Panamama (Hank Snow) | Grand Ole Opry (02-20-54)

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1:14Welcome to the old-time radio westerns. I'm your host Angelines, and let's get into this episode. This episode's going to be Grand Old Opera. Hope you enjoy. You happy as long as you live. And how all the nice things that I could give. This is WSM, the National Life and Accident Insurance Company, Nashville, Tennessee, presenting the Grand Old Opera. Visit to Nashville isn't complete unless you see Harvest, the most talk-tov store in the sub. Youngsters love the fun mirrors, live muckies, merry-go-round horses, elephant slides. Everybody loves the escalators at Harvest. Everybody agrees it's fun to shop at Harvest, Nashville's largest store. Remember Harvest is open every Monday and Friday night till 9 o'clock. The sun-shining birds are singing and all feels right in the world. Until the season changes,

2:15and suddenly you lose your motivation to get out of bed. In fact, one in five people experience some form of depression no matter the season or time of year. At the American Psychiatric Association Foundation, our vision is to build a mentally healthy nation for all, because we want you to live your best life and be your best you all year round. Please visit mentallyhealthynation.org to learn more. Direct from the rival auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, it's Rendon Upree Time Storing, Hank Snow. Woo! Woo! I went to Panama to find out why it's all the tourometer goes on. The senior eaters there have so much childhood, they could even mill a heart of stone. After Miley Garell, she flashed me a smile and I lost my heart right there. I thought I'd only stay down there for a day

3:15now I think I'll never leave again. In Panama, those Panama mums, they live the life of a beautiful dream. Your life's a waste until you get a taste out of the thrill and you get from a topical dream. I kinda get me straight, I think they'd read those gals from Tennessee. But when they say CCM, Panama and the thrill is really different to me. Find me all another, comes down there, they live just for tonight. Find me all another, comes down there, they live just for tonight. I take her in my arms beneath the beautiful palm and it's heaven when I hold her tight.

4:31In Panama, those Panama mums, they live the life of a beautiful dream. Your life's a waste until you get a taste out of the thrill and you get from a topical dream. Well thanks and a great big happy to all my good friends and neighbors of the Grand Ole Opry. Tonight's all-star country music lineup, Rod Brassfield, Moon Mulligan, Grandpa Jones, the ol' Hickory singers and the entire Opry gang. And just for icing on the cake and muddy sweet icing too, we've got that country cutie from current city Texas, Miss Goldie Hill. Goldie's coming on out here to pick and sing shortly folks, but first we've got four fellows who can really produce some sweet harmony.

5:32We're talking about the ol' Hickory singers and here they are with sweet mama tree top doll. Oh sweet mama tree top doll, what country'd ever down? Black and smell those, okay, it's a burning honey, that I'm burnt from brown since ham went up through a dollar a pound I used to make new ravages at a hop all around. Oh sweet mama tree top doll, what country'd ever down? Oh sweet mama tree top doll, what country'd ever down? I can smell those, okay, it's a burning honey, that I'm burnt from brown This is being a holiday too Can you baby not be free as you go sweet mama Treat after what you can't go to never down

6:43Oh sweet mama treat after what you can't go to never down I can smell those okay somebody honey They don't buy some brown If you ever travel south just drop around to a one room shanty on the edge of town Oh sweet mama treat after what you can't go to never down You can't go to never down Say Hank I want you to tell me something who were all those pretty gals clustered around you outside a while ago I don't really know Grant it seems I just lit me up a pint full of mellow rind prince Albert smoking the backer and there there were Well it's plain to see that the ladies really do enjoy the natural clean aroma of prince Albert's choice tobacco you see nature in her own sure way put the flavor in p.a. and put it there to stay

7:51Tell the folks about that Grant due to prince Albert's own special process perfected a For a period of nearly 50 years the aged in goodness of the tobacco is held and heightened for smooth long burning smoke and pleasure Tell us when you go out for the pay for this evening pick up some mild and tasty prince Albert smoking the backer For real pie pleasure for the backer as nature meant the backer to be asked for prince Albert the national joy smoked In case some of you fellas out there want to make a few notes tonight's very pretty guest is a slim 129 pounds about five feet four has blue eyes and mighty handsome brown hair yes and sings besides folks miss Goldie Hill Goldie tell the folks what's all been doing in the music business where you're concerned

8:54Okay, hey, we've been counting appearing down to the south of Florida, Mississippi, Alabama Just got back this week from Chicago and made a few records this afternoon Well, I'm sure glad you come to see us on in just as anxious as everybody else to hear you sing let me be the one Let me be the one to walk with you when you want somebody to talk with you Anything that makes you happy I want to do oh darling let me be the one Let me be the one who means the most the one you want to love and call your own And when you choose your partner I want to be the choice oh please let me be the one

