Hi, I'm Billy Blackwood.
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Through my years
in music ministry,
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I've had the privilege
of meeting many great people
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and making a lot
of great friends.
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Some have been
friends for literally decades
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and some have been more recent.
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It's my hope that
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you will enjoy getting a
glimpse behind the scenes
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and into the real
lives of my friends.
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Sit back and enjoy
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as you watch Billy
Blackwood and Friends.
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Without Him,
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I could do nothing
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Without Him,
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I'd surely fail
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Without Him,
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I would be drifting
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Like a ship
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Without a sail
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Without Him,
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I would be dying
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Without Him,
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I'd be enslaved
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Without Him,
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Life would be worthless
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But with Jesus,
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Thank God
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I'm saved
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Jesus,
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Oh Jesus
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Do you know Him today
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Please don't turn Him away
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Oh Jesus,
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My Jesus
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Without Him,
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How lost I would be
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Without Him,
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How lost I would be
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Hi, I'm Billy Blackwood.
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Welcome to Billy
Blackwood and Friends.
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My guest today is my
dear friend, Dave Clark.
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I'm so glad to
have Dave with us.
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We've known each
other since a long time.
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And Dave is a
prolific songwriter.
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You may not know Dave,
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but you know, a lot of his songs
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and we'll hope to acquaint
you with some of those today.
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Welcome Dave.
Great to have you here.
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Thank you. It's
good to be here, Billy.
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Good to see you
again. Good to see you.
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We have known each
other for a long, long time.
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We were what teenagers maybe?
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I was, you were
quite a bit older
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if I remember right.
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It's already started.
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This has been
going on for 42 years.
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It's good to see you in a tie.
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Thank you.
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I dressed up just for you.
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I appreciate that.
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You when I first knew
you was at a music school
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and you came down
from Jackson, Michigan...
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I did.
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To be a student at the school
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and thus our friendship started
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and there were so
many things that after,
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you know, time went
on, you were there so long.
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There were stories
that we probably can't tell
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today that...
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Some of them were true.
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I still get
blamed for a lot of stuff
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that I have no part of.
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A lot of mischievous
things we did as younger fellows
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that were a lot
of fun at the time.
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And we probably would scold kids
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if we saw them
doing those things today.
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But we've had a
lot of great memories.
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You were a kid who
wanted to be a writer.
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That's all I ever wanted
to do, but it was a call.
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And I see a lot of kids today
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and they're
getting out of college,
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some of them and
still really don't have
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that one passion that,
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that I'm so thankful
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God put my heart as a little kid
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and I've gotten to
do some neat things
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through the years,
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but a lot of
people will write a song
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as a means to want
to become an artist
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or want to be a
producer or wanna...
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And for me, it was the opposite.
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Everything God's
let me do along the way.
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It was also that for me,
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so that I could
be a better writer
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and I've gotten to
learn from some of the best.
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And it's pretty humbling.
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Such great songs
through the years.
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Share some of your
experiences, if you will,
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about maybe a song that
came that you didn't expect
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or a song that...
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I don't know,
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I don't want to put
words in your mouth, you...
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No, I love the songs,
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but you know,
maybe it's just me,
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but I can tell
sometimes I may not be right,
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but in my mind I am.
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When I'm driving down the road
and I'm listening to the radio,
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I can tell,
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I think if the
song that I'm hearing
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has a story behind it.
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And sometimes I listen to songs
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and I think, well,
that may have just been
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from a co-write
that was scheduled
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and the older I get,
I just try not to be,
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I don't want my
name on those songs.
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It's more than just
getting a song recorded
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and it's...
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If it doesn't move me
enough to block out a day
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or a time to work on it,
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I'm probably, you know,
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that's not gonna be the song
I want you to remember of mine.
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And there've been
real special moments
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along the way.
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And some of those
have been the songs
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that didn't make the charts,
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but it was, it was something
that there was a nugget,
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there was something
that moved me enough
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to sit down and chase that idea.
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Years ago, I had
an idea for a song
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called the first family tree.
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I was gonna write a song
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about the cross being the tree
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that brought us all together.
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And then I just gave
that, hook away on TV,
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I realized that.
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I wrote a verse
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and I couldn't figure
out where to go with it.
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And I had this verse I
felt really good about,
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and I don't write stuff down.
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I figure if it's good
enough. I remember it.
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It was 10 years went by.
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I had this verse,
nothing, nowhere to go with it.
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And I got called into a meeting
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with Phillips, Craig and Dean.
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Shawn Craig says,
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"Dave, I got
this idea for a song,
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but I don't know how
to get started with it."
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He said,
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"I picture this little boy.
