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All right people, the rest of the hard working |
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All star blues brothers are gonna be out here in a minute |
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Including my little brother Jake |
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But right now, I'd like to talk a little bit about thi |
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E you're hearing this is of course the green onions tune |
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It was a very big hit in the early sixties in this country |
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And of course it was composed and recorded in |
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Memphis, Tennessee, right here |
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E, United States Of America, you know people |
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I believe that this tune can be acquainted |
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With the great classical music around the world |
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Now you go to Germany, you've got your bach |
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Your Beethoven, your Brahms |
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Here in America you've got your Fred McDowell |
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Your Irving Berlin, your Glenn Miller and your Booker T & The M.G.'s |
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Ple, another example of the great contributions |
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In music and culture that this country |
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Has made around the world and as you look around |
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The world today, you see this country spurned |
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You see backs turned on this country |
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Well people, I'm gonna tell you something, |
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This continent, North America is the stronghold |
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This is where we're gonna make our stand in this decade, yeah |
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E, I've got something to say to the state department |
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I say take that archaic Monroe doctrine |
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And that Marshall plan that says we're supposed |
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To police force the world and throw 'em out, let's |
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Home for the next ten years people |
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Right here in North America |
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And enjoy the music and culture that is ours |
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Yeah, I got one more thing to say |
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I'm just talking about the music, people and what it does to me |
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And that is as you look around the world |
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You go to the Soviet Union or Great Britain |
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Or France, you name it any country, ev |
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Dy is doing flips and twists just to get into |
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A genuine pair of American blue jeans |
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And to hear this music and we got it all here in America |
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The land of the Chrysler 440 cubic inch engine |
