- [Narrator] Produced in Athens at the Ohio University Telecommunications Center.

(upbeat bluegrass music) - [Announcer] From Athens, Ohio, "Hocking Valley Bluegrass" presents the Falls City Ramblers.

(audience cheers and applauds) - We're gonna get Jim to sing a Jimmy Martin song for you called "Skip, Hop, and Wobble."

("Skip, Hop, and Wobble") (bright bluegrass music) ♪ When summer comes gonna take a vacation ♪ ♪ I'm going to a different part of this nation ♪ ♪ My old car is getting to look so old ♪ ♪ Well I'm gonna feel just about the same ♪ ♪ Till I pull into my daddy's lane ♪ ♪ But I'm gonna let her skip, hop, and wobble ♪ ♪ Right on Rambling Road ♪ (banjo plucking) ♪ We'll get into the Tennessee hills ♪ ♪ And hear the humming of the old sawmills ♪ ♪ Out of the mountain the boys'll be hauling coal ♪ ♪ Well they ain't never worried about the breaks ♪ ♪ 'Cause they all got just what it takes ♪ ♪ They just let 'em skip, hop, and wobble ♪ ♪ Right on Rambling Road ♪ (mandolin plucking) (fiddle chording) ♪ Well riding all along hear a train whistle blowing ♪ ♪ And all around I see crops a-growing ♪ ♪ I'm a-goin' home to my hometown I miss so ♪ ♪ They'll say I'm back and never leaving ♪ ♪ I wanna be happy and never grieving ♪ ♪ Well I'm gonna let her skip, hop, and wobble ♪ ♪ Right on Rambling Road ♪ (fiddle soloing) ♪ When summer comes gonna take a vacation ♪ ♪ I'm going to a different part of this nation ♪ ♪ My old car's getting to look so old ♪ ♪ Well I'm gonna feel just about the same ♪ ♪ Till I pull into my daddy's lane ♪ ♪ Well, I'm gonna let her skip, hop, and wobble ♪ ♪ Right on Rambling Road ♪ ♪ Yes I'm gonna let her skip, hop, and wobble ♪ ♪ Right on Rambling Road ♪ (audience applauds and cheers) - Thank you.

Jim and I'd like to sing a duet for you now called "The Happy Sunny Side of Life."

(cheerful bluegrass music) ♪ There's a sunny side where no ills betide ♪ ♪ On the road that we must go ♪ ♪ There are pleasant dales, fertile hills and vales ♪ ♪ Where sweet flowers ever grow ♪ ♪ On the happy, sunny, pretty rolling dales ♪ ♪ Where the sweetest joy and gladness ever there prevails ♪ ♪ Where the sunshine lingers on the hill ♪ ♪ On the happy sunny side of life ♪ (fiddle soloing) ♪ There are shady dells where no gladness dwells ♪ ♪ And the clouds obstruct the view ♪ ♪ But a brighter way like the light of day ♪ ♪ Is awaiting now for you ♪ ♪ On the happy, sunny, pretty rolling dales ♪ ♪ Where the sweetest joy and gladness ever there prevails ♪ ♪ Where the sunshine lingers on the hill ♪ ♪ On the happy, sunny side of life ♪ (banjo soloing) ♪ Let us sing our song as we go along ♪ ♪ Let us banish cares and strife ♪ ♪ So the world might know as we onward go ♪ ♪ There's a sunny side of life ♪ ♪ On the happy, sunny, pretty rolling dales ♪ ♪ Where the sweetest joy and gladness ever there prevails ♪ ♪ Where the sunshine lingers on the hill ♪ ♪ On the happy sunny side of life ♪ (mandolin soloing) ♪ Let us sing our song as we go along ♪ ♪ Let us banish cares and strife ♪ ♪ So the world might know as we onward go ♪ ♪ There's a sunny side of life ♪ ♪ On the happy, sunny, pretty rolling dales ♪ ♪ Where the sweetest joy and gladness ever there prevails ♪ ♪ Where the sunshine lingers on the hill ♪ ♪ On the happy, sunny side of life ♪ (audience cheers and applauds) - Thank you.

While these boys are changing keys, I'll tell you who we are.

We are the Falls City Ramblers from Louisville, Kentucky.

Helping us out on the guitar tonight from right here, in Athens, Ohio, is Rusty Smith.

