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GOOD FRIENDS WHO ARE WITHIN THE RANGE OF MY VOICE KNOW I AM THOMAS JEFFERSON, YOUR HUMBLE SERVANT HERE BEFORE YOU WANT THIS GLORIOUS EARLY SUMMER DAY TO SHARE WITH YOU HOW IT CAME TO PASS THAT I, WHEN JUST AGED 33 GOT CHARGED WITH, WELL, WRITING THE DOCUMENT THAT I HAVE HERE, THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, I TRIED TO AVOID THIS KIND OF NOTORIETY.
WHY MANY A TIME WHEN THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS MET THERE.
I SAT LISTENING TO DISTINGUISHED FOLKS LIKE, UH, BENJAMIN HARRIS IN THE V AND VENER MORRIS AND BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SPEAK ABOUT THIS AND THAT.
AND WHEN JOHN ADAMS GOT UP, WHY AT TIMES PEOPLE WERE INSISTING HE SIT DOWN.
BUT I FOUND MYSELF IN SPITE OF MY, UH, RETICENCE ON A COMMITTEE OF FIVE WITH LIVINGSTON AND SHERMAN ADAMS, MYSELF AND FRANKLIN AND A LITTLE DISCUSSION CAME FORTH AND SAID TO ME, WE'VE DECIDED YOU ARE THE ONE WHO'S GOING TO WRITE THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
AND I SAID, SIR, PRAY, TELL WHY YOU ARE A FAR BETTER WRITER THAN I.
FIRST OF ALL, HE SAID, YOU ARE A VIRGINIAN, AND IT IS MOST IMPORTANT TO GET APPROVAL OF THIS DOCUMENT THAT WE HAVE A VIRGINIAN WHO HAS BEEN THE SCRIBE.
AND HE DIDN'T STOP THERE, BONNIE.
HE WENT SAYING, AND MR. JEFFERSON, I AM KNOWN FOR BEING OBNOXIOUS AND AN OBSTRUCTIONIST.
WHY I'M UNIVERSALLY DESPISED YOU, MR. JEFFERSON, ARE 10 TIMES MORE POPULAR THAN AM I? AND I DID NOT WANT TO DEBATE THAT POINT.
AND THEN HE SAID, AND BESIDES, YOU ARE THE SUPERIOR WRITER.
THEY GAVE ME A QUILL AND AN INKWELL AND SET ME OFF.
NOW UNDERSTAND, MANY HAVE SINCE LOOKED AT THE DOCUMENT INSISTING, OH, THIS IS SOME KIND OF A HACK NEED REPORT FOR WHAT WE'VE BEEN DISCUSSING HERE IN CONGRESS FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS.
THERE'S NOT AN ORIGINAL IDEA THERE.
THAT WAS THE POINT I HAD CONSUMED, IF YOU WILL, THE, THE, THE COLLECTIVE WISDOM OF ALL THOSE IN THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS AND THOSE WHO HAD WRITTEN BEFORE US, NAMELY, IF YOU WISH, UM, MR. LOCKE, OH, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HAD A WISE SUGGESTION.
UM, THE LINE HERE I SAID, WAS THAT, THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL ENDOWED WITH CERTAIN, I, I WANTED TO SAY INESTIMABLE RIGHTS, BUT HE SAID, UNALIENABLE OR INALIENABLE AMONG THESE RIGHTS ARE LIFE, LIBERTY.
AND WE WROTE THE PURSUIT OF, OF HAPPINESS, NOT PROPERTY AS LOCKE SAID, BUT HAPPINESS.
AND ON I WENT, IT WASN'T DIFFICULT TO LIST THE GRIEVANCES OF THE KING, WHY I CAME UP WITH 27 OF THEM COULD HAVE CONJURED UP MORE BY QUARTERING TROOPS IN OUR, IN OUR PRESENCE, APPOINTING JUDGES WHO WERE AT HIS BACK IN CALL.
WHY? MAKING, MAKING OUR LEGISLATIVE BODIES MEET IN FAR-FLUNG PLACES FAR FROM OUR RECORDS BY TAKING US OFF OF SHIPS, PRESSING US INTO SERVICE AND BEING TRIED IF WE WERE NOT WILLING TO GO INTO THAT SERVICE AND TAXATION.
WE AGREED TO PAY TAXES, BUT WE WANTED REPRESENTATION OF GOVERNMENT, OF THE PEOPLE NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND.
WE NO LONGER WISHED TO BE SUBJECT TO A KING, ESPECIALLY ONE WHO PROVES TO BE A TYRANT.
WELL, IT TOOK ME SOME 17 DAYS TO DRAFT THE DOCUMENT, AND THEN I BROUGHT IT TO MR. FRANKLIN, AND HE LOOKED UPON IT, AND OTHERS DID TOO.
AND THEY CUT OUT THIS WORD AND CHANGED THAT ONE.
I COULD SEE FROM THE WAY MR. FRANKLIN WAS CONTINUING THAT HE WOULD WANT TO SLIP IN SOME BIT OF HUMOR, BUT I WAS NOT ABOUT TO LET THAT HAPPEN.
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THE WAY THE EDITING WROTE.AND HE SHARED A LITTLE ANECDOTE, HE SAID, WHILE I WAS UP IN BOSTON, AND HE SAID THIS IN HIS INIMITABLE WAY, LEANING BACK, PUTTING UP HIS FOOT BECAUSE THE GOUT WAS INFLICTING HIM.
AND HE SAID, THERE WAS A FELLOW WHO CAME INTO OUR PRINT SHOP AND HE WANTED A SIGN MADE, UH, JOHN THOMPSON, I THINK WAS HIS NAME.
AND HE WANTED IT TO SAY, UM, SOMETHING TO THE EFFECT OF JOHN THOMPSON MAKES AND SELLS, UH, BESPOKE HATCH, OR SOMETHING TO THAT EFFECT, WHERE THEN WHEN HE GOT THE COST OF WHAT THE SIDE WOULD, WOULD BE, OH, HE HAD TO CUT OUT SOME OF THE WORDS UNTIL EVENTUALLY, YOU KNOW, WHAT MUST BE THE ANGEL GABRIEL CALLING UNTO US HERE.
WELL, THERE WAS SOME EDITING, THE DEVILING NOT BEING ANGELIC TOWARDS MY DOCUMENT.
AND FRANKLIN SAID, DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE SIGN BECAME? THIS WILL BE TO AN EXTENT THE FATE OF YOUR DECLARATION.
I SAID, NO, MR. FRANKLIN, WHAT WAS THOMPSON'S SIGN? HE SAID, IT WAS JUST HIS NAME AND THE PICTURE OF A HAT.
YOUR DOCUMENT WILL BE A PICTURE OF THE GRIEVANCES AGAINST THE KING AND WHY WE ARE TO PURSUE AND HAVE THE RIGHT TO PURSUE OUR OWN LIFE OF LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.
FRANKLIN STOOD UP AND BY DOCUMENT, I BELIEVE, I PRAY, HAS STOOD UP AS WELL.
AND THUS, PERHAPS IT HAD SOME IMPERFECTIONS.
AND NOW FRIENDS UNDERSTAND THIS.
IT WASN'T AS IF WE HAD FAILED TO PETITION THE KING.
IT WASN'T AS IF WE HAD NOT TRIED.
WE HAD THE ODD OF BRANCH PETITION AND MANY OTHER EFFORTS WERE PUT FORTH.
MANY OF THE DELEGATES TO THE CONTINENT OF THE CONGRESS WERE UNTIL THE VERY END RELUCTANT TO PUT THEIR NAMES ON THAT DOCUMENT.
WE CONSIDERED OURSELVES BRITISH THROUGH AND THROUGH, THEREFORE, THAT'S WHY WE WANTED THE RIGHTS.
BUT WE ALSO DISCOVERED THE KING DID NOT DISCOVER US, DID, DID NOT, UM, DECLARE US AS BRITISH WHY THE RULES HE APPLIED TO THE COLONIES WERE FAR DIFFERENT THAN WHAT HE WOULD APPLY IN GREAT BRITAIN.
WE WERE TREATED LIKE CHILDREN, NO VOICE IN THE PARLIAMENT, HAVING TO, AGAIN, HAVE SOLDIERS QUARTERED IN OUR PREMISES WHY HE THE KING EVEN CHANGED THE WAY IN WHICH HE WOULD NOT PERMIT IMMIGRATION TO THIS LAND.
AND HE SET AN ARTIFICIAL BOUNDARY SAYING WE COULDN'T GO BY ON THE APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS.
AND THUS, THAT INFRINGED UPON OUR RIGHT.
THE REASON WE WERE THERE WAS TO SETTLE.
BUT THE KING ALL REFUSED ALL OF THAT.
IT FORCED OUR HAND AND THEREFORE THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
I HAD THE, THE HONOR TO WRITE.
AND NOW, AS YOU CAN SEE, IN MY OLDER AGE, I CONSIDER WRITING THIS DOCUMENT ALONG WITH THE VIRGINIA DOCUMENT OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND MY ESTABLISHMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA TO BE MY THREE GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
DID YOU NOTE I OMITTED EVEN BEING PRESIDENT, SECRETARY OF STATE, AND AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE FROM THAT LIST.
SO MY FRIENDS UPON THIS TIME THAT WE HAVE HERE IN CELEBRATION OF THIS, THE CALL THAT WHAT WENT INTO THIS WAS SOMETHING GREATER THAN THIS INDIVIDUAL STANDING BEFORE YOU.
IT WAS THE COLLECTIVE WISDOM, THE GRIEVANCES, AND THE ASPIRATIONS OF THE NEWLY FORMED UNITED STATES OF AMERICA'S PEOPLE THAT WENT INTO THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
AND, UM, I THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME.
UH, I'LL BE WITH YOU AS WE SAY ANAN AND OVER HERE.
I UNDERSTAND, UH, IF HIS GOUT IS ACTING UP, UH, MR. FRANKLIN WILL COME OVER AND NO DOUBT WILL CONTRADICT ME ON THE LITTLE TALE I TELLT ABOUT THOMPSON AND THE HAT.
BUT, UM, IT'LL BE A FOUN OF WISDOM IN A MOMENT.
SO AGAIN, THANK YOU VERY MUCH NOW FOR YOUR, YOUR TIME AND YOUR ATTENTION.
GOOD EVENING, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.
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AN ACTOR, SINGER, AND A STORYTELLER AND, UM, A WESTCHESTER RESIDENT.UM, SO, UH, THIS IS MY GOOD FRIEND AO ROO.
WE ARE DELIVERING A, THE ENSLAVED AFRICANS SENTIMENT FOR THIS EVENT.
WE'RE GONNA START WITH A SONG FROM, UH, BY RIHANNA GIDDENS.
SOME OF YOU MIGHT BE AWARE OF RIHANNA.
SHE JUST GOT A, UM, GRAMMY AWARD, I THINK MORE THAN ONE AT THIS POINT, UH, EITHER LAST YEAR OR THE YEAR BEFORE.
AND THIS IS A SONG THAT SHE WROTE, UM, AND IT'S BASED ON AN AFRICAN AMERICAN FOLK TALE.
UH, THIS PARTICULAR FOLK TALE IS FROM THE, LIKE THE GEORGIA SEA ISLAND AREA.
AND THE, THE BLACK PEOPLE DOWN THERE WERE THOUGHT TO HAVE GREAT MAGIC, GREAT, GREAT SPIRIT, GREAT SOUL.
AND, UM, YOU'RE GONNA HEAR A SENTIMENT IN THE FOLK, THE FOLK SONG, MAMA, DEAR MAMA LOOKING TREE.
SEE THAT LITTLE SPARROW LOOKING DOWN AT ME? SHE CAN, THE CLOUDS WAY UP IN THE SKY.
DAUGHTER, DEAR DAUGHTER, I TELL YOU SOMETHING TRUE EVERY NIGHT SHE FLEW AND TRIED TO KEEP HER DOWN, BUT THERE WAS NOTHING THEY COULD DO.
SHE COULD, SHE COULD FLY, SHE COULD SLIP THE BUTTONS OF EARTH AND RISE HIGH.
SHE COULD FLY ACROSS THE RIVER.
SPIRIT IN HER HANDS, SEARCHING, ALWAYS SEARCHING FOR TELL.
I FEEL THAT YOU IN MY ARMS, I NEVER FELT BEFORE.
DAUGHTER, DEAR DAUGHTER, LISTEN WHAT I SAY, YOUR GRANNY ALWAYS TOLD ME YOU FEEL THAT WAY SOMEDAY.
EVERY TIME SHE LOOKED AT YOU, SHE SAW THE OLD TIME WAVE.
WHEN WE COULD FLY, WE COULD FLY, WE COULD SLIP THE OF EARTH AND RISE.
WE COULD FLY ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS, SEARCHING, ALWAYS SEARCHING FOR THE DEAR MAMA, COME AND STAND BY ME.
I FEEL LIKE IN MY FEET, AND TO BE FREE, MY HEART IS SHAKING WITH AN OLD SONG.
I HEAR THE VOICE SAYING, IT'S TIME FOR MOVING ON.
AND SHE TOOK HER AND THEY ROSE UP IN AIR.
THEY, AND THEN THEY AWAY FROM THERE, HELD EACH OTHER.
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FROM, THEY, THEY COULD FLY.WE COULD SLIP THE EARTH AND RISE, THEY COULD FLY ACROSS.
SO I'M GONNA DRESS UP A LITTLE BIT.
I MEAN, YOU SEE, I'M DRESSED UP IN COLONIAL GAR, BUT I'M GONNA MAKE MYSELF A LITTLE FANCIER.
I WAS TELLING SOME STUDENTS TODAY, YOU CAN TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SOMEBODY WHO'S A WORKER AND SOMEBODY WHO'S GOT A LITTLE MORE CLOUT, MAYBE THE MISTRESS OF THE HOUSE, BY THE WAY, THEY DRESS.
BUT YOU KNOW, IT'S ABOUT WHERE THE BUTTONS ARE.
YOU SEE WHEN YOU ARE WELL OFF AND YOU DON'T WORK, YOU DON'T HAVE TO HAVE YOUR BUTTONS WHERE YOU CAN TOUCH THEM BECAUSE SOMEBODY ELSE IS GOING TO OPEN AND CLOSE THEM FOR YOU.
SO I ONLY HAVE TIES ON MY SHIRT HERE.
THE TIES ARE TO HELP ME CLOSE THE SHIRT LIKE THIS, RIGHT? AND THIS ONE, THIS ONE LITERALLY HAS SNAPS, WHICH WERE NOT IN EXISTENCE BEFORE.
UM, BUT THE PINS, A STRAIGHT PIN MIGHT DO.
BUT IMAGINE TRYING TO WORK IN THE FIELD WITH A STRAIGHT PIN.
SO MOST OF THE TIME YOU, YOUR CLOTHES WERE HELD ON BY TIES.
SO I'VE GOT MY APRON HOLDING ON, UH, MY, MY LITTLE VEST SHIRT HERE.
AND I'VE GOT A LITTLE FUN POCKET THAT'S ALSO TIED ON TO ME LIKE A LITTLE APRON.
AND THEN I'VE GOT MY FANCY SLIP, RIGHT, THAT EVERYBODY HAD THEIR UNDER UNDERDRESS.
AND THEN MY SKIRTS GOT A, GOT A STRING TOO, RIGHT? JUST A, JUST A TIE KNOT ON THERE.
AND THAT REMINDS ME OF OUR PRESIDENT.
NOW, HE DIDN'T HAVE TIES ON HIS SHIRTS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT, BUT HIS WIFE, MARTHA, MARTHA WASHINGTON, HAD LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS OF BUTTONS.
AND THE PERSON THAT SHE WANTED TO UNDO HER BUTTONS WAS HER FIRST HAND MEEN OWNER, JUDGE.
NOW, I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW ABOUT OWNER, JUDGE.
OWNER JUDGE WAS VERY, VERY IMPORTANT TO MISS MARTHA KUSTER, WASHINGTON.
SHE'D BEEN WITH HER SINCE SHE WAS, UH, YOUNGER THAN A TEENAGER.
AND SHE'D BEEN IN THE WASHINGTON HOUSEHOLD BEFORE HE BECAME PRESIDENT.
AND SHE, SHE REALLY HELPED MARTHA, SHE BATHED HER AND, AND SHE HELPED HER WITH HER HAIR.
AND, AND SHE ALWAYS WAS THERE TO DRESS HER IN THE MORNING AND UNDRESS HER AT NIGHT.
NOW, WHEN THE WASHINGTONS MOVED, WHEN HE BECAME PRESIDENT, AND THEY HAD TO MOVE TO THE THEN WHITE HOUSE, WHICH AT FIRST WAS IN NEW YORK, AS YOU SCHOLARS PROBABLY KNOW, BUT THEN IT GOT MOVED TO PHILADELPHIA.
MRS. WASHINGTON PACKED UP THERE, ENSLAVED, UH, HOUSEHOLD.
AND EVERYBODY WENT DOWN, OR RATHER UP, BECAUSE THEY WERE COMING UP FROM VIRGINIA, FROM MOUNT VERNON, TO BE EXACT.
THAT WAS THE NAME OF THE WASHINGTON ESTATE IN MOUNT VERNON, IN VERNON, UH, VIRGINIA, MOUNT VERNON.
SO THEY CAME UP FROM MOUNT VERNON AND LIVED IN, UM, THE STATE HOUSE IN PHILADELPHIA.
NOW, WHEN ONLY JUDGE GOT TO PHILADELPHIA WITH MRS. WASHINGTON, AND SHE WENT OUT TO DO THE SHOPPING AND SOME ERRANDS, SHE WAS SO SURPRISED BECAUSE PHILADELPHIA HAD BECOME THE MAIN, MAIN AREA WHERE THERE WERE MORE FREED AFRICANS, MORE FREE MEN, MORE FREE BLACK MEN THAN ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE COUNTRY.
