-Sturgill Simpson presents Johnny Blue Skies.

-♪ Well, now everybody's worried 'bout a good look ♪ ♪ But they need to be worried 'bout a good hook ♪ ♪ Instead of skippin' straight to the last page ♪ ♪ In that ol' rationalization book ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ I'm alone in a way that I've never been ♪ ♪ Since you left me behind ♪ ♪ If you think you can ever love me again ♪ ♪ Please go ahead ♪ ♪ I don't mind ♪ ♪♪ -Austin City Limits celebrates 50 years.

-This is "Austin City Limits"!

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We gonna be all right!

-Austin City Limits!

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Thank you very much.

-50 years of Austin City Limits!

-Celebrating 50 years of great music, it's "Austin City Limits."

[ Cheers and applause ] -Sturgill Simpson presents Johnny Blue Skies.

[ "Jupiter's Faerie" plays ] ♪♪ -♪ For some reason ♪ ♪ Today I thought of you ♪ ♪ Thought I'd look you up and see what you'd been up to ♪ ♪ How long's it been, ten years or maybe more ♪ ♪ Since I told you not to call me ♪ ♪ Shut you out and closed the door ♪ ♪ I'm sorry, I know it hurt, but I'd moved on ♪ ♪ The memories remained, but the sentiment was gone ♪ ♪ We belonged to the darkness and the moon ♪ ♪ But I found a light so bright ♪ ♪ Thought I might live in its sun ♪ ♪ Then, today, while walking lost, I saw a sign ♪ ♪ That without effort brought your name to mind ♪ ♪ So I decided to reach out after so long ♪ ♪ Decided how we left it was all wrong ♪ ♪ It's okay to move on ♪ ♪ But we don't have to close the door ♪ ♪ And after all, what are real friends for?

