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- [Thomas] Because I danced down close to the floor,

just brushing the floor.

Float like a butterfly and sting like a bee.

- [Keith] Our festival, Maupinfest emphasizes old time music

and then buck dancing in honor of Mr. Thomas Maupin,

who is a national treasure.

- [Daniel] This dance is a dying art,

especially his particular brand of doing it.

- This is something that I grew up with.

To me, it's not about making noise,

it's about making music with your feet.

That's what I try to do. [upbeat music]

Well, it's in me to start with.

I'm one of 10 kids, five boys and five girls,

and I grew up four miles down the road here at Eagleville.

And on my dad's side was dancers, just about as far back

as we can remember.

And on my mom's side,

I never seen my mom dance any at all,

but her mom lived with us and she was a old lady

and she was crippled up really, maybe from,

she might have have cerebral palsy years and years ago,

you know, when she's young.

But she could create a little time and lick.

She'd be barefooted in the summertime,

then come on, radio, TV, whatever.

You'd hear them heels go to hit the floor.

You know, it wouldn't be that loud,

but she'd be standing up straight.

And this arm was crippled, she couldn't do anything with it,

but she'd be playing a tune.

I can hear it today.

Excuse me.

- I grew up about four, five miles down the road

out here in Eagleville.

And I dashed around all on the streets and everything.

It'd be some old people would come by

and say, hey son, help me with a little jig.

And most times that would be somebody that dance too.

So we would dance,

sort of dancing against each other while in music.

♪ Well, it is all the way down ♪

♪ All the way back in Tennessee ♪

♪ Way down ♪

♪ I love to star gaze ♪

- I think it's been here since we have been here

and Native Americans.

And no matter how high they jump in the air,

they'll be on the ground at the beat.

At the bottom of the beat,

they'd be right there

with toe, ball and heel.

That's three notes.

- I remember people asking,

does the music lead the dance

or does the dance lead the music?

Well, they're right there together.

In a way, I guess you could say the music leads the dance

because the dancer is trying to match every note

that the music is, or at least the ground rhythm.

- The music is telling my feet what to do

and I'm trying to dance the notes that he's playing

and that's what I've always tried to do is to dance

that tune that you playing.

Whether it's Salad Goodin

or whatever it is, I'm dancing them notes.

I'm part of that tune.

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- Every dancer has a different approach.

Some people put more notes in it versus others,

and he was always one of them that tried

to knock out every note in the tune.

And you'll have some that do just a shuffle.

But, you know, it's all just different ways of doing it

that people grew up.

You know, that's one way of saying it,

that the music leads,

but really they're right there together

because the musicians are,

if you've got really good musicians

and really good dancers, they're listening to each other

and playing off of what each other is doing.

- I like to get right beside of him

and we dancing together.

He's hitting his best licks

and I'm hitting my best licks.

We are playing off each other.

You know, and you get chills

that, you know, run through you, you know.

- [Daniel] He has been my best friend

since before I could walk, before I could talk.

He encouraged it any way he could.

He had recordings of bluegrass and country

and old time string band music

that he had all these cassettes of.

And I would stay over at his house at night

and listened to the albums and things that he had

when I was going to sleep.

And also he was dancing all the time.

- Daniel means the world to me.

We've been partners ever since he was born.

And he is a good boy. He's almost as smart as granddad.

He's extremely smart, extremely.

All the times he's been to college, he's made one B.

- Like I say, he's been about my best friend

and mentor since

as long as I can remember.

Like he said, we've kind of been partners

since I was born, you know.

Like I've kind of said before, he has been granddaddy

to just about everybody,

but he sure has to me, I know.

He's been my pal

and it's been a big part of my life.

Big part of my definition of who I am is that,

you know, Thomas' grandson, you know,

which that's not all I am,

but it's a doggone big part of who I am

and I'm proud of that part.

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He won the national championship at least six times

and won state championships

in Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky, Indiana, Georgia.

Since he had become recognized as a master of this art,

he's had the articles written about him

in magazines and been given awards

by different music associations.

Here's probably one of the biggest ones

as he got the National Endowment

for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship Award.

- Maupin has always viewed buck dance

as a personal interpretation of the music one hears,

and he continues to encourage young dancers

to find their own steps and rhythms.

