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Season 2 Episode 8 | 54m 50sVideo has Closed Captions
Recorded live concert features Rhiannon Giddens, Balsam Range and more.
Rhiannon Giddens and Friends, Balsam Range, Josh Goforth, and the Branchettes join host David Holt for a concert at the Bardo Arts Center of Western Carolina University.
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Onstage!
Season 2 Episode 8 | 54m 50sVideo has Closed Captions
Rhiannon Giddens and Friends, Balsam Range, Josh Goforth, and the Branchettes join host David Holt for a concert at the Bardo Arts Center of Western Carolina University.
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In the folds and valleys of these hills, music from the British isles met and blended with the music of Africa and other traditions, and was handed down from generation to generation.
We've come to the Bardo Arts Center on the campus of Western Carolina University.
This evening we'll be hearing from masters of mountain music in its many forms, from bluegrass to gospel.
Hi, I'm David Holt.
Welcome to The State of Music, Live!
(audience applauding) Thank you!
Good to see you!
(lively banjo music) (audience applauding) Alright, thank you for coming out tonight.
Welcome to the State of Music, I'm David Holt.
It's so great to have you here, we're gonna have a wonderful concert tonight with Rhiannon Giddens, Josh Goforth, The Branchettes and Balsam Range.
I want to start things off with one of my mentors, a fellow named Ralph Stanley.
Here's a picture I took of Ralph, one of the great bluegrass musicians.
(audience applauding) But it was hearing Ralph play this song, that he learned from his mother in the old claw hammer banjo style, that made me wanna learn to play.
An old song called "Honey, Babe, I'm Bound to Ride", let me play that for you.
(banjo solo) ♪ Well, traveling around the country ♪ Playing all the time ♪ Lord love the music ♪ I'm gonna miss that gal of mine ♪ Oh, honey, babe, I'm bound to ride (lively banjo music) ♪ Don't you wanna go (banjo solo) ♪ Well, first I'll go to Nashville ♪ Denver, then Maine ♪ Asheville to Georgia ♪ Then do it all again ♪ Oh, honey, babe, I'm bound to ride (banjo solo) ♪ Don't you wanna go (banjo solo) ♪ Well, now I'm playing this old banjo ♪ Singing these old songs ♪ Both of them will be here ♪ Long after I am gone ♪ Oh, honey, babe, I'm bound to ride (banjo solo) ♪ Don't you wanna go ♪ (audience applauding) Thank you!
Now, I want to introduce you to Josh Goforth.
Josh, grew up on Lonesome Mountain in up Madison County, North Carolina.
He has mountain music in his veins.
A lot of the people I learned from when I was in my twenties are relatives of his.
And Josh is, well, I've known Josh since he was a teenager and he's become one of North Carolina's finest musicians.
Please welcome Josh Goforth.
(audience applauding) - I'd like to do a tune by my hero Doc Watson.
What an amazing guitarist.
(audience applauding) It's called "I Don't Love Nobody and Nobody Loves Me".
It's a happy song though.
(David and the audience laughing) (guitar solo) (audience applauding) - Woohoo!
So, I came to North Carolina to learn to play the banjo and I found instruments like this, the mouth bow!
It is just simply a stick with a string on it.
Clearly one of the oldest instruments in the world and played in a few places in the world, you know, anthropologists think it was a, a mouth bow that was an instrument before it was a bow and arrow by 500 years or so.
So, there's a fellow over in Norris, Tennessee, I learned a good bit from.
Norris, Norris, Tennessee, that's what I mean.
Uh, Carlock Stooksbury was his name, and you play it simply by putting it up to your mouth, making the note moving your mouth, it changes the note just a little bit, not much.
But I decided to use this instrument to write a song about the Drovers.
Now, the Drovers were the guys who drove animals all the way from Western North Carolina, East Tennessee, Western North Carolina, all the way down to Charleston, South Carolina in the 1800s.
It was, it took'em months to do this.
Can you imagine driving 2,000 wild turkeys from here to Charleston?
(audience laughing) Or 10,000 hogs or 10,000 cattle, head of cattle.
Now, I bet there's nobody in the entire world that knows how to drive 10,000 hogs or 2,000 wild turkeys from here to Charleston.
And I wanted to give those guys a song.
Josh, tell 'em what you're gonna play there.
- I'm gonna play an instrument from over in Burnsville, North Carolina.
David found this instrument.
It's just a stick with bottle caps nailed to it.
