A Grand Ole Opry Christmas

["LEAVE THE CHRISTMAS LIGHTS ON FOR ME" PLAYING]

I've been on the road for three weeks now.

Playing sold out shows.

And driving back through Arkansas.

We ran into snow

I thought I'd be there in time for dinner Christmas Eve.

But there's a jackknifed rig blocking 40 east.

Oh, leave the Christmas lights on for me

I don't want to spend it in a motel all alone.

Oh, leave the Christmas lights on for me.

Now, Christmas won't be Christmas

if I can't make it home

Winters and Wade, everyone.

Thanks again for coming out tonight, folks.

Good night.

Good night.

Hey, Jett.

Hmm?

Merry Christmas.

You too, Von.

Ugh, so sorry you're not feeling well, Lulu.

Oh, listen, don't worry.

I'm gonna cover your shift.

OK, rest up now.

Bye.

I will deal with you later.

Oh.

I already have one.

Yeah, but I was hoping we could swap it out.

- Yours is more traditional. - What's wrong with that one?

It's got microphones and little violins.

Fiddles. MAC: Whatever.

Welcome to Nashville, buddy.

You know what, Gentry?

I have been back for five years.

I am this close to saying y'all.

Now, do want to swap or not?

Yeah, I think it's cute.

Good.

I'm gonna tell the record label.

They're courting me to sign one of their

new up-and-coming clients, kid named.

Rowdy, who, coincidentally, I also want to represent.

I guess this is their way of wooing me.

Well, they should have gotten you a gift card to Ole Red.

You know me so well.

Food is my love language.

Mm-hmm.

Hmm.

Yeah, see?

It looks better on your door.

I knew it would.

That is because I embrace my roots,

unlike some people that I know.

You.

I'm talking about you.

I know you are. Where you going?

I thought you had the day off.

Ugh, well, Lulu called in sick, so manager hat off.

Waitress apron on.

Well, until you relent and let me sign you and represent you

to write a song that wins the CMA Song of the Year Award,

and you get all your laurels.

I'm serious.

Oh, that dream is for another me, Mac.

No, Gentry.

Talent is talent.

[TIGIRLILY GOLD, "MISTLETOE TIPSY"] So, baby,

let's keep fa-la-la-la fallin'

Up and down the halls.

And getting kind of mistletoe tipsy.

Sugar, you got me hoping.

Maybe we'll get snowed in.

Chilling all alone.

Just you and me.

It's getting kind of cold.

So baby hold me close.

Wrapped up in each other.

Like we're underneath a tree.

There ain't no kind of fallin'

Like fa-la-la-la fallin' in love on Christmas Eve.

Fallin' in love.

Fa-la-la-la.

Fallin' in love.

In love on Christmas Eve.

Thanks, y'all.

We're Tigirlily Gold.

Merry Christmas, everybody.

All good?

Great.

Oh, hey, can you check on table 12 and make sure

their waters are refilled?

Sure thing.

Thank you, honey.

Everyone all right?

Yes, ma'am.

Good.

How'd we get so lucky as to have.

Tigirlily Gold playing here?

They like to return to their roots here on Broadway from time

to time.

Nice.

Listen, I was telling my buddy here,

you're Jett Wade's daughter.

Is that right?

That's right.

Yep.

Why'd your daddy quit playing music?

Question for the ages.

Now, can I get you anything else?

Gotta tell ya, your daddy's Martin D-28 guitar, ooh.

Oh.

That's gotta be worth a pretty penny, huh?

You mean Gigi.

Mm-hmm.

I'll tell you what, if I knew where that guitar was,

I would've donated it to the Opry by now.

Let me know if you need anything else.

Will do.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

["LEAVE THE CHRISTMAS LIGHTS ON FOR ME"

I've been on the road for three weeks now,

playing sold out shows.

Hey, lady.

Rita.

You OK?

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Is it hearing this song all the way through Christmas?

Hmm.

No, I love this song.

Makes me feel closer to Daddy.

Yeah.

No, just a couple customers asking

the same question that everybody asks about Jett Wade.

Why did he walk away from fame and fortune?

That's the one.

And no one can answer it.

Not even me or you.

And I wish I could.

But he never said.

Yeah.

Christmas just makes me think about it more than usual.

That's all.

You want your regular?

No, I thought I'd try a seasonal drink.

Oh.

OK, peppermint hot chocolate it is.

Ah.

Oh.

But that's not what brings me by.

Oh?

I heard a rumor...

Mm.

That the Opry sent you an invitation

and you've not replied.

Oh, Rita, I forget you still have ties there.

'Cause the Opry family, Gentry.

And it always will be.

And you are part of it.

Not really.

I mean, not anymore.

Honey, it's the Opry's 100th anniversary.

The Christmas special, it's on the 23,

and they want you up there on that stage, along with Von,

for their tribute to Winters and Wade.

You need to be there.

I'll think about it.

Oh, you are just as stubborn as he was.

So you keep saying.

Mm.

You want something a little extra in that?

Hmm, yes, please.

She's somebody's daughter.

She's somebody's everything.

She's somebody's little girl.

Even if she's grown up and moved...

Yeah, no, I get it.

He's very good.

I mean, it's talent like his that

made me decide and agree to come back to Nashville

in the first place.

Yeah, I mean, the label wants you, but Rowdy decides.

He's looking for new management.

But he is a traditionalist.

So you want to win him over, talk to him about the history

of country music.

See? Right there.

That's the thing.

I am amazing at recognizing talent.

I can get it to all the right places,

but don't ask me to take a quiz on all this music stuff.

No, just fake it.

Get your girlfriend Gentry to help you.

She knows country history. Heck, she's part of it.

She's not my girlfriend.

OK, lady friend.

She's my friend, friend.

She's been my friend since high school onward until now.

OK, well, she's been divorced almost three years.