Let's welcome Thomas Maupin.

[audience cheering and clapping]

[feet tapping]

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- Since I've had a stroke,

I can't switch over anything now like I did then.

At age 60 years old, you can't

or do anything that you used to do

and then add a stroke on top of that,

it makes it a little worse.

It means a lot to me.

So when I had a stroke, I couldn't even do this.

[hands clapping]

So his Shuffelo daughter

that I'd helped before

and then the little blonde girls you see all over TV.

- [Daniel] Yeah, Hillary Klug and Courtney Berry.

- Yeah, I helped them.

And so they came to the nursing home.

- Well, first of all,

when Thomas had his stroke, I remember you saying,

"If I can't dance, I'm gonna die."

- I really felt bad.

[hands clapping]

I couldn't do this, I couldn't do this.

I couldn't do anything.

- So we said, let's get you dancing.

- So they came and helped me get started back.

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Well, I've been doing it so long

and it was bred in me,

so I like to hear that.

I feel I can do it instead of sitting down but.

[hands clapping]

Anybody can clap their hands

but everybody can't do this.

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And you dance on both feet.

You don't dance on one foot

and change over and dance.

You dance on both feet at the same time.

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- Our festival, Maupinfest emphasizes old time music

and then buck dancing in honor of Mr. Thomas Maupin,

who is a national treasure, heritage fellow

for the National Endowments for the Arts.

- Bradley Hansen with the Tennessee Arts Commission

approached our band,

Uncle Shuffelo Music and His Haint Hall Hollow Hootenanny

and asked us if we would take part in

a festival to honor Thomas Maupin

and his craft of buck dancing and flatfoot dancing.

And so we talked about it

and we just decided we've got the place to do it.

We got plenty of space and so we took this on.

This property has been in my family since 1820s.

William and Dillie Litle purchased this couple of decades

after this became Bedford County,

broke off of Rutherford County and became a county.

And they had a home here.

Behind me, you can see their cabin.

This was the kitchen for their home.

Five generations have lived in that house

and it's just home to us.

So we decided to open up our home

and let people from all over the world come and hang out

in our backyard on one day in September.

[thunder rumbling]

- Good afternoon, everyone.

This is Mike Brennan here at the National Hurricane Center.

It's just after 5:30 PM Eastern time

on Thursday, September 26th.

Coming on with the latest

on very dangerous Hurricane Helene,

which is rapidly approaching the Florida Big Bend coastline.

Helene has strengthened today.

It's a powerful category three hurricane

maximum sustained winds of around 125 miles per hour.

- I think we've gotten maybe a remnants

of a hurricane coming through,

but we're pretty far in, so we'll be okay.

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- Yeah, just pull in right on this and park.

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- [Interviewer] How are you?

- I'm good.

- [Interviewer] Good, good.

- A little damp at the moment.

- Exactly. [upbeat music]

- Lord, we are thankful for your provision.

Lord, we're thankful for the rain,

but we would humbly ask for a little break here today

if you could give us the grace of a good day

and Lord, we'll be most thankful and grateful.

Lord, bless the efforts here.

Bless each person that's come out.

Bless each musician, each vendor, each dancer,

each spectator, Lord

and just give us a good day of good, clean fun.

In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

- [Host] Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Maupinfest 2024.

- Here we go. - Alright.

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- Yep!

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- Thank you. Thank you.

Can you hear it all right out there?

Can you see us all right?

I hate that. - I don't know

if they want to see us.

- I hate that for you right there. I hate it.

- Old time music carries on a lot of the traditions

that were brought over with the Scotch Irish

and some of the other immigrants.

It was a way for them to gather together as families

and feel like home somewhat

as they shared some of their songs they had before

and their dance.

This is the type of event that you can't find just anywhere.

Old time music is kind of a rarity.

In the world around Nashville, country music is huge,

bluegrass music is here, and old time is right here

but old time's what started it all.

It's the foundation for all of that music.

- You ready?

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- Thank you. Thank you.

See you later, y'all.

- It was a real honor, son.

- What we call old time string band music, it's a genre

that really came about with the Ralph Peer recordings

in Bristol, Tennessee in 1927.

He recorded several people.

He basically put out a big cattle call,

if you've got a song, come sing it.