And over there in Burnsville, they call this a stump fiddle.
Sounds like this.
(instrument solo) - (David laughing) So we're putting together two pretty primitive instruments.
(laughing) (instruments solo) ♪ Well it takes three months on the drovers' road ♪ To get these hogs to market ♪ Well, I'll come back with a wagon load ♪ And a few coins in my pocket ♪ Trading hogs for China dishes ♪ Coffee guns and salted fishes ♪ I may never know what rich is ♪ All I do is barter (instruments solo) ♪ A drover's work is never done ♪ He's going or he's coming ♪ I'll drive these hogs to Charleston ♪ Think thousand hooves are drummin' ♪ Trading hogs for China dishes ♪ Coffee guns and salted fishes ♪ I may never know what rich is ♪ All I do is barter (instruments solo) ♪ We turn our corn into sour mash ♪ And sour mash to whiskey ♪ It'll keep 'em warm on a winter's night ♪ And make their lovin' frisky ♪ Trading hogs for China dishes ♪ Coffee guns and salted fishes ♪ I may never know what rich is ♪ All I do is barter (instruments solo) ♪ So it's fare the well my own true love ♪ Fare the well my darlin' ♪ I'm leaving here to Charleston ♪ I'm leaving here this morning ♪ Trading hogs for China dishes ♪ Coffee guns and salted fishes ♪ I may never know what rich is ♪ All I do is barter ♪ (instruments solo) (audience applauding) Thank you!
Here's a picture of the oldest person I ever met, her name was Susie Bunsen, and she was the oldest person in the world in 1992 at 122-years old, that's what she claimed.
She lived with her youngest daughter, youngest of twelve children and she was eighty-nine.
Now, she taught me how to play the washboard.
And after Susie Bunsen died, I thought man, that was so interesting.
I'm going to go find the next oldest person in the world.
It happened to be an American actually, her name was Mary Thompson.
She lived in Orlando, Florida.
And I always ask these folks one question, well, two questions.
One, how do you live that long?
Her answer was, "You just mind your own business".
(audience laughing) And number two is, what was your favorite song when you were a little kid?
And who knows what that would be in the 1870s, for, anyone in America, what would be their favorite song?
She said, "Oh, that's easy.
"Greasy Greens"."
I had never even heard of "Greasy Greens", I said, can you just hum a little bit for me, I'll try to learn it for you.
She said, "Honey, I haven't heard it "in 105 years".
(everyone laughing) I said, well, alright.
Let me ask my friend George here.
George lives down in Tarboro, North Carolina.
And, I said, do you know that song, George?
He said, "Well, I've heard it.
"I think I can put it together for you".
And so, I got to go down, got to learn the song from George and go back and play it for Mary.
Josh, let's play a little bit of that, "Greasy Greens".
This is the Stradivarius of washboards, the zinc and lingerie model.
(audience laughing) You just put thimbles on your fingers, and you just tap it lightly, something like this.
(instruments solo) ♪ Now way down south where I was born (instruments solo) ♪ I didn't raise nothin' but cotton and corn (instruments solo) ♪ Green tomatoes and black-eyed peas ♪ Oh, good Lord, them greasy greens (instruments solo) ♪ And that's what I want now ♪ Hey pretty mama ♪ You just got 'em done ♪ Soft and easy ♪ Good n' greasy ♪ How I love those greasy greens ♪ Crazy 'bout my greasy greens (instruments solo) ♪ Now, I'm a man from New Orleans (instruments solo) ♪ Crazy 'bout my greasy greens (instruments solo) ♪ If I don't get 'em three times a day ♪ Well, I'll get mad and I'll walk away (instruments solo) ♪ And that's what I want now (instruments solo) ♪ Hey pretty mama ♪ You just got 'em done ♪ Soft and easy ♪ Good n' greasy ♪ How I love those greasy greens ♪ I'm crazy 'bout my greasy greens ♪ - Washboard!
(washboard solo) (instruments solo) ♪ And that's what I want now (instruments solo) ♪ Hey pretty mamma ♪ You just got 'em done ♪ Soft and easy ♪ Good n' greasy ♪ How I love those greasy greens ♪ Crazy 'bout my greasy greens ♪ Crazy 'bout my greasy greens ♪ Crazy 'bout my greasy greens ♪ (instruments solo) (audience applauding) Let's bring on our friend Tim Surrett to play bass with us on this one.
Give Tim a big hand from Balsam Range.
