 Ladies and gentlemen, needless to say, on behalf of all the Oak Ridge Boys and the Oaks Band, it's a great honor to be here and be able to sing for you tonight. It's an honor to sing for you, Mr. President, and Mrs. Reagan, and for the Congress and the Senate. We welcome you. The Oak Ridge Boys has just completed several months of working at most of the major state fairs in our country, and it was a real fun summer. We get a pretty good look at America ourselves throughout the course of the year. What we thought what we'd do is just take some excerpts here and there over the next 25 or 30 minutes and do some songs for you that we've been performing all summer, some of our hit records, some of our new things. We hope you're going to enjoy our show. We thank you for welcoming us to the White House. We appreciate it. That's how we start that one. If you want a good and cold drink of water, you gotta dig a little deeper in the well. Deep and cold drink of water, you gotta dig a little deeper in the well. Whatcha see? If you want to get to the heart of things, you gotta look way down deep. It's a winner's got to come in first. There's nothing worse than to take a drink that ain't even big a liberty for the well. The good woman, she's a rock that'll make you strong. She'll be there to lean on with the whole world. Find yourself a good woman, son, like your mama's enemy. All right. D. Contact Promise Land. Big a lady. Say she did not. Change around. And introduce you at this time to the Oaks Band. I wish you'd really make them welcome here on the lawn. Skip Mitchell on lead guitar from Tennessee. Steve Sanders on rhythm guitar. Steve's born in Georgia. Moultrie, Georgia. Close enough. From Los Angeles, California, that's Fred Satterfield on the drums. Don Breeland on the bass guitar from the great state of Mississippi. From Dallas, Texas, is Dewey DeRoe. There's always a few more Texans than there is anything else in there. And on the piano from Hendersonville, Tennessee, is Ronnie Fairchild. If you would, make welcome to the Oaks Band. In such a sad case, so broken hearted, was crazy chances. She said, daughter, let me tell you, at such a very short time, you'd be long gone. Before you know it, we're late speeches. There ain't no... Mr. President, the last time we performed for you, we did that television show, I'm sure you must remember. We came out there and did like a medley of a few of our hit records. And I didn't stop being nervous until after we were done. Not there, you know, three quick songs, man. It was really kind of nervous. Now it's starting to settle down, boys, starting to relax more. We've been out here for a while now. Want to introduce the Oak Ridge Boys to you? We're from all kinds of different states, too. And I'd like to tell everybody's name up in the front four here. Singing bass like nobody else in the whole wide world. From Camden, New Jersey, is Richard Sterbin. Bama, William Lee Golden. One of the finest voices you'll hear on any stage. Singing any kind of song. From Taylortown, Texas, Dwayne Allen. I'm from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Home of the Phillies, I'm Joe Bonzel. Thank you. Brand-new song called Those Arc Mountains, Jubilee. Hope you enjoy it. It's a frosty morning. I can almost see the signs. I can't stop. I'm just a stone's throw from a little rock. Heading for that Missouri line. You can get there from anywhere. When you're going in your head. Just like the day I was sleeping. Be the prodigal. I've been gone. There's a little bit of bluegrass music about the Oak Ridge Boys. It's in the pines. It's an old tune. Done by the Louven Brothers back in what, the early 50s? Something like that. We've redone it a little bit. I'd like to do a song for you right now that has really been a big song for the Oak Ridge Boys since last January. And it's a very unique record. Our first hit record came in 1977. A country song called Y'all Come Back Saloon. And right up until our brand-new Ozark Mountains, Jubilee, that's a long time to have made a lot of different types of records. Well, here's a song that we put out last Christmas time. And it became a big hit record for the Oak Ridge Boys. And it's really a unique song. And as we, as a group, look back and reflect upon this particular record, we sincerely feel like this could have been the most important record that we ever put out. We hope you enjoy it tonight. If it weren't for kids, have you ever thought there wouldn't be no Santa Claus? Or look what the store just brought. Thank God for kids in a quiet house without big burn or a big mouse. And cooling on the couch. Thank God for kids from a child in a smile. To heaven is a child. How does this thing fly? And a hundred other wares of wine? I really don't know but I try. Thank God for kids those trust-in-eyes suddenly that I can't buy. Thank the Lord for his godly life and pray they turn out right. Thank God for kids. Thank God for grandkids too. Thank you very much. That's been a real special song for us as you can imagine. It was a special song for Golden Last Christmas when it came out. He became a grandfather for the first time last year. Big ol' grandboy. Right about the end of World War II the Oak Ridge Quartet started in Knoxville, Tennessee. They were a group called the Country Cut-Ups and they were singing an Oak Ridge and became known as the Oak Ridge Quartet. About 1955 they reorganized and changed their name to the Oak Ridge Boys. And since that time there has been this group. William Lee Golden's been here for 20 years. Dwayne Allen has sung in this group for 19 years. Richard's been in the group for 11 years and I've been here for 10. And we have performed all over the world most of it, a lot of it. And we performed all over this country in a lot of different situations. This is the first time we've ever had the honor to do this. We hope it won't be the last time but we wanted to let you folks know who are responsible for running our country. The Oak Ridge Boys are proud to be Americans. Thank you so very much. I think you're saying thank you in the proper way tonight for this wonderful entertainment we've had from the Oak Ridge Boys. I just noticed this flatland tourist here at the store bought clothes and Bob Michael would have done a duet with him except Bob didn't dress for the occasion tonight. This group is on the road 200 days a year. Have you ever thought about getting steady work? This wonderful group, they've seven gold albums two platinum albums and they have a new one coming out called Deliver. I'm going to ask them if they would dedicate it to the United States Congress. Deliver. You mentioned you'd like to come back. Believe me, the door is open. You'll be welcomed just any time here for what you've done for us tonight. But we thank all of you from Congress who came. Those who didn't come, I thought you might like to know that they've passed the defense budget and they've passed the rest of it. No. Again, seriously, heartfelt thanks to all of you. This has been just wonderful and everyone here is delighted with what the evening has been. Well, you could see that from up here. Thanks again.