Alice Gerrard: “Get Up and Do Right” and “Fortune”
Clip: 3/13/2025 | 3m 6sVideo has Closed Captions
Alice Gerrard combines two bluegrass songs into one tune that calls for community action.
“Get Up and Do Right” by Alice Gerrard serves as a call to action for communities to prioritize positive change and improve society. The band combines this song with the instrumental “Fortune,” creating a classic bluegrass breakdown.
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Alice Gerrard: “Get Up and Do Right” and “Fortune”
Clip: 3/13/2025 | 3m 6sVideo has Closed Captions
“Get Up and Do Right” by Alice Gerrard serves as a call to action for communities to prioritize positive change and improve society. The band combines this song with the instrumental “Fortune,” creating a classic bluegrass breakdown.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship♪ Get up in the morning and do right ♪ ♪ Don't you get up and go and do wrong ♪ ♪ Get up in the morning and do right ♪ ♪ All day long ♪ ♪ Well, you wonder why this world's a-goin' downhill ♪ ♪ Big wigs and politicians lie and cheat and steal ♪ ♪ We're doin' wrong to people in the name of freedom ♪ ♪ Come on children, come on now now ♪ ♪ Get up in the morning and do right ♪ ♪ Don't you get up and go and do wrong ♪ ♪ Get up in the morning and do right ♪ ♪ All day long ♪ ♪ Yeah ♪ [lively music] ♪ Alright ♪ ♪ You don't need all the cars and toys you think you need ♪ ♪ Substitute a bit of kindliness for all the greed ♪ ♪ Sow a little happiness out in your field ♪ ♪ Come on children, come on now now ♪ ♪ Get up in the morning and do right ♪ ♪ Don't you get up and go and do wrong ♪ ♪ Get up in the morning and do right ♪ ♪ All day long ♪ [lively music] ♪ There's a man downtown, he's a-sleepin' on a grate ♪ ♪ A woman got cuts and bruises showin' on her face ♪ ♪ Little baby child needs a refuge place ♪ ♪ Come on children, come on now now ♪ ♪ Get up in the morning and do right ♪ ♪ Don't you get up and go and do wrong ♪ ♪ Get up in the morning and do right ♪ ♪ All day long ♪ [lively music] [lively music continues] - Woo-hoo!
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Folk legend Alice Gerrard performs songs from communities that have inspired her. (30s)
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Shaped by Sound is a local public television program presented by PBS NC
Made possible through support from Come Hear NC, a program of the N.C. Music Office within the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.