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And he lived on an Island
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and there was a wall all
the way around the Island.
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And one morning the boy wakes up
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and he goes to
the edge of the water
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and the wall is gone.
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And he lifts up
his hands and he says,
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so this is how it
feels to be free."
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He said, "How
do you start that?"
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And I said,
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"What about this?
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There's a wall
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that has been standing
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since the day that Adam fell
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and sin is where it
started and sin is why it held,
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speaking as a
prisoner who was there,
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but lived to tell, I
remember how it felt.
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And Shawn just looked at me.
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It was the only time in my life
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somebody
thought I was brilliant.
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It was word for word lyric,
I started 10 years earlier.
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Wow. So God was...
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God planted something right.
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He was waiting
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until He had
something better for that idea.
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Dave, I know that
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there were years
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that you struggled
with a physical situation,
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that there didn't
seem to be any answer for.
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Would you mind sharing
just a little bit about that?
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I don't talk about it a lot
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and yet if you
listen to my songs,
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it's all there.
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I drew water from that
well, for many, many years.
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Nineteen years I
dealt with a throat disease
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that the top layer
tissues basically gone.
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And it would be
like a canker sore
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or something only
was the whole throat.
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And 19 years we'd
been to Mayo clinic,
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used to go over
a couple of years
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to Vanderbilt,
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I've been to all
of the big hospitals.
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And basically
they said, you know,
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it's not so rare that
we don't know what it is.
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It's just the level
of what you experience it
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is what makes it unique.
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And we heard about a
medicine in Guatemala.
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We heard about a
lady that went there
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and she had something similar.
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And she met with
this little doctor
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and took this medicine.
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And within two weeks
it was completely gone.
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And so I'm like, I
got to know what this is.
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I don't know how
to get to Guatemala.
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That's a long
drive, it sounds like.
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And that
Christmas, a friend of mine,
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a doctor in Ohio called and said
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in March, I've got to go on
a mission trip to Guatemala.
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The only doctor I really
knew is going to the only place
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that I really
needed a doctor to go.
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And so I told him my story
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and he said, well, that makes
that's the reason I'm going.
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And I didn't understand it.
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And he got down there
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and all I had was
the doctor's name.
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It's a big country.
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Two days later, he called
from Guatemala to say that
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he was stationed in
the same little village
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with the same little doctor.
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And he said, David,
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what he's
describing is not a bush drug,
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but it's combining some things
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that we
wouldn't have thought of.
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He said, it
might work in two weeks
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and we begin to count to 14.
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And we had a
prayer chain of people
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going around the country.
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And 13th day I
went on a writing trip
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and there was still no change.
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And by that time, you
know, people would quit asking
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and went to Houston, Texas.
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And on that 13th day,
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it was pretty
tough 'cause we had...
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We'd put all of
our faith into this.
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All right, God, you
get this, this and this.
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You got a miracle coming.
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On the 14th day, I woke up
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and the throat
tissue was reformed,
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no scars, no,
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it's been 26 years to the day.
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Never had
another drop of medicine,
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never dealt with
that issue ever again.
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God did it.
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He did it right,
did it completely.
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And it's still holding on
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and the writing trip we were on,
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I met a guy
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I'd never met
before on that trip.
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And we wrote a song
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that morning of the
day that God healed me
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called, will you be the one.
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I was at Al Denson's house.
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I love the stories.
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I love what God
does in the songs.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Dave, there's a song
that you've written it.
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I would love for
our viewers to hear.
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Your dad was an incredible guy
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and because I've known you
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and been friends
with you for so long.
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I had the
pleasure of knowing him.
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One of my great memories of you
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is just a couple of years ago
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at one of our concerts,
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Blackwood Brothers concert
in Clarksville, Tennessee,
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and you and your dad
came up to the concert.
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He was just...
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He was the real deal.
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He really was.
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You know, loved,
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loved the Lord, loved his family
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was so proud of you
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just was
absolutely beside himself
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at your success
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in what God had done
in your life has done.
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And fortunately
for me, just in my,
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I mean, it's not about me,
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but for me it was fortunate
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that I happened
not to be on the road
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when your dad passed away.
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And I had the wonderful
honor of being at his funeral.
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And I know you have a
story and a song about him
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and his old guitar
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that I would love for
you to share if you will?
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He was all the
things that you said
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and pretty unique
relationship that we have
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because they were
young when they got married.
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And I was the only boy.
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He and I never had one
crossword our entire life.
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And I know how unique that is.
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And I've also experienced
that with my son and...
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When you talk, even
before this started today,
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about a new normal
of getting used to life
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without your hero.
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And he...
