Intro to Song Three

Why I thank you all very much you're a beautiful audience and I know many

of you by name and I'm lookin' out in the audience and seein' some faces

Eh that I have seen on my country music tours around America and around

the world and the past twenty-one years and they really look good

I don't know how you folks are gettin' so old and I'm stayin' so young



Well here's a song I wrote about a young man

Who inspired me to be a guitar picker and a singer and a song writer

And without this young man's help I wouldn't be here today

And it would be a crime if I didn't mention him and sing a song about him

But this is a young man who was an original

He did his own kind of pickin' and own kind of singin'

And maybe he was an inspiration to me in that regard too

But he died when I was about seven or eight years old

And he was only nineteen or twenty years old at the time

I sometimes wish that he had lived

And you could have had an opportunity to hear him pick and sing

But since he can't be here today we'd like to do this song that I wrote about

him.. It's a tribute to him...