♪ ♪ So I went home thinking I would try to call you ♪ ♪ Searched your name ♪ ♪ And then I saw the news ♪ ♪ That there was no more you ♪ ♪ I hear there's faeries out on Jupiter ♪ ♪ And there was a time when I knew one ♪ ♪ But today I'm feeling way down here on Earth ♪ ♪ Crying tears of love in the light of mourning dawn ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ I used to write so many songs about you ♪ ♪ Long after you went home that day ♪ ♪ I laid alone so many nights without you ♪ ♪ Spent years just hoping that you were okay ♪ ♪ I cried an ocean of tears ♪ ♪ Hoping it'd wash the pain away ♪ ♪ But then, today, I read the news that you were gone ♪ ♪ You'd left a year ago ♪ ♪ Chose to check out and move on ♪ ♪ I guess the pain became the only thing ♪ ♪ Each and every day would bring ♪ ♪ I'm sorry I wasn't there, I wish I'd known ♪ ♪ I would've tried to give you love ♪ ♪ It'd been so long since I'd shown ♪ ♪ But then had I, maybe you'd be here today ♪ ♪ Suffering and crushing under sadness and its weight ♪ ♪ But in my heart, I guess I always knew ♪ ♪ Somehow one of us would end this way ♪ ♪ So what's done is done ♪ ♪ Now there's nothing left to say ♪ ♪♪ ♪ I hear there's faeries out on Jupiter ♪ ♪ And there was a time when I knew one ♪ ♪ But today I'm feeling way down here on Earth, babe ♪ ♪ Crying tears of love in the light of mourning dawn ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ One more glass of wine for a love so true ♪ ♪ Then another and another, for today one just won't do ♪ ♪ There's no happy endings ♪ ♪ Only stories that stop before they're through ♪ ♪ I hear there's faeries out on Jupiter ♪ ♪ And there was a time that I knew one ♪ ♪ But today I'm feeling way down here on Earth ♪ ♪ Crying tears of love in the light of mourning dawn ♪ ♪♪ [ Cheers and applause ] ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ [ Cheers and applause ] [ "Welcome to Earth (Pollywog)" plays ] ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ Hello, my son ♪ ♪ Welcome to earth ♪ ♪♪ ♪ May not be my last ♪ ♪ But you'll always be my first ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Wish I'd done this ten years ago ♪ ♪ But how could I know ♪ ♪ How could I know ♪ ♪♪ ♪ That the answer was so easy ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ I've been told you measure a man ♪ ♪ By how much he loves ♪ ♪♪ ♪ But when I hold you ♪ ♪ I treasure each moment I spend ♪ ♪ On this earth, under heaven above ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Grandfather always said God's a fisherman ♪ ♪ And now I know the reason why ♪ ♪♪ ♪ And if some times ♪ ♪ Daddy has to go away ♪ ♪ Oh, please don't think ♪ ♪ That it means I don't love you ♪ ♪ Oh, how I wish ♪ ♪ I could be there every day now ♪ ♪ 'Cause when I'm gone ♪ ♪ It makes me so sad and blue ♪ ♪ And holding you ♪ ♪ Is the greatest love I've ever known ♪ ♪ Oh, when I get home, it breaks my heart ♪ ♪ Seeing how much you've grown ♪ ♪ All on your own ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ [ Cheers and applause ] [ "It Ain't All Flowers" plays ] ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ Cleaning out the darkest corner of my mind ♪ ♪ Taking all my full circles and making straight lines ♪ ♪ Getting to the bottom of the bottom getting to me ♪ ♪ Then holding up the mirror ♪ ♪ To everything I don't want to see ♪ ♪ It ain't all flowers ♪ ♪ Sometimes you gotta feel the thorns ♪ ♪♪ ♪ And when you play with the Devil ♪ ♪ You know you gonna get the horns ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ Been dancing with demons all my life ♪ ♪ Every time I find my groove, they cut in like a knife ♪ ♪ Been a sin eater now, Lord, since the day I was born ♪ ♪ Tired of feeling weighed down from carrying round ♪ ♪ All the pain that keeps me torn ♪ ♪ So I pray when I lay me down to die ♪ ♪ Grab a glass of wine and a seat to dine ♪ ♪ And go ahead and eat the whole damn pie ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ It ain't all flowers ♪ ♪ Sometimes you gotta feel the thorns ♪ ♪♪ ♪ And when you play with the Devil ♪ ♪ You know you gonna get the horns ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ [ Cheers and applause ] [ "Best Clockmaker on Mars" plays ] ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ Wanna grow old and die with you ♪ ♪ Wanna make babies till you say you're through ♪ ♪ Go to bed and wake up when you tell me to ♪ ♪ Turn off all the TVs, there ain't nothin' new ♪ ♪ Wake up every day and be the best clockmaker on Mars ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Some days, I hate everything I am ♪ ♪ But your love holds a mirror to me ♪ ♪ Shows me a love I can understand ♪ ♪ And makes sense of the world I see ♪ ♪ Gonna wake up every day and be the best clockmaker on Mars ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ Wanna grow old and die with you ♪ ♪ Wanna make babies till you say you're through ♪ ♪ Go to bed and wake up when you tell me to ♪ ♪ Turn off all the TVs, there ain't nothin' new ♪ ♪ Wake up every day and be the best clockmaker on Mars ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Wake up every day and be the best clockmaker on Mars ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ [ Cheers and applause ] [ "I Don't Mind" plays ] ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ There's a lonely feeling I carry ♪ ♪ That will follow me all my days ♪ ♪ I walked out on the heart you were nursing ♪ ♪ Turned my back on a love you saved ♪ ♪ Well, just when my clouds were drifting ♪ ♪ My plan got rearranged ♪ ♪ But there ain't no going back now ♪ ♪ And ain't no way that I can change ♪ ♪♪ ♪ I believe that I found God ♪ ♪ About the same time that I found you ♪ ♪ All that stuff about heaven and angels ♪ ♪ Well, I know now that it's all true ♪ ♪ But you drift in and out of my dreams now ♪ ♪ Like a ship out at sea in a storm ♪ ♪ And when I wake up every morning ♪ ♪ I roll over to find you still gone ♪ ♪♪ ♪ I'm alone in a way that I've never been ♪ ♪ Since you left me behind ♪ ♪ If you think you can ever love me again ♪ ♪ Please go ahead, I don't mind ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ It feels like you're so far away now ♪ ♪ And I'm stuck out here all by myself ♪ ♪ All the things I wish I had told you ♪ ♪ Still inside my mind, bottled and shelved ♪ ♪ In my dreams, although, I can hear you ♪ ♪ There's a darkness that hides you from sight ♪ ♪ So I search all around trying to feel you ♪ ♪ All I find is a world without light ♪ ♪♪ ♪ There's a world I want to leave ♪ ♪ And a world where I want to stay ♪ ♪ There's a dream that I believe ♪ ♪ When I wake up, it goes away ♪ ♪ It goes away ♪ ♪ I'm alone in a way that I've never been ♪ ♪ Since you left me behind ♪ ♪ If you think you can ever love me again ♪ ♪ Please go ahead, I don't mind ♪ ♪ If you think you can ever love me again ♪ ♪ Please go ahead, I don't mind ♪ [ Cheers and applause ] [ "All Said and Done" plays ] ♪♪ ♪ Spent the last year going out of my mind ♪ ♪ Looking for reasons I could never find ♪ ♪ Till I put my finger on it ♪ ♪ And saw every sign ♪ ♪ Take all you can get ♪ ♪ Keep your fingers off of mine ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Sitting in the tower without a clue or care ♪ ♪ And goodbye opportunities hanging off of my head ♪ ♪ Handing several items out to anyone who dares ♪ ♪ Climb my own way up to the top ♪ ♪ Just to get kicked down the stairs ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Being pulled a million ways all at the same time ♪ ♪ It's enough to make anyone go insane ♪ ♪ When you find yourself forgetting all your own rhymes ♪ ♪ Givin' up on dreams floating 'round inside your brain ♪ ♪♪ [ Saxophone solo ] ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ Being pulled a million ways all at the same time ♪ ♪ It's enough to make anyone go insane ♪ ♪ When you find yourself forgetting all your own rhymes ♪ ♪ Givin' up on the dreams ♪ ♪ Floating 'round inside your brain ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Keep staring at the pages, going over the same lines ♪ ♪ It's all been said and done by now, two or three times ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ [ Cheers and applause ] [ "A Good Look" plays ] ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ The star of David don't belong to David at all ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Borrowed it from Peter just so he could pay off Paul ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Well, now, Peter copyrighted the star ♪ ♪ And now he owns the claim ♪ ♪♪ ♪ But a star is still a star by any other name ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Well, now everybody's worried 'bout a good look ♪ ♪ But they need to be worried 'bout a good hook ♪ ♪ Instead of skippin' straight to the last page ♪ ♪ In that ol' rationalization book ♪ ♪♪ ♪ I write my poems in the dirt with an oily rag ♪ ♪♪ ♪ I've gotta wear a gas mask just so I don't gag ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Got a SOCOM Scout and 20 extra mags ♪ ♪♪ ♪ And a couple severed heads in my bug-out bag ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Well, now, everybody's worried 'bout a good look ♪ ♪ But they need to be worried 'bout a good hook ♪ ♪ Instead of skipping straight to the last page ♪ ♪ In that ol' rationalization book ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ Oh, ow, why you gettin' pissed ♪ ♪ 'Cause you're gettin' discovered?