THERE ARE AT LEAST 2000 FREE MEN HAVING WORKING, UH, MAKING THEIR OWN LIVING, UH, SOME OWNING PROPERTY IN PHILADELPHIA.
AND WHEN OWNER WOULD GO TO THESE SHOP OWNERS AND THESE VENDORS ON THE STREETS, SHE WOULD ASK THEM AND TALK TO THEM.
AND THEY WOULD SAY, WELL, WHO WERE YOU? AND WHERE DO YOU COME FROM? AND SHE WOULD HAVE TO TELL THEM SHE BELONGED TO THE WASHINGTONS.
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NOW, YOU SCHOLARS ALSO KNOW THAT IF YOU BELONG TO SOMEBODY, YOU DON'T MAKE YOUR OWN MONEY.YOU DON'T HAVE ANY MEANS OF YOUR OWN, YOU DON'T HAVE ANY CHOICE.
AND WHEN YOU ARE ENSLAVED, THAT'S WHAT YOU DO NOT HAVE.
BUT OWNER WAS MADE FRIENDS EASILY, AND SHE WAS TALKING TO THESE PEOPLE, AND SHE TALKED TO THESE SHOP OWNERS, AND THEY TOLD HER SOME VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION.
WELL, YOU KNOW, IF YOU STAY HERE LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS, YOU CAN GO TO THE COURT AND YOU CAN PETITION TO BE FREED.
AND YOU SAID, WHAT? YES, YOU CAN PETITION TO GET YOUR FREEDOM.
SIX MONTHS, THEY HAVE TO LIVE HERE.
WELL, ONA STARTED COUNTING DOWN THE DAYS, THE WEEKS, SHE WAS SO EXCITED THIS WAS GOING TO BE A, A MIRACLE.
BUT MRS. WASHINGTON WAS NO SLOUCH.
MRS. WASHINGTON HAD HEARD A THING OR TWO HERSELF, AND SHE DISCOVERED THAT RULE.
AND DON'T, YOU KNOW, BEFORE THOSE SIX MONTHS, I MEAN, RIGHT AT THE MOMENT THAT IT WAS SIX MONTHS, SHE PACKED UP THAT HOUSEHOLD.
WELL, SHE DIDN'T LIFT A FINGER TO PACK IT, BUT SHE TOLD HER ENSLAVED PEOPLE TO PACK UP THAT HOUSEHOLD.
AND THEY WERE TRAVELING BACK DOWN FOR A NICE LONG VISIT TO MOUNT VERNON.
WELL, THERE GOES THE SIX MONTH COUNTER.
SO THE WASHINGTONS WENT BACK DOWN.
NOW GEORGE HAD TO STAY BECAUSE HE WAS WORKING.
REMEMBER? HE WAS THE PRESIDENT.
SO THEY WENT DOWN THERE FOR A FEW MONTHS AND THEN THEY PACKED UP AND THEY CAME BACK UP TO PHILADELPHIA.
AND THEN ONA STARTED, UH, CHECKING OFF THOSE CALENDARS AGAIN AND COUNTING HER DAYS AND MAKING HER LITTLE SLITS IN THE WALL OR WHEREVER SHE WAS MAKING THEM IN THE FLOOR PROBABLY.
AND DON'T, YOU KNOW, ANOTHER FIVE AND A HALF MONTHS.
AND THEY PACKED UP THAT HOUSEHOLD AND WENT BACK DOWN TO MOUNT VERNON.
TALK ABOUT MOVING THE, THE GOALPOST, HUH? WELL, TO ADD INSULT TO INJURY, THEY HAD COME BACK TO PHILADELPHIA AND MRS UH, MRS UH, WASHINGTON ANNOUNCED THAT SHE WAS SO DELIGHTED AT THE ENGAGEMENT OF HER NIECE.
HER NIECE WAS GOING TO GET MARRIED, AND SHE WAS GOING TO GIVE HER A SPECIAL PRESENT.
YOU WANNA KNOW WHAT HE WAS? I BET YOU CAN GUESS IT WAS ONA.
NOW, ONA HAD GROWN UP WITH MRS. WASHINGTON'S NIECE, AND SHE DIDN'T REALLY CARE FOR THE GIRL.
AND THAT'S PUTTING IT LIGHTLY.
AND ONA SAID, I WILL NEVER, I WILL DIE BEFORE I WORK FOR THAT WOMAN.
AND SO ONA WENT OUT THOUGH SHOPPING AND WENT AROUND AND STARTED TALKING TO PEOPLE.
AND DON'T YOU KNOW, ONE NIGHT WHEN THE WASHINGTONS HAD GUESTS AND THEY WERE SITTING AROUND HAVING THEIR DESSERT, ONA SLIPPED OUT THE BACK DOOR.
SHE RAN DOWN THE ROAD THROUGH ANY BACK ALLEYS THERE WERE, AND BACK INTO A HOUSE OWNED BY A FREE BLACK PERSON.
THEY MOVED ONA HERE AND THERE UNTIL IT WAS TIME FOR THE SHIP THAT WAS LEADING UP TO NEW HAMPSHIRE.
AND THEY PUT HER DOWN IN THE CARGO SO SHE, NOBODY WOULD SEE HER.
AND WHEN THAT SHIP SAILED, IMAGINE THE FEELING THAT SHE HAD ON THE WATER HEADING TO FREEDOM.
BUT IT WAS SCARY BECAUSE ON PAPER, NOW, SHE WAS NOT REALLY FREE.
AND WHEN MRS. WASHINGTON WENT INTO THE KITCHEN TO FIND OUT WHERE OWNER WAS AND AT NIGHT AND DISCOVERED SHE WASN'T THERE AND THERE WAS NO ONE THERE TO UNDO HER BUTTONS THE WAY SHE WANTED, SHE WAS VERY UPSET.
AND THE NEXT FEW WEEKS IT WAS HAVOC IN THE WASHINGTON HOUSE.
I TELL YOU HAVOC, MARTHA WANTED HER SLAVE BACK.
YOU'VE GOT TO DO SOMETHING, GEORGE.
YOU'VE GOT TO DO SOMETHING NOW, GEORGE, I'VE BEEN PRESIDENT FOR A MINUTE NOW, AND HE WAS NOT INTERESTED IN A SCANDAL.
SO HE WAS TRYING TO DO THIS ON THE DOWN LOW, ON THE HUSH HUSH.
HE SENT A LAWYER UP TO NEW HAMPSHIRE TO TRY TO FIND HER LIKE A DETECTIVE SLASH LAWYER.
AND THEY LOOKED AND THEY LOOKED AND THEY FOUND ONA AND THEY KNOCKED ON HER DOOR WHERE SHE WAS LIVING.
AND THEY CAME IN, THEY SAID, OH, UH, UH, UH, UH, MISJUDGE, WE WOULD LIKE FOR YOU, THE WASHINGTONS WOULD LIKE FOR YOU TO RETURN TO WORK.
OONA SAID, UHUH, NO THANK YOU.
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FREEDOM AND SHE WAS NOT WILLING TO UP GIVE IT BACK.WELL, THAT LAWYER TRIED TWO OR THREE TIMES AND OWNER REFUSED EACH TIME.
AND YOU WANNA KNOW SOMETHING? THEY HAD TO LET THAT GO.
MARTHA HAD TO GET HERSELF A NEW HANDMADE 'CAUSE ONA WAS GONE.
BUT SHE WAS NEVER, NEVER QUITE AT EASE.
YOU KNOW, I ALWAYS HAD THAT FEELING OF LOOKING BEHIND HER, LOOKING AROUND.
SOMEBODY MIGHT BE TRYING TO COME AND, AND AND TAKE HER BACK, BUT IT NEVER HAPPENED.
SHE MARRIED, SHE HAD CHILDREN, SHE LIVED A GOOD LIFE AND SHE LIVED MOST IMPORTANTLY FREE.
AND THIS IS YOUR PART OF THE SONG.
YOU'RE GONNA SAY, THIS IS BASED ON A, AN OLD, OLD COLONIAL SONG.
YOU'RE GONNA SAY, OH DEAR, WHAT CAN THE MATTER BE? SO I WANT YOU TO TURN TO SOMEBODY RIGHT NOW.
NOW YOU TWO ARE GONNA HAVE TO DO IT TOGETHER 'CAUSE YOU'RE THE ONLY TWO DOWN THERE.
WHAT CAN THE MATTER BE? THAT'S GOOD.
THEN YOU'RE GONNA TURN TO SOMEBODY ELSE ON THE OTHER SIDE AND YOU'RE GONNA SAY THE SAME THING.
WHAT CAN THE MATTER BE NOW? GO AHEAD.
WHAT CAN THE, YOU KNOW, YOU SOUND GOOD.
YOU'RE NOT MICD, BUT YOU SOUND GOOD.
AND THEN YOU'RE GONNA DO IT ONE MORE TIME.
WHAT CAN THE MATTER BE? ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, DO IT.
NOW I'M GONNA FINISH THE PHRASE AND THEN WE'RE GONNA, WE'LL HIT THE SONG.
IN A SONG, I WORK DAY AND NIGHT FOR NO WAGES OR MEANS I SLOP OUT THE STABLES.
I MEN COOK AND CLEAN, I EMPTY THEIR POTS, BUT THEY TREAT ME SO MEAN.
I'M WIT LIKE AN OLD RENTED MARE.
WHAT CAN THE MATTER BE? OH DEAR, WHAT CAN THE MATTER BE? OH DEAR, WHAT CAN THE MATTER BE? WHY IS MY LIFE SO UNFAIR? MABE WAS ENSLAVED.
SHE WORKED FOR THE ASHLEYS, HER MISTRESS GOT MAD AND ACTED QUITE RASH.
SHE HIT MOM BET WITH A SPADE AND DREW BLOOD MOM BET SAID, WELL, THAT IS ENOUGH IS YOUR TURN.
OH DEAR, WHAT CAN THE MATTER BE DRAMATIC NOW? OH DEAR, WHAT CAN THE MATTER BE? OH DEAR, WHAT CAN THE MATTER BE? THIS IS MORE THAN I CAN BEAR.
MOM BET LEFT THE HOUSE AND REFUSED TO RETURN.
SHE WENT TO A LAWYER AND SAID, I HAVE LEARNED ALL PEOPLE ARE EQUAL.
THE NEW LAWS APPLY TO ME TO, HERE YOU GO.
WHAT CAN THE MATTER BE? OH DEAR, WHAT CAN THE MATTER BE? OH DEAR, WHAT CAN THE MATTER BE? THE BILL OF RIGHTS SAYS THAT IT'S FAIR.
SEDGWICK, THE LAWYER WAS NOT A TRADITIONALIST.
AND IF THEY WON, JUSTICE HAD CARRIED THE DAY.
WHAT CAN THE MATTER BE? OH DEAR, WHAT CAN THE MATTER BE? OH DEAR, WHAT CAN THE MATTER BE? JUSTICE IS RIGHT WHEN IT'S FAIR.
MOM, THAT WON HER CASE AND THEN DID EXCLAIM, SHE GET A PETITION TO HAVE A REAL NAME.
ELIZABETH FREEMAN IS WHO SHE BECAME.
NOW LAST TIME, OH DEAR, WHAT CAN THE MATTER BE? OH DEAR, WHAT CAN THE MATTER BE? OH DEAR, WHAT CAN THE MATTER BE? JUSTICE IS RIGHT WHEN IT'S FAIR.
NOW, ETTE WAS IN MASSACHUSETTS AND THE ASHLEY'S WERE A VERY IMPORTANT FAMILY, VERY IMPORTANT.
IN FACT, IT WAS AT THE ASHLEY'S HOUSE THAT THE NEW BILL OF RIGHTS WAS BEING READ FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME.
AND WHILE ETTE, EVEN THOUGH SHE COULD NOT READ OR WRITE WHILE SHE WAS SERVING
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UP TEA AND COFFEE TO THOSE GENTLEMEN, UH, IN THEIR PARLOR, SHE WAS LISTENING AND SHE HEARD THEM SAY THINGS LIKE, OH, MEN ARE BORN FREE AND EQUAL AND HAVE CERTAIN MORAL ESSENTIAL AND UNALIENABLE RIGHTS AMONG WHICH MAY BE RECKONED THE RIGHT OF ENJOYING AND DEFENDING THEIR LIVES AND LIBERTIES THAT OF ACQUIRING, POSSESSING AND PROTECTING PROPERTY.IN FACT, THAT, OF SEEKING AND OBTAINING THEIR SAFETY AND HAPPINESS.
AND SHE THOUGHT, HMM, WELL MAN, MANKIND, THAT'S ME.
AND SHE FOUND A LAWYER, SHE FOUND SEDGWICK, AND AND SHE HE AGREED TO TAKE THE CASE.
AND THE REST YOU KNOW ABOUT NO MOM BET'S CASE.
ACTUALLY, THERE WERE TWO ENSLAVED PEOPLE ON THAT CASE, BRAHM AND BET.
AND THEY BOTH, BOTH THEIR CASES BRA AND BET VERSUS, UH, THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS.
AND DO YOU KNOW, IT WAS THEIR THAT CASE.
THAT WAS THE PRECEDENT THAT SET THE EMANCIPATION OF EMANS OF, UM, OF SLAVERY IN MASSACHUSETTS ROLLING DOWN THE HILL TOWARDS FREEDOM.
AND AGAIN, THE REST IS HISTORY.
WE HAVE ONE MORE SONG FOR YOU AND WE HAVE ANOTHER PART WITH THAT SONG.
NOW I USUALLY I DIVIDE PEOPLE UP.
SO, UM, SINCE YOU GUYS HAVE THINGS IN YOUR HANDS, I'M GONNA ASK YOU TO DO THE WAR PART, ALL RIGHT? OR ANYBODY ON THIS SIDE, FROM THIS SIDE OF THE PILLAR, FROM THE LIBRARY OVER HERE.
YOU'RE GONNA DO THE WAR PART AND YOU'RE GONNA SING WITH ME AND IT GOES LIKE THIS.
YOU LISTENING? I CAN'T HEAR YOU.
NOW YOU GUYS OVER HERE AGAINST THE WALL, YOU'RE GONNA THROW YOUR FIST UP.
AND AFTER WE SEEN TWO REVOLUTIONARIES, YOU'RE GONNA GO WAR.
SO FOR THE BACK ROW, HERE WE GO.
FIVE, SIX OF FIVE, WE'RE DOING OUR CHORUS.
WE ALL SING THIS PART REVOLUTIONARY.
NOW IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU SING THAT PART, REVEREND, YOU CAN PUT YOUR HANDS UP LIKE THIS 'CAUSE IT'S KIND OF COOL.
I'M SURE YOU'VE ALL HEARD OF PAUL REVERE, BUT DID YOU KNOW WHOSE MIDNIGHT I GAVE HIM WHEN HE RODE THROUGH CONCORD, MAKING LOUD A CLAIM THAT THE BRITISH WOULD SOON BE COMING HERE, THE BRITISH ARE COMING.
THE BRITISH ARE COMING TO THE REVOLUTION.
YOU ALL KNOW OF PAUL'S EARLY MORNING RIDE, BUT DID YOU KNOW THAT FOR A FACT AN AFRICAN MAN ALSO WANTED THE ATTACKED? HE RODE HIS HORSE ON A VERY SAME NIGHT OF A REVOLUTION.
HIS NAME WAS WORTHY, WENT WORD CHA.
WELL, HE WAS ALREADY FREE AND DO INQUIRED WELL, A TOWN LEADER, PATRIOT SCHOOL MASTER AND JUDGE.
SO DO NOT BEGRUDGE THIS BLACK MAN WHO HELPED US TO RING THE LIBERTY.
BEAR THE LIBERTY BELL IN THE REVOLUTION.
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THERE WAS PETER SAY IN THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL, ANOTHER COLONIAL AFRICAN WHO WAS WILLING TO TAKE THE SPEED HILL.HE FOUGHT SIDE BY SIDE WITH THOMAS GROSSEN.
BRAVELY KILLED A BRITISH RED COAT.
COMMENTATION WASHINGTON THANKED HIM FOR OUR HELPINGS BUILD OUR NATION IN THE REVOLUTION.
PLEASE DO NOT FORGET MINUTE MAN, SALEM POOR.
HE FOUGHT WITH COLONEL FRY'S REGIMENT AND MORE HE FOUGHT WITH CAPTAIN AMES IN THE COMPANY, IN THE BATTLE OF CHARLESTON WITH THE CONTINENTAL ARMY.
HE KILLED THE REDCO BRITISH COLONEL ABERCROMBIE.
HE FOUGHT IN SARATOGA VALLEY FOR IN MAMMO COUNTY.
HIS BRAVELY WAS SUBLIME ON THE FRONTLINE.
PERILOUS CLIMBS BOUGHT HIS FREEDOM WITH HIS OWN LABOR AND TIME AFTER THAT REVOLUTION.
DID I MENTION JAMES AMNESTY, WHO BECAME A DOUBLE SPY WHILE HE SERVED THE MARQUEE, ALSO ENSLAVED, BUT WAS WILLING TO FIGHT.
AND AS A BRIGHT MAN IN THOSE STIES, LAFAYETTE PRAISED HIS CUNNING AND DEDICATION TO THE REVOLUTION.
REVOLUTIONARY POET, LONG FELLA WANTED YOU TO BELIEVE THAT REVERE WROTE ALONG THAT SPECIAL EVE.
SO WE CAN REMEMBER BLACK HISTORY, HISTORY SONG.
SO YOU CAN TELL OF THE BRAVERY OF HONESTY.
REVOLUTIONARY REVOLUTION, REVOLUTIONARY REVOLUTION.
REMEMBER THESE BLACK PATRIOTS OF THE WAR OF CHAZ.
WELL ON THE STEAM SALEM AND POOR THESE MEN AND MEN AND SPIES WHO HELPED US TO WIN AND MAKE THIS GREAT UNITED STATES THAT WE ALL LIVE IN.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR COMING DOWN TO THIS AWESOME VILLAGE THIS EVENING.