And two musicians came out of that

that became really famous and sold a lot of records.

That's Jimmie Rogers and the Carter Family

and that's known as the big bang of country music.

That fits in the realm of old time music

♪ Summer rain, the clouds hang low ♪

♪ Everglades and oranges grow ♪

♪ My dear grandpa sang this song ♪

♪ Once he sang it all day long ♪

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♪ Climbing up the big oak tree ♪

♪ Hummingbirds and honeybees ♪

♪ Sleeping turtles on the log ♪

♪ Going hunting with my dog ♪

♪ Holy Liza, Liza Jane ♪

♪ Holy Liza, Liza Jane ♪

♪ Holy Liza, Liza Jane ♪

♪ Holy Liza, Liza Jane ♪

♪ Grandpa, grandpa was saying ♪

♪ Turtles who can hold me down ♪

♪ Bullfrogs singing in the pond ♪

♪ Alligators on my lawn ♪

♪ Holy Liza, Liza Jane ♪

♪ Holy Liza, Liza Jane ♪

♪ Holy Liza, Liza Jane ♪

♪ Holy Liza, Liza Jane ♪

♪ Can you hear the robin sing ♪

♪ Magnolias blooming in the spring ♪

♪ Fly away sweet dragonfly ♪

♪ Grandpa's resting in the sky ♪

♪ Holy Liza, Liza Jane ♪

♪ Holy Liza, Liza Jane ♪

♪ Holy Liza, Liza Jane ♪

♪ Holy Liza, Liza Jane ♪

♪ Fly away sweet dragonfly ♪

♪ Grandpa's resting in the sky ♪

♪ We'll meet again by and by ♪

♪ We'll meet again by and by ♪

- Miss Lela May Smith, y'all. [audience clapping]

- If we don't expose younger people to it

and other people don't play it, it will eventually die out

and it'll just be something you see

on old YouTube recordings.

But we want it to stay alive

and that's part of the mission.

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- That's one of the best things is that we work together

as a family to put on this event

and to play together as a band.

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I had really very little interest

and zero knowledge of what old time music was

when we started, but my children were interested in it.

Therefore, mama wanted to be part of it.

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And so I've learned to love it.

I appreciate it so much for the rich history of it.

- I call this the wash tub bass-jo.

It's a base banjo.

It uses an old floor com,

and a number two wash tub for a resonator.

The neck is a sawmill two by six

that was in the barn since the seventies

where my granddad had some timber cut.

It's a walnut two by six.

And then the fingerboard actually came out of the same one.

It's glued on, but it's right here.

These are just some cheap base tuners, electric base tuners

and it has weed whacker string,

but from the hardware store

and one piece of clothesline here.

So it plays like a double bass.

[strings strumming]

The lady at Tractor Supply

thinks I've got the world's shortest clothesline

so it's really good.

- This here is a harmonica megaphone.

It doubles the volume in the direction of play,

which is important for a harmonica

as it's a quiet instrument.

Now a fiddle might be 90 decibels,

but a harmonica is only 80

so you really do have to double it just to get in the mix,

especially for this old time music

where you don't have a microphone guaranteed.

And I've got this little warbler here

that cuts off the sound intermittently

and creates a nice effect.

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- Well, all old time music's in the public domain,

so you'll hear people do it without the fear

of copyright infringement.

And there are floating verses

that you'll hear different phrases that might appear

in a dozen songs that just get passed around

and sometimes I think that the singer might forget the words

and they'll just throw in the words

to another song and keep going.

♪ Stronger than Samson I declare ♪

♪ 'Til the soft skinned Delilah barbed his hair ♪

♪ Big Bad Bill don't fight anymore ♪

♪ No more fighting ♪

♪ Doing the dishes, mopping up that floor ♪

♪ Yes, dear ♪

♪ Well he used to go out drinking, looking for a fight ♪

♪ Now he gotta see that woman, every night ♪

♪ Big Bad Bill is sweet William now ♪

♪ Big Bad Bill is sweet William now ♪

♪ Married life done changed him somehow ♪

♪ He's the man the town used to fear ♪

♪ Now they all call him sweet Papa Willie dear ♪

♪ Stronger than Samson I declare ♪

♪ 'Til the brown skinned Delilah barbed his hair ♪

♪ Big Bad Bill don't fight anymore ♪

♪ No fighting ♪

♪ Doing the dishes, mopping up that floor ♪

♪ Well he used to go out drinking, looking for a fight ♪

♪ Now he gotta see that woman, every night ♪

♪ Big Bad Bill is sweet William now ♪

♪ Big Bad Bill is sweet William now ♪

♪ Big Bad Bill is sweet William now ♪

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- Old time music is historical.