♪ ♪♪ ♪ Are you talking all this... just to get on the cover?

♪ ♪♪ ♪ Well, now, how you gonna eat when you're bitin' the hand?

♪ ♪♪ ♪ Well, you know they don't like it when you take a stand ♪ ♪♪ ♪ So enjoy it while you can ♪ ♪ And say hi to all the boys in the band, babe ♪ ♪ 'Cause it's all over now ♪ ♪ Just a flash in the pan ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Well, now everybody's worried 'bout a good look ♪ ♪ But they need to be worried 'bout a good hook ♪ ♪ Instead of skipping straight to the last page ♪ ♪ In that ol' rationalization book ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ [ Cheers and applause ] [ "One For the Road" plays ] ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ Sit down, baby ♪ ♪ I've got some things that you need to hear ♪ ♪♪ ♪ It's been building inside me ♪ ♪ And there's some air that we need to clear ♪ ♪♪ ♪ What if I told you ♪ ♪ I'm not the man that you think I am ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Would you listen or would I only hear ♪ ♪ The door behind you slam ♪ ♪ In my face ♪ ♪ As I watched you walking out of my world ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Knowing it'd be the last day ♪ ♪ I could call you my girl ♪ ♪ 'Cause I broke your heart ♪ ♪♪ ♪ There's nobody but me left to blame now ♪ ♪♪ ♪ And the face in my mirror won't be the same ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Sit alone hoping you're okay ♪ ♪ But how will I know?

♪ ♪♪ ♪ You say my eyes will never see you again ♪ ♪ After you go ♪ ♪♪ ♪ I love you, but I broke it ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Cracks are starting to show ♪ ♪♪ ♪ So before you go, here's one for the road ♪ ♪♪ ♪ I've been searching ♪ ♪ For a way to say that you should move on ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Oh, and I think we both know ♪ ♪ That you'd be better off after you're gone ♪ ♪♪ ♪ You'll find somebody that looks at you ♪ ♪ The way you used to look at me ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Well, and I think we both know ♪ ♪ I'm not the man that you used to see ♪ ♪♪ ♪ I'm so tired of walking around ♪ ♪ Knowing I'm the one that let us down ♪ ♪ And I broke your heart ♪ ♪♪ ♪ There's nobody but me left to blame ♪ ♪♪ ♪ There was a fire between us, but I blew out the flame ♪ ♪♪ ♪ And ever since we've both been trying to hang on ♪ ♪♪ ♪ But I think we both know the fire's gone ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Our love was a garden ♪ ♪ But it seems some weeds have grown ♪ ♪♪ ♪ All the flowers have wilted ♪ ♪ And the seeds have all been sown ♪ ♪ So, before we go, here's one for the road ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ [ Cheers and applause ] Thank you very much.