UH, I KNOW THERE'S A CROWD AROUND THE CORNER AND A CROWD OVER HERE STAYING IN THE SHADE.
AND I THINK THAT'S A VERY GOOD DECISION TODAY.
I I MADE THE WRONG DECISION WEARING LONG PANTS, BUT, UH, BUT HERE WE ARE.
SO, UH, I HAVE A FEW THANK YOUS, UH, FOR THIS EVENING BEFORE WE GET STARTED WITH THE REST OF THE, UH, THE, UH, EVENTS FOR TONIGHT.
BUT THE FIRST BIG THANK YOU THAT WE HAVE TO MAKE IS TO OUR REVOLUTIONARY HASTINGS COMMITTEE, TO FRED CHARLES, TO NILES YEAGER, TO ANDREW BWIN, AND TO ELLEN CHAR.
OH, EILEEN CHARLES, UH, WHO YOU'VE SEEN HER NAME ALL OVER THE PLACE.
'CAUSE SHE'S SENDING ALL THE, UH, THE INFORMATION OUT TO EVERYONE.
SO I, I PROPOSE A TOAST TO THEM.
AND MY TOAST, MY TOAST IS, IS APPROPRIATE TO THE OCCASION, A TOAST TO LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.
THANK YOU TO THE CREW THAT CLAIMED THIS WHOLE NIGHT.
I PROMISE TO BE VERY BRIEF TONIGHT.
AND IT'S MY HONOR THIS EVENING, OH, SORRY, I HAVE TO DO SOME OTHER INTROS.
WE WITH US TONIGHT, WE ALSO HAVE COUNCIL MEMBER ELLEN HENDRICKS FROM THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.
WE HAVE, UH, VILLAGE TRUSTEE SAMANTHA MERTON.
AND I SAW MALIKA SUNBURG WALKING AROUND AS WELL.
AND NOW IT'S MY HONOR TO INTRODUCE OUR CONGRESSMAN, GEORGE LA.
SO I'M IN WASHINGTON DC AND I DECIDED I WANTED TO SEE SOME DEMOCRACY.
SO I TOOK THE EARLY AMTRAK TO COME HERE TO SEE IT RIGHT HERE IN HASTINGS.
UH, THE, THE, THE PERSON WHO WAS SEEN BEFORE REMINDING US OF THE ROLE OF BLACK HISTORY AND HISTORY IS ESSENTIAL, AND ALL OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE HAVING IS GONNA BE WONDERFUL.
I'M HAPPY TO BE HERE WITH YOU.
AND IT DOES GIVE ME THE REMINDER THAT WE HAD DIFFICULT TIMES 250 YEARS AGO.
WE HAD DIFFICULT TIMES DURING THE CIVIL WAR.
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WE HAD DIFFICULT TIMES DURING THE DEPRESSION IN WORLD WAR II, BUT EVERY SINGLE TIME WE CAME THROUGH, WE'LL GET THROUGH THEM AGAIN.HAVE A WONDERFUL EVENING AND CONGRATULATIONS ON OUR 250TH.
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN A CULMINATION OF A LOT OF OTHER EVENTS THAT BEGAN THIS JANUARY, AND THIS IS OUR MARQUEE EVENT, UH, ENDING OUR TWO 50 AMERICA TWO 50 CELEBRATIONS.
AND AGAIN, BACK TO THE CREW WHO'S, WHO'S PLAYING THIS, I'VE SEEN ANDREW BWIN HERE VERY LATE AT NIGHT, UH, WORKING ON SOME OF THE, THE, UH, LIGHTING AND EVERYTHING FOR VILLAGE HALL THAT YOU'LL BE ABLE TO EXPERIENCE LATER, UH, WHEN THE ACTORS COME LATER.
SO PLEASE DEFINITELY STICK AROUND EIGHT 30 IS WHEN WE HAVE THE LIVE ACTORS COMING AS WELL.
HI EVERYONE, EILEEN CHARLES HERE.
I JUST WANTED TO THANK YOU ALL FOR COMING OUT ON THIS HOT, HOT DAY.
I SEE PEOPLE ARE FOLLOWING THE SHADE, SO LITTLE BY LITTLE THIS WHOLE FIELD WILL BE FULL AND THE PARKING LOT TOO, I KNOW.
BUT I WANTED TO RECOGNIZE OUR TALENT AND ALL THE WONDERFUL REENACTORS WE HAVE HERE AND PEOPLE SHARING THIS HISTORY.
IT'S SUCH AN IMPORTANT PART OF WHO WE ARE AND WHERE WE'VE COME FROM.
SO, UH, WHO I DIDN'T GET TO INTRODUCE WHO WAS JUST FABULOUS, UH, WAS, UM, THE COLONIAL OTS.
AND IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT OTS ARE, I MIGHT MESS THIS UP, BUT I BELIEVE IT'S PEOPLE WHO SHARE THEIR HISTORY AND THEIR STORYTELLING, UH, OF THEIR LIVES AND THEIR HERITAGE.
UH, AND, UH, THAT WAS APRIL ARMSTRONG AND AO DELE
LET'S, LET'S GIVE THEM A ROUND OF APPLAUSE, EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE NOT HERE RIGHT NOW, BUT YOU'LL BE SEEING APRIL LATER IN OUR DRAMATIC READING OF THE DECLARATION.
AND THEY WILL BE OVER THERE PERFORMING UNDER A TREE AS WELL.
UH, NEXT UP, UH, WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A WOMAN'S REVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE.
NONE OTHER THAN SUZANNE FIRING WHO'S HERE SETTING UP, BUT WE WILL HEAR MORE FROM HER.
BUT IN THE MEANTIME, I JUST WANNA DRAW YOUR ATTENTION INSIDE WE HAVE SETH KLER, WHO IS SHOWING AUTHENTIC HISTORIC DOCUMENTS INSIDE.
IT'S A LITTLE COOL IN THERE IF YOU WANNA WEAVE IN THERE.
AS THE NIGHT GOES ON, THERE'S ALSO AN EXHIBIT HIGHLIGHTS OF, UH, AN EXHIBIT CALLED THE PROMISE OF LIBERTY, WHICH IS, UH, NATIONWIDE RIGHT NOW.
IT'S DOWN AT THE SOUTH STREET SEAPORT MUSEUM.
IT'S OUT IN ILLINOIS OR, AND WE ARE HAPPY TO HAVE SOME OF THAT HERE.
DOWN BELOW IN FULTON PARK, WE HAVE THE GENERAL'S TENT.
GENERAL WASHINGTON IS DOWN THERE.
UH, AND WE HAVE, UH, THE CAMP COOK WHO ACTUALLY CLAIMS SHE'S A LOYALIST.
UH, WE'RE ENCOURAGING YOU TO ASK ALL OF OUR, UH, REENACTOR, WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON.
SO YOU LEARN A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE DIFFICULT DECISION.
IT WAS IN 1776 AND BEFORE AND AFTER ON HOW TO, UM, YOU KNOW, REALLY MAKE THIS DECISION.
YOU KNOW, YOU'RE, YOU HAVE A COMFORTABLE LIFE, EVERYTHING'S GREAT FOR SOME PEOPLE, AND YOU KNOW, THE KING IS PROVIDING, BUT YOU KNOW, THERE ARE OTHER THINGS THAT PEOPLE AREN'T HAPPY WITH.
WE'VE ASKED OUR REENACTORS TO SHARE THAT WITH YOU.
UH, WE HAVE, UH, MATT, UH, WYATT, WHO'S, UH, SHOWING AND DOING SOME MUSKET DEMONSTRATIONS.
UH, WE HAVE DRAMA FROM THE PAST WHO, UH, ARE REPRESENTING GENERAL WILLIAM HOWE AND COLONEL GLOVER.
AND THEY WILL TELL YOU ABOUT LOCAL HISTORY IN NEW YORK.
AND THEY WERE RIVAL, UM, OFFICERS BACK IN THE DAY ON TWO DIFFERENT SIDES.
AND, UH, COLONEL GLOVER, OF COURSE, WAS, UM, UH, A PATRIOT.
SO WHO ELSE DO WE HAVE? WE HAVE CARLA AND KEYS AROUND THE BACK AND THEY ARE PLAYING COLONIAL CROSSROADS, UM, AFRICAN AND EUROPEAN MUSIC FROM THE COLONIAL PERIOD.
WE HAVE KATIE REY JUST CAME UP AND SHE'S GONNA BE DOING A IN PROGRESS MURAL CALLING, DECLARE YOUR BELIEFS, AND YOU CAN ADD TO THAT MURAL.
WE HAVE, UH, REVOLUTIONARY HASTINGS THERE.
WE HAVE, UM, UH, ERIC, UH, PAUL, WHO IS OUR JOINER SHOWING WOODWORKING DEMONSTRATIONS, WHAT COLONIAL WOODWORKING WAS LIKE.
AND WE HAVE CAPTAIN LAWRENCE AND WE HAVE REVOLUTIONARY WESTCHESTER.
AND WE HAVE THE SPINNERS AND WEAVERS OVER HERE YOU COULD TALK TO.
AND, UH, WE HAVE ROBERT SKIED WHO HAS, UH, HE, HE WRITES BOOKS FOR TEENAGERS AND THE YOUTH ABOUT THIS HISTORY.
SO WONDER ABOUT GRAB A BEER OR SODA.
AND I THINK, UH, SUZANNE IS GETTING
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READY TO PERFORM.I AM A SINGER SONGWRITER, UH, BY TRADE.
I'M PROUDLY A WRITER FOR MANY CORPORATIONS, WHICH CONTINUOUSLY AND BLISSFULLY RIP ME OFF EVERY MONTH PART OF THE JOB, I GUESS.
AND I TRAVEL AND TOUR THE WORLD AS A MUSICIAN PLAYING JAZZ, BLUES, SOME AMERICANA.
SO A WOMAN'S PERSPECTIVE ON THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR.
WHAT I'VE DONE IS I'VE TAKEN SOME TRADITIONAL REVOLUTIONARY WAR SONGS FROM A WOMAN'S PERSPECTIVE AND I'VE REARRANGED THEM INTO A KIND OF CONTEMPORARY VIBE, IF YOU WILL.
AND THEN I'VE WRITTEN A FEW MORE ASIDE FROM THAT.
SO I'M GONNA PLAY SOME OF THOSE ORIGINALS AND SOME OF THOSE AUTHENTIC SONGS REARRANGED IN THE WORDS OF FRANK SINATRA.
MY WAY, HIS FIRST TUNE IS CALLED MY IS A LITTLE CLOSER.
THIS TECH CHANGES ARE ALWAYS A LITTLE CRAZY.
MAKE ME LOOK YOUNG FINN AND RICH, PLEASE.
SO THIS SONG IS CALLED, OH, SAY BONNIE LAST.
AND IT'S ABOUT A WOMAN WHO WANTS TO GO TO WAR WITH HER BETROTHED.
CAN YOU LIE IN A BARRACK AND MARY A SOLDIER AND CARRY HIS WALLET? OH, SAY, WILL YOU LEAVE BOTH YOUR MOMMY AND DADDY AND FOLLOW TO THE CAMP WITH YOU? OH YES, I WILL DO.
I'LL MARRY MY SOLDIER AND CARRY HIS WALLET.
I'LL LEAVE MY AND DADDY AND THROW TO THE CAMP WITH MY SOLDIER.
OH, IN BAR AND MARY SOLDIER AND CARRY HIS HERE.
WILL YOU GO INTO BATTLE WHERE THE DRUMS ARE BEATING AND THE CANNONS LOUDER RATTLE.
OH YES, MY BODY I'LL SHARE IN.
AND SHOULD YOU BEHIND, YOU'LL DIE
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IN.SEE IF I CAN GET MY TECH WORKING.
SO THIS NEXT SONG IS UH, ONCE AGAIN A REARRANGEMENT OF A CLASSIC REVOLUTIONARY SONG THAT WAS, UH, WRITTEN BASICALLY FOR MARTHA WASHINGTON.
AND OF COURSE IT'S A WOMAN'S PERSPECTIVE BECAUSE IT TALKS ABOUT HOW VERY MUCH SHE MISSES HER HUSBAND, NOT THE FUTURE LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD, BUT HER HUSBAND.
MY HERO SAW YOU MY, I HAVE TRAVELED EARTH PLACE, INQUIRED, EVERYWAY, BUT NO TIDINGS.
COULD I GET OF MY SWEET GEORGE? OH, I HOPE THAT YOU FOUND SHELTER FROM THE STOVE.
GO TILL YOUR BACK IN MY ARMS FOREVER.
SO THIS NEXT VERSE IS ACTUALLY SUNG FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF A GENERAL ON THE FRONT.
AND SHE SAID, HE SAYS TO HER, I SAW NOT YOUR HERO.
I SAW NOT YOUR, BUT I'M TOO WHERE THE BATTLES JUST BEGAN.
NOW I HASEN TO TAKE CARE OF MAMA.
OH GEORGE SWEET GEORGE, I HOPE THAT YOU FOUND SHELTER THE STOVE.
I'LL FORGE AND GO TILL YOU BACK IN MY ARMS FOREVER.
I HAVE ALL PLANES, BUT NO TINGS.
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I HOPE THAT YOU FROM I'LL FORGE HILL AND GO TIL YOU'RE BACK IN MY ARMS FOREVER SAY THAT SAW YOU, MY HERO SAW YOU.BUT NO TIDINGS DID I FIND OF MY THANK YOU SO MUCH.
I AM AFRAID THIS IS A CHILD'S CHAIR.
UM, SO THIS NEXT SONG IS CALLED SOLDIER SOLDIER.
AND I'M WONDERING IF THERE'S ANY KIDS THAT WANT TO PARTICIPATE.
I HAD A YOUNG ACTOR WHO WAS WILLING TO DO IT, BUT I THINK HE'S GONE.
ANY KIDS FEEL? I DON'T SEE VERY MANY KIDS HERE RIGHT NOW.
ALRIGHT, WE'LL DO IT WITHOUT IT.
SO I, THIS NEXT SONG IS CALLED SOLDIER SOLDIER.
AND OF COURSE I'M DOING IT MY WAY.
AND IT'S REALLY FUNNY BECAUSE IN LEARNING THIS SONG FOR THIS EVENT, I REALIZED THIS IS THE FIRST ACTUAL ACCOUNT DOCUMENTED ACCOUNT OF A FREAKING NARCISSIST.
SOLDIER, SOLDIER, WILL YOU MARRY ME WITH YOUR MUSK? HOW CAN I MARRY SUCH A PRETTY GIRL AS YOU WHEN I HAVE NO HAT TO PUT ON? SO OFF DO THE HABER AS SHE DID GO AS FAST AS SHE COULD RUN, BOUGHT HIM A HAT THE BEST THERE WAS.
OH MY GOD, MY PROPS ARE THAT BASKET BEHIND ON THE TOP STEP.
THIS A YOUNG ACTOR FROM HASTINGS HIGH SCHOOL.
OKAY, SO NEXT IS THE COME REACH IN THERE, RIGHT ON THE TOP.
SOLDIER WILL MARRY ME WITH YOUR MUSKET.
HOW CAN I MARRY SUCH A PRETTY GIRL AS YOU WHEN I HAVE NO COAT TO PUT ON? SO TO THE HAMMER DASHER, SHE DID GO WITH HER BEST AS SHE COULD RUN, BOUGHT HIM A COAT.
THE BEST THERE IS THAT SOLDIER.
WILLIAM MAREE BOOTS IN THERE TOO.
SOLDIER SOLDIER, WILLIAM MAREE.
HOW CAN I MARRY SUCH A PRETTY GIRL AS YOU WHEN I HAVE NO BOOTS TO PUT ON? SO OFF TO THE COBBLER, SHE GO AS FAST AS SHE COULD RUN.
BOUGHT HIM A PAIR THERE THAT SOLDIER PUT THE BOOTS ON.
SOLDIER, SOLDIER WILLIAM, MARRY ME WITH YOUR MASCOT.
HOW COULD I MARRY SUCH A PRETTY GIRL AS YOU WHEN I HAVE NO PANTS TO PUT ON? THERE'S SUCH SUSPENDERS IN THERE.
IF YOU'RE FEELING, JUST FLIP THEM RIGHT OVER THE TOP.
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IT'S KIND OF A GOODWILL EXPERIENCE, ISN'T IT? HERE WE GO.
JUST PUT 'EM RIGHT OVER YOUR SHOULDERS.
SOLDIER, SOLDIER WILL MARNEE WITH YOUR HOW CAN SUCH A PRETTY GIRL AS YOU WHEN I HAVE NO PANTS TO PUT WANTS.
SO OFF TO THE TAILOR, SHE DID GO AS FAST AS SHE COULD RUN, BOUGHT HIM A PAIR THE BEST THERE WAS.
WILL YOU MARRY ME WITH YOUR MUSK FIGHT AND DRUMS? HOW CAN I MARRY SUCH A PRETTY GIRL AS YOU WHETHER I FAN KIDS AT HOME? I'M SO HUMILIATED.
GIVE A
I HAVE A FEELING WE'LL BE SEEING HIM, UH, ON BROADWAY IN THE CITY VERY SOON.
OKAY, SO, UM, PART OF THE HISTORICAL GREATNESS FROM A WOMEN'S PERSPECTIVE, IT WAS JUST, I GOTTA TELL YOU, IT WAS SO MUCH FUN DOING A DEEP DIVE INTO THIS STUFF, BEING A PROFESSIONAL SONGWRITER.
SO I MUST SAY ABIGAIL ADAMS, I'M SURE YOU'VE ALL HEARD OF HER, BUT I JUST WANNA EMPHASIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF WHAT THAT GIRL DID.
