December 15, 2007
 This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we've got five concertinas, four melodeons, three button boxes, two tin whistles, and a partridge in a pear tree. Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver are riding their 18-wheel sleigh in from East Tennessee, and the Boys of the Lough will make a chilly North Atlantic crossing for our final show at the Town Hall. Also with us, The Guy's All Star Shoe Band with Pat Donohue, Arnie Kinsella, Gary Raynor, Andy Stein, and maestro Richard Dworsky, The Royal Academy of Radio Acting: Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, and the News from Lake Wobegon. It's all coming up this week on A Prairie Home Companion.

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Segment 1
00:00:00Logo
00:00:13"Tishomingo Blues" - GK / Shoe Band
00:03:07Winter script.
00:06:30"She's A Girl Who Got Tired of Christmas" - GK and Shoe Band
00:08:06"Let's Go Buy Stuff" - Pat Donohue and Shoe Band
00:10:51Cowboy script
00:21:48GK intros Doyle Lawson
00:22:55"Sadie's Got Her New Dress On" - Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver
00:26:55"Ashland Breakdown" - Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver
00:31:04Santa script
00:33:57Powdermilk Biscuit Break/ Angels From the Realms of Glory
Segment 2
00:36:30GK intros Boys of the Lough
00:38:08"The Barn Dances" - Boys of the Lough
00:45:12Guy Noir script
00:59:54"Rocket 88" - Pat Donohue and Shoe Band
01:02:07Intermission - Shine
Segment 3
01:06:16Greetings, trip giveaway drawing
01:14:38"Angel" - GK/ Shoe Band
01:18:26GK talks about David Smith
01:19:44"Beauty Dean an Oileain" - Boys of the Lough
01:22:07Rhubarb script
01:26:37GK talks to Doyle Lawson
01:27:17"Jingle Bells" - Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver
01:29:39Till I See You Face to Face
Segment 4
01:31:52The News from Lake Wobegon (Download MP3)
Segment 5
01:46:36"All in Due Time" - Richard Dworsky
01:48:26"The Christ Child Lullaby" - Cathal McConnell and Boys of the Lough
01:52:04"Green Grow the Rushes" - Boys of the Lough
01:53:57Credits, Fisher's Hornpipe

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Garrison Keillor Andy Stein, Gary Raynor and Pat Donohue
Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver The Boy's of the Lough
Guy Noir Private Eye At the end of the show, everybody joins together on the last song.
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