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Mom would call
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after dad passed away
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and she'd say,
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Hey, we come get his
clothes and we'd take them,
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just give them to somebody.
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And then the
next week it would be,
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hey, come get his tools.
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And if we know
anybody that can use them,
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and about a month
after we lost dad,
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she called and she said,
will you come get his guitars?
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He wanted you to have them.
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I wasn't ready for it.
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I didn't want
anybody else to have them,
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but I wasn't ready for them.
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And you know,
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Gibson and I brought it today.
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And the song you ask
about, I've only done it twice.
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Probably will never
do it again after today,
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but would love to
share that with you.
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Great.
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Listen as my dear
buddy, Dave Clark sings for you
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a very special
song, This Old Guitar.
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This old sole guitar
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Back in 1953
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He bought it used
When he was only 17
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He didn't have much
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But the good news
was $25 was just enough
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So he took it home
In the cardboard case
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No one thought he would
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But he learned to play
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This old guitar
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This old guitar
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Can you imagine What he saw
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Down through the years
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From where had
leaned Against the wall
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He lived life well,
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But he never
stopped Raising his family
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And working three jobs
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But even then,
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He still found a way
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When I was only twelve
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He taught me to play
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This old guitar
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He was proud to be my father
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And I was proud to be his kid
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He'd tell me I
look more like him
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The older that I get
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He built the house we lived in
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He drove the family car
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And he taught his
children How to sing
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With this old guitar
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This old guitar
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On the night I got the call
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I saw it standing by
his chair Against the wall
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I said goodbye,
There were no regrets
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Will have forever
When I see him next
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But even then,
Even though he's gone
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I'm gonna honor him
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With a few more songs
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This old guitar
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Every now and then
When I just can't sleep
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I play a song that he taught me
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If you listen close
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You can hear it ring
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Wildwood flower
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on black diamond strings
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In this old guitar
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A phenomenal song.
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What a great story
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to learn more about Dave
and his songs and his stories.
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You can find him on the
web at daveclarkwrites.com,
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daveclarkwrites.com.
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You told me about a new
song and as we close today,
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I mean, you're so great
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at telling the
stories behind things
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and how they happen.
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Would you share with our viewers
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about this new song?
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Sure.
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The only arena in the
world I'm confident in
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is talking to young writers.
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It's not that I
have the answers.
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It's just,
there's so many things
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I wish someone had told me
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when I was starting out,
that I wanna share with them.
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So I love to teach.
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And last October,
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right up the road here
in St. Charles, Missouri,
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I was teaching a class was
packed out full of writers.
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And the thing I was trying
to get across in that class was
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you gotta quit
writing the same song.
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I gotta quit
writing the same song.
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If it's not new
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and God's mercies
are new every day,
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I want the song
ideas to be new as well.
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And my wife years ago
heard me teach in the class.
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And she said, you
know, you'd be more effective
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if you use notes.
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Well, she's a teacher.
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I'm not a note reader or taker.
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And so, because of what she said
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in the year, since I
always have a laptop open,
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as if I'm looking at notes,
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that way
everybody wins a little bit.
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So I've got a laptop open.
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I'm just teaching away
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everything I can think of to say
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and the light's not going on.
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I can feel it, it's
not, they're not getting it.
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And it had to be a God thing.
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It dawned on me,
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there was a poem or a prayer
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that was credited
to Sir Francis Drake
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back in the 1600s
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called "Disturb us Lord."
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And it had lines in it like,
00:20:52.21\00:20:54.88
"Disturb us Lord, if we
fail to see the symptom,
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because we're sailed
too close to the shore"
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and all about living safe.
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And I had my laptop open.
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So I just Googled
it while I'm talking.
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And I start reading it
and God came into that room
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and they were
crying and I was crying.
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And then I realized,
hey, I'm sharing a great idea
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with a room full of writers,
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I need to get away from this.
00:21:18.54\00:21:20.48
So I called, I left
there and I called Tony Wood,
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an amazing songwriter.
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I called Tony.
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I said,
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"Hey, here's what
happened in this room.
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Go back and read that prayer
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and see if
there's anything in there
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that moves you
the way it did me."
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He called and said,
"This is incredible."
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So we started working on it.
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We wrote called Lee
Black in to write music.
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And we got a song
called Disturb us Lord.
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And it's our prayer.
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It's of all the
songs from the years.
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This is what I, if I
had to leave it with one.
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Dave, I love you.
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Appreciate your friendship.
00:21:54.11\00:21:55.54
Thank you, Billy.
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And just celebrate what
God has done through you.
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There are, we
won't know till we,
00:22:03.62\00:22:07.02
you know, get to heaven.