SO YOU KNOW THE SONS OF LIBERTY, WELL SHE WAS KIND OF INVOLVED IN THE DAUGHTERS OF LIBERTY AND AROUND 1765 SHE ORGANIZED THE FE FEMALE COUNTERPART, THE DAUGHTERS OF LIBERTY.
AND THEY WERE BASICALLY ORGANIZED TO BOYCOTT THE BRITISH.
AND WE'VE ALL HEARD THAT, WE'VE READ IT IN OUR TEXTBOOKS.
BUT IF YOU DO A DEEP DIVE, THESE WOMEN WERE SERIOUS AND THEY WERE ACTUALLY ABLE TO BRING DOWN BRITISH IMPORTS BY 50%.
AND THAT OF COURSE TRANSLATED INTO THE AMERICAN ECONOMY 'CAUSE THEY WERE BUYING GOODS AT HOME.
IT WAS INCREDIBLY SIGNIFICANT.
AND THEY STARTED SOMETHING CALLED THE HOME SPUN MOVEMENT.
ANYBODY HERE HEARD OF THE HOME SPUN MOVEMENT? BASICALLY THEY CREATED THESE SPINNING BEES, WHICH WERE WOMEN GETTING TOGETHER.
AND LIKE INSTEAD OF HAVING COFFEE CLUTCHES OR PAINTING ART CLASSES, THEY WOULD MAKE THEIR OWN THREAD.
OKAY? THEY WOULD SPIN THE WOOL INTO THREAD, HELLO, AND THEN MAKE FABRIC, HELLO.
I MEAN, CAN YOU IMAGINE? I CAN'T EVEN GET THROUGH ONE EPISODE OF BRIDGETON WITHOUT GOING CRAZY.
THESE WOMEN WERE SITTING AND SPINNING AND DOING ALL THAT.
ANYWAY, SO THERE IS A SONG THAT FROM THAT ERA THAT REFLECTS IT.
I'M GONNA PLAY A LITTLE PIECE OF THAT SONG SORT OF IN ITS ORIGINAL FORMAT.
AND THEN I'M GONNA DO MY VERSION.
AND MY VERSION IS CALLED NO MORE SHOP 'TIL YOU DROP.
I'M JUST SAYING, SEE IF I CAN RESET MY BAND IN THIS VERY TIGHT ENVIRONMENT.
SO HERE'S THE ORIGINAL ADDRESS TO THE LADIES WRITTEN BY THE VERY FAMOUS SONGWRITER, ANONYMOUS 1767 YOUNG LADIES IN TOWN.
AND THOSE THAT LIVE ROUND THAT A FRIEND OF THE SEASON ADVISE YOU.
SINCE MONEY IS SCARCE AND TIMES GROWING WORSE, STRANGE THINGS MAY HAPPEN TO SURPRISE YOU.
NO MORE RIBBONS WEAR NOR ENRICH DRESS APPEAR OF YOUR COUNTRY AS MUCH
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AS YOUR FINE THINGS BEGIN WITHOUT PASSION.AND SOON WILL BE THE FASHION TO GRACE YOUR SMOOTH LOCKS WITH A TWINE.
I KNOW YOU LIKE YOUR RIBBONS AND PRETTY PRETTY COLORS TO COVER YOUR JAW, BUT IF YOU WANT THIS WAR TO STOP, NO MORE, NO MORE, NO MORE SHOCK TILL YOU DROP.
YOU GOTTA WEAR YOUR OWN LINENS, MAKE YOUR OWN CLOTHES, LEARN SOME SPINNING BECAUSE GOD ONLY KNOW I WAS IN.
YOU WANT THIS WAR TO STOP? I'M TALKING NO MORE.
NO, NO MORE, NO MORE SHOCK TILL YOU DROP.
NO MORE PARTIES IN YOUR FANCY NEW DIGS.
YOU GOTTA MAKE YOUR OWN TEA FROM SPICES AND TWIGS.
START DRINKING COFFEE AROUND THE CLOCK.
LADIES, THIS IS HOW YOU BOYCOTT.
TOSSED THOSE SILKS AND LINS ASIDE AND THE FABRIC OF YOUR LIFE BE FILLED WITH LIFE.
BECAUSE IF YOU WANT THIS WORD, STOP.
IF YOU WANT THIS WORD, NO MORE PARTIES AND YOUR FANCY NEW DIGS.
YOU GOTTA MAKE YOUR TEA FROM SPICES AND TWIGS.
START DRINKING COFFEE AROUND THE CLOCK.
LADIES, THIS IS HOW YOU BOYCOTT.
TOSS SOS AND ASIDE, YOU GOTTA LET YOUR FABRIC YOUR WANT.
ONE MORE, NO MORE SHOT TILL YOU DROP IT LADIES.
IT'S TIME TO TEAR UP YOUR COIN VERSUS THANK YOU SO MUCH.
AND THEN WE'RE GONNA BRING UP AN INCREDIBLE COUPLE WHO I'VE KNOWN, I GUESS MY WHOLE LIFE REALLY.
I MET THEM THROUGH PETE SEEGER YEARS AGO ON THE CLEARWATER.
IT'S RICK NESTLE AND HIS WIFE DONNA.
AND OF COURSE THERE'S A BREEZE NOW, JUST MY LUCK.
AND THEY'RE GONNA SING FOR YOU HISTORICAL SONGS.
THEY SOUND GREAT, THEY LOOK GREAT AND UH, THEY'RE JUST AMAZING.
AND WE'RE ALL GOING TO BE PLAYING THE HUDSON RIVER FEST IN CROTON ON FATHER'S DAY WEEKEND.
WE'LL BE ON THE UH, SONGWRITER STAGE, SO BE SURE TO STOP BY AND APPLAUD AND MAKE US FEEL LOVED AND BUY OUR PRODUCTS.
ALRIGHT, THIS IS A, THIS NEXT SONG IS A SONG THAT HAS SURVIVED 250 YEARS IN THE POP DANG.
ALLERGIES, ALLERGIES IN THE POP VERNACULAR.
IT'S BEEN COVERED BY SUSIE BOCK, SUNSHINE TAYLOR AND ALL THESE OTHER PEOPLE.
IT'S AN INCREDIBLE SONG AND I'M SURE, I HOPE YOU RECOGNIZE IT.
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GOOD.NOT IN THE WORDS OF ARLO GUTHRIE IS TUNED WHEN I BOUGHT IT.
I CARE ABOUT YOU, YOU CARE ABOUT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND I CARE ABOUT MY FEELINGS 'CAUSE IT HURTS MY FEELINGS AND MY FEELINGS WHEN IT'S NOT.
HERE I SIT ON BUTTERMILK HILL, WHO COULD BLAME ME, CRY MY FEELING WHEN EVERY TEAR COULD TURN A MILL.
I SOLD MY REAL TO GIVE MY LOVE A SWORD AND SHIELD.
MY PETCO CRIMSON RED BEG THE STREET FOR MY BREAD TILL HE COMES BACK.
ALL RIGHT, I'M GONNA DO ONE LAST NUMBER AND THEN WE'RE GONNA BRING UP THESE AMAZING PEOPLE.
AND THEY DON'T PAY ME TO SAY THAT.
SO THIS IS ANOTHER ORIGINAL TUNE OF MINE.
BEFORE I SING THIS SONG, I MUST SAY, BECAUSE I COME FROM A FAMILY OF HISTORIANS, I GREW UP GOING
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TO COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG EVERY WEEKEND, I MEAN EVERY SUMMER.AND SO IT'S LIKE, UH, IT'S LIKE THE WAY YOU ONE UP YOURSELF AT THANKSGIVING IN MY FAMILY IS BY LIKE NAME DROPPING FACTS ABOUT THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND WHO DID THIS AND WHO DID THAT.
SO FORGIVE ME, BEAR WITH ME BEFORE I PLAY THIS LAST NUMBER FOR OR BELOW.
SO VERY QUICKLY, WE ALL KNOW ABOUT ABIGAIL ADAMS AND WHAT SHE DID.
REMEMBER THE LADIES AND ALL THAT STUFF.
HOWEVER, IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT SHE WAS THE FIRST SUFFRAGETTE.
SHE ACTUALLY BEGGED HER HUSBAND FOR RIGHTS.
THEY, THEY DIDN'T HAVE THEIR OWN MONEY.
BLACK PEOPLE AND WOMEN WERE DEFINITELY ON THE BOTTOM RUNGS IN SOCIETY.
I MEAN, I WOULDN'T EVER COMPARE WHAT WOMEN WENT THROUGH THE REVOLUTIONARY WARDS OF SLAVES.
HOWEVER, I STILL ONE PRETTY, IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT WOMEN WENT INTO BATTLE.
THEY BROUGHT, THEY WENT AND FOUGHT ALONGSIDE THEIR HUSBANDS, THEIR SONS, THEIR FATHERS.
THEY OFTEN BROUGHT THEIR CHILDREN WITH THEM TO THE ENCAMPMENTS.
CAN YOU IMAGINE? AND THESE ENCAMPMENTS WERE MASSIVE.
IT WAS LIKE THE FRONT OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR.
THEN THEY PACK ALL THAT STUFF UP AND MOVE IT TO THE NEXT LOCATION.
KIDS IN TOW, THEY COOKED, THEY CLEANED, THEY NURSED THE SOLDIERS AND MANY WOMEN PUT ON UNIFORMS AND FOUGHT ALONGSIDE THE MEN.
ACTUALLY, I MAY TURN IT INTO A MUSICAL 'CAUSE I'M JUST THAT A TYPE CRAZY.
BUT I WROTE THIS SONG, UM, IT'S CALLED WE WILL SOW.
AND IF I DO TURN IT INTO MUSICAL, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IS WHEN THE SONG STARTS, ABIGAIL WOULD BE STANDING ON STAGE, PROBABLY DOWN FRONT, RIGHT? A SMALL SPOT.
AND OF COURSE I'D CAST AN ACTRESS, YOU KNOW, WAY YOUNGER THAN ME.
HOLD ON, I'LL JUST STAND UP AND TAKE MY BOW IS THE COMPOSER.
OH, ANYWAY, SO ABIGAIL WOULD BE DOWNSTAGE TELLING HER STORY.
WHAT'S THE MATTER? OH NO, I GOT IT.
AH, THERE'S A SMART MAN FOR YOU.
AND THEN SHE WOULD START TO TELL HER STORY, RIGHT? SO PICTURE IT.
SHE'S KIND OF TENTATIVE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE STORY.
AND THEN SHE KIND OF GETS HER STRENGTH.
AND BY THE END OF THE SONG, WOMEN HAVE JOINED HER IN OUR SINGING ALONG.
SO I WOULD CALL THIS ABIGAIL'S SONG.
DID YOU KNOW WOMEN HOLD THE BUYING POWER? THEY'RE BIG, THEY'RE BIG CONSUMERS BY THE HOUR, AND YET WE'RE SIDELINED IN THIS WAR.
DID YOU KNOW OUR BROUGHT THEM TO THEIR NEEDS? WON'T THEY CONSIDER OUR RIGHTS? PLEASE? ARE WE JUST HUMANS TO IGNORE OUR EMBARGO THEM DEARLY, WE SACRIFICED SINCERELY, STILL THINK, DON'T THINK WE DO VERY MUCH AT ALL.
SO WE, SO, AND WE'LL TURN OUR HOMETOWN REVELATION TO REBEL ASPIRATION, HARNESSING THE POWER FROM WITH IT.
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WE'LL TURN OUR SOUL NATION INTO EVERY FIBER OUR BEING.WE DID, YOU KNOW, NOW THAT'S SOMETIMES WE DRESS AS MAN PICK UP WEAPONS TO DEFEND THIS LAND WE HOLD SO DEAR.
DID YOU KNOW WE COOK AND CLEAN AND THEY'RE DEAD AND WIPE THE SORROWS FROM THEIR AND HOLD THEM THROUGH THEIR FEAR.
THEY SAY NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION.
WE'RE NOWHERE IN THE EQUATION.
WE WATCH AND WE HARNESS AND WE'LL BE AND WE WILL WE A HOME REVELATION TO THE FIBER OF OUR NATION.
WE BELIEVE WE ARE THE DAUGHTERS.
I THINK I JUST SWALLOWED A BUG.
LET ME GIVE YOU, LET ME ONCE AGAIN INTRODUCE THESE PEOPLE.
IT'LL BE A FEW MINUTE BREAK WHILE WE CHANGE OVER, BUT DON'T GO.
THIS IS RICK NESSLER AND UH, DONNA NESSLER.
HE'S BEEN A PROFESSIONAL SEA CAPTAIN.
EVERY KIND OF VESSEL YOU CAN IMAGINE.
HE IS A, AN OFFICIAL REVOLUTIONARY WAR HISTORIAN AND REENACTOR, HE'S GOT INSTRUMENTS LIKE REPLICAS OF THOSE INSTRUMENTS FROM THE REVOLUTIONARY WORLD.
HE IS JUST A BAD, OH, YOU'RE AN ANGEL, THANK YOU.
HIS WIFE DONNA PLAYS WITH HIM.
SHE'S GOT ALL KINDS OF AMAZING INSTRUMENTS AND THEY'RE GONNA SING SONGS ABOUT THE REVOLUTION AND THE RIVER.
AND FOR ME, HE IS THE LIVING, UH, WHAT'S THE WORD I'M LOOKING FOR? HE'S THE EMBODIMENT OF, OF PETE SEEGER IN OUR, IN 2026.
MY NAME IS SUZANNE, PLEASE COME UP AND SAY HI.
AND UH, WE'LL SEE YOU NEXT YEAR.
ALRIGHT? ARE YOU PLAYING ANYWHERE ELSE? OH YEAH.
OH MY GOD, YOU MUST BE ADAM, YOU HANDSOME DEVIL YOU, I'M PLAYING TOMORROW AT THE RIVER ARTS FESTIVAL.
AT ONE O'CLOCK I WILL BE PLAYING STRICTLY JAZZ, ORIGINAL JAZZ ON AN F HOLD GUITAR BECAUSE I CAN, AS WE SAY, IN FRENCH, FRENCH
AND THEN I'M PLAYING AGAIN TOMORROW NIGHT AT THE HOME OF JOANNE REMAN.
AND WHAT'S THE ADDRESS THAT'S ALSO SENSOR SEVEN SENSOR WROTE LANE.
AND I'LL BE DOING THIS REVOLUTIONARY THING AGAIN, AND I'LL FOLLOW THAT UP WITH JAZZ.
AND THAT'S ALSO PART OF THE RIVER ARTS.
LET ME JUST GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO, WHILE THEY'RE SETTING UP.
UH, WHERE IS EILEEN CHARLES? OKAY, WELL, SHE'S NOT HERE, BUT THIS IS A WOMAN WHO PUT THIS WHOLE BLOODY THING TOGETHER.
SO IN HER HONOR, LET'S JUST GIVE HER LOUDER, LOUDER, LOUDER.
I MEAN, FEARLESS, I MEAN FEARFUL LEADER EILEEN.
SHE PUT THIS WHOLE THING TOGETHER.
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SO A SPECIAL SHOUT OUT TO HER AND TO ALL THE PEOPLE INVOLVED.HE'S THE DIRECTOR OF THE RIVER ARTS FESTIVAL, WHICH MADE MY GIG HERE POSSIBLE AND RICK'S GIG, AND THEN MY GIG TOMORROW NIGHT.
I WOULD LIKE TO, HOWEVER, BEFORE I DELVE INTO HOW IT CAME TO PASS, THAT I ENDED UP BECOMING THE SCRIBE, UH, THE PENDANT, IF YOU WILL, TO THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, TO LET YOU KNOW HOW IT CAME TO PASS THAT I WAS CHARGED WITH THAT RESPONSIBILITY.
NOW, I ALWAYS HAVE BEEN THE KIND OF SORT THE MAN WHO, WHO FOUND THAT THERE WAS NEVER A BLADE OF GRASS THAT I FOUND UNINTERESTING
AND THUS, AT VARIOUS TIMES I EXPLORED AS MUCH AS I POSSIBLY COULD.
I FOUND WITHOUT BOOKS I COULDN'T SURVIVE.
WHY? THERE WAS A TIME WHEN MY LIBRARY BURNED AND ONE OF MY SERVANTS CAME FORWARD AND I SAID, ALAS, WHAT WERE YOU ABLE TO SAVE OF MY BOOKS? AND HE SAID, WELL, SIR, ALL 200 OF THEM HAVE GONE UP IN FLAMES, BUT I DID SAVE YOUR FIDDLE AND YAY I DID.
MANAGED TO PLAY WELL AS I PUT ON THE FIDDLE.
I EVEN HAD LESSONS FOR MY DAUGHTER.
SHE HAD TO PRACTICE A COUPLE OF HOURS A DAY, FAIRLY STRONGLY FELT THAT, UM, TO BE A, A GOOD CITIZEN, IF YOU WILL, NOT A SUBJECT, IT WAS NECESSARY TO HAVE CHILDREN WELL-EDUCATED.
AND EVENTUALLY WHEN I BECAME PRESIDENT, I ADVOCATED FOR A SYSTEM THAT WOULD HELP PAY FOR THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN OR WITH GOOD CITIZENS.
THEY WERE LIKELY TO RESIST A KIND OF CONCEPT I FOUND IN MY FAVORITE BOOK, UH, BY A FELLOW BY THE NAME OF STERN, UH, TRISTAN SHANDY.
AND, UH, THERE WAS A PASSAGE ABOUT HOW PEOPLE ARE LIKELY TO ENDURE THINGS THAT THEY FIND SUFFERABLE BEARABLE.
OH, WHEN YOU TRULY LOOK AT THEM, THEY ARE UNBEARABLE FOR LONG PERIODS OF TIME.
AND THAT MANAGED TO FIND ITS WAY.
IN THE BEGINNING OF THE DECLARATION BEFORE I PUT FORTH THE 27 DIFFERENT GRIEVANCES THAT WE, AND I EMPHASIZE, WE FELT THAT THE KING HAD IMPOSED UPON US.
