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Transcription: [00:09:02]
[Music Playing]
[Audience clapping and cheering]

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{SPEAKER name="W. Guy Bruce"}
I don't think they'll like brown jug much but I can pick it. I don't think they like brown jug much uh. I don't uh, I, I can pick it, it might, but might be lots of church goers out there.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
A lot of church goers out there? Mr Bruce is worried that you might not like this song about the little brown jug.

[[Laughter]]
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[[Bango [?] picking in background]]

{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Now. Guy Bruce is a very temperate man. You know there are only two very special occasions in which he will take a little nip from the brown jug. A little totty, what are those two special occasions?

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{SPEAKER name="W. Guy Bruce"}
Oh uh, a very special occasion before I take a little drink at all, it's just always when I'm by myself or with somebody.
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[Audience clapping, laughing]
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[Tuning of Banjo]

[00:10:02]
{SPEAKER name="W. Guy Bruce"}
I can't hear it good, and it's hard for me to tune this thing.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
See this...This old time style of banjo picking, the banjo is tuned different ways for different pieces, you know like uh-

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{SPEAKER name="W. Guy Bruce"}
I pick lots of old strings and I learned to pick this way, and I tuned the banjo different you see uh, and lots of them I pick and I didn't know what it was whenever I learned but did C and G and A and D and first one thing and another and I have tuned my banjo.
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[Banjo being played]

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{SPEAKER name="W. Guy Bruce"}
Singing. Take a little brown jug all on my arm, I go walking [[toddling?]] it to my farm and sat him down in the shade of a tree. Little brown jug its just you and me.
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Laughing and sings. You and me. Little brown jug [laughter] and me.
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Ah-a-ha

[00:11:01]
Singing. Little brown jug [indistinguishable words]

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Playing banjo
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Singing. Me and my wife gonna hit me long [and the bop tail dog?] cross the creek on a hickory log, the log [is broken] so I fell in, you ought to have seen that bop tail [indistinguishable] ah. little brown jug you and me, little brown jug
playing banjo

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Singing. If I had a gal in Gibsonsville with a polar in a bodysuit [indistinguishable words and laughter] feed her on the [indistinguishable] and milk her 40 times, a day [laughter] little brown jug, you and me, [indistinguishable]