(audience applauding) Thank you, buddy!
Let's get Josh to sing one and play one.
Little tune called "Sittin' on Top of the World".
(instruments solo) ♪ Twas in the spring ♪ One sunny day ♪ My good gal left me ♪ Lord, she went away ♪ But now she's gone ♪ Lord, but I don't worry ♪ Well because I'm sittin' ♪ On top of the world ♪ She called me up ♪ I passed San Antone ♪ Said, Come on, baby ♪ Well, you know I need you so ♪ Oh, but now she's gone ♪ Oh but I don't worry ♪ Well you know I'm sittin' ♪ On top of the world (guitar solo) ♪ Now the Mississippi River ♪ Lord, it's runnin' deep and wide ♪ Well I got me a woman ♪ Way on the other side ♪ Lord, but if she's gone ♪ Oh, but I don't worry ♪ Well, you know I'm sittin' ♪ On top of the world ♪ Think about it David Holt.
(instruments solo) ♪ If you don't like my peaches ♪ Lord, don't you shake my tree ♪ Stay out of my orchard ♪ Well, honey let my peaches be ♪ Oh, but now she's gone ♪ Lord, but I don't worry ♪ Well, you know I'm sittin' ♪ On top of the world ♪ I said she's gone ♪ Well, but I don't worry ♪ Oh, you know I'm sittin' ♪ On top of the world ♪ (audience applauding) - [David] Like all the performers on tonight's show, Rhiannon Giddens has roots in North Carolina.
She first became known nationally as a founding member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops A group that emphasized the African-American heritage in traditional music.
A gifted singer and multi-instrumentalist, Rhiannon excels in many musical genres, here's Rhiannon Giddens!
(instruments solo) ♪ So tall and slender ♪ Daddy was a charmer ♪ He was a handsome man ♪ But when he'd move it ♪ Lord, the ladies lose it ♪ Daddy was a dancin' man (instruments solo) ♪ When he was dancing ♪ Daddy swept the floor ♪ They called it siftin' sand ♪ So light and graceful ♪ Not a step was wasteful ♪ Daddy was a dancin' man (instruments solo) ♪ And when the young men ♪ They'd come a-courtin' ♪ They'd try to take my hand ♪ They'd buck and wing ♪ But it doesn't mean a thing ♪ 'Cause Daddy was the dancin' man (instruments solo) ♪ So tall and slender ♪ Daddy was a charmer ♪ He was a handsome man ♪ But when he'd move it ♪ Lord, those ladies lose it ♪ Daddy was a dancin' man ♪ (instruments solo) (audience applauding) We're gonna do a tune called "Shake Sugaree", by a woman named Elizabeth Cotton, who was a a guitarist but she played in an interesting way.
She played left-hand, she was left-handed but she didn't know the to restring the guitar so she played upside and backwards, (audience laughing) so it gave her a real unique style that's very hard to emulate.
(little laugh) But this is a song, that I've been doing all year as part of, it's a record that I've been touring, and it's just a really beautiful song.
(guitar solo) ♪ Got a little song ♪ Won't take long ♪ Sing it right ♪ Once or twice ♪ Oh, Lordy me ♪ Didn't I shake sugaree?
♪ Everything I got is done and pawned ♪ Everything I got is done and pawned ♪ Pawned my watch ♪ Pawned my chain ♪ Pawned everything that was in my name ♪ Oh, Lordy me ♪ Didn't I shake sugaree ♪ Everything I got is done and pawned ♪ Everything I got is done and pawned ♪ Pawned my chair ♪ Pawned my bed ♪ Ain't got nowhere to lay my head ♪ Oh, Lordy me ♪ Didn't I shake the sugaree ♪ Everything I got is done and pawned ♪ Everything I got is done and pawned ♪ Pawned my tobacco ♪ Pawned my pipe ♪ Pawned everything that was in my sight ♪ Oh, Lordy me ♪ Didn't I shake the sugaree ♪ Everything I got is done and pawned ♪ Everything I got is done and pawned (instruments solo) ♪ Got a little secret ♪ Ain't gonna tell ♪ I'm going to heaven ♪ In a brown pea shell ♪ Oh, Lordy me ♪ Didn't I shake the sugaree ♪ Everything I got is done and pawned ♪ Everything I got is done and pawned ♪ Got a little secret ♪ Ain't gonna tell ♪ I'm going to heaven, and I ain't goin' ♪ Oh, Lordy me ♪ Didn't I shake the sugaree ♪ Everything I got is done and pawned ♪ Everything I got is done and pawned ♪ Everything I got is done and pawned ♪ (audience applauding) Thank you.
