Brian Henderson's Bandstand - 6 June 1964
Starring Peter, Paul and Mary.
Happy 4th of July, everyone.
Happy 4th of July, everyone.
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00:00The.
00:08On Henderson's bandstand presents.
00:11Peter.
00:12Paul.
00:13And Mary.
00:15At the Sydney Stadium.
00:30Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to a very special edition of Bandstand.
00:43It is not a rare thing these days for overnight success to be achieved, instant recognition.
00:49It is rare for it to be achieved without the use of gimmicks.
00:52This certainly applies in the case of the trio you're about to meet.
00:56They are double Grammy Award winners, the best folk recording of the year and best folk group of the year.
01:03Ladies and gentlemen, Peter, Paul and Mary.
01:26Well, I'm going down that highway and I'm going to another town.
01:37And maybe when I find what I'm looking for, then maybe I'll settle down.
01:41Why don't you help me, brother? I'm a stranger in your town.
01:45Why don't you help me, sister? And then maybe I'll settle down.
01:50Why don't you help me, brother? I'm a stranger in your town.
01:55Why don't you help me, sister? And maybe I'll settle down.
02:00Well, I've worked my way from Boston to that San Francisco bay.
02:05Maybe what I was looking for I couldn't find on the way.
02:09Why don't you help me, brother? I'm a stranger in your town.
02:13Why don't you help me, sister? And maybe I'll settle down.
02:19Never been contented, no matter where I roam.
02:23It ain't no fun, please let it come when you're far away from home.
02:27Why don't you help me, brother? I'm a stranger in your town.
02:32Why don't you help me, sister? And maybe I'll settle down.
02:37Well, I've worked in the mills of Pittsburgh, the hills of Tennessee.
02:41And baby, all I want is to find a job that will set my mind at ease.
02:46Why don't you help me, brother? I'm a stranger in your town.
02:51Why don't you help me, sister? And maybe I'll settle down.
02:56Why don't you help me, brother? I'm a stranger in your town.
03:01Help me, sister, and maybe I'll settle down.
03:16Thank you.
03:21On October 31st of each year in America, a date that we all refer to as Halloween,
03:28small groups of armed children race from house to house demanding protection money.
03:35Or at least that's what they're doing now.
03:38When I was a kid, we had a lot simpler motivation.
03:40We used to wait outside a house shivering in a cardboard costume
03:44until a couple of lights went on. Then you tippy-toe up to the front door.
03:49Yeah, kid, what do you want?
03:53Boo.
03:56But nowadays they have a much more persuasive policy.
03:59First of all, they arrive in a motorized division.
04:07All right, junior, get out. Your mother and I will wait for you here in the car.
04:12Then when the...
04:22Then when the child gets up to the front door, naturally he's none too gentle about it.
04:29Yes, what is it?
04:31All right, pops, what's it gonna be, the candy or your front window?
04:36Well, in England, they have a counterpart. That is, they go from house to house.
04:40They don't do it quite so ferociously, and they don't call it trick-or-treat.
04:44They go during the yuletide season instead of Halloween.
04:48They call the custom wassailing, they call the song assault.
05:10Hey-ho, nobody home, eat no, drink no money, haven't none, yet should we be merry?
05:39Hey-ho, nobody home, eat no, drink no money, haven't none, yet should we be merry?
05:46Hey-ho, nobody home, eat no, drink no money, haven't none, yet should we be merry?
05:59Soul, soul, soul cake, these goodnesses are soul cake.
06:04Apple, a pear, a plum, a cherry, any good thing to make us all merry.
06:08One for Peter, two for Paul, three for him who made us all.
06:17God bless the master of this house and the mistress also,
06:22and all the little children that round your table grow.
06:27The cattle in your stable, the dog by your front door,
06:31and all that dwells within your gates, we wish you ten times more.
06:36Soul, soul, soul cake, these goodnesses are soul cake.
06:41Apple, a pear, a plum, a cherry, any good thing to make us all merry.
06:45One for Peter, two for Paul, three for him who made us all.
06:54Go down into the cellar and see what you can find.
06:59If the barrels are not empty, we hope you will be kind.
07:04We hope you will be kind with the ground and straw there,
07:08for we'll come no more, so no more, until this time next year.
07:13Soul, soul, soul cake, these goodnesses are soul cake.
