And I-

I-Every night in the shadow, thinking back on Amarillo.

He'd dream of better days and ask for faded love.

Lifting high his glass in honor of the lady and her song.

He paid his check and slowly walked that broken cowboy home.

She played tambourine with a silver jingle.

And she must have known the words to at least a million tunes.

[guitar strumming]

I sure am glad y'all's here, because I thought I heard you singing a minute ago.

Well, that was us.

We have a song on this new Cracker Barrel project called Sacrifice for Me.

And with the 10th anniversary of 9-11 just passing by, I think it's kind of an apropos song.

I think every once in a while we need to remember the price that's paid for our freedom, and that's what this little song's about.

Absolutely.

you wrote the song.

I wrote that when, yes, I did.

And I'm

somewhere in between.

I never really wanted to be a choir director in the church, although I've done that.

And I never really wanted to teach, which I did that for a semester as well to get my teacher's degree.

So that if this music thing that I was dreaming about didn't work out, I thought maybe I can go to some small college or high school or something and coach a basketball team, which I love and I'm pretty good at, and teach music.

And I thought, you know, it'd be a good fallback for me.

But I never have had to use that because this has lasted... a long time and I've never really missed a paycheck except two weeks we were in the Soviet Union and two different band members needed a little extra money and I gave them my paycheck.

You know, that had to be a whirlwind moment.

What was your initial impression when you got there to Fort Payne with the crowd and the everything? And then you guys played subsequent June Jams after that, but...

The main thing that impressed me about Alabama is how they share it and what they've done for their community.

That always blows me away because I judge a man's career by how they pass it along.

And Alabama, if you want to study them, I can't say that I've been like a student, but because we've been so close as friends.

Right.

I've just known about all the work that they've done for charity.

Now Randy's got this auditorium, beautiful auditorium named for him.

Yes, sir.