NOW, WHEN I HAD WRITTEN THE DECLARATION, WHY SOME, SOME, I SUPPOSE YOU COULD CALL THEM CRITICS, UM, DECLARED THAT, OH, THIS WAS JUST A HACKNEYED CONVERSATION THAT WE'VE BEEN DISCUSSING IN, UH, TWO YEARS IN THE CONGRESSES.
AND THAT THERE WERE NO NEW IDEAS THERE.
YOU SEE, BECAUSE I FIND SO MANY THINGS OF INTEREST.
I WOULD SIT DURING THE DISCUSSIONS, THE DEBATES IN THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS, AND I RARELY WOULD SPEAK.
I MEAN, AFTER ALL, I WAS NOT A SENIOR AS SOME OF THE OTHER VENERABLE FELLOWS THERE.
OH, WHEN GOVERNOR MORRIS, WITH HIS ONE LEG WOULD RISE, OR, OR, OR WHEN, UM, BENJAMIN HARRISON, THE FIFTH WOULD STAND IN THEIR VOICES WITH THUNDER AND THE AGITATED JOHN ADAMS. WE GET UP AND WHEN EMBARRA EVERYTHING, WE MUST DO THIS.
PEOPLE WOULD SAY, SIT DOWN, MR. ADAMS
I OBSERVED, I LISTENED, AND DARE I SAY, I ABSORBED AS MUCH AS POSSIBLY I COULD.
AND I'VE BEEN READING VARIOUS WORKS FROM CICERO TO THOMAS LOCKE.
AND THUS, WHEN APPROACHED, UM, BY THE COMMITTEE, I WAS SURPRISED TO FIND MYSELF ON SUCH AN AUGUST COLLECTION OF, UH, THERE WAS ROBERT LIVINGSTON, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, UH, ADAMS, ROGER SHERMAN AND ALL THAT.
THERE, THEY, THEY PUT ME IN WHY WHEN IT CAME ROUND TO, UH, ACTUALLY DECIDE WHO WAS TO WRITE IT, I WAS RATHER SURPRISED.
I, I RECALL JOHN ADAMS COMING.
I, I THINK I WAS SITTING DOWN AND HE SAID, YOU ARE GONNA BE THE ONE WHO'S GONNA WRITE THE, THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
HE HAD THAT SHARP NEW ENGLAND ACCENT THERE,
TELL WHY I, AND HE SAID, OH, VARIOUS REASONS.
I SAID, GRAY, WHAT ARE THE REASONS THAT I SHOULD WRITE TO NOT YOU? UM, AND HE SAID, WELL, FIRST OF ALL, YOU ARE A VIRGINIAN AND IT SHOULD BE THAT A VIRGINIAN SHOULD BE THE ONE TO BE THIS SCRIBE BECAUSE IF VIRGINIA FO UH, LEADS, ALL THE OTHERS WILL FOLLOW
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QUAKER.UNTIL THE 1750S STILL HAD SLAVERY.
IT WASN'T UNTIL THE 1750S THAT THIS ONE QUAKER GUY HAD A REVELATION FROM GOD.
AND GOD SAID, HEY, UH, JIM, SLAVERY ISN'T COOL.
UM, AND BY THE WAY, UH, BE SURE TO POLISH YOUR SHOES.
AND HE WOKE UP FROM HIS DREAM.
HE SAID, HEY, GOD SAID NO MORE SLAVERY.
SO I GUESS THAT'S THAT I'M IN THE QUAKERS STOPPED HAVING SLAVES LIKE THE 1750S AND THAT'S WHEREBY THE 18 HUNDREDS, THEY BECOME REALLY BIG IN THE ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT.
BUT IN THE 1750S, THEY WERE STILL SLAVE.
UM, BUT THE MORAVIANS WERE A BIG CHRISTIAN, UH, PROTESTANT CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT THAT REALLY FELT THAT, YOU KNOW, INDIANS WERE BAD.
EVERYONE'S EQUAL IN THE EYES OF GOD.
IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT COLOR YOUR SKIN IS.
UM, AND THAT A LOT OF THESE PEOPLE WERE VERY ENTICED BY THAT MOVEMENT.
WE ALSO KNOW MECHANISM WAS ANOTHER HUGE MOVEMENT.
ANGLICANISM IS ANOTHER HUGE MOVEMENT.
UH, WE KNOW AMONG THE ONEIDA, THEY WERE REALLY TIED TO THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF PARTICULARLY THE MISSIONARY SAMUEL KIRKLAND.
KIRKLAND WAS A HUGE MISSIONARY WITH THE UNITAS.
HE WAS WELL LOVED AMONG THE UNITAS TO THE POINT THAT HIS HOUSE WASN'T BURNED DOWN.
WHEN A CORN PLANTER CAME WITH THE SENECAS TO LIKE BURN OUT WHERE THE UNITAS WERE LIVING, BURN WHERE THE WERE LIVING, THEY LEFT KIRKLAND ALONE.
THE UNITERS FOLLOWED, I BELIEVE THEY FOLLOWED KIRKLAND OUT TO WISCONSIN.
UM, SO WAIT, DID THE UNITERS WERE
SO IT WAS ONE OF THOSE THINGS WHERE THEY VIEWED THE CONTINENTAL PEOPLE, SAME WITH LIKE WE KNOW UNITAS AND THE TUS GROWERS.
THEY SAID THEY WERE TOO TIED WITH THE CONTINENTAL, THE COLONIAL PEOPLES.
THEY WERE TOO INTERMARRIED WITH THE, THE DUTCH AND THE GERMANS AND THE OTHER ENGLISH THAT THEY VIEWED THEM AS THEIR EXTENDED KIN AND THEIR RELATIVES TO THE, UM, WE ALSO HAVE THIS KIND OF FLAVOR OF CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP WHERE NATIVE PEOPLE KIND OF VIEW THE OTHER EUROPEANS AS KIND OF CHRISTIAN BROTHERS, BROTHERHOOD BROTHERS IN CHRIST.
AND SO THEY KIND OF SAW THEMSELVES AS KIND OF IN THIS BROAD SENSE OF LIKE FELLOWSHIP, WHICH WE DON'T REALLY HAVE MUCH IN 2026.
WE DON'T REALLY UNDERSTAND KIND OF WHAT CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP WAS IN THE 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY.
IT WAS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT COULD ALMOST STOP WARDS, YOU KNOW, IT COULD STOP PEOPLE ON BATTLEFIELD, UM, WAS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP.
THERE'S A, THERE'S A GREAT EXAMPLE FROM THE CIVIL WAR OF A GUY WHO WAS A FREEMASON.
HE WAS DYING AND THE GUY WHO HELPED HIM OUT WAS A CONFEDERATE SOLDIER WHO WAS ALSO A MASON AND LIKE TOOK CARE OF HIM AS HE WAS DYING BECAUSE THEY WERE BOTH MASONS.
WE DON'T REALLY HAVE THAT MUCH ANYMORE, BUT THEY DID IN THE 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY, YOU KNOW, CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP WAS TAKEN REALLY SERIOUSLY.
UH, SO YOU HAVE THAT CONTINGENT, AND A LOT OF THOSE NATIVE PEOPLE SERVE AS CONTINENTAL SOLDIER.
THEIR SERVICES RATHER KIND OF UP AND DOWN, AND THEIR RECORDS AREN'T GREAT.
SO WHAT WE FIND WITH NATIVE PEOPLE THAT SERVE IN THE CONTINENTAL ARMY, UH, NOT ALL OF THEM SERVE THE ENTIRE DURATION OF THE WAR.
SOMETIMES THEY DO A COUPLE MONTHS, THEY DO A YEAR, AND THEN THEY GO BACK HOME.
SOME OF THEM WORK IN THE CONTINENTAL NAVY, SOME OF THEM WORK ON SHIPS.
WE KNOW A LOT OF PEAK WATTS, NARRAGANSET, MOHEGANS ALL WORK ON BUILDING SHIPS, AND THEY'RE ALL MAKING SHIPS.
UM, AND WE HAVE RECORDS BECAUSE THEY GOT PAID.
SO WE HAVE THEIR PAYMENT RECORDS AND WE KNOW THAT THEY WERE WORKING ON SHIPS AND BUILDING SHIPS.
UM, WE KNOW ALSO, UM, THERE'S RECORDS OF GUYS WHO SERVED FOR A FEW MONTHS AND THEN THEY GO BACK HOME.
AND THE, YOU KNOW, QUARTERMASTER LIKE COMPLAINS BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T FULFILL THEIR ENTIRE CONTRACT AND THEY WENT HOME.
AND SO THEY, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE WRITTEN UP.
UM, OTHER TIMES INDIANS COMPLAIN THAT THEY'RE NOT BEING PAID, AND THAT'S WHERE WE FIND RECORDS OF THEIR SERVICE.
UM, AND WE HAVE TO KNOW A LOT OF NATIVE PEOPLE THAT SERVE IN THE CONTINENTAL ARMY NEVER GOT PAID.
UM, AND THEY WERE DUE PAYMENT AND THEY WERE NEVER PAID.
UM, AND THERE'S RECORDS OF THAT, I BELIEVE, ESPECIALLY AMONG LIKE THE PEAK QUADS.
THERE'S RECORDS OF SOME OF THOSE GUYS WHO SERVED AND THEY DIDN'T GET PAID.
SO NOW YOU HAVE THE OTHER SIDE OF IT, THE LOYALIST SIDE.
SO A LOT OF THE NATIVE PEOPLE WHO SERVED AS LOYALISTS WITH THE BRITISH ARMY, THEY WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH THE CONTINENTAL PEOPLE.
THE COLONIAL PEOPLE ARE THE ONES THAT BROKE ALL THE TREATIES THAT PUSHED THEM OFF THEIR LAND, THAT FORCED THEM TO GO WEST OF THE SUSQUEHANNA RIVER INTO PLACES LIKE OHIO, INDIANA, ILLINOIS, PARTS
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OF KENTUCKY, PARTS OF SOUTHERN MICHIGAN.AND THEY'RE RIGHTFULLY SO THAT THEY'RE PRETTY MAD.
UM, AND THE BRITISH ARE ESSENTIALLY SAYING, WE'RE GONNA LOG THE LAND.
THESE CONTINENTAL PEOPLE, THEY'RE BREAKING ALL THE LAWS, THEY'RE BREAKING ALL THE TREATIES AND THAT, LISTEN, IF WE WIN THIS WAR AND YOU HELP US, WE WILL NOT ONLY MAKE SURE THAT YOU CAN COME BACK TO SOME OF YOUR LANDS AND HAVE RIGHTS OVER SOME OF YOUR LANDS, BUT WE WILL ALSO AWARD YOU LANDS IN CANADA, WHICH THE BRITISH DID FOLLOW THROUGH.
YOU ACTUALLY HAVE TWO DIFFERENT RESERVATIONS THAT FORM AFTER THE REVOLUTIONARY AWARD.
YOU HAVE, UM, TGA, WHICH IS BRANTFORD, ONTARIO, WHICH WAS LAND GIVEN TO JOSEPH BRANT AND THE MOHAWKS TO GO AND SETTLE.
AND YOU ALSO HAVE SIX NATIONS, WHICH WAS ANOTHER LAND GRANT GIVEN TO NATIVE PEOPLE WHO HAD SERVED OIL TO THE CROWN.
AND THEY WERE GIVEN TWO DIFFERENT RESERVATIONS IN CAMP.
WASN'T THERE A WHOLE STATE THAT WAS GONNA BE GIVEN? THERE WAS, THAT WAS ANOTHER BRITISH PROMISE.
THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO GIVE IROQUOIS.
UH, THE CONTINENTAL OF CONGRESS PROMISED THE DELAWARE TO BECOME THE 14TH STATE.
UM, BUT 'CAUSE THE, THE CONTINENTALS, THEY WERE DESPERATE FOR INDIAN ALLIES.
THEY WERE DESPERATE FOR WHATEVER INDIANS THEY COULD GET.
'CAUSE THE INDIANS WERE THE BEST AT FINDING TRAILS.
THEY COULD SPEAK ALL THESE DIFFERENT LANGUAGES AND ALL THESE OTHER THINGS THAT WERE REALLY VALUABLE FOR, YOU KNOW, COLONIAL TROOPS THAT ARE GOING INTO THE FRONTIER, THAT ARE GOING FARTHER WEST, THAT ARE DOING ALL THESE DIFFERENT THINGS.
EDUCATED IN GENTLEMEN, BOYS AND GIRLS, LADIES AND JONES.
WELL, MY NAME IS RICK NESTLER.
FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DON'T KNOW ME, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DO KNOW ME, I'M STILL RICK NESTLER.
NEVER MORE THAN A BLOCK AWAY FROM THIS LIBRARY.
WHEN I FIRST MOVED HERE, I LIVED ON MAPLE AVENUE, THEN I MOVED DOWN TO SOUTH SIDE AND THEN UP TO WALTON FROM 72 TO 92, I WAS, WAS HERE.
AND THEN I MARRIED THIS WONDERFUL AND TALENTED WOMAN, DONNA.
ENOUGH ABOUT RICK NESTLER AND DON AND ESLE.
UM, OH, THESE GUITARS, UH, THAT DONNA AND I ARE PLAYING HER CUSTOM ME, UH, TO REPLICATE THE TYPES OF, UH, INSTRUMENTS THAT WE ACTUALLY PLAYED, UH, FROM THE, UH, 15TH CENTURY UP TO ABOUT, UH, THE MID 18 HUNDREDS.
UM, GUITARS WERE ALL OVER THE PLACE DURING THAT TIME PERIOD.
OURS HAPPEN TO BE 10 STRING GUITARS, BUT IF YOU WANT TO GET TECHNICAL, BOTH OF THEM ARE SIX COURSE INSTRUMENTS.
SO IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, FEEL FREE TO STOP BY AFTER WE'RE THROUGH HERE.
IN THE MEANTIME, WE'RE GONNA GET, UH, GET ALONG IN THE PROGRAM HERE.
WE'RE GONNA SING SOME GREAT SONGS FROM THE OLD COLONY DAYS.
IN THOSE COLONY DAYS WHEN WE SERVED UNDER THE KING, THREE LITTLE CHAPS FELL INTO MISH HS BECAUSE THEY COULD NOT SING.
THREE LITTLE CHAPS FELL INTO MISH HS BECAUSE THEY COULD NOT SING.
AND IN THOSE COLONY DAYS WHEN WE LIVED UNDER THE KING LIFTED MILLER WEAVER AND A LITTLE TAYLOR, THREE JOLLY ROADS OF LYNN, THREE JOLLY ROADS OF LYNN LIFTED MILLER WEAVER, AND A LITTLE TAYLOR.
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AVA MILLER.HE STOLE CORN AND THE WEAVER, HE STOLE YARN.
AND THE DEVIL GOT HIS CLAW IN THE LITTLE TAYLOR WITH A BROADCLOTH UNDER HIS ARM WITH A BROADCLOTH UNDER HIS ARM.
NOW, THE WEAVER, THE MILLER, THE MILLER SWAM IN HIS DAM.
AND THE WEAVER EACH TRIED AS LONG AND THE LITTLE TAYLOR STONEBROOK CLOTH FOR, TO KEEP THE THREE ROADS WRONG, FOR, TO KEEP THE THREE ROSE.
ONE GUESS A LITTLE TAYLOR, HE STOLE BROADCLOTH FOR THE THREE ROADS WRONG.
A MILLER SWAM IN HIS DAN AND THE WEAVER, HE HUNG IN HIS YARD.
AND THE LITTLE TAYLOR GOES SKIPPING THROUGH.
HELL WITH A BROADCLOTH UNDER IS ON WITH A BROADCLOTH.
A LITTLE TAYLOR GOES SKIPPING THROUGH.
HELL WITH A BROADCLOTH UNDER IS ON.
SO IN THOSE COLONY DAYS, WHEN WE SERVED UNDER THE KING MILLER AND A WEAVER AND A LITTLE TAYLOR, THREE JELLY ROBES OF LYNN, THREE JELLY ROPES OF LYNN LINDA TO MILLER, AND A WEAVER AND A LITTLE TAYLOR.
THIS, UH, THIS SONG IS A, A VARIANT OF THE OLD BUTCHER BOY BALLAD.
THEY WERE FAVORED IN THE 16TH AND 17TH CENTURY.
UH, THIS ONE IS ACTUALLY A LOCAL SONG, UH, SOME PEOPLE CALL IT WHERE THE WILD GOOSE GRASSES GROW.
UH, I, I LEARNED IT, UH, UNDER THE NAME OF TARRYTOWN, JUST UP THE RIVER HERE IN TERRYTOWN.
I KNEW WELL ME, MY LIFE WILL NOW WITH ME.
WHY? HE MY SHALL BE MY GRAVE SHALL BE WITH THE WILDEST GRASS GROWING OVER, BE WIDE AND DEEP AND DEEP.
MY GRAVE SHALL BE, MY GRAVE SHALL BE WITH THE WILDEST GRASS GROWING OVER.
THERE IS AN END IN TERRY TOWN WHERE MY GOES, AND HE SITS THEM DOWN.
TAKES A STRANGE GIRL ON IS ME.
TELLS HER THINGS HE WILL NOT TELL TO ME.
WHY DIDN'T HE? AND DEEP MY GRAVE SHALL BE, MY GRAVE, SHALL BE WITH THE WILD GRASS GROWING OVER DEEP.
AND MY GRAVE SHALL BE, MY GRAVE SHALL BE WITH THE WA GRASSES GROWING OVER ME.
LO HE CORDED ME THROUGH ICE AND SNOW.
HE GOES RIGHT DOWN THE STREET AND PASSES BY
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WIDE, DIDN'T HE? RIGHT.AND DEEP, MY GRAVE SHALL BE, MY GRAVE SHALL BE WITH THE WILD GRASSES GROWING OVER DEEP, WIDE AND DEEP, WIDE DEEPER.