Well, um, I do a lot of historical music, and I think it's important to know the history of the music, so I wrote a song.
This is based on a, a slave narrative about a conversation that was overheard when a woman and, and the woman that she called her property were watching the Union Army coming over the hill to liberate the plantation.
And the mistress was like you're not gonna, you're not gonna leave me, are you?
And the slave was like mm hmm, you know, and they had this conversation, and I just, it inspired me to to write this song, so this is called "Julie".
And, I'm playing it on a replica of the banjo from 1858.
♪ Julie, oh, Julie ♪ Won't you run ♪ 'Cause I see down yonder ♪ The soldiers have come ♪ Julie, oh, Julie ♪ Can't you see ♪ Them devils have come ♪ To take you far from me (instruments solo) ♪ Mistress, oh, mistress ♪ I won't run ♪ 'Cause I see down yonder ♪ The soldiers have come ♪ Mistress, oh, mistress ♪ I do see ♪ And I'll stay right here till they come for me (instruments solo) ♪ Julie, oh, Julie ♪ You won't go ♪ Leave this house and all you know ♪ Julie, oh, Julie, don't leave here ♪ Leave us who love you ♪ And all you hold dear (instruments solo) ♪ Mistress, oh, mistress, I will go ♪ Leave this house and all I know ♪ Mistress, oh, mistress, I will leave here ♪ With what my family I got left ♪ They're all I hold dear (instruments solo) ♪ Julie, oh, Julie, won't you lie ♪ If they find that trunk of gold by my side ♪ Julie, oh, Julie, you tell them men ♪ That that trunk of gold is yours, my friend ♪ Mistress, oh, mistress, I won't lie ♪ If they find that trunk of gold by your side ♪ Mistress, oh, mistress, that trunk of gold ♪ Is what you got when my children you sold ♪ Mistress, oh, mistress, don't you cry ♪ The price of staying here is too high ♪ Mistress, oh, mistress, I wish you well ♪ But in leaving here ♪ I'm leaving Hell ♪ (instruments solo) (audience applauding) Thank you.
- [David] Lena Mae Perry and Wilbur Tharpe had been making gospel music together for decades.
She maybe seventy-nine-years-old, but Lena Mae can raise the roof.
Wilbur is a self-taught pianist who can play from Saturday night to Sunday morning.
Ladies and gentlemen, The Branchettes.
(piano solo) ♪ There's a union in heaven ♪ Where I belong ♪ There's a union in heaven ♪ Where I belong ♪ There's a union in heaven ♪ Where I belong ♪ Oh, I belong to that union band ♪ There's a union in heaven ♪ Where I belong ♪ There's a union in heaven ♪ Where I belong ♪ There's a union in heaven ♪ Where I belong ♪ Oh, I belong to that union band ♪ Oh, sisters, didn't I tell you so ♪ Oh, I belong to that union band ♪ I asked for trials down here below ♪ Oh, I belong to that union band ♪ There's a union in heaven ♪ Where I belong ♪ There's a union in heaven ♪ Where I belong ♪ There's a union in heaven ♪ Where I belong ♪ Oh, I belong to that union band (piano solo) ♪ There's a union in heaven ♪ Where I belong ♪ There's a union in heaven ♪ Where I belong ♪ There's a union in heaven ♪ Where I belong ♪ Oh, I belong to that union band ♪ (piano solo) (audience applauding) Thank you, thank you.
(piano solo) ♪ If it wasn't for the Lord ♪ Oh, what would I do ♪ Oh, what would I do ♪ Oh, what would I do ♪ Now, if it wasn't for the Lord ♪ Tell me, what would I do ♪ I say, that he's every, every, every, everything to me ♪ Now, if it wasn't for the Lord ♪ Oh, what would I do ♪ Oh, what, what would I do, ♪ Tell me, what would I do ♪ And if it wasn't for the Lord ♪ Tell me, what would I do ♪ I say, that he's every, every, every, everything to me ♪ He's my water in dry places ♪ He's bread in starving lands ♪ He's my rock and shelter ♪ I know he holds me in his hand ♪ But when all the world forsake me ♪ Close by my side he stands ♪ But he is every, every, everything to me ♪ Now, if it wasn't for the Lord ♪ Tell me, what would I do ♪ What, what would I do ♪ What would I do ♪ Now, if it wasn't for the Lord ♪ Oh what, what would I do ♪ I say, that he's every, every, every, everything to me ♪ To me, to me ♪ Yes, thank you Lord ♪ Yeah ♪ Ooo yeah ♪ Yeah ♪ (piano solo) (audience applauding) - [David] I've known the members of our next group for years as talented individual musicians, coming from diverse musical backgrounds including jazz and gospel.