(audience cheers and applauds) Back here holding the bottom end down, (banjo plucks fanfare) from Lexington, Virginia, Mr. Al Firth.

(audience applauding) (fiddle bows fanfare) Holding the five string banjo, we'll get him to pick up a guitar in a little while, show you what he can do on that, he sings lead and tenor and writes songs, Mr. Jim Webb, from Washington, DC.

(audience cheers and applauds) Standing over here, sawing it out on the fiddle, from Rochester, New York, Steve Siliato.

(audience applauding) I'm Memphis Beck, and we are the Falls City Ramblers.

(audience cheering and whistling) Jimmy, there's a rabbit in a log.

- I ain't got no dog, buddy.

("Rabbit in a Log") (uptempo bluegrass music) ♪ There's a rabbit in a log and I ain't got my dog ♪ ♪ How will I get him, I know ♪ ♪ I'll get me a briar and I'll twist it in his hair ♪ ♪ That's the way I'll get him I know ♪ ♪ I know, I know, I know, I surely know ♪ ♪ That's the way I'll get him I know ♪ ♪ I'll get me a briar and I'll twist it in his hair ♪ ♪ That's the way I'll get him I know ♪ (fiddle soloing) ♪ I'm going down to the track with a chicken on my back ♪ ♪ Soles of my shoes are nearly gone ♪ ♪ Just a little ways ahead there's an old farmer's shed ♪ ♪ That's where I'll rest my weary bones ♪ ♪ Weary bones, weary bones ♪ ♪ Weary bones, your lazy bones ♪ ♪ That's where I'll rest my weary bones ♪ ♪ Just a little ways ahead there's an old farmer's shed ♪ ♪ That's where I'll rest my weary bones ♪ (mandolin soloing) ♪ I'll catch that old hare and I'll cook him up right ♪ ♪ Cook him in his juices good and brown ♪ ♪ Have a feast here tonight while the moon's shining bright ♪ ♪ Find myself a place to lie down ♪ ♪ To lie down, to lie down ♪ ♪ To lie down, to lie down ♪ ♪ Find myself a place to lie down ♪ ♪ Have a feast here tonight while the moon's shining bright ♪ ♪ Find myself a place to lie down ♪ (banjo plucking) ♪ There's a rabbit in a log and I ain't got my dog ♪ ♪ How will I get him, I know ♪ ♪ I'll get me a briar and I'll twist it in his hair ♪ ♪ That's the way I'll get him I know ♪ ♪ I know, I know, I know, I surely know ♪ ♪ That's the way I'll get him I know ♪ ♪ I'll get me a briar and I'll twist it in his hair ♪ ♪ That's the way I'll get him I know ♪ (audience cheers and applauds) We'd like to get Jim to pick up his guitar, and we'd like to do blues for you now, (audience cheers and applauds) blues being the... Blue is the first word in bluegrass.

You remember that?

We're gonna do a song that Memphis Minnie recorded, called "In My Girlish Days."

- [Audience Members] Whoo!

(instruments softly strumming) ♪ Late out at night ♪ ♪ Trying to play my hand ♪ ♪ Through my window ♪ ♪ Out steps a man ♪ (fiddle filling) ♪ I didn't know no better ♪ ♪ Oh no ♪ ♪ In my girlish days ♪ (fiddle notes falling) ♪ Mama cried, Papa did, too ♪ ♪ Said look here, daughter ♪ ♪ What a shame on you ♪ ♪ I didn't know no better ♪ ♪ Oh no ♪ ♪ In my girlish days ♪ (fiddle soloing with double stops) ♪ I hit the highway, caught me a truck ♪ ♪ Nineteen and seventeen ♪ ♪ The going was rough ♪ ♪ But I didn't know no better ♪ ♪ Oh no ♪ ♪ In my girlish days ♪ ♪ Mama cried, Papa did, too ♪ ♪ Said look here, daughter ♪ ♪ What a shame on you ♪ ♪ But I didn't know no better ♪ ♪ Oh no ♪ ♪ In my girlish days ♪ Pick it on your guitar.

(bluesy guitar solo music) ♪ I hit the highway ♪ ♪ Didn't have a dime ♪ ♪ Trying to run away from ♪ ♪ That lonesome home of mine ♪ ♪ But I didn't know no better ♪ ♪ Oh no ♪ ♪ In my girlish days ♪ ♪ Mama cried, Papa did, too ♪ ♪ Said look here, daughter ♪ ♪ What a shame on you ♪ ♪ But I didn't know no better ♪ ♪ Oh no ♪ ♪ In my girlish days ♪ (fiddle trilling) (fiddle double stopping) - Whoo!

