Gov. Mike Beebe and House Speaker Davy Carter  were scheduled to perform a duet last night during the Scaryoke fund-raiser for
the Open Arms Shelter for abused children in Lonoke.

I’m disappointed to report no bootleg video has made its way to YouTube yet.

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Beforehand, the song selection was top secret. Surely a reader can fill in that blank.

I was looking through the Conway/Loretta songbook for a good title, but nothing jumped out. “After the Fire is Gone?” Nah. Maybe June and Johnny Cash’s “Oh What a Good Thing We Had.”

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Crowd-sourcing invited.

UPDATE: I’ve now added a photograph. And Gabe Holmstrom sends word that the duet sang George Strait’s “Amarillo by Morning” and “Troubador.” He notes the opening line of the latter:

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“I still feel 25 most of the time
I still raise a little Cain with the boys”

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