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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hi, everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
This is Ralph Emory on the air for Ibery Land
USA and for Phillips sixty six.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
My guest is Ed Bruce.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Ed.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
How you doing.
Speaker 4 (00:16):
I'm doing good.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Why don't you leap in there and bring on the
first song.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Okay, here's an old burke backack held David tune sung
by Ron email self.
Speaker 5 (00:25):
Any day now, any day.
Speaker 6 (00:28):
Now, I will hear you say good time, my love,
and you'll be on you wait in my wow, beautiful
firl you have flown.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
I'll be all alone.
Speaker 6 (01:04):
When you're restless ads meet someone.
Speaker 7 (01:12):
Oo to my sad surprise. Then the blue shadows will
fall all over the time.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Any day night.
Speaker 6 (01:30):
Double let me down.
Speaker 8 (01:40):
I know I should want to check you.
Speaker 9 (01:44):
If you don't want to stay.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Forever, I'll keep.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
For your life, holding you the spring, begging you to stay.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
Any Dna, when the clock strikes cool you.
Speaker 7 (02:14):
Call her, then Matts will flo Then, my beauty bumpers,
you will fly.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Any Dayna.
Speaker 9 (02:36):
Love will let me die.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
Cause you won't be shadows far a time any day.
Speaker 10 (03:13):
Let me down, cause you won't be any day now.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
That's Rodney Milshap opening our show with any day Now.
Speaker 11 (03:36):
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Speaker 2 (04:33):
I got several things. I got a million things I
want to ask you, and there's not enough time. I
want to play this and then I'll ask you.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Something that's been on my mind. One of the all
time favorite things that Ed Bruce does that I've ever
heard him do is a song called the working Man's Prayer.
And this just paints a beautiful picture.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
You know, who could have who could have done this
in a way that, uh, you would have found very interesting.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Walter Brennan, you know.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
He's yeah, Uh, there was some discussion about it at
one time or another.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
If anybody ever tried to get it to him or not.
I I didn't know how to at the time.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
This reminds me a little bit of another old country
song called the Farmer and the Lord. Did you ever
hear that song? This guy out plowing and talking to
the Lord, And this is essentially the same thing.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
There's a line in here that just blows me away
about those cotton. Uh those clouds, big fleecy clouds.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
And then they're the cutting feels of the Lord. H
Any story about this song.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Not really, except uh it it kind of shows my roots.
It It wasn't a hard song to write. Most of
my people were farm people.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Well, this is beautiful. Let's play it. Here's Ed Bruce
and the working Man's Prayer.
Speaker 13 (05:54):
Lord, put a hand to the handle of my whole.
Let me make can of the step, Help me go
ner the road, even though I'm tired and gotta try
to make a dollar for my wife and kids living
over in the hollow.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Every morning I get up and look at the sky,
and I know, if I'm going to work, Lord, the
sun's got to shine.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
But I'm getting old.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Before my time broke down, and body and mind and
sometimes When I don't see a rain cloud floating by Lord,
I just feel like dying. My father used to tell
me when I was a boy, sun them big white,
fleecy clouds up there ain't nothing but the cotton fields
of the Lord. After all these years of planting and
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chopping and picking, if I do get to heaven, Lord
like I've been trying, and them clouds be what Boss said.
So I hope your rangels know how to use a hole.
Speaker 13 (06:59):
Lord, pool and to the handle of my hole. Let
me make the stuff. Help me go the road, even
though I'm tired and gotta try to make a dollar
for my wife and kids living over in the hall.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
The Boss Planner came down to the house a few
days before Christmas last year. He asked what me and
the missus had planned Christmas Day. I kind of laughed
and made out like we could have had plans, but
we just hadn't settled on nothing different that way. Well,
me ask if the missus would come up and cook
Christmas dinner for him. In his said to bring the
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whole family in, joining the trimmings. Well, we went up
to the big house, Lord, and I never sausage eating,
and the Boss's wife gave all my kids brand new
shoes to warn their feet, and I guess maybe I cried.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
A little bit.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
And that night when I got home, I got down
on my knees and I thank you Lord.
Speaker 13 (07:59):
Remember, Lord, put a hand to the handle of my hole.
Let me make a stuff, help me go in the road,
even though I'm tired.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Gotta try to make a dollar for my wife than
kids living over.
