Introduction

Well, I'm glad you've come to our show tonight

We're happy to see you here at this show we

Call "A Pretty Good Night at Carnegie Hall"

With some good friends of mine

Including Mr. Chet Atkins is here tonight

Butch Thompson is here

The, uh, the, uh, quartet in your program

Listed as the "Perfect Gospel Quartet"

We've changed our name since then to "The Hopeful Gospel Quartet"

Robin and Linda Williams and Kate McKenzie and myself

And a bunch of other fine musicians from Nashville

And so we want to sing you some gospel music tonight

Also because some of you look as if you could use it

This is music that says that God loves us

And we live in a, we live in a universe of love

And yet we're capable of doing rotten things

And that not all of these things are the result of poor communication

Some of them are the result of rottenness

People do bad, horrible things

And they cheat, and they lie, and they corrupt the government

And they poison the world around us

And then when they're caught, they don't feel remorse

They just go into treatment

They, uh, they have a nutritional problem or something

They explain what they did

They don't feel bad about it

There's no guilt, there's just psychology

That's why we need gospel music

Guilt is a gift that keeps on giving

And it's all that holds some people in line