MY GRAVE SHALL BE, MY GRAVE SHALL WITH THE WILDES GRASSES GROWING OVER ME.
IN THAT, IN, IN TERRY TOWN, MY LOVE STAYS AND HE SITS AROUND, HAS THAT STRANGE GIRL IS ME BECAUSE SHE HAS GOLDEN RICHES MORE THAN ME.
WHY INDEED? WHY INDEED, MY GRAVE SHALL BE, MY GRAVE, SHALL BE WITH THE WILDEST CROSSES GROWING OVER ME.
MY GRAVE SHALL BE, MY GRAVE SHALL BE WITH THE WILDEST CROSSES GROWING OVER ME.
THERE IS A TOWN CALLED TERRY TOWN WHERE MY LOVE GOES AND HE HANGS AROUND, TAKES A STRANGE GIRL.
MY GRAVE SHALL BE WITH THE WILD BLUE GRASS.
MY GRAVE SHALL BE, MY GRAVE SHALL BE WITH THE WILD GRASS GROWING OVER ME.
IT SEEMS, UM, BACK IN THOSE DAYS, IT SEEMS THAT THEY DIDN'T HAVE A, THEY DIDN'T HAVE A LOT OF SONGS ABOUT HAPPY MARRIAGES.
WELL, THAT WASNT A MARRIAGE, HONEY.
OR, OR A ROMANTIC, UH, EXPERIENCE, UH, TO PROVE THE, UH, PROVE THE NOTION.
UH, WE'RE GONNA DO A SONG NOW CALLED THE FARMER'S CURSED WIFE.
UM, DON'T LET ANYBODY IN HERE
UM, AND, UH, THIS SONG ACTUALLY ORIGINATED, UH, OVER IN, UH, ENGLAND.
AND, UH, WHEN THE SCOTTS IRISH MIGRATED TO THE APPALACHIANS, UM, THEY BOUGHT THIS SONG WITH THEM.
IT'S GOT A PART YOU CAN SING ALONG ON IF YOU'D LIKE.
IT GOES, HI FI DID, I FI DID LIE, DID LIE DAY.
AND I CAN TELL BY THE LOOK ON SOME OF YOUR FACES, YOU'RE TERRIFIED WITH THAT.
WE'LL BREAK IT DOWN INTO LITTLE, UH, LITTLER PIECES.
SOME OF YOU'RE OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER HI-FI TOO.
I CAN SEE THAT IN THE DEMO GRAPHICS HERE.
UM, HIFI DID A, I FI DID IFI DID.
I DID A, I DID A, I DID A, I DANG.
SO WHEN YOU'RE SINGING, IT SOUNDS LIKE THIS.
AND DON'T WORRY IF YOU DON'T GET IT THE FIRST TIME OR FIRST COUPLE OF TIMES AROUND.
SONG'S GOT ABOUT 12 VERSES TO IT.
SO IT GOES LIKE THIS WHEN YOU SING IT.
THERE WAS AN OLD MAN WHO LIVED UP ON THE HILL.
IF HE IS DEAD YET HE'S LIVING THERE STILL.
DELIGHT DAY THAT WE WALKED UP TO THAT FARMER ONE DAY SAYING ONE OF YOU ARE.
CAN I MUST TAKE AWAY HIGH FIVE.
WELL, PLEASE DON'T TAKE ME ELDEST SON FOR THIS WORK ON THE FARM.
HI, FIVE, DELIGHT BY DELIGHT, DELIGHTING.
BUT YOU CAN TAKE MY NAKED AND WIFE.
SHE'S BEEN A CURSE MOST ALL OF MY LIFE.
SO THE DEVIL TOOK THE OLD WOMAN OVER HIS
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BACK AND HE STARTED OFF HER HELL WITH A CLICK.WELL, HE GOT HER ON DOWN TO THE FORK IN THE ROAD AND HE PUT HER DOWN SAYING, YOU'RE A DEVIL OF A LOAD.
WELL, HE GOT ON DOWN TO THE GATES OF OIL.
WELL, I, FIVE I DELIGHT, DELIGHT, DATE.
NOW, ALONG CAME A DEVIL WITH A BALL AND A CHAIN.
SHE KICKED OFF A SLIPPER AND HE KICKED OUT HIS BRAIN.
TWO LITTLE DEVILS WENT, PEEKING AROUND THE DOOR.
THEN 10 LITTLE DEVILS WENT CLIMBING UP THE WALL SAYING, TAKE HER BACK, DADDY.
WELL THE OLD MAN WOKE UP, LOOKED AT A CRACK SAYING, OH MY GOD, HE'S BRINGING HER BACK.
I DAY THE DEVIL SAID, HERE'S YOUR WIFE.
SOUNDED WELL IF I KEPT HER ANY LONGER, SHE'D HAVE TORN UP.
YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN A DEVIL MOST ALL OF MY LIFE, BUT I'VE NEVER BEEN IN HELL TILL I MET YOUR WIFE.
HIGH FIVE, DELIGHT, DELIGHT, DELIGHT DAY.
WELL, THIS ONLY SHOWS WHAT A WOMAN CAN DO.
SHE CAN BEAT THE DEVIL AND HER HUSBAND TOO.
AND THIS REALLY PROVES WITH HIM BETTER THAN MEN.
'CAUSE THEY CAN GO DOWN TO HELL AND COME BACK AGAIN.
WHAT WE DOING NOW? USE THE LIST.
JUST TELL ME HOW ABOUT, UM, TELL ME THIS, UH, THIS NEXT SONG IS A, UH, IS AN IRISH TUNE.
UH, AND, UH, IT BECAME VERY POPULAR WHENEVER THEY WERE AT WAR.
IT'S, UH, UH, ANTI-WAR SONGS ARE NOT SOMETHING THAT'S NEW.
UH, THIS PARTICULAR SONG HAD A LONG AND VARIED HISTORY.
UH, INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, IT, UH, BY THE 18 HUNDREDS, IT TURNED INTO, UH, UM, WHICH I JOHNNY COMES MARCH WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME AGAIN WITH THE GUNS AND DRUMS AND DRUMS AND GUNS, HARU WITH THE GUNS AND DRUMS AND DRUMS AND GUNS.
HARU HAR WITH YOUR DRUMS AND GUNS AND DRUMS AND GUNS.
YOU BE DARLING HERE, YOU LOOK SO QUEER.
WHERE ARE YOUR EYES THAT WERE SO MILD? WHERE ARE YOUR EYES THAT WERE SO MILD? WHERE ARE YOUR MIND THAT WERE SO MILD THAT LOOKED UPON THE WORLD? AND SMILE.
WHY DID YOU LEARN FOR ME, THE CHILD AND I HARDLY DO GUNS AND GUNS AND DRUMS, HAR THE GUNS AND DRUMS AND DRUMS AND GUNS HAR WITH THE GUNS AND DRUMS AND DRUMS AND GUNS.
HE AND HEY DARLING, HERE, YOU LOOK SO QUEER.
WHERE ARE YOUR LEGS THAT USED TO RUN ARE YOUR LEGS THAT USED TO RUN? WHERE ARE YOUR LEGS THAT USED TO RUN WHEN FIRST YOU WENT TO CARRY A GUN? I HEAR YOUR DANCING DAYS ARE DONE.
I HARDLY GUNS AND DRUMS AND DRUMS AND GUNS AND DRUMS AND DRUMS AND HAR WITH YOUR GUNS AND DRUMS AND DRUMS AND EMMY.
YOU DARLING NEAR YOU LOOK SO QUEER.
JOHNNY, I HARDLY KNEW YOU HAVEN'T INFORMED YOUR HABIT TO, YOU HAVEN'T TO FORM YOUR HABIT TO YOU HAVEN'T INFORMED YOUR THESS.
THE AND DRUMS. AND DRUMS. HEY, YOU.
SO I HAPPY BEFORE TO SEE YOU HOME.
I'M HAPPY FOR TO SEE YOU HOME.
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A ROOM.I'M HAPPY FOR TO SEE YOU HOME.
TO LOWER THE FLESH SO HIGH IN THE MOON IT COMES AND, AND, AND, AND DRUMS AND, AND WE GUNS AND DRUMS AND DRUMS AND ENEMY NEARLY.
MAYBE THAT SONG WILL GO OUT OF FASHION.
THIS NEXT SONG IS A DRINKING SONG.
SEE, CAPTAIN LAWRENCE IS OVER THERE.
IT WAS, IT WAS OFTEN SUNG IN THE COLONIES.
UM, FIRST OF ALL, THERE WERE A LOT OF PLACES TO FIND ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES.
SECOND OF ALL, THE WATER WASN'T PARTICULARLY DRINKABLE.
UM, BUT DISTILLING PROCESSES AND BREWING PROCESSES CLEARED UP THAT PROBLEM.
CHURCH WASHINGTON WAS THE, UH, HAD THE LARGEST DISTILLERY IN IN THE COLLINS.
AND THEN IN, AND THEN IN THE UNITED STATES.
UM, AND, UH, UH, AN ADULT MALE IN THOSE DAYS WOULD, WOULD DRINK ABOUT HOW MUCH? LIKE A GALLON AND A HALF OR TWO GALLONS A DAY OF BEER CI, HARD CIDER, YOU KNOW, IT WAS LIKE, LIKE THE 3.2 BEER.
SO IT WASN'T HIGH ALCOHOL CONTENT, IT WAS JUST NOT DIRTY WATER BECAUSE THEY HAD TO GET IT HOT TO GET RID OF THE BACTERIA.
THEY NEVER THOUGHT OF IT THAT WAY.
BUT, OKAY, SO WHAT ARE WE DOING? SO, UH, WE'RE GONNA SING A SONG CALLED, UH, LANDLORD FILL THE FLOWING BOWL.
UM, SOME PLACES DIDN'T EVEN HAVE, UH, GLASSWARE WAS REALLY EXPENSIVE.
UH, AND, UH, SO WAS PEWTER IN THE EARLY DAYS IN THE COLONY.
SO, UH, THEY USED TO DRINK OUT OF WOODEN BOWLS.
AND THIS IS A SONG THAT YOU MIGHT RECOGNIZE.
UM, THE, I THINK THE, THERE'S ONE GROUP THAT, UH, CALLED IT THREE JOLLY COACHMEN.
OKAY? SO WE PLAYED THE SAME KEITH.
I YET LANDLORD FILL THE FLOWING BOWL UNTIL IT DOES RUN OVER.
LANDLORD FILL THE FLOWING BOWL UNTIL IT RUN OVER.
FOR, FOR TONIGHT WILL MARRY MARY.
BE FOR TONIGHT, WE'LL MARRY MARY.
BE FOR TONIGHT, WE'LL MARRY MARY.
HERE'S TO THE MAN DRINKS WATER.
PURE THEN GOES TO BED QUITE EARLY.
HERE'S TO THE MAN THAT GOES FOR FOUR DRINKS FOR EARLY.
HE FALLS AS THE LEAVES DO FALL, HE FALLS.
AS THE LEAVES DO FALL, HE FALLS.
AS THE LEAVES DO FALL, HE'LL BE DEAD BEFORE OCTOBER.
HERE'S TO THE MAN THAT DRINKS GOOD ALE THEN GOES TO BED, QUITE MELLOW.
HERE'S TO THE MAN THAT DRINKS GOOD, THEN GOES TO BED MELLOW.
HERE'S TO THE MAN THAT DRINKS GOOD RUM.
HERE'S TO THE MAN THAT DRINKS GOOD RUM, THEN GET IT HALF SEAS OVER.
NOW HERE'S TO THE MAID THAT STEALS A KISS THEN RUNS TO TELL HER MOTHER A THEN RUNS TO TELL HER MOTHER.
SHE'S A FOOLISH, FOOLISH THING.
SHE'S A FOOLISH, FOOLISH THING.
SHE'S A FOOLISH, FOOLISH THING FOR SHE'LL NOT GET ANOTHER.
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TO THE MAID THAT STEALS A KISS THEN STAYS TO STEAL ANOTHER.HERE'S TO THE MAID THAT STEALS A KISS, THEN STAYS TO STEAL ANOTHER.
FILL THAT FLOWING BOWL UNTIL IT DOES RUN OVER.
FILL THAT FLOWING BOWL UNTIL IT DOES RUN OVER FOR, FOR TONIGHT WILL ME OR TONIGHT WE'LL MARRY MARY.
ME OR TONIGHT WILL MARY MARY BE TOMORROW WE'LL BE SOBER.
THE DRINKING SONG ALWAYS GETS IN THE FLOOR.
NOW WE KNOW WHERE YOU GUYS ARE AT.
UM, WASN'T DORSEY'S AROUND HERE? YES.
UM, WE'RE GONNA DO TWO MORE SONGS HERE.
AND, UH, THIS, UH, NEXT ONE IS A, UH, IS A PIRATE BALLAD FOR TWO LOFTY SHIPS SENT FROM ENGLAND.
AND SO WE, ONE WAS THE PRINCE OF LUTHER AND THE OTHER PRINCE OF WALES CRUISING DOWN THE COAST OF THE HIGH I OH, OFF THE
LOOK A STERN, LOOK A WEATHER LOOK LEAD CRUISING DOWN THE COAST OF THE HIGH MARRE.
OH, THERE'S NOT UPON OUR STERN AND THERE'S NOT UPON OUR LEAD.
SO JOSE, HELL, WE NO IS NOT A SHIP TO WINDWARD.
AND SHE'S SAILING PAST FREE CRUISING DOWN THE COAST OF THE HIGH BAR.
OH, ARE YOU A MAN OF WAR, OF MERCHANT SHIP CRYING.
WE, I'M NOT A MAN OF WAR, BUT A MERCHANT SHIP CRIED SHEEP CRUISING DOWN THE COAST OF THE HIGH.
SO HAUL YOUR TOP SOULS ROUND NOW AND HE YOUR VESSEL TO LOW HIGH BLOW.
HOW? AND SO HELP WE OR WE HAVE GOT A MESSAGE TO BE CARRIED HOME BY YOU SUSAN, DOWN THE COAST OF THE HIGH.
OH, I'M NOT A MAN OF WORN OVER A MERCHANT SHIP CRY CHIEF.
AND SO WE, BUT I'M A SALTY PIRATE AND I'M LOOKING FOR MY FEET CRUISING DOWN THE COAST OF THE HIGH POOR.
COUNTLESS TO CUT LESS, WE PUT FOUR HOURS, THREE BLOW HIGH, BLOW LOW.
WE WELL THERE SHOULD BEEN WAS WAS A COFFIN AND THEIR GRAVE.
IT WAS A SEED CRUISING DOWN THE COAST OF THE HIGH BATTERY BROADSIDE TO BROADSIDE.
A LONG TIME WE DID LAY FOR HIGH.
SO WE, UNTIL THE PRINCE OF LUSTER SHOT THE PIRATE'S MA AWAY CRUISING DOWN THE COAST OF THE HIGH LOW FOUR QUARTER, FOUR QUARTER, THAT SALTY PIRUS CRIED.
AND SO SAY, SHALL WE? BUT THE QUARTER THAT WE SHOWED THEM WAS TO SINK THEM IN THE TIDE CRUISING
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DOWN THE COAST OF THE HIGH.SO THERE WERE TWO LOFTY SHIPS SENT FROM ENGLAND.
AND SO SAID, SHALL WE? ONE WAS THE PRINCE OF LUTHER AND THE OTHER PRINCE OF WALES CRUISING DOWN THE COAST OF THE HIGH.
DRINKING IN MAYHEM IS APPARENTLY WHAT YOU'RE AFTER.
THIS SONG WAS, UH, IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS REVOLUTIONARY WAR SONGS AROUND, AT LEAST IN THIS COUNTRY,
UM, IT WAS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN BY A BRITISH ARMY OFFICER, UH, TO MAKE FUN OF THE AMERICAN MILITIA WHO WERE, UH, ACTUALLY THERE ALLIES DURING THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR.
AND, UH, THE AMERICANS NOT TO BE OUTDONE, ACTUALLY ADOPTED THE SONG AND WROTE SOME OTHER GREAT, UH, VERSES FOR THEIR PURPOSE.
UH, IF, UH, SUSAN IS AROUND, SHE WANTED TO COME UP AND HELP US OUT WITH A SONG.
SO, UM, YOU CAN SING THIS SONG TOO, HELP US.
IT'S, UH, THERE'S A CHORUS THAT GOES TO THIS SONG THAT GOES, DOODLE YANKEE DOODLE.
YANKEE DOODLE MY NEW MUSIC AND THE STEP THEN WITH GIRLS.
THIS IS GONNA BE OUR LAST SONG.
WE'D LIKE TO THANK, UH, FOLKS FOR HAVING US HERE.
WE'D LIKE TO THANK THE SOUND PEOPLE FOR MAKING US SOUND SO GOOD.
AND, UH, I'D LIKE TO THANK, UH, THE FOLKS FROM WHAT USED TO BE MY HOMETOWN.
AND THERE'S LOTS MORE COMING UP.
UH, WE WILL BE, UH, APPEARING AT THE UH, HUDSON RIVER MUSIC FEST ON JUNE 21ST DOWN AT THE CIRCLE OF SONG.
SO LET'S START OUT WITH THE CHORUS.
YANKEE DOODLE DADDY MIND THE MUSIC AND THE STEP IN WITH THE GIRLS.
YANKEE DOODLE WENT TO TOWN RIDING ON A PONY.
STUCK THE FEATHER AS CAPTAIN CALLED IT.
YANKEE DOODLE DANNY MIND THE MUSIC AND THE STEPPED IN WITH THE GOES BEHIND.
FATHER AND I WENT UP TO CAMP ALONG WITH CAPTAIN GOODING.
THERE WE SAW THE MAN AND BOYS ARE STICKERS.
PUD UP AND YOU FIND THE MUSIC AGAIN.
WE SAW A THOUSAND MAN AS RICH ESQUIRE, DAVID, WHAT THEY WASTED IN A DAY.