There are no new old time songs

so it's very much a preservation of history.

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And we're trying to keep that alive

and we're trying to keep Mr. Maupin's buck dancing alive.

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- Everybody hear me all right?

♪ Last night, as I lay sleeping ♪

♪ I dreamed I held you in my arms ♪

♪ When I awoke, I was mistaken ♪

♪ As though I was sleeping through that part ♪

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- It is two treadmill handles that they're adjustable.

They're attached to the board

and it folds up to carry in the cart.

So I'm happy that he's got that

and he's getting some use out of it

and I just feel like if we can keep him dancing

as long as possible.

- The key to Thomas Maupin's style of dance is

to play that song with your feet.

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The other key thing is to keep your feet under you

and it helps with your balance,

but it also helps you keep

that timing and that playing that tune with your feet.

- And the one thing that stays

with me from what Thomas said is

when you apply yourself to learning the steps

and listening to the music, something happens in you,

an electricity that happens in you that just takes over.

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- And people think of music in terms of pitches,

but the more fundamental thing to me is rhythm.

Music is organized sound.

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What is it that tells you the order to put the notes in?

It is rhythm and meter

and things like that.

It's just timing.

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You can have people playing a C note

or a G note or whatever,

but you don't have a melody

until you use rhythm and timing

to organize those pitches.

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Timing is the most important part of it to me

and my timing is not always a hundred percent,

but I try to keep it between the ditches, you know?

- Yeah, he can. He knows how to keep it between the ditches.

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- So we have a sideline event going on, vintage baseball.

Vintage baseball, for those of you

that aren't familiar with it,

they dress in vintage clothing.

They play by the rules of 1864.

So some people, instead of watching all the contests,

they'll go watch the vintage baseball.

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- This is old time music, which was basically dance music.

It was what they played before they had recorded music.

Usually somebody would have a fiddle,

somebody might have a banjo and they would get together

and it was, they just played dance music.

It's an American music. We need to keep it alive.

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- One of the things that gets me about it is things

that are passed down from generation to generation

and this type of dance and music is part of history

and a lot

of the younger children don't know these histories.

- Hey, if anybody gets a chance to come down here,

they need to give it a try.

Yeah, and money well spent for sure.

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- And I just think it's the yearning for simpler times.

You know, we have three microphones on stage.

It's not a big production.

It's all very simple

and we're going to keep it that way if we can.

It's honestly very surprising to us

how many people have come out

and supported us with a hurricane.

You know, I mean, the weather is far from perfect.

It's one thing when you have a big audience

with perfect weather, 70 degrees,

but it's a whole separate thing when it's 60 degrees

and rainy and drizzling all day long.

So these are the real troopers.

They're the real MVPs. Really appreciate 'em.

- It's worth the rain.

- Okay, worth the weather. - Yeah, it's good.

It's worth the weather. Yeah, it's a fun time.

I like old timey stuff. I don't know.

I'm a big fan of history

and it's nice to see like cultural traditions preserved.

So yeah, it's fun to be a part of that and see it.

- Lots of young kids playing.

Did you see the little guy buck dancing?

He just like locked right in and started going.

I love that.

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- Y'all, if you can dance, you need to come sign up.

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This is the nationals, y'all. The nationals.

If you win this today, the overall,

you get to tell everybody

that you are the national old time buck dance champion.

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- The cool thing about buck dancing and flatfoot is that

when you're doing like a song,

like if you're dancing to a song,

flatfoot and buck dancing are very like rhythmic.

Like the steps are very like, you dance to the song

and you're like helping make the song.

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- It's like Mr. Thomas Maupin was saying,

it's all about dancing with the music

and staying in time with rhythm

and you're playing the song with your feet.

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- Just to see the joy in the children's faces,

it just means so much.

