1965 Asheville, North Carolina and its environs.

And it's a very end of my shoot old man basketball.

Amar Lansford, 82 years old.

He was a guy was taking me around the mountains and showing me his favorite sees goes up on the top of this hill, he says.

David, just record this problem for me because this was a poem I remembered from my boyhood when I did declamation Sze and I said, Basketball, what's what's a declamation?

And he said, Well, it's a public speech off a well known piece of work And I gave this one back when I was in school and I thought of the girl I'm gonna tell you about with peach bloom cheeks.

It's just beautiful in our family.

Occasionally lives.

Madeline, Madeline.

We have Sam friends to come in, and each one of your clients decide some Pull him are desolation, and this is one that I open decided on our boy say, 12 years old.

Heaven bless the girl, Kate with peach bloom chief on love life.

Men would shut her out of our literature, but I am not one of them.

Girl at the front gate will never rule those who was in there with years.

They come and go with music.

A little voice at the front gate will not be still in the memory of material if we just at your front gate will hold out faithful to the end.

What if the old gate does sag and it changes rapidly?

What if the poster, shaky and the last few years old Jack, we love the year old relics deal.

We love it for the sake of the girl who used to stand out there by your cheeks.

Rosa cheeks like in a We held the old gate up and counted the stars and said goodbye and counted the stars again.

How many times of the night was good bye?

How many times did lips need over the old game?

The old gate knows, but it never fails.

The old gate may have counted two kisses, but I never did, and I'm sure bigger with peach cheeks never did.

But what about the girl, the peach cheek?

She forgot her vows or yield front gate.

Unmarried, richer and handsome man and I will.

I went off to another front gate where there are other peach blue cheeks and lips.

Sweet and justus, many stars Now I have a friend gave him only on the girl of my home on the boy off the girl whose vows of booking a first date is a true good board.

And my girl is a true good girl.

Heaven bless them both as they stand after tonight at the old front gate.

I know the shot slightly out of focus.

I know the zoom back is kind of weird.

It was the final scene of my film.

I was very touched by basket.

So I left a tape recorder up on the hill and I went down and shot that c I hope you enjoyed it.

If you'd like to see more clips from my first film Blue Grass Roots, search those words on my YouTube channel.