(audience cheers and applauds) ♪ Mama cried, Papa did, too ♪ ♪ Said look here, daughter ♪ ♪ Now, what a shame on you ♪ ♪ But I didn't know no better ♪ ♪ Oh no ♪ ♪ In my girlish days ♪ ♪ All my friends ♪ ♪ Is not surprised ♪ ♪ I had to travel ♪ ♪ Before I got wise ♪ ♪ I found out better ♪ ♪ And I still got ♪ ♪ My girlish ways ♪ (audience applauds and cheers) Thank you.

We'd like to change over from the blues and do a little western swing for ya out of Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys.

Ah!

"San Antonio Rose."

(audience cheers and applauds) (bright western swing music) (fiddle soloing) (guitar chording) - [Man] Oh, "San Antonio Rose."

♪ Deep within my heart lies a melody ♪ ♪ A song of old San Antone ♪ ♪ Where in dreams I live with a memory ♪ ♪ Beneath the stars, all alone ♪ ♪ It was there I found, beside the Alamo ♪ ♪ Enchantments strange as the blue up above ♪ ♪ A moonlit path, that only she would know ♪ ♪ Still hears my broken song of love ♪ ♪ Moon in all your splendor, known only in my heart ♪ ♪ Call back my Rose, Rose of San Antone ♪ ♪ Lips so sweet and tender, like petals falling apart ♪ ♪ Speak once again of my love, my own ♪ ♪ Broken dreams, empty words I hear ♪ ♪ Still live in my heart all alone ♪ ♪ Where in dreams I live with the memory ♪ ♪ Of Rose, my Rose of San Antone ♪ (fiddle soloing playfully) (guitar soloing brightly) (fiddle soloing playfully) ♪ Deep within my heart lies a melody ♪ ♪ A song of old San Antone ♪ ♪ Where in dreams I live with a memory ♪ ♪ Beneath the stars, all alone ♪ ♪ It was there I found, beside the Alamo ♪ ♪ Enchantments strange as the blue up above ♪ ♪ A moonlit path, that only she would know ♪ ♪ Still hears my broken song of love ♪ ♪ Moon in all your splendor, known only in my heart ♪ ♪ Call back my Rose, Rose of San Antone ♪ ♪ Lips so sweet and tender, like petals falling apart ♪ ♪ Speak once again of my love, my own ♪ ♪ Broken dreams, empty words I hear ♪ ♪ Still live in my heart all alone ♪ ♪ Where in dreams I live with the memory ♪ ♪ And Rose, my Rose of San Antone ♪ (audience cheers and applauds) Thank you.

We're gonna do a gospel tune for you called "Are You Washed in the Blood of the Lamb?"

(rousing gospel bluegrass music) ♪ Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power ♪ ♪ Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb ♪ ♪ Are you fully trusting in His grace this hour ♪ ♪ Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb ♪ ♪ Are you washed in the blood ♪ ♪ In the soul-cleansing blood of the Lamb ♪ ♪ Are your garments spotless, are they white as snow ♪ ♪ Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb ♪ (fiddle soloing) ♪ Are you daily walking by your Savior's side ♪ ♪ Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb ♪ ♪ Do you rest each moment in the crucified ♪ ♪ Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb ♪ ♪ Are you washed in the blood ♪ ♪ In the soul-cleansing blood of the Lamb ♪ ♪ Are your garments spotless, are they white as snow ♪ ♪ Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb ♪ ♪ Lay aside those garments that are stained with sin ♪ ♪ Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb ♪ ♪ There's a fountain flowin' for the soul unclean ♪ ♪ Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb ♪ ♪ Are you washed in the blood ♪ ♪ In the soul-cleansing blood of the Lamb ♪ ♪ Are your garments spotless, are they white as snow ♪ ♪ Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb ♪ (banjo soloing) ♪ Are you washed in the blood ♪ ♪ In the soul-cleansing blood of the Lamb ♪ ♪ Are your garments spotless- ♪ - [Narrator] "Hocking Valley Bluegrass" is produced in part through a grant from the Ohio Educational Television Network Commission.

♪ In the blood of the Lamb ♪ (audience cheers and applauds)