Page 19 - Country Music

Now, I want you to understand that country

music is far more than trains and trucks and

tractors and mamas and dogs. It's far more

than that. Years ago when I grew up around

country music, the deception was, well, it

speaks of patriotism; it speaks of country; it

speaks of God — Oh, it does, and it speaks of

faith and it speaks of work and it speaks of life

and it speaks of pain and laughter and all these

kinds of things. It deals with things in life, and

you will find God and the Bible and faith and

Jesus filtered all through. Even in country music

today you'll find those things in it. But when

you sit down, as I have done recently, and

analyze the words that are in the songs, the

lyrics, you understand a person's belief system.

When I stand up and preach to you or we sing,

we get an idea about what we believe, do we

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