WE WISH WE COULD HAVE SAVED YANKEE DO KEEP IT UP.
FIND MUSIC IN THE STEP WITH THE GIRLS HANDY.
THERE WAS CAPTAIN WASHINGTON ABOARD A STRAPPING STALLION GIVING ORDERS TO US.
AND THERE MUST HAVE BEEN A MILLION YANKEE.
YANKEE YOU THERE AND FIND THE MUSIC.
AND THE STEP IN WITH THIRD GIRLS BEHIND THERE WAS CAPTAIN WASHINGTON.
THEY SAY HE WAS SO TOAL PROUD, HE WON'T GO OUT WITHOUT THEM.
YANKEE YOU AND MIND MUSIC AGAIN TO STEP IN.
THERE WAS GENERAL WASHINGTON SNOW WHITES CHARGER, BIGGEST ALL OUTDOORS.
AND THE STEP IN WITH THE GIRLS BEHIND NOW YANKEE DOODLE IS ATTUNING.
AMERICANS DELIGHTING, JUST LOOK FOR WHISTLING.
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PLAYING IN FOR FIGHTING.FIND MUSIC AGAIN TO STEP IN WITH.
SO YANKEE DOODLE WENT TO LONDON JUST TO RIDE A POLE, SUCK A FEATHER IN HIS CALLED IT MACARONI YANKEE DOLE.
AND WITH THE GIRLS BEING HANDY, THANK YOU ALL.
THANK YOU ALL FOR HELPING US OUT.
HOPE TO SEE YOU DOWN BY THE RIVER AGAIN SOMETIME.
SO IN THE 18TH CENTURY, THE PRINTING PRESS WAS A VERY IMPORTANT PIECE OF TECHNOLOGY.
YOU KNOW, NONE OF THE, UH, INFORMATION OR THE IDEAS THAT FED THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION COULD HAVE SPREAD VERY FAR WITHOUT MOVABLE TYPE.
AND IN, IN TRIBUTE TO THAT INCREDIBLE PIECE OF TECHNOLOGY, UH, ME AND MY FRIEND RE HAVE DECIDED NOT TO MEMORIZE A SINGLE THING IN OUR SET.
I'LL HELP, YOU KNOW, OH YES, HEAVILY TAXED.
ALRIGHT? UH, WE'RE THE WHISKEY REBELLION.
WE'RE THE WHISKEY REBELS, UH, DEPENDING ON WHO YOU ASK.
THIS IS RE AND WE'RE JUST GONNA PLAY A COUPLE OF TUNES VERY QUICKLY FOR YOU.
UM, OR HE POSSIBLY EVEN FEWER.
ALRIGHT, WE'RE GONNA DO A LITTLE MUSIC THEORY HERE.
UH, DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT A HORN PIPE IS? NOBODY KNOWS.
WELL, IF THEY DO, THEY DON'T HAVE A MICROPHONE.
THAT'S JUST THE GREAT THING ABOUT CONTROLLING THE, UH, THE MEDIA.
I CAN SAY WHATEVER I WANT AND, AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU GUYS THINK AND IT'S FINE.
A HORN PIPE IS A, UH, IS A PIECE IN FOUR, FOUR TIMES.
SO COUNTERED IN FOUR AND IT'S A BIT SLOWER THAN A REEL, WHICH MEANS YOU CAN FIT MORE NOSES INTO IT, WHICH MEANS COUNTERINTUITIVELY, IT'S ACTUALLY HARDER TO PLAY, BUT WE'RE GONNA PLAY FOUR OF THEM HERE.
UH, THE HORN PIPE IS IN POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATED WITH, UH, SHIPS AND MERCHANT SAILORS.
AND WE HAVE YOUR RICKETS HORN PIPE, FISHERS HORN PIPE, SAILORS HORN PIPE, AND A SPECIAL FOURTH HORN PIPE THAT I THINK YOU MIGHT RECOGNIZE.
ALRIGHT, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO ADD? UH, LET'S, UH, PIPE AWAY, SHALL WE? OKAY, LET'S GO DOWN WITH THE CROWN
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NOW THE SPECIALS.IMPORTANT PART, THE FINAL ONE.
ANDRE'S GONNA USE SOMETHING REMARKABLE.
IT'S CALLED A BIG, OKAY, HERE WE GO.
THAT IS OF COURSE THE, UH, THE RAKE, ALSO KNOWN AS THE CRUSTY CRAB THEME SONG.
SOME OF YOU OLDER PEOPLE IN THE AUDIENCE MIGHT BE FAMILIAR WITH SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS.
I DON'T KNOW IF THE YOUNGER ONES ARE ANYMORE.
IT'S CLASSIC LITERATURE AT THIS POINT.
THEY NEVER QUIT WHILE THEY WERE AHEAD ON THAT SHOW.
THEY REALLY SHOULD HAVE ENDED AFTER THE FIRST TWO SEASONS.
UM, WHAT'S NEXT? UH, SINCE WE DON'T HAVE THAT MUCH TIME, WE'RE GONNA, WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON.
SO FIRST OF ALL, FIRST OF ALL, UH, YES, LOOK, LOOKING AT THE, UM, MACHINE MUSIC AND TALKING TO THE MIC AT THE SAME TIME, UH OH.
YOU'LL GET A KICK OUTTA THIS POST.
HERE'S THE, UH, HERE'S THE, UH, REAL BLACK POWDER IN YOUR MUSKET, WHICH THE CHORDS, THEY ARE HERE.
SO WHAT THEY USED TO DO IN THE 18TH CENTURY IS THEY WOULD TAKE, UH, SONGS AND THEY WOULD DO PARODY LYRICS, UH, TO THOSE SONGS.
OR THEY WOULD WRITE THINGS LIKE, UH, THAT THEY MEANT TO BE TAKEN MORE SERIOUSLY.
UH, ONE EXAMPLE OF THAT WOULD BE OUR, UH, OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM, WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY A, A DRINKING SONG CALLED, UH, FROM INAC IN AION IN HEAVEN, WHICH IS, UH, WELL WORTH A LISTEN.
BUT THIS IS, UH, ACTUALLY A, A REVOLUTIONARY SONG.
WE'RE GONNA SING THIS, WE'RE GONNA SING A PATRIOT SONG AFTERWARDS.
BUT THIS IS, UH, KIND OF A, A, UH, DEPENDING ON HOW YOU INTERPRET THE WORDS, IT COULD BE SEEN AS KIND OF, YOU KNOW, A BIT OF A COMPLIMENT TO THE REBELS, UH, IN A, IN A MANNER OF SPEAKING.
ANYWAY, YOU'LL HAVE TO MAKE YOUR OWN DECISION THERE.
THE BRAVE, HONEST SUBJECTS WHO DARE TO BE LOYAL AND HAVE STOOD THE BRUNT OF EVERY TRIAL OF HUNTING SHIRTS AND RIVAL GUNS.
COME LISTEN A WHILE AND I'LL TELL YOU A SONG I'LL SHOW YOU.
THOSE YANKEES ARE ALL IN THE WRONG.
WHO WITH BLUING LOOK AND MOST AWKWARD GATE AGAINST THEIR LOYAL SOVEREIGN THEY DARE FOR TO PRAISE WITH THEIR HUNTING SHIRTS AND RIFLE GUNS.
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THE ARE TREBLES BAREFOOTED TATTERED MAMMALIANS IN BASE THIS EXCEEDING ALL OTHER REBELLIONS WITH THEIR HUNTING SHIRTS AND RIFLE GUNS TO RE THE EMPIRE.MOST INFAMOUS LIES THEIR MOCK PATRIOT.
CONGRESS DO ALWAYS DEVISE INDEPENDENCE LIKE THE FIRST REBELS THEY CLAIM, BUT THEIR PLOTS WILL BE DIBBED IN THE ANNALS OF FAME WITH THEIR HUNTING SHIRTS AND RIFLE GUNS.
FORGETTING THE MERCIES OF GREAT BRITAIN'S KING WHO SAVED THEIR FOREFATHERS NEXT FROM THE STRING WITH THEIR HUNTING SHIRTS AND RIFLE GUNS.
THEY RENOUNCE ALL ALLEGIANCE AND TAKE UP THEIR ARMS ASSEMBLED TOGETHER LIKE HORNETS IN SWARMS SO DIRTY THEIR BACKS AND SO WRETCHED THEIR SHOW THAT CARRIE AND GROSS FOLLOW WHEREVER THEY GO WITH THEIR HUNTING SHIRTS AND RIFLE GUNS WITH LOUD PEELS OF LAUGHTER.
YOUR SIDE, SIR WOULD CRACK TO SEE GENERAL CONVICT AND COLONEL SHOE BLACK WITH THEIR HUNTING SHIRTS AND RIFLE GUNS.
SEE COBBLERS AND QUACKS PRIESTS AND THE LIKE PENNY FALS AND BARBERS WITH SWORDS OR WITH PIKE ALL STRUTTING THE STANDARD OF SATAN BESIDES AND STANS USING THEIR BLACK DEETS TO HIDE WITH THEIR HUNTING SHIRTS AND RIFLE GUNS.
THIS PERJURED BANDI NOW RUINED THIS LAND AND OR ITS FOUR PEOPLE CLAIM LAWLESS COMMAND WITH THEIR HUNTING SHIRTS AND RIFLE GUNS.
THEIR PAST BOARD DOLLARS PROVE A COMMON CURSE.
THEY DON'T C***K LIKE SILVER OR GOLD IN YOUR PURSE WITH NOTHING.
THEIR LEADERS HAVE PAID THEIR NET SAW.
THEIR HONORS IS DISHONOR AND JUSTICE.
THEY SCOFF WITH THEIR HUNTING SHIRTS AND RIFLE GUNS FOR ONE LAWFUL RULER.
MANY TYRANTS WE'VE GOT WHO FORCE YOUNG AND OLD TO THEIR WARS TO BE SHOT WITH THEIR HUNTING SHIRTS AND RIFLE.
KING GOD SPEED HIM AIR USED A MAN.
SO WHEN HE COULD ACT SPEAKING LIKE FREEMAN COULD GO, OUR TRADER CHURCH MURDERED OUR LIBERTY'S GONE COMMITTEES ENSLAVE US, OUR COUNTRY'S UNDONE BY HUNTING SHIRTS AND RIFLE GUNS.
SO COME TAKE UP YOUR GLASSES, EACH TRUE LOYAL HEART AND MAY EVERY REBEL MEET HIS JUST AS ART WITH HIS HUNTING SHIRT AND RIFLE GUNS.
MAY CONGRESS CONVENTIONS, THOSE DAMNED INQUISITIONS BE FED WITH HOT SULFUR FROM THE LUCIFERS KITCHENS.
MAY COMMERCE AND PEACE AGAIN BE RESTORED.
AMERICANS OWN THEIR OWN TRUE SOVEREIGN LORD AND OBLIVION TO SHARKS AND RIFLE GUNS.
ALRIGHT, UM, WE'RE GONNA PLAY ANOTHER TUNE FOR YOU HERE AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO SING ANOTHER.
THIS ONE'S IN HONOR OF OUR, OUR GLORIOUS TRI-STATE AREA.
UH, TODAY'S AN IMPORTANT DAY FOR OUR STATE, UM, AND THOSE WHO BACK THE BLUE AND ORANGE, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'RE AWARE, BUT SOME VERY IMPORTANT POLITICS IS BEING CARRIED OUT BY OTHER MEANS TONIGHT, UH, IN TEXAS.
AND THAT'S WHAT I'LL BE LOOKING AT, UH, AS SOON AS I'M OFF THIS STAGE.
BUT UNTIL THEN, WE'RE GOING TO GIVE YOU WHAT I LIKE TO CALL OUR TRI-STATE CYCLE, WHICH IS, UM, COMPOSED OF THREE WHEELS.
UM, THE STATEN ISLAND HORN PIPE, THE NEW YORK REEL, THE NEW JERSEY REEL, AND THE NEW JERSEY JIG.
OKAY, LEMME START OFF WITH THAT.
I DIDN'T MEAN IF YOU COULD READ JUST, IF YOU COULD READ FROM THIS ANGLE, BUT I'M GLAD TO HEAR YOU COULD READ.
YOU JUST NEED TO READ MUSIC FOR THIS, FOR THIS GIG.
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RIGHT? I SORRY, I STARTED YOU OFF IN THREE THERE.ALRIGHT, WE'RE GONNA SING ANOTHER ONE FOR YOU NOW.
BACH IS HISTORICALLY ACCURATE.
YOU CAN, YOU CAN PLAY THAT IF YOU WANT.
YOU KNOW, ANY, UH, ANY GOOD UH, COLONIAL JOKES, HENRY, COME ON
UH, THE BRITISH, THEY'RE A JOKE.
THIS IS PROBABLY WRITTEN BY, UH, THOMAS PAYNE.
HE WROTE A LOT OF OTHER, PROBABLY MUCH MORE IMPORTANT THINGS, BUT, UH, THIS IS THE ONE WE'RE GONNA PERFORM BECAUSE IT'S, IT'S EASY TO SING.
IT'S NOT SO EASY TO SING ALL OF COMMON SENSE.
ALSO, COMMON SENSE IS MOSTLY JUST LIKE ABOUT HOW PEOPLE DON'T NEED TO BE RULED BY KINGS, WHICH I THINK IS LIKE, I IT'S NOT A BAD THING TO, BUT IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT EXACTLY GROUNDBREAKING.
DO WE, DO WE FIND THIS TRUTH TO BE SELF-EVIDENT? I I, I FIND IT.
ALRIGHT, UM, LET'S, UH, LET'S DO THIS.
IN A CHARIOT OF LIGHT FROM THE REGIONS OF DAY, THE GODDESS OF LIBERTY CAME 10,000.
CELESTIALS DIRECTED HER WAY AND HEATHER CONDUCTED THE DAY OF FAIR BRANCH FROM THE GARDENS ABOVE WHERE MILLIONS WITH MILLIONS AGREED.
SHE BROUGHT IN HER HAND AS A PLEDGE OF HER LOVE, A PLANT SHE NAMED LIBERTY TREE.
THE CELESTIAL EXOTIC, STUCK DEEP IN THE GROUND LIKE A NATIVE.
IT FLOURISHED AND BORE THE FAME OF ITS FRUIT.
DREW THE NATIONS AROUND TO SEEK OUT THIS PIECE OF OFFSHORE UNMINDFUL
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OF NAMES OR DISTINCTIONS.THEY CAME FOR FREEMAN LIKE BROTHERS AGREED WITH ONE SPIRIT IN YOU.
AND THEIR TEMPLE WAS LIBERTY TREE BENEATH THIS FAIR TREE, LIKE THE PATRIARCHS OF OLD THEIR BREAD IN CONTENTMENT, THEY ATE UNFIXED WITH THE TROUBLES OF SILVER OR GOLD.
THE KISS OF THE GRAND OR THE GREAT WITH TIMBER AT THE OLD ENGLAND SUPPLIED AND SUPPORTED HER POWER ON THE SEA.
HER BATTLES, THEY FOUGHT WITHOUT GETTING A GR FOR THE HONOR OF LIBERTY TREE.
HOW THE TYRA RADICAL POWERS, KING'S, COMMONS AND LORDS ARE UNITING ON ME TO CUT DOWN THIS GUARDIAN OF OURS FROM THE EAST TO THE WEST.
BLOW THE TRUMPETS TWO ARMS THROUGH THE LAND, LET THE SOUND OF IT FLEE.
LET THE FAR AND THE NEAR ALL UNITE WITH A CHEER IN DEFENSE OF OUR LIBERTY TREE.
I THINK THAT'S, I THINK THAT'S NOT BAD.
I COULDN'T FIND VERY MANY REBEL SONGS THAT I PARTICULARLY LIKED, BUT THE FOLKS WHO WERE JUST UP BEFORE US FOUND LIKE A TON OF THEM.
SO CLEARLY I, I NEED TO LOOK IN DIFFERENT PLACES.
UH, WE ARE PROBABLY COMING TOWARDS THE END OF OUR SET.
CAN SOMEBODY IN AUTHORITY GIVE US AN IMPRESSION TO THAT? I GUESS NOT.
ALRIGHT, YOU'LL BE WITH US FOR, UH, FOREVER, I GUESS.
UM, WE ARE NEXT GOING TO LET'S, UH, LET'S DO THE SLIP CHICKS.
UH, WE'RE GONNA DO THE SLIP JIGS.
UM, A SLIP JIG IS LIKE A JIG, BUT IT'S, IT'S GOT NINE BEATS INSTEAD OF SIX PER MEASURE.
I REALLY HAPPEN TO LIKE THEM QUITE A LOT AND THEY'RE NOT VERY OFTEN PERFORMED.
THE PRICE OF ONE, WHICH I THINK TODAY IS NOTHING.
UH, SO ROGER TO COVER THE WRONG, THE LONG ROOM IN SCARBOROUGH AND THE PEACOCK FOLLOWED THE HAND AND THIS WILL BE THE END OF US.
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ALL RIGHT.UM, AND, UH, HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA.
HENRY BIE AND RI KU KUOK, UH, WITH THEIR NEW NAME THAT WE COINED THE WHISKEY REBELS
IT'S REALLY GREAT BECAUSE THESE YOUNG MUSICIANS HAVE EMBRACED THIS MUSIC AND AS WE ALL KNOW, A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE BUSY WHO DO THIS FOR A LIVING, ESPECIALLY THIS YEAR.
SO WE'VE BEEN RECRUITING NEW PEOPLE.
WE WANNA PASS DOWN THESE TRADITIONS, UH, FOR EVEN FOR ALL OF OUR CRAFTSPEOPLE.
SO, YOU KNOW, WE GOTTA KEEP THIS GOING OF COURSE FOR OUR HISTORY.
SO I JUST WANTED TO SAY WE'RE STRIKING THIS AREA NOW.