00:22:07.06\00:22:08.66
How many people are there
00:22:08.69\00:22:10.06
because a lyric
00:22:10.09\00:22:12.93
that came through
your pen went to paper
00:22:12.96\00:22:16.46
and changed somebody's heart.
00:22:16.50\00:22:19.03
And I know that I know
you well enough to know that
00:22:19.07\00:22:23.10
heart is what you're about.
00:22:23.14\00:22:25.11
And one of the
reasons I love you.
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And one of the reasons
I'm so thankful to have you
00:22:27.28\00:22:28.94
as a friend and to
have you here today.
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And I know, you
know, you may be watching
00:22:30.65\00:22:33.65
and I don't know if you
have a friend like Dave,
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I hope you do.
00:22:37.12\00:22:38.45
I hope you have
a group of people,
00:22:38.49\00:22:40.39
at least one
00:22:40.42\00:22:42.26
that you can
walk through life with
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and celebrate the Lord with.
00:22:44.93\00:22:47.03
But let me just share today.
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If you don't, there is someone,
00:22:50.13\00:22:53.37
the word says that
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He is a friend
00:22:54.77\00:22:56.10
who sticks
closer than a brother.
00:22:56.14\00:22:57.47
Jesus is the best
friend you'll ever have.
00:23:00.58\00:23:03.55
He's the most exciting
person you'll ever meet,
00:23:03.58\00:23:06.58
and He's the only
savior you'll ever need.
00:23:06.61\00:23:09.08
And I'm just here to tell you
00:23:09.12\00:23:10.45
nothing holds a
candle to Jesus Christ.
00:23:10.49\00:23:14.79
God bless you.
00:23:14.82\00:23:16.16
Thank you so much
for watching today.
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I'm sure He must
have been surprised
00:23:26.53\00:23:33.48
At where this Road had taken him
00:23:33.51\00:23:40.32
Cause never in a million lives
00:23:40.35\00:23:47.26
Would he have
dreamed Of Bethlehem
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And standing at the manger
00:23:55.33\00:23:59.80
He saw with his own eyes
00:23:59.83\00:24:04.47
The message from the angel
00:24:04.51\00:24:08.54
Come to life,
00:24:08.58\00:24:11.98
And Joseph said Why me,
00:24:12.01\00:24:16.95
I'm just a simple man of trade
00:24:16.99\00:24:22.26
Why Him,
00:24:22.29\00:24:24.66
with all the rulers In the world
00:24:24.69\00:24:31.63
Why here,
00:24:31.67\00:24:35.27
Inside this
stable Filled with hay
00:24:35.30\00:24:40.71
Why her,
00:24:40.74\00:24:42.91
She's just an ordinary girl
00:24:42.94\00:24:46.55
Now I'm not one to second guess
00:24:50.19\00:24:55.79
What angels have to say
00:24:55.82\00:25:00.96
But this is such a strange way
00:25:01.00\00:25:05.47
To save the world
00:25:05.50\00:25:07.64
To think Of how
it could have been
00:25:14.84\00:25:21.58
If Jesus had come As He deserved
00:25:21.62\00:25:28.52
There would have
been No Bethlehem
00:25:28.56\00:25:35.50
No lowly shepherds
00:25:35.53\00:25:38.30
At His birth
00:25:38.33\00:25:43.51
But Joseph knew the reason
00:25:43.54\00:25:47.71
Love had to reach so far
00:25:47.74\00:25:52.71
And as he held the Savior
00:25:52.75\00:25:56.79
In his arms
00:25:56.82\00:26:00.19
He must have thought Why me,
00:26:00.22\00:26:05.13
I'm just a simple man of trade
00:26:05.16\00:26:10.53
Why Him,
00:26:10.57\00:26:12.90
With all the rulers In the world
00:26:12.93\00:26:19.74
Why here,
00:26:19.77\00:26:23.55
Inside this
stable Filled with hay
00:26:23.58\00:26:28.95
Why her,
00:26:28.98\00:26:31.49
She's just an ordinary girl
00:26:31.52\00:26:34.66
And now I'm not
one To second guess
00:26:38.16\00:26:43.47
What angels have to say
00:26:43.50\00:26:49.17
But this is such a strange way
00:26:49.20\00:26:53.74
To save the world
00:26:53.78\00:26:58.98
And now I'm not
one To second guess
00:26:59.01\00:27:04.05
What angels have to say
00:27:04.09\00:27:06.79
This is such a strange way
00:27:10.39\00:27:15.23
Such a strange way
00:27:15.26\00:27:21.47
To save the world
00:27:21.50\00:27:24.34
This is such a strange way
00:27:30.88\00:27:35.45
To save the world
00:27:35.48\00:27:40.26