The Lord Must Be In New York City | THE SMOTHERS BROTHERS SHOW (1975)

[Applause] thank you very much ladies and gentlemen you know uh I finally am beginning to feel like part of the NBC family now because when I was walking to this down the hall the main hall today to the show I noticed that they put our picture up right among all the others in the main hall oh yeah I noticed that someone painted a mustache on your picture tell me I I have a mustache well I'm sorry I erased [Music] it I'll say goodbye to all my sorrows and by tomorrow I'll be on my way I guess the

Lord must be in New York City I'm so tired of getting nowhere seeing my prayers going unanswer I against the Lord must be in New York City Here I Am Lord knocking on [Music] the ain't it wonderful to be where I always wanted to be for the first time I'll breathe free here in New York City I'm so tired again from nowhere seeing my prayers going unanswered I guess the Lord must be in New York City good I say goodbye to all my sorrows and by tomorrow I'll be on my way I guess the Lord must be in N

ew York City Here I Am Lord Knocking at Your Back [Music] Door wait a wait a sec guys let's go back to the can we go back to the part where Here I Am Lord two measures in It Here I Am Lord wait a minute wait a minute I just I lost that spot i' like to go back you lost a lot of spots I mean a long time ago you lost a spot now why can't you sing a song all the way through what's what's what's the matter it's not my fault it's not your fault then right then whose fault is it it's not as simple as t

hat just can't throw the blame on it was just that I noticed a lot of the people in the around standing around here in a lot of technical I get it that's right it's these people walking around the crew it's their fault oh that makes a lot of sense uh yes and no see it's not exactly it was just that I had noticed all the I I have noticed see I just noticed them and it distracted me for just a second I like to pick it up on the part I was into the song and I made a mistake I like to go back I want

to get this clear though let me get this clear it's the crew these people moving around on stage the the cameraman the boom man the the the cute cards all these people that's right the people who are necessary to put on a show the people who have done every single television show we've ever done all of a sudden they made you forget the lyrics of the song is that correct it's amazing isn't it yeah yes well see I just noticed I know they're there but I sometime I don't you don't appreciate and al

l of a sudden my mind just locked in on the the the boom man there and I just uh I just forgot that part I'd like to pick it up on the E part Here I Am Lord which I was no I think it's too late for that but I do find it interesting you find it so interesting that there's people putting on the show and you know what else I find interesting is the fact did you think it's so interesting to mess up the song I'm going to step out of character for just a moment I like to destroy a myth right now see m

y brother really isn't mad at me of course maybe some people know that already but I don't think so see he's not really mad at me in fact he's never been mad at me he's my brother and this is TV and we we pretend I'm mad I'm not pretending I'm mad no you're not Azie and haret when Aussie yelled at herit are they mad no pretending on TV was Elmer fud does el fud really hate Bugs Bunny no no way Mrs olssen doesn't live next door to all those people and and so it's pretending Telly savales isn't ba

ld FP Wilson isn't really black it's what you do on television Raymond B can walk to ke how else do you think he walks up all right Tommy I think You' just we've just had enough I've really had hey you've gone far enough I understand I mean you think you're cute I'm not you make a mistake and you cover up by trying to be cute but I do understand the point right this is television I understand that people pretend I understand that you're not really mad but a lot of times on television people do n

ot pretend like right now I'm angry at you no hey I'm angry at you and if you want to wander around all during the song you do it if you want to interrupt you do it just go ahead and do it but since people pretend on television you just go ahead and do both parts all by yourself you understand well see now you sing both parts well now you see that you see I said sing both parts I didn't say explain it I said sing it well I just going to say that that's impossible for me to sing both parts preten

d hey I got an idea take my base do both parts I'm not I don't want to I said I take my base I don't want to take my base no yes take it okay go ahead see this is television I just pretending to take his BAS