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Emanuel Woods

Photos and poem from the Scottie L. Snider Collection, Ozark, MO.

Author of poem unknown.

Emanuel's Grand Old Opry

Where is the crowd on Saturday night?

It's really not much of a riddle;

They're all in Ozark for music and songs

And hear Emanuel play the fiddle.

He fiddles out Cindy and January eighth

Waggoner and Old Joe Clark;

Let your ears guide you, there's music galore

On Main Street 'long after dark.

There's John joining in with a mean guitar

And Kelly with a fiddling bass;

Picking out hoedowns from long long ago

Back from the good ole days.

I've heard of a place down in Nashville

That's tried very hard to copy;

The show that's put on each Saturday night

at Emanuel's Grand Old Op'ry.

The Ozark's Grand Old Opry was a regular weekend pastime in Ozark, MO. During the 1950's through 1970's

Torn down in the late 1970's