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The great rockabilly guitarist Carl Perkins gives viewers a personal look at his life and career on this music video. GO | dG1fSzVKTFNVSmZ0M0k
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00:00 [MUSIC]
00:10 [MUSIC]
00:20 [MUSIC]
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00:40 [MUSIC]
00:50 >> Can you pick me?
00:55 >> Yeah, I will.
00:56 >> Get down now.
00:57 [MUSIC]
01:07 >> I hear you.
01:08 [MUSIC]
01:35 >> Give me a little bit of picking now.
01:36 [MUSIC]
01:46 >> Ready to burn my house, burn my car,
01:57 plant my liver from an old fruit jar.
02:00 [MUSIC]
02:11 >> Well, you can do the man to lay off my mother's sweet.
02:16 [MUSIC]
02:24 >> Let me your coat, it's time to go home.
02:28 I gotta confess, my hair is a mess.
02:32 [MUSIC]
02:34 >> Your daddy will shout.
02:36 >> Mm-hm.
02:37 >> Mama will shout, unless they call me in.
02:41 No way will it happen.
02:45 Well, kissing you was fun, honey, but thanks for the day.
02:50 [LAUGH]
02:51 Time has come to run, honey, but sugar bug is getting late.
02:56 >> Late, late.
02:57 >> Late to life.
02:59 >> Late.
03:00 >> Straighten out your tie.
03:01 >> Baby, you're calm.
03:04 >> I gotta go home.
03:07 [MUSIC]
03:13 >> Well, let me take you to the movie man so I can hold your hand.
03:19 Oh, it ain't that I don't like your house, it's just that dog gone mad.
03:24 That double barrel behind the door, it waits for car and dog.
03:29 Climb up on old Becky's back and it's right up in the show.
03:35 >> Now, who's Becky?
03:36 >> Becky.
03:37 >> True love, your love.
03:38 >> What key do you do that in?
03:39 >> True love, your love.
03:42 True love, baby, that's what you give to me.
03:46 >> You're kidding me, now, boy.
03:48 >> You give me true love, I give you your love.
03:52 True love, your love.
03:54 True love, baby, that's what you give to me.
03:59 Yeah, God made the world and I made it around.
04:04 Got a baby and I'm glad I found her.
04:07 Her love was the meat for me.
04:10 And my baby, she's far away, but she gives me true love.
04:14 >> Your love.
04:15 >> Your true love.
04:17 >> Your love.
04:18 >> Your true love, baby, that's what you give to me.
04:23 [ Music ]
04:28 >> Yeah, we hear stuff like that.
04:30 >> Well, it's one for the money, two for the show.
04:34 Three to get ready, now, go, cat, go, don't you.
04:39 Step on my lips, let me hit it, shoot, shoot.
04:42 Hey, hey, you can do anything.
04:44 I'll let it all out for my friends.
04:46 Shoot, burn my house, burn my house.
04:48 You can burn my house, steal my car.
04:51 Drink my liquor from a goat fruit jar.
04:54 Do anything that you want to do.
04:57 I'll let it all out for the show.
05:00 >> You ain't got a mother, David.
05:02 >> Step on my blues, shoot.
05:03 >> You got your white sneakers on.
05:05 You can do anything, let it all out for my friends.
05:08 [ Music ]
05:12 >> Yeah.
05:14 >> We could go on for hours, man.
05:18 We could go on for hours.
05:19 Swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home.
05:27 Swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home.
05:34 Well, if you get there before I do, coming for to carry me home.
05:42 Tell all my friends, old Carl's coming too.
05:46 Coming for to carry me home.
05:49 Swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home.
05:56 Swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home.
06:04 Yeah, they're coming for to carry me home.
06:22 >> Yeah.
06:24 >> Paul, you're a wonderful man.
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