The three songs Prine played were Paradise (now a bluegrass standard) and the tunes later known as Hello in There (recognized as one of the great songs about old age, which Prine somehow wrote at 23) and Sam Stone, a portrait of a Vietnam vet whos come home hooked on heroin, with its chorus, Theres a hole in Daddys arm where all the money goes/ Jesus Christ died for nothin, I suppose. As Prine frequently told the story later, when he finished, the room was silent, and he figured hed bombed
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Breaking in a pipe on Prince Albert or Carter Hall tends to do a quick and good job