[ Cheers and applause continues ] Since this is the 50th season, and the gentleman that started recording the show was in here tonight, here's one for him that I think they might have played that first night.

I don't know.

I'm not sure.

But it's a pretty Texas song, so we're gonna play it.

[ Cheers and applause ] ♪ Have to be crazy ♪ ♪ To stop all my singing ♪ ♪ Never play music again ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Call me a fool ♪ ♪ Grabbed up my top hat ♪ ♪ Ran out to flag down the wind ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Have to be weird ♪ ♪ To grow me a beard ♪ ♪ Just to see what all the hipsters in Nashville would do ♪ [ Laughter, cheering ] ♪ Have to be crazy ♪ ♪ Plumb out of my mind, now ♪ ♪ Fall out of love with you ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Know I've done weird things ♪ ♪ Told people I've heared things ♪ ♪ Yeah, when silence was all that abounds ♪ ♪♪ ♪ There's been days when it pleased me ♪ ♪ Crawl on my knees ♪ ♪ Following ants as they crawled across the ground ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Been insane on a train ♪ ♪ But I'm still me again ♪ ♪ But the place where I hold you is true ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Have to be crazy ♪ ♪ Plumb outta my mind, now ♪ ♪ Oh, to fall out of love with you ♪ ♪♪ [ Cheers and applause ] ♪♪ ♪ Well, I don't intend to ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Ever should there come a day ♪ ♪♪ ♪ When I say I don't love you ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Oh, you can knock me away ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Sure would be dingy ♪ ♪ Live inside an envelope ♪ ♪ And, whoa, waiting alone for a stamp ♪ ♪♪ ♪ You'd swear I was loco ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Rubbin' for my genie ♪ ♪ Oh, while burning my hand on the lamp ♪ ♪♪ ♪ May not be normal ♪ ♪ Yeah, but nobody is ♪ ♪ So I'd like to say to you 'fore I'm through ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Have to be crazy ♪ ♪ Plumb out of my mind, now ♪ ♪♪ ♪ To fall out of love with you ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Have to be crazy ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Plumb out of my mind, now ♪ ♪ Oh, to fall out of love with you ♪ [ Cheers and applause ] Whoo!

[ Cheers and applause continues ] [ "Railroad of Sin" plays ] ♪♪ ♪ Well, they say you live and learn ♪ ♪ But it really seems more to me ♪ ♪ All along, I've been learning how to live ♪ ♪ Well, for years, I been drifting ♪ ♪ Like a boat lost out at sea ♪ ♪ Been out walking them ties on the railroad of sin ♪ ♪ And now looking back on my life ♪ ♪ Some things I done ♪ ♪ Lord, it makes me wanna hang my head in shame ♪ ♪ I was a no good, no account, lowdown heartbreaker ♪ ♪ On that railroad of sin, I was a high-balling train ♪ ♪ I'm just a poor boy had to beg, steal, and borrow ♪ ♪ Just a leaf blowing lonesome in the wind ♪ ♪ I'm just a hitchhiker on that old highway of sorrow ♪ ♪ Just a high-balling train on that railroad of sin ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ Well, you won't feel it and you won't hear it coming ♪ ♪ When she's rolling slow, don't make a sound ♪ ♪ I got that throttle to ten on the railroad of sin ♪ ♪ I'm going off of the rails, and I can't slow it down ♪ ♪ I'm just a poor boy had to beg, steal, and borrow ♪ ♪ Just a leaf blowing lonesome in the wind ♪ ♪ I'm just a hitchhiker on that old highway of sorrow ♪ ♪ Just a high-balling train on that railroad of sin ♪ ♪♪ ♪ I'm just a poor boy had to beg, steal, and borrow ♪ ♪ Just a leaf blowing lonesome in the wind ♪ ♪ I'm just a hitchhiker on that old highway of sorrow ♪ ♪♪ ♪ I'm just a high-balling train on that railroad of sin ♪ ♪♪ [ Cheers and applause ] Thank you very much.

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