All of them of natives of Haywood County, North Carolina, and it was there that they met and formed the hit-making bluegrass powerhouse known as Balsam Range.
(audience cheering and applauding) - One, two, three go.
(instruments solo) ♪ There's a moon over Memphis ♪ Looking down on what I've done ♪ There's a moon over Memphis ♪ Looking down on what I've done ♪ And it's shining through the smoke ♪ From the barrel of my gun ♪ That moon over Memphis ♪ It don't understand ♪ That moon over Memphis ♪ It just don't understand Lord ♪ That I found my woman ♪ In the arms of another man ♪ And the sun in Chicago ♪ It won't ask me why ♪ I ran away from Memphis ♪ And that man had to die ♪ There's a moon over Memphis ♪ Looking down on what I've done ♪ It's shining through the smoke ♪ From the barrel of my gun, yes sir (instruments solo) ♪ That moon over Memphis ♪ Is hanging like a judge ♪ That moon over Memphis ♪ Is hanging like a judge, Lord ♪ It's showing no mercy ♪ On a man who held a grudge ♪ And the stars up in heaven ♪ Will never see my face ♪ For what I did in Memphis ♪ Can never be erased ♪ There's a moon over Memphis ♪ Looking down on what I've done ♪ It's shining through the smoke ♪ From the barrel of my gun (instruments solo) (audience applauding) ♪ There's a moon over Memphis ♪ Looking down on what I've done ♪ There's a moon over Memphis ♪ Looking down on what I've done ♪ And it's shining through the smoke ♪ From the barrel of my gun ♪ There's a moon over Memphis ♪ There's a moon over Memphis ♪ There's a moon over Memphis ♪ Looking down on what I've done ♪ (audience applauding) - [Band Member] How you doin' ya'll?
- Thank you so much.
Here's a former bluegrass song of the year, it's called "Trains I Missed".
♪ Here's to the trains I missed ♪ The loves I lost ♪ The bridges I burned ♪ The rivers I never crossed ♪ Here's to the call I didn't hear ♪ The signs I didn't heed ♪ The roads I couldn't take ♪ The map that I just wouldn't read ♪ It's a big ole world ♪ And I found my way ♪ From the hell and the hurt ♪ That led me straight to this ♪ Here's to the trains I missed (instruments solo) ♪ Well, I've been a clown, I've been a fool ♪ And I pushed on every chance ♪ I searched far and wide ♪ Trying to crawl out of God's hand ♪ But there's stones I didn't throw ♪ And hearts I didn't break ♪ And the little hope I held onto with a silver ♪ Shining thread of faith ♪ It's a big ole world ♪ And I found my way ♪ From the hell and the hurt ♪ That led me straight to this ♪ Here's to the trains I missed (instruments solo) ♪ Here's to the place I found ♪ The love I know ♪ The earth and the sky ♪ That I call home ♪ And here's to the things I believe ♪ Bigger than me ♪ And the moment I find myself ♪ Right where I'm supposed to be ♪ It's a big ole world ♪ And I found my way ♪ From the hell and the hurt ♪ That led me straight to this ♪ Yeah, it's a big old world ♪ And I found my way ♪ From the hell and the hurt ♪ That led me straight to this ♪ Here's to the trains I missed ♪ (audience applauding) - Thank you very much.
Here's the first number one song we ever had.
I think you'll enjoy this, a lot of you know it already, sing along, you might as well.
Enjoy yourself, we're going to, and we have already.
Here's one called the "Last Train to Kitty Hawk".
- One, two, three, four.