Speaker 9 (08:20):
In the harder.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Then there was a time my wife says, You've got
to slow down, man, and I said, Honey, I got
to make it while I can. So I worked three days, Lord,
without stopping for Miss Simmons down the road, had would
need it chopping sam thurlo'reased had hate a bell. An
old man Turner wanted his hopper fixed four time for
spring plack. The fourth day, I was down in my back, Lord,
but I'd got it all done.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Before the sky turned black.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Now I ain't complaining, Lord, but sometimes when you see
me stumble, reach down and lift a hand under my
cotton sack. Make my days a little shorter, and my
night's a little longer. Lord, make my hammer a little lighter,
my dollar a little stronger. And if there's anything I
can do for you, Lord. Let me know what's to
be done, and I will be done well.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Good night, Lord, Ed Bruce casting on our show, singing
the working Man's Prayer. Gail Davies is next with a
rape price and all rape price goodye called, I'll be there.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
There ain't no change timing up to hold me.
Speaker 14 (09:42):
There ain't no breeze picking up so you never have
to see forever.
Speaker 12 (09:48):
That's too fine.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
There ain't no jail tied it up to locky.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
There ain't no man picking up and stop me.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
I'll be there. He ain't give out a long need
by your signe.
Speaker 15 (10:02):
Well love me.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
He can't around body.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
I never have seen all rout too rough to rive.
Speaker 14 (10:13):
Well, I'll be there, Lady had awaken, There won't be
idy haste now I'll be there.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
He'd be the one weave by your side.
Speaker 13 (10:47):
Well, there ain't no mos time enough to binding you
look for me, honey, and you bind you in your time.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
You're already with your talk.
Speaker 14 (10:59):
Because I be there, Lady adaway, and it won't be
it he has take I'll be there if you have
won me by jibut me.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
All road two n dry lay animate down there if
you won me by your side.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
That's Gail Davies singing I'll be there.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
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thirty seven, two oh two. Yeah, let's talk about your
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daughter's First, of all, we've established that you Patsy is
your wife. How many kids do you have?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Got four?
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Of course, Patsy and I have three, and then I
have a sun previous marriage.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Okay, how old is the youngest in your brute bo is? Twelve?
Is he the one that went behind the TV said
looking for his daddy?
Speaker 5 (12:59):
Went?
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Well, that was Jenny, Jenny who just turned seventeen.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
She went, she saw her daddy on TV one time,
went by the behind the set looking for huh.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Yeah? Is she the one that was in the Maverick series?
Speaker 4 (13:12):
No, Anne, Marie middle little and all?
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Was that Marie Ann?
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Marie just turned fourteen. She worked as an extra in
the series. She's five nine, long, blonde hair, and just gorgeous.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
She didn't have any speaking.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Part, No, she didn't. She worked just as an extra.
She had a couple of what they call silent bits
and that's that's about it.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
And she was in.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
The movie This Is Elvis, that Patsy cast in Memphis,
the docu drama on Elvis Presley.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
I gathered that she aspires to be an actress. She
wants to be one, she wants to be a movie star.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
She puts it in and I've read I read the
article that was in the Nashville paper just last week.
She had gone in. They had called wanting to do
an interview with her, and she had gone in to
do the interview, and then the news broke about canceling
the Maverick series. But I couldn't help but get tickled
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at one of her responses, and she said that now
she just turned fourteen, right, And she said she's just
wanted to be an actress ever since she was a
little bitty girl.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I was gonna ask, and you may want to think
about this. Can you give me a funny anecdote from
the Maverick series, something that was all filed up or
funny that went wrong or whatever on them, that we.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Can recount on the on Family Radio. Yes, well, there
were numerous funny things that happened. One thing, Jim and I,
or rather Maverick and Guthrie are standing out by the
corral fence one night out the Lazy Ace.
Speaker 16 (14:58):
Hand.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Some bushwhackers up in the trees throw down on us
and start shooting, and we died behind this woodpile. And
of course, you know, Maverage content just to lay behind
the wood pile, and Guthrie wants to go after him,
and he says something about it, and I see one
over here and one over there, and now I'm gonna
count three and we'll go and uh, Maverick says, I'm
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about uh, well, how about ten? And uh Guthrie's this
is where the dialogue goes, and Guthrie says, U three,
and then they split. Well, when we were shooting the scene,
we get to that point and I said, uh, I
said three, and boy I take off and he's and
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Jim he's just sitting down like that and the camera
still only me. He looks around, he looks at me.
