Finale - Knoxville

Lyrics

[Mary, spoken] I promised you a surprise, didn't I? And do you want to know what it's going to be, Rufus? [Young Rufus, spoken] What? [Mary, spoken] A baby! [Young Rufus, spoken] Where's the baby now, Mama? [Mary, spoken] Up in Heaven! No...it's right here. Yes, darling, right here [Mary, sung] We come from our people And our people come from theirs [Mary and Jay] We pass our descendants Goin' up and down the stairs [Mary] God is good [Jay] Prayers are fine [Mary and Jay] But right here is what's divine [Mary, spoken] You see, Rufus, when a grown man and woman love each other, truly love each other, as daddy and mother did, they get married And that's the beginning of a family It'll happen to you someday before you know it So I want you to listen very carefully to everything I'm goin' to tell you Because I think it's time you knew about it [Older Rufus] May God bless my people My uncle, my aunt My mother, and the memory of my good father Oh, remember them kindly in their time of trouble And in the hour that they're taken away [Older Rufus, sung] And I will end as I began A boy deciphering a man The generosity, whiskey, and wanderin' heart A dim remembrance of a night The lines I knew I'd have to write And in between the lines [Company] Home is the place you start Knoxville (Knoxville) Knoxville (Knoxville) Knoxville (Knoxville) Knoxville (Knoxville) Knoxville (Knoxville) Knoxville (Knoxville) Knoxville (Knoxville) Knoxville [Jay] Night falls [Older Rufus] Life calls [Company] It ??? Knoxville