9:54Let me be the one who said with you when you're going to love him I'll know just what to do Lots of lots of begging and a kiss or two you gotta let me be the one Let me be the one to take you up through your favorite places you have no doubt And when the evenings gone for the kiss good night oh please let me be the one Let me be the one to share with you all your little relations and silos to you in all kinds of weather I want to be with you oh please let me be the one Let me be the one to hold your hand when the preacher says

10:57Do you take this man all these happy thoughts will make so much fun if you'll only let me be the one Don't you go too far from me a gal because I'm big nasty to this next dance is Tommy fiddle soldier joy with God will tell you Doin the collar Oh

12:05Take a hug Goldie's mom has a favorite sacred song and she asked Goldie to ask me to sing it this evening Friends it's a real pleasure to sing this lovely hymn he'll understand and say well done Oh If when you give The best of your service Now In gold That the Savior has come Be not dismayed when men don't believe you He'll understand and say well done

13:07Oh When I come to the end of my journey We are blind and the faithful is wrong Hearing the stare and the cross of redemption He'll understand and say well done Miss understood Yes, the Savior falls on the cross He was God only so Oh, hear him call his father in heaven

14:10Not that I will let my life be done And it's all when I come to the end of my journey We're very blind and the battle is wrong Hearing the stare is at the cross of redemption He'll understand and say well done Thanks folks, thanks a lot Now here comes a friend of ours with something mighty important on his mind Prince Albert is tobacco as nature meant tobacco to be That's why the A in a low CB paper makes such a smooth mild and tasty making smoke

15:15Man and his prince Albert ever easy to roll Prince Albert smoking tobacco is crimp cut It doesn't blow round or dribble out the ends The A is there to stay and so is that natural flavor Through a process perfected over a period of nearly 50 years The metal ripe flavor of Prince Albert smoking tobacco is hailed and heightened For real roll your own enjoyment So fellas, roll your next making smoke with Prince Albert The largest selling smoke in the back in America The national joy smoke Oh, roll your own with good PA And take a puff or two You'll get that extra smoke and joy Prince Albert reached

16:15Of course y'all know who that is playing The one and only the big time the Anaman from Port County moved my again Well, I sail my ship alone for all the dreams I own They take out across the ocean blue I sail my ship alone for all the sails you've put And if it starts to sink then I'll blame you We've been sweet hearts for so long but now you save it too The love we shared is just a memory I had built a ship of dreams and planned them all for you But now I guess what is to be with me

17:24When I sail my ship alone for all the dreams I own They take out across the ocean blue I sail my ship alone for all the sails you've put And if it starts to sink then I'll blame you We've been sweet hearts for so long but now you save it too It starts to sink then I'll blame you The only man who can follow Mr. Moon is the sagebrush of Hornwall, Tennessee And here he is to tell all Rob Brasphine Thank you, man! I got her last note! That's fine, I appreciate that! Hi, Mr. Snow!

18:24I'm glad to see you, Rob! Do you know that Monday is Washington's birthday? It is! Oh, Declare, I'm sure glad you reminded me of that Mr. Snow Why? I forgot to change him a present! You know something, I just kidding, I'm a student of Washington I know everything has to be known about him Is that right? Well, I'll be going on Tell me why Washington didn't sit down when he crossed the Delaware in a rowboat That's easy, Mr. Hank! It is! His bridge is just too dead-busted tight I tell you one thing, Hank! George Washington couldn't throw a silver dollar across your Potomac River today Now, why couldn't Washington throw a dollar across the Potomac today? Because the dollar just don't go as far as now as you did back in him days Last year I had the pleasure of visiting Washington's monument Say, that's quite high, isn't it? Yeah, it's high, yeah, it's a welfare, real high I wonder just how he got down after he finished it

19:24You know, Rob, that's what I like about you, you are so patriotic Yeah, very patriotic What do you mean by that? Well, on Washington's birthday, you're using Lincoln's joke Yeah! Lincoln's joke! Come here, come here! Speaking about old jokes, how is your girlfriend, Susan? Well, she's doing fine, Mr. Snow, she's doing fine She's been down on the forum working just like a horse Doing what? Pulling the snow plow That hard work is part of her three-day reducing dodge Yeah, she's on the dot Yeah, the first day she lost four inches off of her waist Oh, good! And the second day she lost eight inches off of her waist What happened to third day? She lost her girdle But she sure do look good now Yeah, she looks great now, especially her legs Oh, is that right? She's got the kind of legs that attract men Good You know, they're shaped like a magnet