♪ Everyone knew it was bound to happen one day ♪ Another break-through with the twinkle of an eye ♪ Scholars scratch their heads always looking for a new way ♪ Ponder their options and look up to the sky ♪ No, no nothing lasts forever ♪ Nothing says goodbye like a ticket in your hand ♪ Woah, they say progress makes us better ♪ Time ain't standing still for any man ♪ All aboard ♪ The last train to kitty hawk ♪ Yesterday's taken off ♪ And tomorrow's gonna fly (instruments solo) ♪ I guess someday they'll close down this station ♪ Ride around in motor cars and never take the train ♪ Always be new ways to reach our destination ♪ Once we're done with taxi cabs we'll fly in jet airplanes ♪ No, no nothing lasts forever ♪ Nothing says goodbye like a ticket in your hand ♪ Woah, they say progress makes us better ♪ Time ain't standing still for any man ♪ All aboard ♪ The last train to kitty hawk ♪ Yesterday's taken off ♪ And tomorrow's gonna fly ♪ It's time to spread our wings and fly ♪ Now the brothers say the wind is right ♪ Don't get left behind (instrument solo) ♪ All aboard ♪ The last train to kitty hawk ♪ Yesterday's taken off ♪ And tomorrow's gonna fly ♪ All aboard ♪ The last train to kitty hawk ♪ Yesterday's taken off ♪ And tomorrow's gonna fly ♪ All aboard ♪ (audience cheering and applauding) - [Tim] Thank you very much!
♪ Stacking up the rocks at the edge of the water ♪ Memorial of the miracles he gave to thee ♪ That all the people of the earth might remember ♪ That the hand of the Lord's mighty ♪ God told Joshua to lead his people ♪ As I was with Moses I will be with thee ♪ I will never leave or forsake you ♪ But set the people free ♪ Joshua spoke unto his people ♪ Said sanctify yourselves ♪ For tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you ♪ And you will surely be blessed ♪ Stacking up the rocks at the edge of the water ♪ Memorial of the miracles he gave to thee ♪ That all the people of the earth might remember ♪ That the hand of the Lord's mighty ♪ Priest carrying the ark of the covenant ♪ To the raging Jordan's side ♪ Brave and courageous they stepped in the water ♪ And God worked before their eyes ♪ The water stopped flowing the river bed dry ♪ They all crossed to the other side ♪ Twelve men back to the middle of the river ♪ Carrying rocks to remember by ♪ Stacking up the rocks at the edge of the water ♪ Memorial of the miracles he gave to thee ♪ That all the people of the earth might remember ♪ That the hand of the Lord's mighty ♪ God's still with us in this world of trouble ♪ Performs miracles everyday ♪ Has he worked in your life brother ♪ Have you shown it in some way ♪ Well are you stacking up the rocks ♪ At the edge of the water ♪ Memorial of the miracles he gave to thee ♪ That all the people of the earth might remember ♪ That the hand of the Lord's mighty ♪ Hallelujah ♪ Stacking up the rocks at the edge of the water ♪ Memorial of the miracles he gave to thee ♪ That all the people of the earth might remember ♪ That the hand of the Lord's mighty ♪ So that all the people of the earth might remember ♪ That the hand of the Lord is mighty ♪ (audience cheering and applauding) - Well, thanks for being with us for David Holt's State of Music, live!
As you can see, the music is in very healthy condition.
I wannna thank everybody on the show, Rhiannon Giddens, Lena Mae Perry and Wilbur Tharpe, The Branchettes, Josh Goforth, and Balsam Range.
Give them a big ole hand.
(audience cheering and applauding) So, I thought we could close out with the favorite song of the oldest person in the world, Susie Bunsen, called "This Little Light of Mine".
You sing it with us.
♪ This little light of mine ♪ Woah, I'm gonna let it shine ♪ Oh, this little light of mine ♪ I'm gonna let it shine ♪ This little light of mine ♪ Woah, I'm gonna let it shine ♪ Let it shine ♪ Let it shine ♪ Let it shine ♪ Everywhere I go ♪ I'm gonna let it shine (audience cheering) ♪ Everywhere I go ♪ I'm gonna let it shine ♪ Hallelujah ♪ Everywhere I go ♪ I'm gonna let it shine ♪ Let it shine ♪ Let it shine ♪ Let it shine ♪ This little light of mine ♪ I'm gonna let it shine ♪ Woah, this little light of mine ♪ I'm gonna let it shine ♪ This little light of mine ♪ Woah, I'm gonna let it shine ♪ Let it shine ♪ Let it shine ♪ Let it shine ♪ - Bring it around now.
♪ Woah, let is shine ♪ Let it shine ♪ Let it shine ♪ - [Man] David Holt's State of Music is available on DVD.
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- Thank you.
(audience cheering and applauding) ♪
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