He loves teaching this to other kids and people.

And it's just like,

you can see his heart just about to burst.

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- I am a buck dancer

and this is one of the most perhaps fair contests

in the area for particularly buck dancing.

So I like to come to the buck dancing competition

where it's judged more for the style

that Mr. Thomas has kind of passed down.

Your feet are your instrument

and you yourself are a musician if you apply it.

I would like to kind of continue his lineage as just one.

I'm a middle Tennesseean, he's a middle Tennesseean.

We're good people and we have to continue that.

So he's a very good role model

in just how to be a decent individual.

- That's Angela Wood from Flat Creek, Tennessee.

- It means a lot to me

and I wanna pass it on.

My kind of dancing, I'm gonna pass it on.

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Daniel, what's the name of this?

- Staccato.

- Staccato, yeah. See this?

And they like this right here, it's a two piece deal

and these won't make as much noise.

You can hear 'em.

It'll be a quick sound just like that, you know.

Some you can hear it rattling after you pick 'em up,

you know, it rattle like this.

But this is the kind I like to use.

- He got the staccatos 'cause they rattled less,

but then he found these,

which rattle even less. - See this?

That's just a solid tap right here. It don't rattle.

See I like that quick and just that...

- [Interviewer] Just that hit, that single.

- Yeah, because I can hear that 'cause I'm listening.

I'm listening.

And this right here, these have been used a little bit.

- [Interviewer] Yeah, a little bit.

- I can hardly walk in the gravel with these

'cause they got pretty...

Well, but now.

- [Interviewer] How much mileage? How long is it?

- Hey, we've been a lot of places.

We've been a lot of places.

- [Interviewer] How often now do you have to change?

Is there any way of knowing

how often you have to change those out

or the whole shoe or just the taps?

- No, usually just tap

because these right here just wore out

'cause I danced down close to the floor,

or just brushing the floor.

This is a better grade of plywood right here.

And long time ago,

I had one that didn't look like this,

but I would carry it

and get people to sign it, you know, other dancers

to sign the board.

- [Daniel] He forgot to put a finish on it

and it was porous

and the signatures, they all just sunk into the wood.

- Went into the wood

'cause you lay 'em on the ground, it accumulate moisture.

Well, I wanted it dry

and see what would get it to sound better.

So I put several coats of finish on it.

That keeps it from dampness, from the ground going in it

and, well.

- [Interviewer] Well, how long a life,

how long a life do you get out of a board like that?

- As I can tell, I got three

or four sitting around the house

that got some pretty good scratches on 'em.

I made this handle right here working.

So I just changed handles

because they get beat up in here

'cause people come by and dance on them.

It has nails like this right here

and the man that cut the board,

cut your board up, you know.

And you see how badly shaped that type

and this is not tow up

because I think it's close to the floor

and it don't slip and slide

and beat and jump and carry on.

Everybody can jump, anybody can jump,

but it's nowhere in music that tells you to jump.

- [Interviewer] You just feel it when it's time to do it.

Is that it? - Well, 'cause I don't jump.

- [Interviewer] You don't jump. Okay.

- I changed that to a note

that takes more skill to hit.

Anybody can jump.

Even a rabbit can jump up and go running.

- This is a labor of love that was put out

for my dad, Thomas Maupin.

Our family is so appreciative of it

and I'm so appreciative along as they are,

with you people sitting out there in this drizzle.

♪ Keep my skillet good and greasy ♪

♪ All the time, time, time ♪

♪ Keep my skillet good and greasy all the time ♪

- My wife Emma Jean Williams plays the auto harp

and she can sing harmony with a frog.

She can harmonize, sing all the harmony parts.

The bass player Brian Derryberry is the father

of Conner Derryberry who plays the banjo

and the father of Austin Derryberry

who plays the fiddle and anything with the string.

He's married to my daughter, Courtney Williams Derryberry

who plays the guitar.

My oldest daughter

Megan Williams Gilliam plays the washboard.

Don't scoff at that.

I think she's the best washboard player in the world.

- All right, all right. Does anybody wanna dance tonight?

Come on up.

I teach you a simple square dance

even if you never danced before.

Even if you've never danced before, come on up,

and join hands in a big circle.

Everybody, come on down.