He says, well, you gotta count. And then there were
a few more things that really probably not talk about
on family radio.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Oh, colorful, colorful things you mean, uh, you mean somebody
might an ugly word?
Speaker 4 (16:01):
No?
Speaker 2 (16:02):
No, uh okay, I mean waving me on con Honeley
out of Knoxville, Tennessee.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Is next a golf ball of mile high hits a
golf co Yeah, I didn't know what's straight to.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Yeah, he's pretty well. He's gonna hit this song a while.
It's gonna be a big song for him, I hope.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
So.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Oh the Jordan Jordan there Ounkraage boys are guesting on
this record. Oh okay, that's the thing. Now you guessed
on record, you throw me? Okay, I've guessed on several
I've guessed wrong.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Most I'll be in trouble if you left me. Now
(16:55):
I don't know where to look. I just don't no
help over how I depend on you to give me
when I be right on time? You're alone with me.
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All my friends call me, let's see, let the woman
take care of you.
Speaker 9 (17:28):
So I try to think like the crowd.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
For even the crowd can't help me. Now, Oh world,
kill me whatever I'm going you. I know I've got
a guilty face. Girl, I've feeling so well to please.
Speaker 9 (18:00):
So want my friends going. They say, live the woman
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take care of you. So I trying to be in
everything like a crowd, or even the crowd can't help me.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Now, wool.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
World, I get so I can save my simple lot
of useless cheers. Girl, I gotta get away from here.
Speaker 16 (18:58):
Oh I know I've got a new debase girl up here,
so well, please, I don't know any look, I don't.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Know Gon Honley backing done by the Oak Ridge Boys,
and that's called Oh Girl.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
A performance story from Phillips Petroleum.
Speaker 8 (19:44):
Listen, that's a wood duck. You know they were a
threatened species a few years ago because they're natural nesting areas.
The dead hollow trees were being cut down. My name
is Tom Tubbs with the Minnesota Waterfowl Association. We knew
that if these were going to be saved, they would
need artificial nesting boxes. We looked at every kind of
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a special plastic that Phillips Petroleum makes. It's so slick
that raccoons can't get a claw hold onto it to
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enough to withstand the Minnesota winters. Over the years, we've
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because today the wood duck is no longer threatened. Actually,
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it's one of the most plentiful species of waterfowl in
North America.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Caring for your car and more. That's performance from Phillip's Petroleum.
I got another old song. I won't play here, ed,
Why don't you bring it out? Mine old garble. Here's
George Jones and Tammy Wine it doing the crowdad.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
So you get a.
Speaker 10 (20:54):
Line out the whole honey, You get a line, and
all get a bold bay.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
You get a line, I'll.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Get the ball, He'll go down.
Speaker 13 (21:06):
To the crawl dead.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Hold, honey head mind you undercome a man with a
cyclone his back, h you un become a man with
a second his back. Day, y'all become a man.
Speaker 7 (21:21):
Let a sign by ball, crow Dad's deacon back money man,
The man fell down.
Speaker 9 (21:30):
Any bursty's side, Honey, man fell down any bursty sack day,
the man fell down Anniversity's sick.
Speaker 15 (21:40):
Y'all see the crow Dad back in bad Honey.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
Then you get it, I'll get it, I get you
get it, I'll get it man, you get.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Him, I'll get.
Speaker 15 (22:00):
Honey, spade, what you're gonna do when if I'm goes dive?
Speaker 5 (22:27):
What you're gonna do?
Speaker 1 (22:28):
When if I go dive?
Speaker 5 (22:29):
Then? Hey, what you gonna when if I'm go die?
Speaker 15 (22:34):
Sit on EV's wants pull days die Honey, say.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
You get it, I'll get it. I get a phocus.
You get him, I'll get him, lay, I get the
po get him, I'll get him. Spade, you can get
a line.
Speaker 15 (22:59):
I put the post.
Speaker 7 (23:03):
You get at the ball.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
George Jones with Miss Chammy and Let's call the Crawdad Song.