20:26You know, Rob, I've come to the conclusion that you'd make some gallop generous husband Well, now that's nice of you to say that, huh? Thank you very much You know, when I get married, my wife's going to have a limousine and furs and just plenty of money And when do you intend to get married? When I find a gallop, it's got a limousine furs and plenty of money I don't plan Well, I've got to go downtown and do a little shopping Hank, I've got to go buy me some new clothes Why? What happened to your old clothes? The mall said them up You mean the malls were eating your clothes? What is it? They didn't even look up when I opened the closet door Well, tell me, Rodley, what part did the eat? What part did the eat? Yeah Well, I put it geographically Yeah That's solid self Just ate solid no more You know, Mr. Hank, I've got to go But before I go with it, Bill, right with you

21:26If I said hello to my good old friend and buddy, Ms. Minnie Pearl out there and hide the hotel Why, you go right ahead Hide the mini I'll do something down with you See me back there You didn't know I used to court many days Oh, that's news to me Yeah, I used to go with Minnie I used to spark her all the time Yeah She had a little brother He just knocked that high The mini's little dick unto everything Me, huh? Every time I go to see Minnie, he'd do something to tell me if I didn't give him a nickel I had fur Yeah, no But a lot of times I didn't have no nickel I know what you mean Well, sure, I don't know where I want to run in He's got one in Brad Big old Bill poster's tax And put it right in the set fee Where Minnie always set this far today You're the mean one, wasn't it? Yeah, and you had the business end of it up Who, brother? I went in there and popped down on it Are you talking about taxes on your real estate and automobile, brother? You wait until it hits your personal property

22:26Friends, let's call that pretty little guest of ours out here again Miss Goldie Hill, how about it? And Goldie wanted to get for our good friends and neighbors this time One call I'm yesterday That's our real brother You told me lies as my story eyes Let's stop it at my station You painted scenes And lovely dreams with all of your temptations You spoke of things Life waiting rings And promise me the world We're no cause at all You let me fall And now I'm yesterday's dirt Don't you sometimes feel That love is real And the forever saying lies

23:26Love one wrong man You gave the chance To be your daring wife To see that light You made me cry And promise me the world I love you best But like the rest I'm the love You're yesterday's dirt You make it smile You learn the heart of a girl Who's lived you care Was it just a game And my name You've broken hearted limbs You love me long

24:27You love me wrong And promise me the world That I came to be just a member And another yesterday's dirt When the autumn falls And you recall The things that might have been Then you will fall And see the farce That's deep within Each bridge you've run There's no regard You're living a lonely world And you'll never be Where you think of me And just a yesterday's dirt

25:29And at the console of his mighty five-string band Joe, Grandpa Jones Go do it, Jonesy Fly around my prairie to the mid Fly around my DJs Fly around my prairie to the mid Let me crazy Fly, could you think my prairie to the mid I can't live without you But let you know me before I go Give it in about you Fly around my prairie to the mid Fly around my DJs Fly around my prairie to the mid And hand it in my hand Popping cold on my own feet River cold with brandy Rocks in the mountains Cause we're going down Don't weep the sand Fly around my prairie to the mid Fly around my DJs Fly around my prairie to the mid You're almost having pain Every time I go that road Look so dark and cloudy Every time I see that yellow It's still me having Fly around my prairie to the mid Fly around my DJs Fly around my prairie to the mid You're almost having pain Put my mask on my back

26:29Travel on my shoulder Much to wait a mexico Down be a soldier Fly around my prairie to the mid Fly around my DJs Fly around my prairie to the mid You're almost having pain Fly around my prairie to the mid Fly around my DJs Fly around my prairie to the mid You're almost having pain This ballot here is the fourth I don't remember the one tram hot films The Fifth Force It's a recent honestly It's literally pouring A ball is cold Act one Act two Act two The world

27:31The states They say And they're old Father Lell And you were only I think when he fell He played the role of the world Of all the lives of the world That you would find out Mother and the father Act one Father, Father, Father, Father Father, Father, Father, Father Act two We were happy I think you Act three You're fine And the father will cook You're good Father, please And now the curtain's around You

28:34What would you say if he was coming From Beth? ated You could fill it! We should've sent someone To her Let me go Oh tell me It's really a very finding out I think I'm all I was a lady man for you I'll pray to you I have friends who come now with you I'll be with you in the end because it's from me

29:37I was a lady, I'll fall off of all school meals You were happy I was with you I dream of how I look on full moon I'll be with you in the end because it's from me I'll pray to you in the end because it's from me I'll be with you in the end because it's from me I'll be with you in the end because it's from me

30:54I'll be with you in the end because it's from me Feel that smile, feel that smile, please This has been a presentation of OTRwesterns.com and we hope you enjoyed Please take some time to like and rate our shows in your favorite podcast application Follow us on Facebook by going to OTRwesterns.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel by going to OTRwesterns.com and send us an email podcast at OTRwesterns.com You can call and leave us a voicemail 707-986-8739 This episode is copyright under the attribution non-commercial share like copyright

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