Come on over, any age, any ability.

I know you're getting a little chilly just sitting there.

Well, let's move all around.

You see 'em dancing up here,

it makes you probably wanna move, tap your toes.

Circle to the left and around you go

in the other way back and you don't be slow.

Circle to the right and here we go.

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♪ Circle in a little bit of a ring ♪

♪ The other way back around that thing ♪

♪ Circle to the right and here we go ♪

♪ Right hand across, say how do you do ♪

♪ Back by the left ♪

♪ Say fine, thank you ♪

♪ Fine, thank you ♪

♪ I'll swing yours, you swing mine ♪

♪ Swing your corner any old time ♪

♪ Swing your partner there just fine ♪

♪ Swing 'em up, swing 'em down ♪

♪ And you'll wave it upside down ♪

♪ Circle to the left, the same old four ♪

♪ Move it on over to the couple next door, find two more ♪

♪ Circle to the left, you circle south ♪

♪ Put a little sunshine on your mouth ♪

♪ The other way back, circle right ♪

♪ Right hand across, say how do you do ♪

♪ Back by the left and fine, thank you ♪

♪ I'll swing yours and you swing mine ♪

♪ Yours is fine, give me back mine ♪

♪ And I'll swing mine any old time ♪

♪ Yours a nickel and mine's a dime ♪

- Folks, if you've stuck around this far,

you're in for a real treat.

The Ozark Highballers are a three to four piece string band

from Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Give 'em a good old Tennessee welcome, Ozark Highballers.

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- Alright, Aviva is gonna sing us a song next.

What are you gonna sing, Aviva?

- I'm gonna sing a Picture on the Wall.

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♪ There's an old and faded picture on the wall ♪

♪ That has been hanging there since long ago ♪

♪ It's a picture of my mother and I know that I love her ♪

♪ Old and faded picture on the wall ♪

♪ On the wall, on the wall ♪

♪ On the wall, on the wall ♪

♪ How I love that dear old picture on the wall ♪

♪ Time is swiftly passing by ♪

♪ And I bow my head and cry ♪

♪ For I know I'll meet my mother after all ♪

♪ Yes, the family has all have scattered, up and gone ♪

♪ And I have a little family of my own ♪

♪ And I know I love them well, more than any tongue can tell ♪

♪ But I'll hold that dear old picture on the wall ♪

♪ On the wall, on the wall ♪

♪ On the wall, on the wall ♪

♪ How I love that dear old picture on the wall ♪

♪ Time is swiftly passing by and I bow my head and cry ♪

♪ For I know I'll meet my mother after all ♪

♪ Since I lost that dear old mother years ago ♪

♪ There is none to which with troubles I can go ♪

♪ As my guitar plays its chords ♪

♪ I am praying to you, dear Lord ♪

♪ Let me hold that dear old picture on the wall ♪

♪ On the wall, on the wall ♪

♪ On the wall, on the wall ♪

♪ How I love that dear old picture on the wall ♪

♪ Time is swiftly passing by and I bow my head and cry ♪

♪ For I know I'll meet my mother after all ♪

- Okay, thanks so much everybody.

Thanks Trenton for playing with us.

Thanks so much

for this bringing us this wonderful festival.

Drive safe.

- And what's happening

at Maupinfest now, really special to me.

Who would ever thought a little old country boy

would have a festival?

- Thank you for your support on a less than stellar day.

And remember, next year may be absolutely beautiful,

but thank you, I do appreciate it.

Your passion has been fantastic.

Thank you and God bless you.

If you need a place to worship tomorrow,

come to Rover Baptist Church.

Preaching is at 11:00, Sunday school's at 10:00.

Love to have you. God bless you.

See you next time.

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- If you listen closer to the dancer

that's got his feet close to the floor,

even though it doesn't look like he's doing

as much as the one that's kicking their leg in a circle.

If you close your eyes

and listen with your ears close, you can hear

that melody being matched and things like that.

I have heard him many a-times still be dancing

when the music stops

and making his own tune.

- I'm tickled to death

about somebody doing this, you know.

That way, if I didn't dance

and do that, I'd be gone.

They would never know I was here.

Tomorrow, if I pass away, they'll know I've been here

and that's what I'm after.

That means that means a lot.

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