OUR SOUND AND LIGHT PEOPLE NEED THIS ALL CLEARED.
YOUR STAY ON THE PATIO THERE HAVE CAPTAIN LAWRENCE BREWERY HANG OUT.
THERE'S ALL OF THE, UH, TENTS STILL ACTIVE AND ALL OF THE REENACTORS ARE DOWN BELOW GENERAL WASHINGTON, THE LOYALIST COOK.
WE HAVE, UH, DREW SHAAR RA, WHO IS, UH, FROM THE IAN TRIBE SHARING HIS HISTORY.
WE HAVE, UH, CARLA AND KEYS DOING THEIR COLONIAL AFRICAN AND EUROPEAN MUSIC AROUND THE CORNER.
SO IF YOU HAVEN'T CHECKED OUT EVERYTHING, PLEASE DO.
THE CROWD IS BUILDING IN THE LIBERTY PARKING LOT, UH, NOW THAT IT'S COOLER.
SO, AND I'M SO GLAD YOU'RE PICNICKING AND HANGING OUT.
SO IN ABOUT ANOTHER HALF HOUR OR SO, WE WILL PROBABLY START OUR, OUR PRODUCTION OF THE, UH, THEATRICAL READING OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
AND I WANT TO THANK SETH KLER.
I WANNA THANK SETH KLER WITH HIS HISTORIC AUTHENTIC DOCUMENTS.
YOU'RE AND HE, A LOT OF YOU SAW THEM ALREADY.
I THINK YOU'RE, YOU'RE FINISHING UP IN THERE.
I WANT YOU TO SAY HELLO, THIS IS SETH.
UM, FOR ANOTHER HALF AN HOUR OR SO, IF YOU WANNA SEE YOUR BRIDGE, ORIGINAL DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND CONSTITUTION AND EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION.
READING CALL ON JULY 2ND, 1,776, THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS SETTLED OUR DISPUTES.
IT WAS TIME TO SEVER OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GREAT BRITAIN AND THE KING.
WE HAVE BEEN UNFAIRLY TAXED WITHOUT REPRESENTATION.
AN ARMY MEANT TO PROTECT US HAS TURNED AGAINST US.
WE NEEDED TO CONVINCE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THAT IT IS FAR BETTER TO COMMIT AN ACT OF TREASON THAN TO LIVE UNDER RETIREMENT.
IT IS BETTER TO SACRIFICE OUR COMFORT, OUR STABILITY, OUR LIVES AND THE LIVES OF OUR CHILDREN THAN TO REMAIN AS SERVANTS TO A KING WHO DOES NOT CARE FOR US.
A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE MY COLLEAGUES
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SAID, MAKE THE PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS A CAUSE WORTH DYING FOR.NOW GRANTED, MY DECLARATION DID NOT GO FAR ENOUGH.
UNDERSTAND THIS WAS MY PARAGRAPH ON THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY.
HE HAS WAGED CRUEL WAR AGAINST HUMAN NATURE ITSELF, VIOLATING ITS MOST SACRED RIGHTS OF LIBERTY AND LIFE IN THE PERSONS OF A DISTANT PEOPLE WHO NEVER OFFENDED HIM, CAPTIVATING AND CARRYING THEM INTO SLAVERY IN ANOTHER HEMISPHERE OR TO INCUR MISERABLE DEATH IN THEIR TRANSPORTATION.
TETHER THE CLAUSE, RU PROBATING, THE ENSLAVING OF THE INHABITANTS OF AFRICA WAS STRUCK OUT IN COMPLIANCE TO SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA WHO HAD NEVER EVEN ATTEMPTED TO RESTRAIN THE IMPORTATION OF SLAVES.
AND WHO ON THE CONTRARY STILL WISHED TO CONTINUE IT.
I WROTE, ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL.
I DID NOT WRITE ALL WHITE LAND OWNING MEN.
THUS I LEFT AN OPEN DOOR FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS TO INCLUDE EVERYONE.
I DID ALL I COULD TO PROCLAIM OUR REASONS FOR INDEPENDENCE.
I HOPE THIS DECLARATION WOULD PROVIDE THE ROOTS FOR THE COUNTRY TO COME.
AND WHEN THERE WERE TIMES OF CONFUSION AND CHAOS BY MAY ARISE, THIS DOCUMENT I HOPED WOULD SERVE AS A BEACON TO STEER US OUT OF THOSE ROUGH SEAS.
MY ARGUMENT IS TO SHOW WHAT TYRANNY LOOKS LIKE.
SO THE FUTURE GENERATIONS 100 YEARS FROM NOW, 250, WHY EVEN 500 YEARS FROM NOW WILL READ THIS DECLARATION AND KNOW THE RIGHT PATH THEY APPOINT TOWARDS A GOVERNMENT THAT SERVES THE PEOPLE AND NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND.
THEY, THIS VISION FORMED THE IDENTITY NOT ONLY OF OUR COUNTRY, BUT MAY IT BE THE PSYCHE OF EACH INDIVIDUALS.
AND FINALLY, THEY, THE WORDS THAT I WROTE IN 1,776 RESONATE FOR CENTURIES TO, UM, IN CONGRESS JULY 4TH, 1776, DECLARATION BY THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
IN GENERAL, COUNSEL ASSEMBLED ONE IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS.
IT BECOMES NECESSARY FOR ONE PEOPLE TO DISSOLVE THE POLITICAL BANS WHICH HAVE CONNECTED THEM WITH ANOTHER AND TO ASSUME AMONG THE POWERS OF THE EARTH, THE SEPARATE AND EQUAL STATION TO WHICH THE LAWS OF NATURE AND OF NATURE'S GOD ENTITLE THEM.
A DECENT RESPECT TO THE OPINIONS OF MANKIND REQUIRES THAT THEY SHOULD DECLARE THE CAUSES WHICH IMPEL THEM TO THE SEPARATION.
WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL.
THAT THEY ARE ENDOWED BY THEIR CREATOR WITH CERTAIN INALIENABLE RIGHTS.
THAT AMONG THESE ARE LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.
THAT TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, GOVERNMENTS ARE INSTITUTED AMONG MEN, DERIVING THEIR JUST POWERS FROM THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED THAT WHENEVER ANY FORM OF GOVERNMENT BECOMES DESTRUCTIVE OF THESE ENDS, IT IS THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO ALTER OR TO ABOLISH IT.
AND TO INSTITUTE NEW GOVERNMENT LAYING ITS FOUNDATIONS ON SUCH PRINCIPLES AND ORGANIZING ITS POWERS IN SUCH FORM AS TO THEM SHALL SEEM MOST LIKELY TO AFFECT THEIR SAFETY AND HAPPINESS.
PRUDENCE INDEED WILL DICTATE THAT GOVERNMENT'S LONG ESTABLISHED SHOULD NOT BE CHANGED FOR LIGHT OR TRANSIENT CAUSES.
AND ACCORDINGLY, ALL EXPERIENCE HAS SHOWN THAT MANKIND ARE MORE DISPOSED TO SUFFER WHILE EVILS ARE SUFFERABLE THAN TO WRITE THEMSELVES
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BY ABOLISHING THE FORMS TO WHICH THEY ARE ACCUSTOMED.BUT WHEN A LONG TRAIN OF ABUSES AND US PATIENCE PURSUING INVARIABLY THE SAME OBJECT EVENS A DESIGNED TO REDUCE THEM UNDER ABSOLUTE DESPOTISM, IT IS THEIR RIGHT.
DUTY TO THROW OFF SUCH GOVERNMENT AND TO PROVIDE NEW GUARDS FOR THEIR FUTURE SECURITY.
SUCH HAS BEEN THE PATIENT SUFFERANCE OF THESE COLONIES AND SUCH IS NOW THE NECESSITY WHICH CONSTRAINS THEM TO ALTER THEIR FORMER SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT.
THE HISTORY OF THE PRESENT KING OF GREAT BRITAIN IS A HISTORY OF REPEATED INJURIES AND USURPATIONS ALL HAVING A DIRECT OBJECT.
THE ESTABLISHMENT IN AN ABSOLUTE TYRANNY OVER THESE STATES.
TO PROVE THIS, LET FACTS BE SUBMITTED TO A CANDID WORLD.
HE HAS REFUSED HIS ASCENT TO LAWS MOST WHOLESOME AND NE NECESSARY FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD.
HE HAS FORBIDDEN HIS GOVERNORS TO PASS LAWS OF IMMEDIATE AND PRESSING IMPORTANCE UNLESS SUSPENDED IN THEIR OPERATIONS TILL HIS ASCENT SHOULD BE OBTAINED.
AND WHEN SO SUSPENDED, HE HAS UTTERLY NEGLECTED TO ATTEND TO THEM.
HE HAS REFUSED TO PASS OTHER LAWS FOR THE ACCOMMODATION OF LARGE DISTRICTS OF PEOPLE.
UNLESS THOSE PEOPLE WOULD RELINQUISH THE RIGHT OF REPRESENTATION OF THE LEGISLATURE, A RIGHT INESTIMABLE TO THEM AND FORMIDABLE TO TYRANTS ONLY HE HAS CALLED TOGETHER LEGISLATIVE BODIES AT PLACES, UNUSUAL, UNCOMFORTABLE, AND DISTANT.
DISTANT FROM THE DEPOSITORY OF THEIR PUBLIC RECORDS FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF FATIGUING THEM INTO COMPLIANCE WITH HIS MEASURES.
HE HAS DISSOLVED THE REPRESENTATIVE HOUSES REPEATEDLY FOR OPPOSING WITH MANLY FIRMNESS.
HIS INVASION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE HE HAS REFUSED FOR A LONG TIME AFTER SUCH DISSOLUTIONS TO CAUSE OTHERS TO BE ELECTED WHEREBY THE LEGISLATIVE POWDERS INCAPABLE OF ANNIHILATION HAVE RETURNED TO THE PEOPLE AT LARGE FOR THEIR EXERCISE.
THE STATE REMAINING IN THE MEANTIME EXPOSED TO ALL THE DANGERS OF INVASION FROM WITHOUT AND CONVULSIONS FROM WITHIN.
HE HAS ENDEAVORED TO PREVENT THE POPULATION OF THESE STATES FOR THAT PURPOSE.
OBSTRUCTING THE LAWS OF NATURALIZATION OF FOREIGNERS REFUSING TO PASS OTHERS TO ENCOURAGE THE MIGRATIONS HITHER AND RAISING THE CONDITION OF APPROPRIATIONS OF LANDS.
HE HAS OBSTRUCTED THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE BY REFUSING HIS ASCENT TO LAWS FOR ESTABLISHING JUDICIARY POWERS.
HE HAS MADE JUDGES DEPENDENT UPON HIS WILL ALONE FOR THE TENURE OF THEIR OFFICES AND THE AMOUNT AND PAYMENT OF THEIR SALARIES.
HE HAS ERECTED A MULTITUDE OF NEW OFFICES AND SENT HEATHER SWARMS OF OFFICERS TO HARASS OUR PEOPLE AND EAT OUT THEIR SUBSTANCE.
HE HAS KEPT AMONG US IN TIMES OF PEACE STANDING ARMIES WITHOUT THE CAS OF OUR LEGISLATURES.
HE HAS AFFECTED TO RENDER THE MILITARY INDEPENDENT AND SUPERIOR TO OUR CIVIL POWER.
HE HAS COMBINED WITH OTHERS TO SUBJECT US TO A JURISDICTION FOREIGN TO OUR CONSTITUTION AND UNACKNOWLEDGED BY OUR LAWS, GIVING HIS ASCENT TO THEIR ACTS OF PRETENDED LEGISLATION FOR QUARTERING, LARGE BODIES OF ARMED TROOPS AMONG US FOR PROTECTING THEM BY A MOCK TRIAL FROM PUNISHMENT FOR ANY OF THE MURDERS WHICH THEY SHOULD COMMIT ON THE INHABITANTS OF THESE STATES.
TO BE TRIED FOR PRETENDED OFFENSES, FOR ABOLISHING THE FREE SYSTEM OF ENGLISH LAWS IN A NEIGHBORING PROVINCE.
ESTABLISHING THEREIN AN ARBITRARY GOVERNMENT
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AND ENLARGING THE BOUNDARIES SO IS TO RENDER IT AT ONCE.AN EXAMPLE AND FIT INSTRUMENT OF INTRODUCING THE SAME ABSOLUTE RULE INTO THESE COLONIES.
WE'RE TAKING AWAY OUR CHARTERS, ABOLISHING OUR MOST VALUABLE LAWS AND ALTERING FUNDAMENTALLY THE FORMS OF OUR GOVERNMENTS FOR SUSPENDING OUR OWN LEGISLATURES AND DECLARING THEMSELVES INVESTED WITH POWERS TO LEGISLATE FOR US IN ALL CASES WHATSOEVER.
HE IS ABDICATED GOVERNMENT HERE BY DECLARING US OUT OF HIS PROTECTION AND THEN WAGING WAR UPON US.
HE HAS PLUNDERED OUR SEAS, RAVAGED OUR COASTS, BIRDS OUR TOWNS, AND DESTROYED THE LIVES OF OUR PEOPLE.
HE IS AT THIS TIME TRANSPORTING LARGE ARMIES OF FOREIGN MERCENARIES TO COMPLETE THE WORKS OF DEATH.
DESOLATION AND TYRANNY ALREADY BEGUN WITH CIRCUMSTANCES OF CRUELTY AND PERFECTLY SCARCELY PARALLELED IN THE MOST OUS AGES AND TOTALLY UNWORTHY OF THE HEAD OF A CIVILIZED NATION.
HE HAS CONSTRAINED OUR FELLOW CITIZENS, TAKEN CAPTIVE ON THE HIGH SEAS TO BEAR ARMS AGAINST THEIR COUNTRY TO BECOME THE EXECUTIONERS OF THEIR FRIENDS AND BRETHRENS OR TO FALL THEMSELVES BY THEIR HANDS.
HE HAS EXCITED DOMESTIC INSURRECTIONS AMONG US AND HE HAS ENDEAVORED TO BRING ALL THE INHABITANTS OF OUR FRONTIERS.
THE MERCILESS INDIANS WHOSE KNOWN RULE OF WARFARE IS AN UNDISTINGUISHED DESTRUCTION OF ALL AGES, SEX AND CONDITIONS IN EVERY STAGE.
THESE OPPRESSIONS WE HAVE PETITIONED FOR REDRESS IN THE MOST HUMBLE TERMS. OUR REPEATED PETITIONS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED ONLY BY REPEATED INJURY.
A PRINCE WHOSE CHARACTER IS THUS MARKED BY EVERY ACT, WHICH MAY DEFINE A TYRANT, IS UNFIT TO BE THE RULER OF A FREE PEOPLE.
NOR HAVE WE BEEN WANTING IN ATTENTIONS TO OUR BRITISH BRETHREN, WE HAVE WARNED THEM FROM TIME TO TIME OF ATTEMPTS BY THEIR LEGISLATURE TO EXTEND AN UNWINNABLE JURISDICTION OVER US.
WE HAVE REMINDED THEM THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF OUR IMMIGRATION AND SETTLEMENT HERE WE HAVE APPEALED TO THEIR NATIVE JUSTICE AND MAG AMENITY AND WE HAVE THEM BY THE TIES OF OUR COMET KINDRED TO DISAVOW THESE USURPATIONS WHICH WOULD INEVITABLY INTERRUPT OUR CONNECTIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE.
AND THEY TOO HAVE BEEN DEATH TO THE VOICE OF JUSTICE AND OF CONSANGUINITY.
WE MUST THEREFORE ACQUIESCE IN THE NECESSITY WHICH DENOUNCES OUR SEPARATION AND HOLD THEM AS WE HOLD THE REST OF MANKIND.
FRIENDS, WE THEREFORE THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN GENERAL, CONGRESS ASSEMBLED APPEALING TO THE SUPREME JUDGE OF THE WORLD FOR THE RECTITUDE OF OUR INTENTIONS DO IN THE NAME AND BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE GOOD PEOPLE OF THESE COLONIES.
SOLEMNLY PUBLISH AND DECLARE THAT THESE UNITED COLONIES ARE AND OF RIGHT OUGHT TO BE FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES THAT THEY'RE ABSOLVED FROM ALL ALLEGIANCE TO THE BRITISH CROWN AND THAT ALL POLITICAL CONNECTION BETWEEN THEM AND THE STATE OF GREAT BRITAIN IS AND OUGHT TO BE TOTALLY DISSOLVED.
AND THAT AS FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES, THEY HAVE FULL POWER TO LEVY WAR, CONCLUDE PEACE, CONTRACT ALLIANCES, ESTABLISH COMMERCE AND TO DO ALL OTHER ACTS AND THINGS, WHICH INDEPENDENT STATES MAY OF RIGHT DO.
AND FOR THE SUPPORT OF THIS DECLARATION, WITH A FIRM RELIANCE ON THE PROTECTION OF THE VINE, PROVIDENCE, WE MUTUALLY WISH TO EACH OTHER, OUR LIVES, OUR LIVES, OUR FORTUNES, AND OUR SACRED HONOR.
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THANK YOU.I WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE THE DIRECTOR OF THIS PRODUCTION.
UM, AND WE, WE CELEBRATE AND WE, UH, APPLAUD OUR ACTORS, BUT REALLY THE PERSON WE APPLAUD BECAUSE THE REASON THAT WE ARE ALL HERE IS EILEEN CHARLES.
IT'S GOOD TO HAVE TALENTED FRIENDS.
SO I'M VERY, VERY GRATEFUL AND, UM, WE LOVED OUR ACTORS AND THEY'RE SHY TO COME OUT, BUT WE APPLAUD THEM.
AND EVERYONE ELSE HAS BEEN A PART OF THIS S QUINN CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.
THERE'S MORE TO COMMON HASTINGS.
WE HAVE MORE EVENTS COMING UP TO CELEBRATE THE TWO 50TH OF OUR COUNTRY.