[bright brass music]
- Bud Jones: What do you remember about our first date?
- Jackie Jones: Well, I got in the car
and you said, "Now, don't get excited Jackie,
but my pet snake is loose in this car."
And I'm not a snake person.
- Bud: But you toughed it out, didn't ya?
- Jackie: I toughed it out.
You were a hot number for me.
We dated for two years, and then we decided to elope.
- Bud: I remember you didn't want your mother and daddy
to know where we're going,
so you threw your clothes out the window.
- Jackie: I did.
- Bud: And just as we were getting ready to leave,
Ivy Pope called and said he had killed a strange bird
in his lake and wanted me to come and look at it.
So we went over to Ivy Pope's lake,
and he had just killed a duck.
- Jackie: And by then, it was night,
and we had to go to the judge's house,
and when we got there, he was drunk.
- Bud: Well, he wasn't exactly drunk.
He was just kind of wobbling.
- Jackie: Well, he was feeling real good.
- Bud: Yeah, he was feeling good.
- Jackie: Well, I must've been crazy in love
to go through this.
[laughing] - Bud: Yeah.
- Jackie: We seldom ever have an argument,
but if it is, it's about something
like an elephant's eye.
Bud's place is on the opposite side of the room
from mine, and we get along real well,
because we can't see what each other are doing.
- Bud: She's kinda bossy. - Jackie: And I admit it,
but I'll say right here that you do know a lot.
- Bud: Well, I'll be, I need to record that.
Well, let me tell you, a man or a woman is blessed
if they can go to work every morning and enjoy it.
And I'm just real happy
that I've had a partner all of these years
that I wouldn't trade for anybody.
- Jackie: Thank you.
Life has not been dull with you, Bud.
- Bud: Well, I know that,
but when you got in the car that night, you shoulda known.
- Jackie: I know I did.
That shoulda been my first clue
as to what my life was gonna be like.
- Bud: Thank you, Jackie, and I love you.
- Jackie: I love you most.
["Give Me a Reason to Stay" by Jim Wolfe]