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OK, I'm keeping an
eye on the time.

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They call the times yet?

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Somebody has.

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I'm going on too long.

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Is that-- does that
mean I've read too long?

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I mean, I can stop.

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Go ahead.

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OK.

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All right, well this is
a poem about somebody

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who is looking in
the family Bible.

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I don't know if any
of your families

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used to have family
bibles, but they

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used to write the
births, and the deaths,

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and the marriages inside the
flyleaf of the family Bible.

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And they kept pictures
of the family in there,

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and this guy is looking through
the family Bible one day,

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and he finds this list of names.

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And he realizes that
it's the list of names

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that his mother wrote down
when she was pregnant with him.

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And so he looks at
this list of names

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and he says, well, instead
of the name I have,

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I could have been named
these other people,

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these other names.

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A different name creates a
different person, if you will.

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And so this is a poem about
that, when I wrote this poem,

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I tried to write it
normally, in a normal manner,

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but it just would not do it.

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[LAUGHTER]

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And so I wrote it this way.

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It's called "My
Mother's List of Names."

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"My mother's list of names
today I take it in my hand

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and I read the places she
underlined William and Ann.

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The others are my
brothers and sisters,

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I know I'm going to see
them when I'm fully grown.

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Yes, they're waiting for
me to join em and I will.

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Just over the top of
some great big hill

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lies a green valley where their
shouts of joy are fellowing,

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save all but one can be
seen there next a kin.

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And a link is missing from
their ringarosey dance.

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Think of the names
she wrote down,

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not just by chance, when she
learned that a baby inside her

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was growing small.

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She placed that list inside the
family Bible, then I was born

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and she died soon
after, and I grew up

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sinful of questions
I could not ask her.

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I did not know that she
had left me the answer,

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pressed between the holy
pages with the happy laughter

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of John, Rudolph, Frank, Arthur,
Paul, Pauline, Martha, Ann,

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Doris, Susan, you all.

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I did not even know
you were alive,

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till I read the Bible today
for the first time in my life,

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and I found this list of names
that might have been my own.

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You other me's--

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You other me's on the
bright side of my moon,

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Mother and Daddy too
have joined you in play,

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and I am coming to complete
the circle of your day.

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I was a lonely child,
I never understood

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that you were waiting for me
to find the truth and know.

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And I'll make this
one promise you

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want me to, I'm going to
continue my Bible study,

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till I'm back inside
the Body with you.

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And at that point, the Carter
family usually goes, Amen.

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But they're touring with
Johnny Cash this week,

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couldn't get them.

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OK, I can see I'm going to
have to skip, skip, skip.

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