07:18Apple, a pear, a plum, a cherry, any good thing to make us all merry.
07:23One for Peter, two for Paul, three for him who made us all.
07:32The streets are very dirty, my shoes are very thin.
07:37I have a little pocket to put a penny in.
07:41If you haven't got a penny, a hey penny will do.
07:46If you haven't got a hey penny, then God bless you.
07:51Soul, soul, soul cake, these goodnesses are soul cake.
07:56Apple, a pear, a plum, a cherry, any good thing to make us all merry.
08:00One for Peter, two for Paul, three for him who made us all.
08:05Soul, soul, soul cake, these goodnesses are soul cake.
08:10Apple, apple, brother, any good thing to make us all merry.
08:15One for Peter, two for Paul, three for him who made us all.
09:15That's right, sister.
09:46If you miss the train I'm on, you will know that I am gone.
09:56You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles.
10:07A hundred miles, a hundred miles, a hundred miles, a hundred miles.
10:17You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles.
10:28Lord, I'm one. Lord, I'm two. Lord, I'm three. Lord, I'm four.
10:38Lord, I'm five hundred miles from my home.
10:48Five hundred miles, five hundred miles, five hundred miles, five hundred miles.
10:59Lord, I'm five hundred miles from my home.
11:10Not a shirt on my back, not a penny to my name.
11:21Lord, I can't go home this way.
11:31This way, this way, this way, this way.
11:42Lord, I can't go home this way.
11:52If you miss the train I'm on, you will know that I am gone.
12:03You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles.
12:14Everybody can hear.
12:31Now, wait a second. Let's do it sensibly.
12:34If you cannot hear, tell me.
12:39Right. Can we bring it up to sort of feedback?
12:43Feedback, electronic regurgitation.
12:49All right. One, two, three, four. It's not feeding back, is it?
12:55I beg your pardon.
12:58A little bit further.
13:01Now, check the balance between the bass and ourselves.
13:04We'd like to sing a song that's unique for you. It's unique.
13:10We'd like to sing a song. No, too far. Okay, cool it.
13:14We'd like to sing a song that's unique.
13:16It's unique because it's the only children's song that we've ever encountered
13:20that contains all three of the basic elements of every single children's song.
13:28The first element, well, you know the elements.
13:31The first element is simplicity so that the child can understand the song.
13:36The second element is pathos to prepare the child for later traumatic experiences.
13:43And the third element is repetition to give the child a false sense of security.
14:01I had a dog and his name was Blue. I had a dog and his name was Blue.
14:06I had a dog and his name was Blue. So then she fired on us, he's a good dog too.
14:11Singin' here, oh, Blue. You're a good dog, you.
14:22Oh, Blue comin' up to my home. Oh, Blue comin' up to my home.
14:29Blue comin' runnin' through the old corn. Blue comin' runnin' right up to my horn.
14:35Singin' here, oh, Blue. You're a good dog, you.
14:43Oh, what if the song were to be changed?
14:50Modified by an unscrupulous modifier of folk songs
14:56whose business it is to make this type of song palatable for the teenage delinquent mother-my-dog instinct.
15:06Then it would be a rock and roll song.
15:08Oh, nasty unscrupulous modifier.
15:14Would be played from country to country.
15:25No longer simple and pure.
15:28It would be played on all the television and radio fetal beetle programs.
15:38No longer simple. Now it would sound something like this.
15:49One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
15:59Like a dog and his name is Blue. I bet you find him a good dog too.
16:14I found my doggie, my sweet little doggie.
16:17Look, he's a good little doggie.
16:19Bow, wow, wow, wow.
16:21I met you again in...
16:27World of Blue.
16:30Why did you leave me, baby?
16:33You promised to ride tonight.
16:36I sit alone at night now sifting sand through my fingers
16:40looking for some trace of you.
16:43Come back, Blue, I...
16:45I...
16:47I...
16:50I want you, I...
16:54I need you.
17:01And I'm going to have you, Blue.
17:27Thank you very much.
17:30Thank you very much.
17:33I mean, that was a satire.
18:00Good night, Blue.
18:31There were three ravens sat on a tree.
18:37Down, a-down, hey, down, a-down.
18:43They were black as they might be with a down.
18:56Though one of them said to his mate,
19:01what shall we pour our breakfast in?
19:06With a down, derry, derry, derry, down, down.
19:16Down.
19:22Down in yonder green field.
19:28Down, a-down, hey, down, a-down.
19:33There lies a knight slain under his shield with a down.
19:43Down there comes a fallow doe as great with young as she might go.
19:52With a down, derry, derry, derry, down, down.
20:04She lifted up his bloody head.
20:10Down, a-down, hey, down, a-down.
20:15And kissed his wounds that were so red with a down.
20:26She got him up across her back and carried him to the early light.
20:35With a down, derry, derry, derry, down.
21:06She buried him before his bride.
21:12Down, a-down, hey, down, a-down.
21:18She was dead herself that evening time with a down.
21:30God send every gentleman, fine hawks, fine hounds, and such a loved one
21:40with a down, derry, derry, derry, down.
22:17There's a young man who's writing songs in America now.
22:35He's very young. He's only 22 years old.
22:38But his songs are so powerful and so meaningful that Mary and Paul and myself
22:44think that he's the most important young writer of songs in America today.
22:50His name is Bob Dillard.
23:00This is a song that, well, the words are very, very similar to the words used
23:09by John Fitzgerald Kennedy when he accepted the nomination
23:15for the presidency of the United States some years ago.
23:21Essentially it says that the old ways will not do.
23:28That it is time for a change.
23:35Come gather round, people, wherever you roam
23:47and admit that the waters around you have grown
23:52and accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone.
23:58But if your time to you is worth saving,
24:04then you better start swimming or you'll sink like a stone
24:09for the times, they are a-changing.
24:17Come writers and critics who prophesize with your pen
24:23and keep your eyes wide, the chance won't come again
24:28and don't speak too soon for the wheel's still in spin
24:34and there's no telling who that it's naming
24:40for the loser now will be later to win
24:45or the times, they are a-changing.
24:53Come senators, congressmen, please heed the call.
24:59Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall
25:05for he that gets hurt will be heaved as stone.
25:11There's a battle outside and it's raging.
25:16It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
25:22for the times, they are a-changing.
25:30Come mothers and fathers throughout the land
25:41and don't criticize what you can't understand.
25:47Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command.
25:53Your old road is rapidly aging.
25:58Please get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand
26:04for the times, they are a-changing.
26:12The line it is drawn, the curse it is cast.
26:19The slow one now will later be fast
26:25as the present now will later be past.
26:31The order is rapidly fading
26:37and the first one now will later be last
26:42for the times, they are a-changing.
27:12Jesus met the woman at the well.
27:36Jesus met the woman at the well.
27:58He told her everything she'd ever done.
28:09He said, woman, woman, where is your husband?
28:20He said, woman, woman, where is your husband?
28:31He said, woman, woman, where is your husband?
28:43I know everything you've ever done.
28:53She said, Jesus, Jesus, I ain't got no husband.
29:04She said, Jesus, Jesus, I ain't got no husband.
29:15She said, Jesus, Jesus, I ain't got no husband.
29:27And you don't know everything I've ever done.
29:39He said, woman, woman, you've got five husbands.
29:49He said, woman, woman, you've got five husbands.
30:00He said, woman, woman, you've got five husbands.
30:11And the one you have now, he's not your own.
30:22She said, this man, this man, he must be your prophet.
30:33She said, this man, this man, he must be your prophet.
30:44She said, this man, this man, he must be your prophet.
30:55He done told me everything I've ever done.
31:07Jesus met the woman at the well.
31:18Jesus met the woman at the well.
31:29Jesus met the woman at the well.
31:39And he told her everything she'd ever done.
31:52Amen.
32:12Very, very privileged tonight to have a very unusual guest.
32:17He's very rarely seen in public, ever.
32:19His name is Dr. Fishlove.
32:22And he's going to give a lecture entitled, Unknown Animals, Extinct or What?
32:29Dr. Fishlove.
32:37Thank you and good evening.
32:40The dragon.
32:41The dragon is a large mythological beast, having four separate and therefore quite distinctive, I might add, legs,
32:49and a large monstrous body with thousands of tiny scales.
32:56At one end of the large monstrous body, we find an almost equally large monstrous head with two, two flaming nostrils.
33:07And a mean temperature of which sometimes reaches 212 degrees centigrade.
33:18Yes, well, you won't be required to know that in any event.
33:22At the other end of the large monstrous body, the, um, 212 degrees centigrade.
33:32At the other end of the large monstrous body, we, we, we'd, we'd, um.
33:40The dragon.
33:42The dragon is a large mythological nostril.
33:46Having four scales and a monstrous leg.
33:57Whoops.
33:59Oh well, this is not supposed to be a speech about a dragon anyway.
34:02This is supposed to be a song about a dragon.
34:05Thank you.
34:35Little Jackie Paper loved that rascal Puff and brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff.
34:48Oh Puff the magic dragon lived by the sea and frolicked in the autumn mist in Langolanalee.
35:03Oh Puff the magic dragon lived by the sea and frolicked in the autumn mist in Langolanalee.
35:18Together we should sing it, it's just a children's song.
35:25And if you do not know the words, you'd better learn them.
35:32Oh Puff the magic dragon lived by the sea.
35:38Sing it with us.
35:39And frolicked in the autumn mist in Langolanalee.
35:47Oh Puff the magic dragon lived by the sea and frolicked in the autumn mist in Langolanalee.
36:01Together they would travel on a boat with billowed sail.
36:08And Jackie kept a lookout perched on Puff's gigantic tail.
36:16Noble kings and princes would bow whene'er they came.
36:23Pirate ships would lower their flags when Puff roared out his name.
36:30Oh Puff the magic dragon lived by the sea and frolicked in the autumn mist in Langolanalee.
36:45Oh Puff the magic dragon lived by the sea and frolicked in the autumn mist in Langolanalee.
37:00A dragon lives forever but not so little boys.
37:08Painted wings and giant's rings make way for other toys.
37:15One rainy night it happened, Jackie Paper came no more.
37:22And Puff that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar.
37:30His head was bent in sorrow, green scales fell like rain.
37:37Puff no longer went to play along the cherry lane.
37:45Without his lifelong friend, Puff could not be brave.
37:52So Puff that mighty dragon sadly slipped into his cave.
37:59Oh Puff the magic dragon lived by the sea and frolicked in the autumn mist in Langolanalee.
38:15Puff the magic dragon lived by the sea and frolicked in the autumn mist in Langolanalee.
38:45There's a song, well one of the first songs that we ever learned was a song sung by Gambler
39:02called The Gambler's Blues or St. James Infirmary in which he says that he wants six crapshooters for pole bearers
39:09and he wants a chorus girl to sing him a song.
39:14Well we'd like to sing a song for you in which a man asks only that his memory and his remains be respected.
39:24He asks only that his grave be kept clean.
39:44There's one kind fever I'll ask of you.
40:00Yeah there's one kind fever I'll ask of you.
40:07There's one kind fever I'll ask of you.
40:16See that my grave is kept clean.
40:25There's two white horses in a line.
40:49Carrying me to my burying ground.
40:58There's three black coaches in the rain.
41:21Empty now from the heavy load.
41:30Have you ever heard a coughing sound?
41:37Have you ever heard a coughing sound?
41:45Have you ever heard a coughing sound?
41:54Being low in the ground.
42:03There's one kind fever I'll ask of you.
42:10There's one kind fever I'll ask of you.
42:17Yeah there's one kind fever I'll ask of you.
42:26See that my grave is kept clean.
42:57Go tell it on the mountains, over the hill and everywhere.
43:07Go tell it on the mountains, who let my people go.
43:14Who's got me underdressed in red, who let my people go.
43:21Must be the children that Moses led, who let my people go.
43:29Who's got me underdressed in red, must be the children that Moses led.
43:36Go tell it on the mountains, who let my people go.
43:44Go tell it on the mountains, over the hill and everywhere.
43:51Go tell it on the mountains, who let my people go.
43:58Who's got me underdressed in white, who let my people go.
44:06Must be the children of the Israelite, who let my people go.
44:13Who's got me underdressed in white, must be the children of the Israelite.
44:21Go tell it on the mountains, who let my people go.
44:28Go tell it on the mountains, over the hill and everywhere.
44:36Go tell it on the mountains, who let my people go.
44:43Who's got me underdressed in black, who let my people go.
44:50Must be the hypocrites turning back, who let my people go.
44:57Who's got me underdressed in black, must be the hypocrites turning back.
45:05Go tell it on the mountains, who let my people go.
45:11Go tell it on the mountains, over the hill and everywhere.
45:18Go tell it on the mountains, who let my people go.