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Tiny Desk Concerts - Audio

John Prine Tribute: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

Tiny Desk Concerts - Audio

NPR

Music

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

From Margo Price to Nathaniel Rateliff, watch five artists perform their favorite John Prine tunes from their homes (and bathtubs) in honor of one of the greatest songwriters of any generation.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey there Bob Boilin here.

0:01.8

This concert's part of our Tiny Desk Home Concert series.

0:05.0

We started back in mid-March of 2020 when we couldn't record concerts at my desk at NPR

0:10.1

due to the pandemic.

0:11.4

You can watch this concert at npr.org or on the npr music YouTube channel.

0:16.8

Enjoy. The I don't know what guys got a lot to lose he's a pretty nice fellow

0:39.6

little confused got mussels in his head,

0:43.0

never been used,

0:45.0

Lates me on top of this town.

0:47.0

Starts drinking if it gets a big red nose,

0:52.0

beets only when you rub our holes. if he gets a big red nose, beats his own lady with that rubber hose and he takes her

0:55.6

out to dinner, buys her clothes, that's the way that the world goes round.

1:01.7

That's the way that the world goes round.

1:04.0

You're up one name, the next you down is a half an inch of water

1:09.0

beyond a crown.

1:10.0

That's the way that the world all froze got stuck in the eyes

1:36.3

without my clothes, naked as the eyes of a clown.

1:41.1

I was cried ice cubesubes hoping I grow up when the sun came through the window

1:46.7

I saw broke I stood up and laughed thought it was a joke that's the way that the

1:52.1

world goes round That's the way that the world goes round.

1:54.5

That's the way that the world goes round.

1:57.4

You're up one day, the next you down

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