Vince Gill: Tiny Desk Concert

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She was standing at the front door when I came home last night.

Good book here in her left hand and a rolling pin in her right.

She said, "You come home for the last time with a whiskey on your

breath.

You don't listen to my preaching, boy.

I'm going to have to beat you half to death."

Give me just one more last chance before you say we're through.

I know I drive you crazy, baby.

It's the best that I can do.

We're just some good old >> >> boys >> >> making noise.

We ain't running around on Give me just one more last chance before you

say we're through.

First, she hit my glasses cuz she knows that I can't see.

She said, "You ain't going nowhere, boy,

till you spend a little time with me."

When the boys called from the honky-tonk,

there's a party going on down here.

Well, she might have took my car keys,

but she forgot about my old John Deere.

Give me just one more last chance before you say we're through.

I know I drive you crazy, baby.

It's the best that I can do.

We're just some good old boys making noise.

We ain't running around on you.

Give it just one more last chance before you say we're through.

>> >> Give it just one more last chance before you say we're through.

I know I drive you crazy, baby.

It's the best that I can do.

We're just some good old boys who make noise.

We running around on you.

Give it just one more last chance before you say we're through.

Give it just one more last chance before you say we're through.

Oh, yeah.

One more last chance.

It's all I need.

>> >> Thank you very much.

Very kind.

Yep.

Whenever you're ready, boys.

It's a song I wrote about my wife, Amy Grant's smile,

first time I ever saw her.

>> >> Face of an angel pretty eyes that shine.

I lie awake at night >> >> wishing you were mine.

>> >> I'm standing here holding the biggest heartache in town.

>> >> Whenever you come oh,

I get weak in the knees and I lose my breath.

Oh, I try to speak, but words won't come.

I'm so scared to death.

When you smile that smile the world turns >> >> Whenever you come >>

>> I feel so helpless I feel just like a kid.

What is it about you that makes me keep my feelings hid?

>> >> I wish I could tell you but the words can't be felt.

Whenever you come >> >> oh, I get weak the knees and I lose my breath.

Oh, I try to speak, the words won't come.

I'm so scared to death.

When you smile that smile, the world turns >> >> upside down.

Whenever you come around.

>> >> Oh, I get weak in the knees and I lose my breath.

>> >> Oh, I try to speak, the words won't come.

I'm so scared to death.

When you smile that smile, >> >> the world turns upside down.

Whenever you come around.

>> >> When you smile that smile, the world turns upside down.

Whenever you come around.

Whenever you come around.

>> >> Oh, thank you.

>> >> Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

What fun.

I think it's important to hear new songs once in a

while and I never stop writing them.

So, we're going to do a couple new songs for you

that you hadn't heard yet.

>> >> Prisoners and paupers outlaws and sharecroppers all made their way >> >> to this town.

Singing about hard times Jesus and coal mines turned my whole world upside down.

From rags to riches some tough sons of at the feet of my heroes

I learned.

They ran wide open could never be broken

and I'll cross the same bridges they burned.

>> >> I just wanted a seat at the table.

Maybe cause >> >> of a path of my own.

Sing all my sad songs by heart

and till my heroes are calling me home.

>> >> Beer joints and Bibles, old tent revivals, that's where the music comes from.

With the sons and the daughters of our mothers

and fathers who gave us the courage to run.

I just wanted >> >> to sit at the table.

Maybe cause >> >> of a path of my own.

Sing all my sad songs by heart

and till my heroes are calling me home.

>> >> Sing all my sad songs by heart and till heroes are calling me home.

>> >> Thank you so much.

Thank you very much.

>> >> Uh this next song was inspired by me seeing Arlington, the Arlington Cemetery,

for the first time many years ago.

>> >> We sent our youngest off to war, not sure what he was fighting for.

And one night they showed up at our door with a purple heart

and nothing more.

We're broken like we've never been.

Ain't no medal going to bring him back again.

What saddens me is no one wins.

Pride's the deadliest of sins.

I don't think I'll ever understand how unkind we treat our fellow man.

We loved that boy till the bitter end.

We fly that flag to remember him.

>> >> I don't think I'll ever understand >> >> how unkind we treat our fellow man.

We loved that boy till the bitter end.

We fly that flag to remember him.

It's not my way to criticize,

but I've seen the tears in a mama's eyes.

>> >> Well, life ain't fair, I realize, what you sacrifice when a soldier dies.

Well, life ain't fair, I realize, what you sacrifice when a soldier dies.

>> >> Thank you very much.

>> >> Thank you.

Let me do a little tuning.

And once again, a really heartfelt thank you for getting to come here

and sing some songs for It's You got a great show.

You're really lucky to have it and should be proud.

We're proud to be here.

>> >> This song came from losing my brother 33 years ago.

>> >> I know your life on earth was troubled.

And only you could know the pain.

You weren't afraid to face the devil.

You were no stranger to toil.

>> >> Oh, as >> >> I owned that mountain, I sung your >> >> worth >> >> on earth is done.

Go to >> >> him from Shilo.

>> >> The father of the land and the son.

>> >> Oh, how we cried the day you left us.

Gathered round your grave to me.

Wish I could see the angels' faces

and hear >> >> their sweet voices on

that >> >> high holy mountain.

Sing your word >> >> till Earth is done.

Go to Him on the shouting of Father and Son.

Father and Son.

>> >> You're safely home in the arms of Jesus.

>> >> Eternal life my brother's found.

The day will come >> >> I know I'll see him in

that sacred place on

that holy ground.

On that high holy >> >> Amen.

>> >> Thanks for having us.

>> >> THANK YOU.

>> >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

HELLO BOYS.

>> >> THANK YOU EVERYBODY.

>> >> NOW WE GET the free cheese.

>> >> Time to get some free cheese.

Yes.

>> >> Thank you.

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