When I play the highway FM
# I find my soul revival
# Singing every single verse
# Yeah, I guess that's my church
# Yeah, I guess that's my church. #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
# This is how you make yourself vanish into nothing
# This is how you make yourself worthy of the love
# That she gave to you back when you didn't own a beautiful thing
# And this is how you make yourself call your mother
# This is how you make yourself closer to your brother
# Remember him back when he was small enough to help you sing
# You thought God was an architect, now you know
# He's something like a pipe bomb ready to blow
# And everything you built that's all for show
# Goes up in flames
# In 24 frames
# And this is how you see yourself floating on the ceiling
# This is how you help her when her heart stops beating
# What happened to the part of you that noticed every changing wind?
# And this is how you talk to her when no-one else is listening
# This is how you help her when the muse goes missing
# You vanish so she can go drowning in a dream again
# You thought God was an architect, now you know
# He's something like a pipe bomb ready to blow
# And everything you built that's all for show
# Goes up in flames
# In 24 frames
# You thought God was an architect, now you know
# He's sitting in a black car ready to go
# You made some new friends after the show
# But you'll forget their names
# In 24 frames
# In 24 frames. #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
# All of these lines across my face
# Tell you the story of who I am
# So many stories of where I've been
# And how I got to where I am
# But these stories don't mean anything
# When you've got no-one to tell them to
# It's true
# I was made for you
# I climbed across the mountain tops
# Swam all across the ocean blue
# I crossed all the lines and I broke all the rules
# But, baby, I broke them all for you
# Oh, because even when I was flat broke
# You made me feel like a million bucks
# You do
# And I was made for you
# Yeah, yeah
# You see the smile that's on my mouth
# It's hiding the words that don't come out
# And all of my friends who think that I'm blessed
# They don't know my head is a mess
# No, they don't know who I really am
# And they don't know what I've been through
# Like you do
# And I was made for you
# And all of these lines across my face
# Tell you the story of who I am
# So many stories of where I've been
# And how I got to where I am
# Oh, but these stories don't mean anything
# When you've got no-one to tell them to
# It's true
# I was made for you
# Oh, yeah, it's true
# That I was made for you. #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
I do hope you've enjoyed this hour of country music
and the wonderful performances from our archives.
Let's end with a classic song from the 1960s,
performed ten years ago in our studio by Charley Pride.
This is Crystal Chandeliers.
# Oh, the crystal chandeliers light up the paintings on your wall
# The marble statuettes are standing stately in the hall
# But will the timely crowd that has you laughing loud
# Help you dry the tears
# When the new wears off of your crystal chandeliers?
# I never did fit in too well with folks you knew
# And it's plain to see that the likes of me don't fit with you
# So you traded me for the gaiety of the well-to-do
# And you turned away from the love I offered you
# Oh, the crystal chandeliers light up the paintings on your wall
# The marble statuettes are standing stately in the hall
# But will the timely crowd that has you laughing loud
# Help you dry your tears
# When the new wears off of your crystal chandeliers?
# I see your picture in the news most every day
# You're the chosen girl of the social world, so all the stories say
# But a paper smile only lasts a while then it fades away
# And the love we knew will come home to you some day
# Oh, the crystal chandeliers light up the paintings on your wall
# The marble statuettes are standing stately in the hall
# But will the timely crowd that has you laughing loud
# Help you dry your tears
# When the new wears off of your crystal chandeliers?
# Said when the new wears off of your crystal chandeliers. #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE