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♪ Go down, Ol' Hannah
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♪ Don't you rise no more
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♪ Well, if you rise
in the mornin'
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♪ Bring Judgment Day
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♪ You oughta been
on the brazis
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♪ Nineteen and ten
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♪ They was drivin' the women
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♪ Like they do the men
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♪ Oh, the sun was shinin'
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♪ And the men was flyin'
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♪ Oh, the cap'n
was a-hollerin'
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♪ And the men was dyin'
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♪ Go down, Ol' Hannah
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♪ Doncha rise no more
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♪ Well, if you rise
in the mornin'
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♪ Bring Judgment Day ♪
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Ledbetter!
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Come on!
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They want you in the office.
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[CHAINS CLINKING]
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I'm Professor Lomax,
this is my assistant Tom.
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Want to take
his chains off?
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Orders are
to leave 'em on.
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This nigger's
a real bad one.
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LOMAX: Right this way.
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Have a seat.
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I guess they told ya,
we're here collectin' songs.
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There ain't a damn thing
I can do for you,
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'cept maybe a sack
of Bull Durham,
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couple of hours
out of the sun.
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Heard a lot about you.
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That's why I've come
all the way down here
to record you.
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I knows a lots of songs.
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Some of 'em I made up,
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some of 'em I changed
from other folks's.
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You got some picks
for me?
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Yeah, here.
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What are you in for?
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Murder.
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I calls it self-defense.
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He stuck me with a knife,
but I stuck him better.
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[ON RECORDER]
He stuck me with a knife,
but I stuck him better.
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[CHUCKLES]
You see, it's easy.
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[CHUCKLES] Lord.
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I ain't never sung
in no machine before.
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Well, this is a song
I used to sing back home
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in Mooringsport,
Louisiana.
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It's around 1907.
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My uncle, Terrell,
taught it to me.
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Saturday night
we used to have
play party dancin'.
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Sukey Jumps
we calls it.
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[GUITAR PLAYING]
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HUDDIE: Yes, sir.
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Everybody come to dance.
Just had a fine time.
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Heh. Weren't no white folks
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maybe 10, 15 miles
around.
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Pshaw!
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I used to ride
my daddy's horse,
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sashay around them girls,
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lookin' like Saturday night
all the way to Sunday mornin'!
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Yes, sir. And everybody
knew everybody them days.
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Y'know, it was like
it was a family.
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Evenin', ladies,
y'all goin' to the party?
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Hah!
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HUDDIE:
Now, there was this ol'
Archie Macoomb.
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Look out!
Here come Archie!
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He had a team of bays,
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and before you know it,
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Lord, he'd come
boilin' down the road
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and I'd just
take out after 'im.
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Hah!
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Hah!
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Come on! Hah!
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[CLUCKING]
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Hah!
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Hah! Come on!
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[JAUNTY MUSIC PLAYING]
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♪ Green corn,
green corn
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♪ Green corn,
come along cholly
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♪ Green corn,
go 'n tell polly
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♪ Green corn, green corn
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♪ Stand around,
stand around
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♪ Two little boys
to call me poppa
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♪ One named Sop
and th' other named Gravy
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♪ Green corn, green corn
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♪ Green corn,
come along cholly
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♪ Green corn,
go 'n tell polly
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♪ Green corn,
green corn
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[SHRIEKS]
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♪ Two little boys
to call me poppa
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♪ One named Sop
and th' other named Gravy
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♪ One named Sop
and th' other named Gravy
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♪ One's gonna put up
an' the other's gonna save it
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♪ Green corn,
green corn
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♪ Green corn,
come along cholly
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♪ Green corn,
go 'n tell polly
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♪ Green corn,
green corn
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♪ Wake, snake,
day's a-breakin'
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♪ Peas in the pot,
the whole cake's bakin'
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♪ Green corn,
green corn
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♪ Green corn,
come along cholly
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♪ Green corn,
go 'n tell polly
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♪ Green corn,
green corn
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♪ Stand around,
stand around the jimmy-john
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♪ Stand around,
stand around the jimmy-john
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♪ Stand around,
stand around ♪
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[JAUNTY MUSIC CONTINUES]
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[TEMPO INCREASES]
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[MUSIC STOPS][APPLAUSE]
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Come on, Margaret,
I'll take you on with me
in my new buggy.
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Uh-uh.
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Don' you be
mule stubborn.
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Come on.
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This here seat's
made outta real oak.
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No, thank you kindly.
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Promise to let Huddie
carry me home.
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Yeah, well, Huddie Ledbetter
ain't gonna take you nowheres!
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Archie Macoomb,
you let go me.
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You all liquored up,
else you wouldn't!
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Oh! [WHIMPERS]
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Archie, please!
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Stop, Huddie!
Archie, stop!
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Oh, my God.
Y'all are liquored,
throw it away!
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Archie... Oh, my God.[GUN CLICKS]
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Stop! No!
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Huddie!
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[LAUGHS]
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♪ Black girl
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♪ Black girl,
where did ya sleep last night?
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♪ Did you shiver
the whole night through? ♪
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MARGARET: Supposin'
you killed Archie,
just supposin'?
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HUDDIE:
[CHUCKLES] No.
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You can't hit
the inside of a barn wall
with one of these pistols.
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You know, one day
I'm gonna get away
from here.
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MARGARET: What you mean,
"Away from here"?
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HUDDIE: Shreveport,
that's what I mean.
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Shreveport.
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Way away from here.
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MARGARET: My daddy say
there ain't nothin'
in Shreveport,
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but the white man
you owes money to
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and his co'thouse
and his jail.
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HUDDIE:
Oh, no!
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There's Fannin Street.
That's what there is
in Shreveport.
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Fannin Street.
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Huddie honey,
I don't want to hear
nothin' more
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'bout no Fannin Street.
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HUDDIE: Unless you ever
been to Fannin Street,
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well, you won't
never know.
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MARGARET: Listen, honey,
we gotta get married.
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HUDDIE: What?
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MARGARET:
I missed my time.
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Twice.
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Fan Belle said
I'm gonna have a baby.
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You can't go nowhere now.
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HUDDIE:
Aw, come on.
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That's what
you said last Christmas
and you come 'round.
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MARGARET: Huddie,
it's gonna be real sweet
when we married, baby.
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Huddie?
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Are you listenin' to me,
Huddie?
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Uh, yeah,
I'm listenin'
to you, honey.
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Hmm. I'm listenin'.
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[DOG BARKING]
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Mornin', Wes.
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Morning, Sheriff.
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Your boy at home?
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No.
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He didn't come home
last night.
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Well, then that's what
I'm 'bliged to believe.
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Fact is, Leonard Macoomb
come into town this mornin'
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to swear out a complaint.
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Seems your Huddie
laid open his boy's head
with a pistol barrel.
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Now, you know me, Ledbetter.
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Fact is, Wes,
I come out here
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'cause I got
a deal of respect for you.
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But I'm worried
about your boy.
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Why, you just
let him run wild!
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Nobody tell me
how to raise my own boy.
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I respect that.
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What'd you
come into my dooryard
to tell me, Sheriff?
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Bring your boy
into town, hear?
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I won't pay no mind
to no assault truck,
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I'll just fine the boy $25
for carryin' concealed weapons
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and that'll be an end on it.
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Now, you watch
your boy, Ledbetter.
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That's a word to the wise.
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Hiyah!
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[CARRIAGE DRIVES AWAY]
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[SLAMS DOOR SHUT]
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Come outta
there, boy.
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Wes, Wes!Shut up!
Shut up, woman!
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Goddamnit, boy,
you listen to sense.
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I told you never
to take that gun
outta this house
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without good reason.
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Where you gonna go?
You got the Sheriff
down on you.
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Shreveport.
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Fannin Street,
that's where I go.
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Play my music.
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All of a heap
you in a hurry?
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Wes, he's just a child.
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00:15:49,644 --> 00:15:51,211
No, he ain't.
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00:15:52,647 --> 00:15:56,390
Sam Judd come by
on his way to meetin'.
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00:15:56,433 --> 00:15:58,914
You been lyin'
with that gal of his?
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Answer me, boy.
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00:16:01,177 --> 00:16:02,222
Yeah.
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00:16:02,265 --> 00:16:03,266
What?
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00:16:05,921 --> 00:16:07,227
Yes, sir.
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00:16:07,270 --> 00:16:09,403
When?This mornin'.
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WES: Judd say
he'd come around
with all his menfolks
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00:16:19,979 --> 00:16:22,764
with their duck pieces
and rifle guns,
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make Huddie
marry that gal.
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Sheriff's down on him
for a bad nigger.
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00:16:33,557 --> 00:16:36,691
Judd's bad mouthin' him
around the parish.
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00:16:41,391 --> 00:16:45,134
Give a dog a bad name,
folks gonna chunk rocks
at him.
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00:16:47,571 --> 00:16:51,445
By and by, he gonna
bite somebody for sure.
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00:17:03,413 --> 00:17:06,808
You leave the horse
with Will Farrell
in Mooringsport.
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Yes, I will, Pa.
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00:17:13,162 --> 00:17:14,555
Huddie...
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00:17:16,818 --> 00:17:18,602
I'll be givin' help
to the Judd girl
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00:17:18,646 --> 00:17:20,822
when that child
o' hers come.
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You best keep your mind
on helpin' her, too,
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whenever you can.
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Yes, sir.
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And you come back
home some day,
you hear, Huddie?
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00:17:38,013 --> 00:17:39,928
Well, you better
be gettin' on
down the road.
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[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
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♪ My mama told me
My papa told me, too
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♪ The women
in Shreveport, son,
gonna be the death of you
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00:18:20,751 --> 00:18:23,102
♪ Mmm...
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♪ Mmm, mmm, mmm
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♪ Mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm
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00:18:36,419 --> 00:18:40,119
♪ Mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm
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00:18:56,526 --> 00:19:00,095
♪ I got a woman,
live on Stony Hill
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00:19:00,139 --> 00:19:03,098
♪ Been settin' down gamblin'
with Buffalo Bill
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00:19:03,925 --> 00:19:06,232
♪ Mmm, mmm, mmm
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00:19:08,277 --> 00:19:11,889
♪ Follow me down,
follow me down
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00:19:11,933 --> 00:19:15,502
♪ Follow me down
to Mr. Tom Hughes' town
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00:19:15,545 --> 00:19:20,376
♪ Mmm, mmm, mmm ♪
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[PIANO PLAYING]
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00:19:26,469 --> 00:19:27,775
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
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00:19:40,744 --> 00:19:43,617
MAN: Laura, put your hand
on your hip.
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00:19:43,660 --> 00:19:45,314
Sugar Tit,
look far over the fan.
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00:19:45,358 --> 00:19:47,186
Now, hold it there,
all of you.
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00:19:49,144 --> 00:19:50,232
Thank you.
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00:19:54,802 --> 00:19:57,848
Hey! You lookin'
for somethin'?
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00:19:59,981 --> 00:20:01,678
He lookin'
for his plow.
246
00:20:01,722 --> 00:20:04,507
Done follered his mule
clear down Fannin Street.
247
00:20:04,551 --> 00:20:05,726
[LAUGHTER]
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00:20:11,427 --> 00:20:13,342
Hey, watch your feet,
Country Boy.
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00:20:13,386 --> 00:20:15,779
You get cow shit
on Miss Eula's
Turkey carpet,
250
00:20:15,823 --> 00:20:17,955
she have your ass!
251
00:20:17,999 --> 00:20:19,653
[LAUGHTER]
252
00:20:21,524 --> 00:20:24,223
Hey, plow this,
Country Boy.
253
00:20:24,266 --> 00:20:26,486
Acres an' acres,
and it's all yours.
254
00:20:29,576 --> 00:20:32,318
This here's,
uh, Sugar Tit.
255
00:20:32,970 --> 00:20:34,668
She does specials.
256
00:20:35,538 --> 00:20:36,452
[WOMEN CHUCKLING]
257
00:20:37,192 --> 00:20:38,672
I'm Sugar Tit,
258
00:20:38,715 --> 00:20:40,500
and you ain't
gonna do no better
259
00:20:40,543 --> 00:20:43,067
on Fannin Street,
Country Boy.
260
00:20:43,111 --> 00:20:45,809
Now, which one
you want, mmm?
261
00:20:45,853 --> 00:20:47,376
Take your pick.
262
00:20:54,383 --> 00:20:55,906
I choose you.
263
00:20:57,081 --> 00:20:58,866
'Cause I like
to see them sassy ones
264
00:20:58,909 --> 00:21:00,781
holler and screamin'
for more.
265
00:21:00,824 --> 00:21:02,130
Ooh![WOMEN CHUCKLE]
266
00:21:03,697 --> 00:21:07,483
Country Boy, I got
a boss longshoreman
comin' in
267
00:21:07,527 --> 00:21:10,399
for his regular
in half an hour,
268
00:21:10,443 --> 00:21:13,446
and I ain't gonna
even be breathin' hard.
269
00:21:13,489 --> 00:21:16,362
Right, right!
270
00:21:16,405 --> 00:21:18,233
Mercy, mercy!
271
00:21:21,192 --> 00:21:23,934
Ooh!Point it upstairs
and follow me.
272
00:21:23,978 --> 00:21:27,198
'Bye, Country Boy.Bye-bye.
273
00:21:27,242 --> 00:21:28,548
Bye, Country Boy.
274
00:21:29,505 --> 00:21:30,898
[CHUCKLING]
275
00:21:32,029 --> 00:21:34,075
[PIANO PLAYING]
276
00:21:39,167 --> 00:21:40,429
[STOPS]
277
00:21:40,473 --> 00:21:41,691
Hello, girls.
278
00:21:41,735 --> 00:21:43,563
ALL: Good day, Miss Eula.
279
00:21:46,609 --> 00:21:49,177
Uh, the longshoreman's
on his way, where's Sugar Tit?
280
00:21:49,220 --> 00:21:52,136
Um, upstairs,
takin' a nap.
281
00:21:52,180 --> 00:21:54,269
Takin' a nap?
282
00:21:54,965 --> 00:21:56,706
[PIANO PLAYING RESUMES]
283
00:22:06,194 --> 00:22:07,543
[SUGAR TIT GIGGLING]
284
00:22:11,112 --> 00:22:12,809
[SUGAR TIT LAUGHING]
285
00:22:16,247 --> 00:22:17,248
SUGAR TIT: Ah!
286
00:22:18,772 --> 00:22:20,034
Well![SUGAR TIT SHRIEKS]
287
00:22:23,472 --> 00:22:24,778
[GASPS]
288
00:22:26,301 --> 00:22:27,302
[SHRIEKS]
289
00:22:34,091 --> 00:22:36,006
I don't see no money.
290
00:22:36,050 --> 00:22:37,617
This ain't
no four-bit crib.
291
00:22:37,660 --> 00:22:39,619
This is a parlor house.
292
00:22:39,662 --> 00:22:43,013
You take one of
my girls upstairs,
you owe me $5.
293
00:22:43,057 --> 00:22:45,059
Have you got $5?
294
00:22:48,671 --> 00:22:49,411
Albert!
295
00:22:51,021 --> 00:22:52,458
Albert![MUSIC STOPS]
296
00:22:56,679 --> 00:22:57,811
What's your name?
297
00:22:57,854 --> 00:22:58,855
Huddie Ledbetter.
298
00:22:58,899 --> 00:23:00,379
Ledbetter.
299
00:23:05,122 --> 00:23:06,559
Leadbelly!
300
00:23:10,867 --> 00:23:13,435
Albert, stay right
where you are.
301
00:23:16,220 --> 00:23:19,485
MISS EULA:
♪ Good mornin', blues
302
00:23:19,528 --> 00:23:23,271
♪ Blues, how do you do? ♪
303
00:23:26,361 --> 00:23:27,580
HUDDIE: That Miss Eula,
304
00:23:27,623 --> 00:23:30,191
she really turned out
to be somethin'.
305
00:23:30,234 --> 00:23:33,368
I stayed with that woman
for quite some time.
306
00:23:33,412 --> 00:23:35,022
I learned a lot from her.
307
00:23:35,065 --> 00:23:37,241
She even taught me
how to sing the blues.
308
00:23:37,285 --> 00:23:38,721
[GUITAR STRUMMING]MISS EULA: That's not it.
309
00:23:38,765 --> 00:23:41,681
You ain't
playin' it at all.
310
00:23:43,378 --> 00:23:44,640
Well, that's the tune.
311
00:23:46,294 --> 00:23:48,339
Ain't got nothin' to do
with the tune.
312
00:23:48,383 --> 00:23:51,342
You're talkin' 'bout
the blues.
313
00:23:51,386 --> 00:23:52,996
You got to feel
the blues.
314
00:23:54,215 --> 00:23:59,133
New Orleans blues,
woman blues,
whore blues.
315
00:24:03,442 --> 00:24:05,400
[STRUMMING]
316
00:24:07,924 --> 00:24:11,406
It's gonna cost you dear
to learn the blues.
317
00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:14,801
[CONTINUES STRUMMING]
318
00:24:19,849 --> 00:24:21,851
Nobody can turn you around,
can they?
319
00:24:25,942 --> 00:24:28,641
Tonight it's the blues,
320
00:24:30,077 --> 00:24:33,297
tomorrow night
it'll be the barrelhouse.
321
00:24:39,129 --> 00:24:41,567
That's it! That's it!
322
00:24:42,959 --> 00:24:45,092
[MUSIC PLAYING]
323
00:24:47,224 --> 00:24:48,835
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
324
00:25:01,717 --> 00:25:02,762
Come on, now.
325
00:25:02,805 --> 00:25:05,199
[MOUTHORGAN PLAYING]
326
00:25:22,390 --> 00:25:24,435
♪ Good mornin', blues
327
00:25:24,479 --> 00:25:26,960
♪ Blues, how do you do?
328
00:25:29,223 --> 00:25:31,268
♪ Good mornin', blues
329
00:25:31,312 --> 00:25:34,184
♪ Blues, how do you do?
330
00:25:35,925 --> 00:25:38,058
♪ Well, I'm doin' all right
331
00:25:38,101 --> 00:25:40,190
♪ Good mornin'
How are you?
332
00:25:43,063 --> 00:25:44,368
♪ Lay down
last night
333
00:25:44,412 --> 00:25:47,850
♪ I was turnin'
from side to side
334
00:25:49,765 --> 00:25:52,202
♪ Oh...
335
00:25:52,246 --> 00:25:54,727
♪ Turnin' from side to side
336
00:25:56,206 --> 00:26:00,559
♪ I was not sick,
but I was just dissatisfied
337
00:26:02,778 --> 00:26:05,651
♪ Well, I got up
this mornin'
338
00:26:05,694 --> 00:26:09,176
♪ Blues walkin'
'round my bed
339
00:26:09,959 --> 00:26:11,874
♪ Oh...
340
00:26:11,918 --> 00:26:15,051
♪ Blues walkin'
'round my bed
341
00:26:16,575 --> 00:26:18,664
♪ Well, I went
to eat my breakfast
342
00:26:18,707 --> 00:26:22,755
♪ The blues
was all in my bread
343
00:26:22,798 --> 00:26:24,757
Hey, hey, hey!
344
00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:27,368
Drinks for everybody.
Drinks for everybody!
345
00:26:27,411 --> 00:26:29,588
How about that?
Y'all go and get
some drinks!
346
00:26:30,763 --> 00:26:32,678
[TEMPO INCREASES]
347
00:26:43,427 --> 00:26:45,038
♪ Keep your hands
off her
348
00:26:46,169 --> 00:26:48,868
♪ Keep your hands off her
349
00:26:48,911 --> 00:26:49,999
♪ Keep your hands off her... ♪
350
00:26:50,043 --> 00:26:52,045
Bitch!
351
00:26:55,570 --> 00:26:57,050
You're fired
outta my house.
352
00:26:57,093 --> 00:26:59,356
You can go on back
to that sidewalk crib
353
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:01,924
and peddle your
skinny ass on the street
two for a quarter.
354
00:27:05,928 --> 00:27:08,801
Customers are
always complainin'
about that girl.
355
00:27:08,844 --> 00:27:11,891
I tell her,
"Wiggle your ass
sometimes, honey,
356
00:27:11,934 --> 00:27:13,109
"so people know
you're alive."
357
00:27:13,153 --> 00:27:14,894
[LAUGHTER]
358
00:27:16,504 --> 00:27:19,072
It's time to come
on home, honey.
359
00:27:21,988 --> 00:27:24,033
I said
come on home.
360
00:27:28,777 --> 00:27:31,345
We got Saturday
night company,
I need you.
361
00:27:33,434 --> 00:27:34,435
Albert.
362
00:27:39,048 --> 00:27:40,441
Come on, honey.
363
00:27:46,186 --> 00:27:48,144
Britt, bring me my guitar.
364
00:27:55,891 --> 00:27:57,937
Woman,
don't bother me none,
365
00:27:57,980 --> 00:28:00,113
I am playin' my music.
366
00:28:02,637 --> 00:28:03,986
What are you talkin' about?
367
00:28:06,162 --> 00:28:09,949
[SCOFFS] Tellin' me
when to come and when to go,
368
00:28:09,992 --> 00:28:12,255
and don't do this
and don't do that.
369
00:28:12,299 --> 00:28:15,519
I ain't one
of your whores.
370
00:28:15,563 --> 00:28:17,783
No, you ain't
one of my whores,
371
00:28:17,826 --> 00:28:19,654
'cause they are
hard-working girls
372
00:28:19,698 --> 00:28:21,264
and they earn
their keep.
373
00:28:21,308 --> 00:28:23,832
[SCOFFS]
374
00:28:23,876 --> 00:28:27,967
You come here,
you a green country boy,
375
00:28:28,010 --> 00:28:32,014
didn't know nothin'
'cept play party hollers,
376
00:28:32,058 --> 00:28:33,146
wanderin' on Fannin Street
377
00:28:33,189 --> 00:28:35,888
without the price
of a piece of ass.
378
00:28:35,931 --> 00:28:38,542
I bought you that guitar!
379
00:28:38,586 --> 00:28:40,544
I went your bail
when Sheriff Tom Hughes
380
00:28:40,588 --> 00:28:43,504
dragged you in
for drunk fighting.[SIGHS]
381
00:28:43,547 --> 00:28:46,289
And when you went and dipped
your wick in some chippie
382
00:28:46,333 --> 00:28:49,031
and caught the clap.
383
00:28:49,075 --> 00:28:51,686
I cured you with
Lafayette Mixture.
384
00:28:54,123 --> 00:28:55,298
I'm tellin' you...
385
00:28:56,647 --> 00:28:59,128
Nobody make me small,
ya hear?
386
00:28:59,172 --> 00:29:01,827
If I walk
out of here by myself,
387
00:29:01,870 --> 00:29:03,916
that's the way
it's gonna stay!
388
00:29:06,353 --> 00:29:07,833
You hear what
I'm tellin' you?
389
00:29:07,876 --> 00:29:09,922
You're born for trouble,
390
00:29:09,965 --> 00:29:11,184
and you're hurryin' out
to catch it
391
00:29:11,227 --> 00:29:14,013
like it was the railroad train
to New Orleans.
392
00:29:17,538 --> 00:29:20,062
You ain't never goin' home.
393
00:29:20,106 --> 00:29:24,719
You're goin' to die alone
and a million miles away!
394
00:29:32,422 --> 00:29:34,598
You comin' home now?
395
00:29:48,395 --> 00:29:49,396
[STRUMS GUITAR]
396
00:29:53,008 --> 00:29:54,140
Well, whatcha
y'all wanta hear?
397
00:29:54,183 --> 00:29:55,924
WOMAN: Anything.
398
00:29:55,968 --> 00:29:59,232
HUDDIE: Oh,
we're gonna party
for long now, man.
399
00:29:59,275 --> 00:30:00,668
Come on,
we can still have
a good time.
400
00:30:00,711 --> 00:30:01,800
Come on, y'all!
401
00:30:01,843 --> 00:30:03,323
Join me. Step right up
and have a drink.
402
00:30:03,366 --> 00:30:05,542
Guys, order whatever
y'all want, hear?
403
00:30:07,806 --> 00:30:09,808
Gimme a bottle o' liquor,
Shorty.
404
00:30:11,461 --> 00:30:12,985
Miss Eula.
405
00:30:16,249 --> 00:30:17,467
Hmm.
406
00:30:22,646 --> 00:30:24,692
What you talkin',
she got Albert?
407
00:30:24,735 --> 00:30:25,911
Huh!
408
00:30:25,954 --> 00:30:29,697
He ain't nothin'
but a damn piano player.
409
00:30:29,740 --> 00:30:32,134
If you want to make music,
you got to sing the songs.
410
00:30:32,178 --> 00:30:33,744
Ain't that right?[PEOPLE AGREEING]
411
00:30:33,788 --> 00:30:35,007
Come on, now!
Ain't that right?
412
00:30:35,050 --> 00:30:36,922
[ALL AGREEING]
413
00:30:38,271 --> 00:30:40,795
I was the best singer
around Caddo Lake.
414
00:30:41,970 --> 00:30:44,538
I is the best
on Fannin Street!
415
00:30:45,844 --> 00:30:49,195
That's right.
The king, that's it.
416
00:30:49,238 --> 00:30:52,111
The king, the king
of Fannin Street.
417
00:30:52,154 --> 00:30:53,547
Ain't that right, Shorty?
418
00:30:53,590 --> 00:30:54,940
Ain't many better.
419
00:30:54,983 --> 00:30:57,246
Goddamnit,
ain't none better!
420
00:30:57,290 --> 00:30:59,683
Goddamnit,
I put my money
where my mouth is.
421
00:30:59,727 --> 00:31:00,815
Now!
422
00:31:01,685 --> 00:31:02,686
[CLAPS]
423
00:31:03,513 --> 00:31:06,734
$10 gold,
double eagle.
424
00:31:06,777 --> 00:31:08,823
Here, we can put that
right there in the kitty.
425
00:31:08,867 --> 00:31:10,042
Anybody...
426
00:31:12,871 --> 00:31:16,309
Now, anybody think
he can out pick
and out-sing me?
427
00:31:16,352 --> 00:31:18,964
Let him step right on
up here and try.
428
00:31:19,007 --> 00:31:20,139
And this here will be his.
429
00:31:20,182 --> 00:31:21,488
And then
I'll just go on back
430
00:31:21,531 --> 00:31:23,838
and sing at play parties
for the children.
431
00:31:23,882 --> 00:31:25,231
[LAUGHTER]
432
00:31:28,625 --> 00:31:30,149
Now, how about that?
433
00:31:32,455 --> 00:31:34,153
What you reachin' for?
434
00:31:34,196 --> 00:31:35,632
I picks guitar some.
435
00:31:35,676 --> 00:31:36,938
[SCATTERED LAUGHTER]
436
00:31:41,682 --> 00:31:43,553
[LAUGHS]
437
00:31:45,642 --> 00:31:47,688
You goin' to
out pick me?
438
00:31:48,384 --> 00:31:50,169
That's fair enough.
439
00:31:55,565 --> 00:31:57,002
Shorty,
440
00:31:58,394 --> 00:32:01,615
pour this here
guitar-pickin' fool a drink.
441
00:32:01,658 --> 00:32:03,008
Come on over here, y'all,
ya'all goin' to hear.
442
00:32:03,051 --> 00:32:04,792
Get that chair
over here...
443
00:32:04,835 --> 00:32:05,880
[CHUCKLES]
444
00:32:05,924 --> 00:32:08,056
We'll find out
who's the king.
445
00:32:08,100 --> 00:32:09,840
Bring the chairs
out over here.
446
00:32:09,884 --> 00:32:11,668
[CHUCKLING]
447
00:32:12,669 --> 00:32:14,149
Uh-huh.
448
00:32:20,373 --> 00:32:22,375
Oh.
449
00:32:22,418 --> 00:32:24,812
What kinda guitar
is that you got, ol' man?
450
00:32:24,855 --> 00:32:27,032
Just an old guitar.
451
00:32:27,075 --> 00:32:28,555
[LAUGHING]
452
00:32:30,731 --> 00:32:32,341
Well, how many strings
you got there?
453
00:32:32,385 --> 00:32:33,647
MAN: Twelve.
454
00:32:33,690 --> 00:32:36,693
HUDDIE: Ooh-hoo!
[CHUCKLES]
455
00:32:36,737 --> 00:32:37,868
Whoo-e!
456
00:32:37,912 --> 00:32:39,392
Two to one, huh?
457
00:32:39,435 --> 00:32:41,394
Well, I guess
I'm the scratch horse
in this race!
458
00:32:41,437 --> 00:32:43,570
[LAUGHS]
459
00:32:46,181 --> 00:32:47,574
You ready, ol' man?
460
00:32:53,275 --> 00:32:54,929
[PLAYING]
461
00:33:07,289 --> 00:33:08,595
[LAUGHS]
462
00:33:08,638 --> 00:33:10,379
[PLAYING FASTER TUNE]
463
00:33:29,311 --> 00:33:31,574
[PLAYING A DIFFERENT TUNE]
464
00:33:43,238 --> 00:33:45,066
[PLAYING FASTER TUNE]
465
00:33:58,340 --> 00:33:59,602
[PLAYS A DIFFERENT TUNE]
466
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:16,924
[PLAYS SAME TUNE FASTER]
467
00:34:28,762 --> 00:34:32,374
[PLAYING A DIFFERENT TUNE]
468
00:34:32,418 --> 00:34:33,897
[STRUMMING ALONG]
469
00:34:48,042 --> 00:34:49,522
[AUDIENCE CLAPPING ALONG]
470
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:29,475
[SIREN WAILING]
471
00:35:34,436 --> 00:35:35,655
[PEOPLE CLAMORING]
472
00:35:38,745 --> 00:35:40,355
Sheriff Tom Hughes is comin'!
473
00:35:40,399 --> 00:35:43,228
WOMAN: Sheriff!
Sheriff's comin'!
Oh, my God!
474
00:35:43,271 --> 00:35:44,664
[MAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
475
00:35:44,707 --> 00:35:47,580
MAN: He'll lock up
the whole street!
476
00:35:47,623 --> 00:35:49,408
What's he doin'?
I thought we pay protection.
477
00:35:49,451 --> 00:35:50,713
[CLAMORING CONTINUES]
478
00:36:20,526 --> 00:36:22,441
Huddie, Huddie,
come in the house.
479
00:36:22,484 --> 00:36:23,746
Sheriff Tom Hughes
never come in my place.
480
00:36:23,790 --> 00:36:25,183
I got an arrangement.
481
00:36:25,226 --> 00:36:26,923
Don't just stand there,
come on inside.
482
00:36:26,967 --> 00:36:28,621
You're safe in my place.
483
00:36:28,664 --> 00:36:30,318
Huddie, Huddie!
484
00:36:32,146 --> 00:36:33,887
Damn fool.
485
00:36:42,983 --> 00:36:44,332
[GROANS]
486
00:36:52,035 --> 00:36:53,167
[TRAIN HORN TOOTS]
487
00:37:06,006 --> 00:37:07,877
[SIRENS WAILING]
488
00:37:26,548 --> 00:37:28,376
[TRAIN HORN TOOTING]
489
00:37:37,472 --> 00:37:38,995
[GUITAR PLAYING]
490
00:37:41,998 --> 00:37:43,652
[TOOTING]
491
00:38:07,415 --> 00:38:08,764
[TRAIN STOPS]
492
00:38:16,946 --> 00:38:18,600
Hey, old man, come here.
493
00:38:25,912 --> 00:38:27,609
Come on, hurry up!
494
00:38:34,660 --> 00:38:36,749
Where is this place?
495
00:38:39,926 --> 00:38:41,275
[COW MOOING]
496
00:38:41,319 --> 00:38:43,321
This is Texas
cotton country.
497
00:38:44,539 --> 00:38:46,324
Well, this's where
I'm gettin' off.
498
00:38:53,983 --> 00:38:57,422
Some fool plowboy
stomped on my guitar
back there.
499
00:38:59,467 --> 00:39:01,687
I still got
that $10 gold.
500
00:39:03,079 --> 00:39:04,907
I ain't sayin'
you won it, mind you.
501
00:39:14,003 --> 00:39:15,788
You take it easy,
ol' man.
502
00:39:25,145 --> 00:39:26,451
HUDDIE:
♪ When I was a little baby
503
00:39:26,494 --> 00:39:29,236
♪ My mother would a rock me
in the cradle
504
00:39:29,279 --> 00:39:33,936
♪ In them old cotton fields
at home
505
00:39:33,980 --> 00:39:36,112
♪ When I was a little baby
506
00:39:36,156 --> 00:39:38,767
♪ My mother would a rock me
in the cradle
507
00:39:38,811 --> 00:39:42,858
♪ In them old cotton fields
at home
508
00:39:42,902 --> 00:39:45,818
♪ When them cotton bolls
got rotten
509
00:39:45,861 --> 00:39:47,994
♪ You couldn't pick
very much cotton
510
00:39:48,037 --> 00:39:51,171
♪ In them old cotton fields
at home
511
00:39:52,607 --> 00:39:57,177
♪ It was down in Louisiana,
just a mile from Texarkana
512
00:39:57,220 --> 00:40:00,963
♪ In them old cotton fields
at home
513
00:40:01,007 --> 00:40:02,356
Hey, girl.
514
00:40:03,313 --> 00:40:04,663
You, good-lookin' girl.
515
00:40:16,762 --> 00:40:18,633
♪ It may sound a little funny
516
00:40:18,677 --> 00:40:21,201
♪ But you didn't make
very much money
517
00:40:21,244 --> 00:40:25,205
♪ In them old cotton fields
at home
518
00:40:25,248 --> 00:40:27,120
♪ It may sound a little funny
519
00:40:27,163 --> 00:40:29,688
♪ But you didn't make
very much money
520
00:40:29,731 --> 00:40:33,692
♪ In them old cotton fields
at home
521
00:40:33,735 --> 00:40:36,042
♪ When them cotton bolls
got rotten
522
00:40:36,085 --> 00:40:38,131
♪ You didn't pick
very much cotton
523
00:40:38,174 --> 00:40:42,352
♪ In them old cotton fields
at home
524
00:40:42,396 --> 00:40:46,400
♪ It was down in Louisiana,
just a mile from Texarkana
525
00:40:46,444 --> 00:40:50,273
♪ In them old cotton fields
at home ♪
526
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:13,906
Whoo!
527
00:41:13,949 --> 00:41:16,343
Quittin' time,
y'all!
528
00:41:51,291 --> 00:41:53,467
HUDDIE: Ooh, what's that?
529
00:41:53,511 --> 00:41:57,210
Gun oil, that's sovereign
for a pickin' back.
530
00:42:00,648 --> 00:42:02,041
You're not bad at it...
531
00:42:03,825 --> 00:42:05,566
For a Louisiana man.
532
00:42:09,396 --> 00:42:11,093
How you know
where I'm from?
533
00:42:11,137 --> 00:42:13,835
Oh, I know.
534
00:42:13,879 --> 00:42:18,448
You play that
big ol' twelve-string guitar
over in the saloons.
535
00:42:18,492 --> 00:42:20,668
You a whiskey drinker.
536
00:42:21,887 --> 00:42:24,411
And you got your eye
on every gal
537
00:42:24,454 --> 00:42:25,760
in Marshall, Texas,
538
00:42:25,804 --> 00:42:28,328
twixt twelve and too old!
539
00:42:28,371 --> 00:42:30,025
[CHUCKLING]
540
00:42:30,939 --> 00:42:32,245
Mmm.
541
00:42:43,386 --> 00:42:49,088
Lethe, how come you ain't got
no man hangin' his pants
on your bedpost every night?
542
00:42:51,873 --> 00:42:52,961
Like you, maybe?
543
00:42:54,484 --> 00:42:55,529
Yeah.
544
00:42:56,878 --> 00:42:58,750
Mmm-mmm.
545
00:42:58,793 --> 00:43:03,406
I chooses you one night,
that's my lookout.
546
00:43:03,450 --> 00:43:06,322
When you're done ramblin',
547
00:43:06,366 --> 00:43:08,237
when you ready
to live my way
548
00:43:08,281 --> 00:43:13,503
in one place,
with one woman,
549
00:43:14,896 --> 00:43:17,682
you come back, see me then.
550
00:43:21,163 --> 00:43:25,864
Oh, you got a lot of ramblin'
left in your bones.
551
00:43:28,083 --> 00:43:29,911
So it's just...
552
00:43:32,218 --> 00:43:35,351
Thank you kindly now.
553
00:43:43,098 --> 00:43:45,405
And make sure that latch
catch on the way out
554
00:43:45,448 --> 00:43:47,276
the door in the mornin'.
555
00:43:59,941 --> 00:44:02,814
HUDDIE:
♪ O' the Rock Island Line
is a mighty good road
556
00:44:02,857 --> 00:44:05,033
♪ O' the Rock Island Line
is the road to ride
557
00:44:05,077 --> 00:44:07,427
♪ O' the Rock Island Line
is a mighty good road
558
00:44:07,470 --> 00:44:09,777
♪ If you want to ride,
you got to ride it
like you find it
559
00:44:09,821 --> 00:44:13,259
♪ Get your ticket
at the station on
the Rock Island Line
560
00:44:13,302 --> 00:44:16,784
Tyler. Tyler next.
561
00:44:17,872 --> 00:44:18,917
Tyler!
562
00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:20,614
♪ Jesus died to save our sins
563
00:44:20,658 --> 00:44:23,791
♪ Glory to God
We gonna meet him againTyler!
564
00:44:23,835 --> 00:44:26,098
Tyler, Texas! ♪ O' the Rock Island Line
is a mighty good road
565
00:44:26,141 --> 00:44:28,361
♪ O' the Rock Island Line
is the road to ride
566
00:44:28,404 --> 00:44:30,319
♪ O' the rock island line
Is a mighty good roadTyler, Texas!
567
00:44:30,363 --> 00:44:33,061
♪ If you want to ride it,
you got to ride it
like you find it
568
00:44:33,105 --> 00:44:36,891
♪ Get your ticket
at the station
on the Rock Island Line
569
00:44:41,679 --> 00:44:44,290
♪ I may be right,
I may be wrong
570
00:44:44,333 --> 00:44:48,033
♪ Know you gonna miss me
when I'm gone
571
00:44:48,076 --> 00:44:50,992
♪ O' the Rock Island Line
is a mighty good road
572
00:44:51,036 --> 00:44:52,994
♪ O' the Rock Island Line
is the road to ride
573
00:44:53,038 --> 00:44:55,431
♪ O' the Rock Island Line
is a mighty good road
574
00:44:55,475 --> 00:44:57,607
♪ If you want to ride it,
you got to ride it
like you find it
575
00:44:57,651 --> 00:45:01,829
♪ Get your ticket
at the station
on the Rock Island Line ♪
576
00:45:04,353 --> 00:45:06,573
Shut off
that pig squealin'[STRUMMING STOPS]
577
00:45:06,616 --> 00:45:08,967
so's a man can sleep.
578
00:45:13,014 --> 00:45:14,929
What I hear you say?
579
00:45:16,452 --> 00:45:18,672
I said it sound like
a hog with his whanger
580
00:45:18,716 --> 00:45:21,327
caught in the hinge side
of a gate.
581
00:45:23,546 --> 00:45:27,420
Whyn't I just cut yours off
and stick it in your ear?
582
00:45:27,463 --> 00:45:30,336
Well, leastways
then I wouldn't have to hear
that jackass hollerin'.
583
00:45:34,601 --> 00:45:36,298
[PEOPLE MURMURING]
584
00:45:36,908 --> 00:45:38,474
Come on, fool.
585
00:45:38,518 --> 00:45:39,606
Come on!
586
00:45:39,649 --> 00:45:41,521
You know it's hog killin'
time now.
587
00:45:42,522 --> 00:45:43,523
[SCREAMS]
588
00:45:47,701 --> 00:45:49,181
[LAUGHS]
589
00:45:52,097 --> 00:45:55,187
Just shut off that laughin'
or I'm gonna shut it for you.
590
00:46:00,235 --> 00:46:02,716
I'm gonna,
I'm gonna stick you
right in your gizzard.
591
00:46:03,499 --> 00:46:05,197
You hear?
592
00:46:09,767 --> 00:46:12,857
Dammit! Somebody
gimme my knife,
do ya hear?
593
00:46:15,076 --> 00:46:17,644
Who the hell took my knife?
594
00:46:17,687 --> 00:46:20,690
Fat boy, I got your knife.
595
00:46:24,607 --> 00:46:27,219
How you want
this pig-sticker back,
596
00:46:27,262 --> 00:46:28,307
open or closed?
597
00:46:33,965 --> 00:46:36,228
[STAMMERING]
What's your name?
598
00:46:37,925 --> 00:46:39,492
Huddie Ledbetter.
599
00:46:39,535 --> 00:46:41,233
Nickname, Leadbelly.
600
00:46:43,757 --> 00:46:48,066
Lemon Jefferson.
They call me Blind Lemon.
601
00:46:48,109 --> 00:46:49,241
It's a damn lie.
602
00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:51,721
I can see...
603
00:46:51,765 --> 00:46:54,507
Some.
604
00:46:54,550 --> 00:46:57,336
You're, you're that
blues-shoutin' Lemon
I hear so much about!
605
00:46:58,946 --> 00:47:00,426
Yeah, that's me.
606
00:47:01,122 --> 00:47:04,082
[BOTH LAUGHING]
607
00:47:06,301 --> 00:47:09,914
Uh, I figure
I better take that
knife back closed.
608
00:47:10,610 --> 00:47:11,611
[GUITAR PLAYING]
609
00:47:24,798 --> 00:47:27,105
♪ Silver City bound
610
00:47:27,148 --> 00:47:30,151
♪ Silver City bound
611
00:47:30,195 --> 00:47:32,284
♪ Oh, tell my baby
612
00:47:32,327 --> 00:47:35,026
♪ I'm Silver City bound
613
00:47:35,069 --> 00:47:39,639
♪ Me and Blind Lemon
gonna ride on down
614
00:47:39,682 --> 00:47:42,120
♪ Silver City bound
615
00:47:42,163 --> 00:47:44,774
♪ I'm Silver City bound
616
00:47:44,818 --> 00:47:49,605
♪ I'm gonna tell my baby
I'm Silver City bound
617
00:47:49,649 --> 00:47:54,349
♪ Me and Leadbelly
gonna ride on down
618
00:47:54,393 --> 00:47:57,439
♪ Catch me by the hand
619
00:47:57,483 --> 00:48:01,095
♪ Oh, baby
620
00:48:01,139 --> 00:48:04,098
♪ Blind Lemon
was a blind man
621
00:48:04,142 --> 00:48:07,145
♪ Catch me by the hand
622
00:48:07,188 --> 00:48:10,452
♪ Oh, baby
623
00:48:10,496 --> 00:48:13,107
♪ Leadbelly
was a fine man
624
00:48:13,151 --> 00:48:15,805
BOTH:
♪ Silver City bound
625
00:48:15,849 --> 00:48:18,330
♪ Silver City bound
626
00:48:18,373 --> 00:48:20,810
♪ Mmm, tell my baby
627
00:48:20,854 --> 00:48:23,509
♪ I'm Silver City bound
628
00:48:23,552 --> 00:48:27,817
♪ Me and Blind Lemon
gonna ride on down
629
00:48:27,861 --> 00:48:30,864
♪ Catch me by the hand ♪ Catch me by the hand
630
00:48:30,908 --> 00:48:32,387
♪ Oh, baby
631
00:48:32,431 --> 00:48:33,998
♪ Oh, baby, baby
632
00:48:34,041 --> 00:48:37,479
♪ Blind Lemon
was a blind man
633
00:48:37,523 --> 00:48:40,395
♪ Catch me by the hand ♪ Catch me by the hand
634
00:48:40,439 --> 00:48:43,790
♪ Oh, baby ♪ Oh, baby, baby
635
00:48:43,833 --> 00:48:46,706
LEMON:
♪ Blind Lemon
was a blind man
636
00:48:46,749 --> 00:48:48,577
BOTH:
♪ Silver City bound
637
00:48:48,621 --> 00:48:51,363
♪ Silver City bound
638
00:48:51,406 --> 00:48:55,715
♪ Oh, tell my baby
I'm Silver City bound
639
00:48:55,758 --> 00:49:00,198
♪ Me and Blind Lemon
gonna ride on down ♪
640
00:49:02,722 --> 00:49:04,376
[TRAIN HORN TOOTING]
641
00:49:05,943 --> 00:49:08,771
What you doin'?
642
00:49:08,815 --> 00:49:10,860
You been boozin'
all night in that
saloon,
643
00:49:10,904 --> 00:49:13,211
you can't drive,
you drunk.
644
00:49:16,301 --> 00:49:18,259
You blind.
645
00:49:18,303 --> 00:49:20,348
[WOMEN LAUGHING]
646
00:49:47,158 --> 00:49:49,508
LEMON: You ever drive
one of these things
before?
647
00:49:49,551 --> 00:49:51,727
HUDDIE: Nope.[HORN HONKING]
648
00:49:58,038 --> 00:50:02,477
LEMON:
♪ There's one kind of favor
I asks of you
649
00:50:04,523 --> 00:50:08,875
♪ There's one kind of favor
I asks of you
650
00:50:11,312 --> 00:50:17,449
♪ There's one kind of favor
I asks of you
651
00:50:17,492 --> 00:50:21,844
♪ See that my grave
is kept clean
652
00:50:23,759 --> 00:50:28,155
♪ It's a long lane,
ain't got no end
653
00:50:29,765 --> 00:50:36,555
♪ It's a long lane,
ain't got no end
654
00:50:36,598 --> 00:50:42,735
♪ It's a long lane,
ain't got no end
655
00:50:42,778 --> 00:50:44,650
♪ Feel so bad
656
00:50:44,693 --> 00:50:49,524
♪ It is a miserable shame
657
00:50:49,568 --> 00:50:54,529
♪ Have you ever heard
a coffin sound?
658
00:50:55,922 --> 00:51:02,320
♪ Have you ever heard
a coffin sound?
659
00:51:02,363 --> 00:51:09,022
♪ Have you ever heard
a coffin sound?
660
00:51:09,066 --> 00:51:13,940
♪ Then you know
the po' boy's in the ground
661
00:51:16,290 --> 00:51:20,816
♪ Oh, dig my grave
with a silver spade
662
00:51:22,383 --> 00:51:27,388
♪ Dig my grave
with a silver spade
663
00:51:28,911 --> 00:51:34,700
♪ Dig my grave
with a silver spade
664
00:51:34,743 --> 00:51:39,966
♪ You may place four diamonds
on my grave
665
00:51:41,533 --> 00:51:45,885
♪ Have you ever heard
a death bell toll?
666
00:51:47,930 --> 00:51:52,631
♪ Have you ever heard
a death bell toll?
667
00:51:54,415 --> 00:52:00,595
♪ Have you ever heard
a death bell toll?
668
00:52:00,639 --> 00:52:07,254
♪ Then you know
the po' boy's dead and gone
669
00:52:07,298 --> 00:52:12,955
♪ Then you know
the po' boy's dead and gone ♪
670
00:52:22,965 --> 00:52:25,446
[HORN HONKING]LEMON: That's
what is the blues,
671
00:52:25,490 --> 00:52:29,102
not that sticky
sweet whore blues
you learned in Shreveport.
672
00:52:30,277 --> 00:52:31,583
HUDDIE: Well,
we's doin' all right.
673
00:52:31,626 --> 00:52:34,020
LEMON: What,
playin' in saloons?
674
00:52:34,063 --> 00:52:36,544
We bein'
nickel-and-dimed
to death.
675
00:52:36,588 --> 00:52:37,937
What are we?
676
00:52:37,980 --> 00:52:39,634
Well I was the
King of Fannin Street.
677
00:52:39,678 --> 00:52:42,028
[LAUGHS] King?
678
00:52:42,071 --> 00:52:43,638
King?
679
00:52:45,814 --> 00:52:49,992
Hey, man, you ever hear
them Victrola records?
680
00:52:50,036 --> 00:52:51,516
HUDDIE: Yeah, plenty times.
681
00:52:51,559 --> 00:52:53,996
They make 'em
in Chicago and Memphis,
682
00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:56,608
see that's where
I'm goin' some day.
683
00:52:56,651 --> 00:52:58,610
They gonna know
who I am.
684
00:52:58,653 --> 00:53:02,266
Ain't nobody gonna say,
"Hey you, Fat Boy."
685
00:53:02,309 --> 00:53:04,050
They gonna know my name.
686
00:53:04,093 --> 00:53:06,618
HUDDIE: Your songs
got too much misery in 'em.
687
00:53:06,661 --> 00:53:10,143
Keep you hungry
and evil all the time.
688
00:53:11,100 --> 00:53:12,319
Oh!
689
00:53:12,363 --> 00:53:15,453
You like a chicken
tied to a pole.
690
00:53:15,496 --> 00:53:19,544
Runnin' around in circles
and cacklin' a lot,
691
00:53:19,587 --> 00:53:21,328
but you ain't
goin' no place.
692
00:53:21,372 --> 00:53:23,374
And some day
somebody gonna
catch up with you
693
00:53:23,417 --> 00:53:26,028
and wring your
goddamn neck.
694
00:53:26,638 --> 00:53:28,248
Hee-hee-hee!
695
00:53:31,077 --> 00:53:33,819
Lemme get outta here, boy,
nature done callin' me.
696
00:53:33,862 --> 00:53:37,170
Well, I hope you miss
697
00:53:37,214 --> 00:53:38,998
and hit yourself
in the shoe.
698
00:53:39,041 --> 00:53:41,479
And one more thing,
Leadbelly...
699
00:53:42,088 --> 00:53:43,698
Leadbelly?
700
00:53:44,873 --> 00:53:47,615
[MUSIC PLAYING][MEN WHOOPING]
701
00:54:23,216 --> 00:54:24,565
[SCATTERED APPLAUSE]
702
00:54:24,609 --> 00:54:26,350
Let's get outta here,
Lemon.
703
00:54:28,874 --> 00:54:30,571
Hey, boy.
704
00:54:30,615 --> 00:54:32,269
Who the hell told you
to stop playin'?
705
00:54:33,182 --> 00:54:34,793
It's gettin' late.
706
00:54:34,836 --> 00:54:36,273
You keep playin'.
707
00:54:40,538 --> 00:54:44,063
Man, it's after 2:00
in the mornin'.
708
00:54:44,106 --> 00:54:45,369
What the hell do you care
what time it is?
709
00:54:45,412 --> 00:54:47,284
You keep on playin'.
710
00:54:48,589 --> 00:54:50,896
You said
$3 till midnight.
711
00:54:50,939 --> 00:54:53,507
God dammit,
don't argue with me, boy!
712
00:54:56,510 --> 00:54:58,207
We'll just take our $3.
713
00:54:58,251 --> 00:55:00,688
You'll take shit
if you don't start playin'.
714
00:55:03,082 --> 00:55:04,388
I say that's it.
715
00:55:07,173 --> 00:55:10,002
God damn it,
don't sass me, boy!
716
00:55:10,045 --> 00:55:12,439
You spoilin' the party,
you hear, nigger?
717
00:55:12,483 --> 00:55:15,834
Now, you pick up
the goddamn guitar
and you play!
718
00:55:37,290 --> 00:55:38,596
[MEN SHOUTING]
719
00:55:42,077 --> 00:55:43,644
Lead!
720
00:55:43,688 --> 00:55:45,777
[HUDDIE GRUNTS]
721
00:55:46,734 --> 00:55:47,953
[BOTTLES CLATTERING]
722
00:55:50,042 --> 00:55:51,043
[GROANS]
723
00:55:58,050 --> 00:56:01,183
[GRUNTS]
Damn ol' nigger.
724
00:56:05,318 --> 00:56:07,364
[GUITAR PLAYING]
725
00:56:26,078 --> 00:56:27,819
[CELL UNLOCKING]
726
00:56:42,834 --> 00:56:44,357
Lead.
727
00:56:46,707 --> 00:56:47,665
Lead.
728
00:56:48,535 --> 00:56:50,363
[HUDDIE GROANS]
729
00:56:50,407 --> 00:56:53,410
Hey, man,
you all right, man?
730
00:56:56,195 --> 00:57:00,417
Hey, that bartender,
he kicked you in the balls
before the Sheriff come.
731
00:57:01,330 --> 00:57:02,636
Yeah.
732
00:57:03,898 --> 00:57:06,205
Somebody knocked
my tooth out.
733
00:57:06,248 --> 00:57:08,207
Stole my watch, too.
734
00:57:09,730 --> 00:57:12,820
What you doin' out there
with me in here?
735
00:57:12,864 --> 00:57:15,519
I went through the window
in the dark.
736
00:57:15,562 --> 00:57:18,347
Listen,
I ain't got much time.
737
00:57:19,697 --> 00:57:20,915
It cost me six bits
to get...
738
00:57:20,959 --> 00:57:22,134
Oh!
739
00:57:23,570 --> 00:57:25,093
Here.
740
00:57:28,314 --> 00:57:29,315
[WINCES]
741
00:57:31,404 --> 00:57:34,059
Cost me six bits
to get in.
742
00:57:35,669 --> 00:57:38,324
You get the money
outta the snuff can
to pay my fine.
743
00:57:41,762 --> 00:57:43,372
Ain't no fine.
744
00:57:43,416 --> 00:57:48,377
They holdin' you
till Judge Baines get back
from Dallas, Saturday.
745
00:57:48,421 --> 00:57:51,859
You on your way to the
Harrison County Chain Gang.
746
00:57:56,124 --> 00:57:57,125
Tsk.
747
00:58:03,218 --> 00:58:04,219
[EXHALES]
748
00:58:07,614 --> 00:58:10,399
Man say,
a year on the inside.
749
00:58:17,363 --> 00:58:19,887
What you study on doin'?
750
00:58:21,410 --> 00:58:27,329
Get me a train to Memphis,
maybe Chicago.
751
00:58:27,373 --> 00:58:31,203
Make me some of them Victrola
records on the Bluebird
752
00:58:32,987 --> 00:58:34,946
or OKeh label.
753
00:58:36,643 --> 00:58:40,865
Hey, Huddie, we got
$14 and four cents.
754
00:58:42,344 --> 00:58:44,608
$14 four bits
in the snuff can.
755
00:58:44,651 --> 00:58:46,305
Now, half's yours.
756
00:58:46,348 --> 00:58:48,002
GUARD: Time's up.
757
00:58:49,177 --> 00:58:50,483
[GATE UNLOCKING]
758
00:58:52,180 --> 00:58:55,662
Money ain't gonna
do me no good
on no Chain Gang.
759
00:58:56,228 --> 00:58:57,925
[SIGHS]
760
00:58:59,840 --> 00:59:01,276
With $14...
761
00:59:05,672 --> 00:59:07,892
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
762
00:59:07,935 --> 00:59:10,851
I can get me
a regular one-way ticket
to Memphis.
763
00:59:10,895 --> 00:59:11,896
$14.
764
00:59:16,030 --> 00:59:18,642
Huddie, you keep
the bottle, okay, you hear?
765
00:59:21,819 --> 00:59:23,081
Hear?
766
00:59:30,044 --> 00:59:32,612
Look, now I'll see ya.
767
00:59:53,459 --> 00:59:55,026
[SNORING]
768
01:01:30,338 --> 01:01:32,514
[THUDDING]
769
01:01:36,997 --> 01:01:38,869
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
770
01:01:41,001 --> 01:01:43,177
[MAN COUGHING]
771
01:01:53,144 --> 01:01:55,015
[COUGHING]
772
01:02:07,593 --> 01:02:09,464
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
773
01:02:28,092 --> 01:02:31,008
HUDDIE:
♪ Bring a little water, SilvyYah, yah!
774
01:02:31,051 --> 01:02:34,011
♪ Bring a little water now
775
01:02:34,054 --> 01:02:36,535
♪ Bring a little water, Silvy
776
01:02:36,578 --> 01:02:38,406
♪ Ev'ry little once in a while
777
01:02:38,450 --> 01:02:39,581
Huddie!
778
01:02:39,625 --> 01:02:41,627
♪ Ev'ry little once in a whileYeah.
779
01:02:41,670 --> 01:02:44,282
Huddie!
780
01:02:44,325 --> 01:02:47,241
♪ Don't you see me comin'?
781
01:02:47,285 --> 01:02:50,375
♪ Don't you see me now?
782
01:02:50,418 --> 01:02:52,986
♪ Don't you see me comin'
783
01:02:53,030 --> 01:02:55,859
♪ Ev'ry little once in a while
784
01:02:55,902 --> 01:02:57,948
♪ Ev'ry little once in a while
785
01:02:57,991 --> 01:02:59,645
Brought you some water.
786
01:03:14,312 --> 01:03:15,443
Ow!
787
01:03:15,487 --> 01:03:17,402
[BOTH CHUCKLING]
788
01:03:17,445 --> 01:03:19,578
♪ Don't you hear me comin'?
789
01:03:19,621 --> 01:03:22,581
♪ Don't you hear me now?
790
01:03:22,624 --> 01:03:25,236
♪ Don't you hear me comin'?
791
01:03:25,279 --> 01:03:28,152
♪ Ev'ry little once in a while
792
01:03:28,195 --> 01:03:32,417
♪ Ev'ry little once in a while
793
01:03:32,460 --> 01:03:37,378
Oh, someday
I aim to take you
a long way from here.
794
01:03:37,422 --> 01:03:41,600
'Way from all this
white man's trouble
and this white man's land.
795
01:03:43,297 --> 01:03:46,213
♪ Bring a little water, Silvy
796
01:03:46,257 --> 01:03:49,260
♪ Bring a little water now
797
01:03:49,303 --> 01:03:52,089
♪ Bring a little water, SilvyAhh!
798
01:03:52,132 --> 01:03:55,266
♪ Ev'ry little
once in a while ♪
799
01:04:04,492 --> 01:04:06,538
Ain't you gonna
get ready?
800
01:04:06,581 --> 01:04:08,105
For what?
801
01:04:08,148 --> 01:04:10,020
For de dance
at the Kingston place.
802
01:04:10,629 --> 01:04:11,804
I ain't goin'.
803
01:04:13,284 --> 01:04:16,504
[LAUGHS] What you
talkin' 'bout?
804
01:04:16,548 --> 01:04:21,727
Ain't no particular pleasure
watchin' all them womens
climbin' all over you.
805
01:04:21,770 --> 01:04:24,556
[LAUGHS] They can't help it.
806
01:04:24,599 --> 01:04:25,818
Pshaw!
807
01:04:25,862 --> 01:04:27,515
I can just sing
as sweet and tender.
808
01:04:29,866 --> 01:04:31,432
I don't pay 'em
no mind now, do I?
809
01:04:34,653 --> 01:04:37,177
Anyway, it's too dangerous.
810
01:04:37,221 --> 01:04:39,005
Sheriff ain't
but a few miles away.
811
01:04:39,049 --> 01:04:41,790
Nobody 'round here
know me by my name.
812
01:04:41,834 --> 01:04:43,836
I'm Walter Boyd.
813
01:04:43,880 --> 01:04:46,143
Ain't no sheriff
lookin' for no Walter Boyd.
814
01:04:47,144 --> 01:04:49,233
Sure.
815
01:04:49,276 --> 01:04:51,409
And when you get to playin'
on that ol'
816
01:04:51,452 --> 01:04:53,324
twelve-string guitar,
817
01:04:53,367 --> 01:04:55,804
you ain't study about
being no Walter Boyd.
818
01:04:55,848 --> 01:04:59,678
Ain't nothin' matter
but bein' King of Music.
819
01:04:59,721 --> 01:05:01,506
How long you think
it's goin' be,
820
01:05:01,549 --> 01:05:02,855
'fore that sheriff
hear 'bout you
821
01:05:02,899 --> 01:05:05,162
and your fame
get spread all around?
822
01:05:05,205 --> 01:05:07,729
Well, there's gonna be
friends there,
823
01:05:07,773 --> 01:05:12,996
uh, Alex Griffin
and Will Stafford,
they's all friends.
824
01:05:14,911 --> 01:05:17,914
Time they get
that whiskey in 'em,
friend don't mean nothin'.
825
01:05:18,610 --> 01:05:20,612
Oh, listen at ya.
826
01:05:22,309 --> 01:05:26,618
Oh, honey, ya stay
with me tonight.
827
01:05:28,533 --> 01:05:29,708
Don't you go.
828
01:05:29,751 --> 01:05:31,144
[CHUCKLING] Oh.
829
01:05:31,188 --> 01:05:33,190
They countin' on me
for the music.
830
01:05:33,233 --> 01:05:34,365
And we can
use that extra money
831
01:05:34,408 --> 01:05:37,063
if I'm ever gonna
get you outta here.
832
01:05:37,107 --> 01:05:38,847
Two or three
greasy dollars
833
01:05:38,891 --> 01:05:40,066
and a bellyful
of corn whiskey,
834
01:05:40,110 --> 01:05:41,502
that's all
you're gonna get.
835
01:05:41,546 --> 01:05:42,590
"Two or three
greasy dollars
836
01:05:42,634 --> 01:05:44,331
"and a bellyful
of corn whiskey."
837
01:05:44,375 --> 01:05:45,419
Well, them
"two or three dollars"
838
01:05:45,463 --> 01:05:47,508
will buy you
a brand-new travelin' dress.
839
01:05:49,336 --> 01:05:50,685
I love you.
840
01:05:55,473 --> 01:05:58,258
[DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES]
841
01:05:58,302 --> 01:05:59,564
[HUDDIE WHOOPS]
842
01:05:59,607 --> 01:06:02,480
[VOCALIZING]
843
01:06:02,523 --> 01:06:04,917
I had this thing going...
844
01:06:04,961 --> 01:06:08,268
Come on, boy,
play it.
845
01:06:08,312 --> 01:06:10,923
HUDDIE:
♪ Dekalb blues, Lawd ♪ Dekalb blues, Lawd
846
01:06:10,967 --> 01:06:15,188
♪ Make me feel so bad ♪ Make me feel so bad
847
01:06:16,363 --> 01:06:19,540
♪ Dekalb blues, Lawd...
848
01:06:19,584 --> 01:06:21,412
[LAUGHTER]
849
01:06:25,720 --> 01:06:27,722
♪ Make me think about
850
01:06:27,766 --> 01:06:30,073
♪ The good times I've had
851
01:06:30,116 --> 01:06:32,684
[LAUGHS] Yeah!
852
01:06:32,727 --> 01:06:35,774
♪ She longed for the powder
and the string and comb
853
01:06:35,817 --> 01:06:37,776
[LAUGHS] Lord!
854
01:06:37,819 --> 01:06:39,778
♪ Dekalb womanGet away from me.
855
01:06:39,821 --> 01:06:42,389
♪ Would not
have a home ♪
856
01:06:42,433 --> 01:06:46,567
Spent all my money
on that store dress
for that gal
857
01:06:46,611 --> 01:06:50,832
and she spend all her time
with anybody come along
with two legs in his pants.
858
01:06:50,876 --> 01:06:54,445
She spent most of her time
listenin' to ol' Walter
here singin',
859
01:06:54,488 --> 01:06:56,186
that's what she done.
860
01:06:56,229 --> 01:06:58,840
[SHUSHING]
861
01:06:58,884 --> 01:07:01,669
Hey, Walter, how 'bout
that time you went
outdoors to pee?
862
01:07:01,713 --> 01:07:04,324
Huh?[SHUSHING]
863
01:07:04,368 --> 01:07:07,545
What you
talkin' 'bout?When you went out to pee!
864
01:07:09,634 --> 01:07:11,114
That ain't all you was doin'
with that thing
865
01:07:11,157 --> 01:07:13,594
out of your pants.
866
01:07:13,638 --> 01:07:16,423
Not with Alex's gal
just beggin' for it!Shh!
867
01:07:18,034 --> 01:07:21,472
You prong my gal
and you laugh in my face?
868
01:07:26,564 --> 01:07:27,521
Watch out, Walter!
869
01:07:29,175 --> 01:07:30,133
[GUNSHOT]
870
01:07:35,355 --> 01:07:36,356
[GASPS]
871
01:07:59,292 --> 01:08:00,772
It's your fault.
872
01:08:01,903 --> 01:08:03,601
What'd you make me
do that for?
873
01:08:03,644 --> 01:08:05,994
What'd you go
and mess with me for?
874
01:08:11,391 --> 01:08:13,045
[PANTING]
875
01:08:16,004 --> 01:08:18,355
Walter Boyd
done killed Alex Griffin!
876
01:08:24,012 --> 01:08:26,276
What'd you do that for?
877
01:08:26,319 --> 01:08:27,320
Huh?
878
01:08:27,364 --> 01:08:28,713
Huh?
879
01:08:29,931 --> 01:08:31,455
[SOBBING]
880
01:08:32,369 --> 01:08:35,241
We was just friends, man.
881
01:08:38,592 --> 01:08:40,028
We's all good friends.
882
01:08:41,073 --> 01:08:42,292
[SOBBING] Oh!
883
01:08:43,771 --> 01:08:45,033
Oh!
884
01:08:51,431 --> 01:08:52,780
LOMAX: How long?
885
01:08:54,652 --> 01:08:56,001
HUDDIE: Thirty years.
886
01:08:58,264 --> 01:08:59,439
There you go.
887
01:08:59,483 --> 01:09:01,137
LOMAX: That's a lotta years.
888
01:09:02,355 --> 01:09:03,878
[WHIP LASHING]
889
01:09:03,922 --> 01:09:07,099
Law say you're
supposed to stop whippin'
when the blood come.
890
01:09:07,795 --> 01:09:08,796
[SCOFFS]
891
01:09:10,015 --> 01:09:12,583
They don't pay
no mind here in Sugarland.
892
01:09:12,626 --> 01:09:14,585
[LASHING CONTINUES][MAN GROANING]
893
01:09:18,632 --> 01:09:20,068
[TRAIN HORN TOOTING]
894
01:09:32,516 --> 01:09:35,997
Ally George, he the trusty.
895
01:09:41,916 --> 01:09:44,397
He ain't got no leg irons,
896
01:09:44,441 --> 01:09:46,617
how come he walk
all cripped up like that?
897
01:09:49,968 --> 01:09:53,711
Him and three others
done cut their hamstrings
898
01:09:53,754 --> 01:09:55,321
to keep from goin' out
in the field.
899
01:10:00,979 --> 01:10:02,850
He shoulda cut his throat.
900
01:10:04,896 --> 01:10:06,071
Move it!
901
01:10:08,029 --> 01:10:09,553
[HORSE NEIGHS]
902
01:10:11,511 --> 01:10:12,991
What's wrong
with the Bossman?
903
01:10:14,775 --> 01:10:16,864
Stomach gripes.
904
01:10:16,908 --> 01:10:18,649
Too much whiskey
last night.
905
01:10:20,041 --> 01:10:24,132
When his gut gets to him,
stay outta his way.
906
01:10:24,176 --> 01:10:25,525
[WHIP LASHING]
907
01:10:27,919 --> 01:10:29,529
Move it on,
move it!
908
01:10:29,573 --> 01:10:31,836
Well he ain't gonna
lick me with no whip.
909
01:10:34,055 --> 01:10:35,100
Yeah.
910
01:10:36,188 --> 01:10:37,450
Sure.
911
01:10:39,191 --> 01:10:40,497
Oh![GROANS]
912
01:10:45,937 --> 01:10:47,155
What's the matter,
old man?
913
01:10:47,199 --> 01:10:48,461
You all right?
914
01:10:48,505 --> 01:10:51,986
Come on, get movin',
old man. Get movin'!
915
01:10:53,205 --> 01:10:55,947
You goddamn
son of a bitch, you!
916
01:10:55,990 --> 01:10:57,731
You black bastard, you!
917
01:10:59,820 --> 01:11:02,127
Put down that hoe,
Walter Boyd.
918
01:11:02,170 --> 01:11:04,390
Put down that goddamn hoe!
919
01:11:06,523 --> 01:11:09,134
Nigger, I said
put down that hoe!
920
01:11:09,177 --> 01:11:11,571
Dick licker,
Henry, Foster!
921
01:11:13,704 --> 01:11:15,488
Get in there,
and move your ass!
922
01:11:15,532 --> 01:11:17,229
Get that hoe![GRUNTS]
923
01:11:17,273 --> 01:11:20,014
Hey, Walter,
it ain't no use.
924
01:11:20,058 --> 01:11:22,103
You're just
gonna get whipped.
925
01:11:22,147 --> 01:11:23,888
Walter, put down the hoe.
926
01:11:40,470 --> 01:11:41,775
Put it down.
927
01:12:05,451 --> 01:12:06,844
[MUFFLED GROANING]
928
01:12:07,888 --> 01:12:09,716
[LASHING CONTINUES]
929
01:12:13,590 --> 01:12:14,547
[WINCES]
930
01:12:22,990 --> 01:12:25,297
How many is that?
931
01:12:27,473 --> 01:12:29,475
[STRAINING] Fourteen.
932
01:12:30,955 --> 01:12:32,565
What the hell...
933
01:12:40,312 --> 01:12:42,923
Go get 'im,
go get 'im.
934
01:13:20,613 --> 01:13:22,876
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
935
01:14:34,208 --> 01:14:35,209
[NEIGHS]
936
01:14:36,080 --> 01:14:37,560
Hey, Boss!
937
01:14:37,603 --> 01:14:39,039
Walter Boyd's
runnin', Boss!
938
01:14:39,083 --> 01:14:40,258
BOSS: Where'd he go?
939
01:14:40,301 --> 01:14:43,914
He went out through there,
I tried to stop him.
940
01:14:59,756 --> 01:15:00,713
[WHINNYING]
941
01:15:30,656 --> 01:15:32,571
Come on here.
[WHISTLES]
Let's go.
942
01:15:33,224 --> 01:15:34,965
[BARKING]
943
01:15:35,008 --> 01:15:37,271
Come on here, Vic.
Let's go, Vic.
944
01:15:42,363 --> 01:15:44,670
Come on here, Vic.
Come on here.
945
01:15:48,108 --> 01:15:49,501
Come on!
946
01:16:04,560 --> 01:16:05,909
[PLATES RATTLING]
947
01:16:16,572 --> 01:16:18,356
Stop with that noise!
948
01:16:22,186 --> 01:16:23,970
[GUNSHOT]
949
01:16:27,408 --> 01:16:29,759
Next one's goin' in
somebody's black ass!
950
01:16:32,413 --> 01:16:33,414
[HUMMING]
951
01:16:43,903 --> 01:16:44,730
You men sit down!
952
01:16:46,384 --> 01:16:47,428
Sit down!
953
01:16:52,608 --> 01:16:56,307
♪ Ol' Riley walked the water
954
01:16:56,350 --> 01:16:58,004
[DOGS BARKING]
955
01:16:58,048 --> 01:17:02,139
♪ Ol' Riley walked the water
956
01:17:03,270 --> 01:17:09,712
♪ In them long hot summer days
957
01:17:10,974 --> 01:17:15,848
♪ Ol' Riley, he's gone
958
01:17:15,892 --> 01:17:19,722
♪ Ol' Riley, he's gone,
long gone
959
01:17:21,071 --> 01:17:26,685
♪ Like a turkey
through the corn
960
01:17:35,825 --> 01:17:40,917
♪ Ol' Riley walked the water
Here, Rattler, here
961
01:17:40,960 --> 01:17:45,661
♪ Ol' Riley walked the water
Here, Rattler, here
962
01:17:45,704 --> 01:17:47,619
♪ Ol' Riley's gone
like a turkey through the corn
963
01:17:47,663 --> 01:17:49,969
♪ Now, here, Rattler, here
964
01:17:50,013 --> 01:17:52,450
♪ Ol' Riley's gone
like a turkey through the corn
965
01:17:52,493 --> 01:17:54,974
♪ Here, Rattler, here ♪
966
01:17:55,018 --> 01:17:56,846
[CROWS CAWING]
967
01:18:03,287 --> 01:18:04,767
[GOAT BLEATING]
968
01:18:15,865 --> 01:18:17,605
Child, get in the house.
969
01:18:17,649 --> 01:18:19,520
Get in the house.
970
01:18:34,057 --> 01:18:35,580
What you want, sonny?
971
01:18:40,890 --> 01:18:44,371
You gonna help me
get these chains off,
ol' lady?
972
01:18:44,415 --> 01:18:46,286
Oh, yeah, that be's
what they say.
973
01:18:46,330 --> 01:18:47,984
Come 'round here
botherin' a body.
974
01:18:48,027 --> 01:18:49,072
[SCOFFS]
975
01:18:49,115 --> 01:18:50,638
Any time o' day,
just come a-runnin'.
976
01:18:50,682 --> 01:18:53,511
Don't care nothin' about
no manners. No, sir.
977
01:18:53,554 --> 01:18:56,557
Lutie, bring the
ax and wedge.
978
01:18:57,341 --> 01:18:58,734
Hurry, child.
979
01:19:02,085 --> 01:19:03,347
[DOGS BARKING]
980
01:19:25,325 --> 01:19:28,328
Well, look at that.
[CHUCKLING]
981
01:19:28,372 --> 01:19:30,853
They ain't makin' the chains
like they used to.
982
01:19:30,896 --> 01:19:32,028
[CHUCKLES]
983
01:19:34,465 --> 01:19:35,858
If you listen
careful, sonny,
984
01:19:35,901 --> 01:19:38,425
you can hear them
dogs back there
where you come from.
985
01:19:41,515 --> 01:19:43,648
[CHUCKLING]
986
01:19:48,131 --> 01:19:51,569
You get
the shovel later, Lutie,
you bury them, right?
987
01:20:06,671 --> 01:20:08,673
[BARKING CONTINUES]
988
01:20:13,330 --> 01:20:17,943
♪ Ol' Riley walked the water
Here, Rattler, here
989
01:20:17,987 --> 01:20:22,252
♪ Ol' Riley walked the water
Here, Rattler, here
990
01:20:26,647 --> 01:20:28,736
♪ Ol' Riley gone
like a turkey through the corn
991
01:20:28,780 --> 01:20:30,651
♪ Here, Rattler, here
992
01:20:30,695 --> 01:20:33,002
♪ Ol' Riley gone
like a turkey through the corn
993
01:20:33,045 --> 01:20:34,786
♪ Here, Rattler, here
994
01:20:40,661 --> 01:20:42,750
[BARKING]
995
01:20:51,977 --> 01:20:54,371
♪ Rattler come
when I blow my horn
996
01:20:54,414 --> 01:20:56,242
♪ Here, Rattler, here
997
01:20:56,286 --> 01:20:58,549
♪ Rattler come
when I blow my horn
998
01:20:58,592 --> 01:21:00,768
♪ Here, Rattler, here
999
01:21:00,812 --> 01:21:04,816
♪ Toot, toot, toot
Here, Rattler, here
1000
01:21:04,860 --> 01:21:08,951
♪ Toot, toot, toot
Here, Rattler, here
1001
01:21:21,485 --> 01:21:24,314
[BARKING]
1002
01:21:46,249 --> 01:21:47,424
Come on!
1003
01:21:47,467 --> 01:21:49,513
♪ Here, Rattler,
here, Rattler
1004
01:21:49,556 --> 01:21:51,776
♪ Here, Rattler, here
1005
01:21:51,819 --> 01:21:53,821
♪ Here, Rattler,
here, Rattler
1006
01:21:53,865 --> 01:21:55,649
♪ Here, Rattler, here
1007
01:21:55,693 --> 01:21:56,999
[DOGS BARKING]
1008
01:21:57,042 --> 01:21:59,523
[WHISTLES] Come on.
1009
01:22:10,055 --> 01:22:11,013
[WHISTLES]
1010
01:22:14,930 --> 01:22:16,844
[WHISTLES]
1011
01:22:21,501 --> 01:22:25,549
♪ Ol' Riley walked the water
Here, Rattler, here
1012
01:22:25,592 --> 01:22:29,596
♪ Ol' Riley walked the water
Here, Rattler, here
1013
01:22:30,423 --> 01:22:32,730
[DOGS BARKING IN DISTANCE]
1014
01:23:00,888 --> 01:23:02,455
[WHISTLES]
There's something
going on there.
1015
01:23:02,499 --> 01:23:04,805
[BARKING]
1016
01:23:04,849 --> 01:23:06,677
[SCREAMS]
1017
01:23:11,595 --> 01:23:12,900
Get down from there!
1018
01:23:12,944 --> 01:23:14,859
No!We're takin' you back to camp.
1019
01:23:14,902 --> 01:23:17,296
No!Come on down, Walter.
1020
01:23:17,340 --> 01:23:18,341
We're goin' back to camp.
1021
01:23:18,384 --> 01:23:19,907
No!
1022
01:23:26,610 --> 01:23:27,611
[THUDS]
1023
01:23:34,357 --> 01:23:35,358
[GROANS]
1024
01:23:55,769 --> 01:24:01,297
♪ Ol' Riley walked the water
1025
01:24:04,343 --> 01:24:09,609
♪ Ol' Riley walked the water
1026
01:24:11,698 --> 01:24:17,791
♪ In them long,
hot summer days ♪
1027
01:24:35,244 --> 01:24:36,201
Walter.
1028
01:24:39,074 --> 01:24:40,771
Walter!
1029
01:24:44,949 --> 01:24:46,037
Here are your
vittles, Walter.
1030
01:24:48,300 --> 01:24:53,131
Hey, let go, let go,
let go!
1031
01:24:55,612 --> 01:24:58,180
I brung your vittles,
ya ol' fool.
1032
01:25:02,880 --> 01:25:05,448
I hear you
holler on me.
1033
01:25:05,491 --> 01:25:07,189
"Boss, Walter's runnin'!"
1034
01:25:08,581 --> 01:25:10,105
When I get you,
I'm gonna kill you.
1035
01:25:11,541 --> 01:25:12,803
You hear me.
1036
01:25:12,846 --> 01:25:14,457
When I went down, I knowed
I wasn't gonna make it.
1037
01:25:14,500 --> 01:25:16,415
And the Boss was comin'.
1038
01:25:16,459 --> 01:25:19,766
It didn't matter to you
one way or the other,
so I hollered.
1039
01:25:19,810 --> 01:25:21,159
Saved myself a lickin'.
1040
01:25:27,296 --> 01:25:28,384
In times like these,
1041
01:25:28,427 --> 01:25:30,864
you got to live
the way you got to.
1042
01:25:37,001 --> 01:25:39,438
I look at it this way.
1043
01:25:39,482 --> 01:25:41,919
That ol' white man
don't care if I live
or die.
1044
01:25:41,962 --> 01:25:44,835
Fact is, he'd just
as soon I die.
1045
01:25:47,707 --> 01:25:50,710
Every day, I say to myself...
1046
01:25:53,539 --> 01:25:54,758
"Forget him!"
1047
01:25:55,715 --> 01:25:57,108
Ain't gonna die.
1048
01:25:59,502 --> 01:26:02,461
Ya suit your ways
to the situation.
1049
01:26:02,505 --> 01:26:06,073
Some other time, you can
chonk that white man
on his head.
1050
01:26:08,163 --> 01:26:11,035
But now, you just study
on livin' till tomorrow.
1051
01:26:11,949 --> 01:26:13,603
You gonna learn.
1052
01:26:14,473 --> 01:26:16,083
Now you take these peas
1053
01:26:17,476 --> 01:26:19,174
and you eats every crumb
1054
01:26:20,175 --> 01:26:21,654
and bide your time.
1055
01:26:22,699 --> 01:26:23,787
That's the way
you live.
1056
01:26:26,964 --> 01:26:31,403
'Course when
they wants to kill you,
just livin' is winnin'.
1057
01:26:31,447 --> 01:26:32,709
Here.
1058
01:26:35,581 --> 01:26:37,714
Here!
1059
01:27:08,527 --> 01:27:10,442
[COUGHING]
1060
01:27:11,704 --> 01:27:12,836
Can I help you?
1061
01:27:12,879 --> 01:27:14,403
WES: I come to get my boy.
1062
01:27:14,925 --> 01:27:16,100
Come with me.
1063
01:27:36,120 --> 01:27:37,730
Captain, here's that
Ledbetter fella.
1064
01:27:38,601 --> 01:27:40,298
All right, send him in.
1065
01:27:47,566 --> 01:27:48,524
[COUGHING]
1066
01:27:53,006 --> 01:27:54,356
Have a seat.
1067
01:27:55,574 --> 01:27:56,967
Thank you.
1068
01:27:58,925 --> 01:28:00,753
So you're
Walter Boyd's father.
1069
01:28:02,015 --> 01:28:03,234
That's right.
1070
01:28:03,713 --> 01:28:05,062
He my boy.
1071
01:28:05,758 --> 01:28:07,586
Your name Ledbetter?
1072
01:28:07,630 --> 01:28:08,761
Wesley Ledbetter?
1073
01:28:09,762 --> 01:28:13,549
Well, Walter was a stepson.
1074
01:28:13,592 --> 01:28:15,855
That's how come
he got the name Boyd.
1075
01:28:15,899 --> 01:28:17,727
All right, all right.
1076
01:28:17,770 --> 01:28:20,469
Walter Boyd is good enough.
1077
01:28:20,512 --> 01:28:21,905
Now...
1078
01:28:24,603 --> 01:28:26,257
what can I do for you?
1079
01:28:27,693 --> 01:28:32,655
I took 15 acres
of good bottom land
1080
01:28:32,698 --> 01:28:37,224
and I sold it
to Mr. Braithwaite
over in Mooringsport.
1081
01:28:39,096 --> 01:28:40,793
I got the money right here.
1082
01:28:42,752 --> 01:28:43,840
Every dollar.
1083
01:28:48,888 --> 01:28:49,889
Captain...
1084
01:28:52,979 --> 01:28:54,720
You take this here money
1085
01:28:55,982 --> 01:28:57,288
and you turn my boy loose.
1086
01:28:57,332 --> 01:29:00,509
Hold on, old man.
I can't take your money.
1087
01:29:01,292 --> 01:29:02,293
I ain't...
1088
01:29:04,730 --> 01:29:07,342
Asking for no mercy
or nothin'.
1089
01:29:08,517 --> 01:29:11,171
You take it,
hear, Captain!
1090
01:29:14,044 --> 01:29:17,134
My wife died
last corn-plantin'
1091
01:29:17,177 --> 01:29:19,571
and I need my boy
back on the farm.
1092
01:29:19,615 --> 01:29:23,053
Listen to me, ol' man,
it don't work that way.
1093
01:29:23,096 --> 01:29:26,230
You can't buy your boy free.
1094
01:29:26,273 --> 01:29:28,624
Your boy's been sentenced
to 30 years
1095
01:29:28,667 --> 01:29:31,583
under the laws of the
sovereign state of Texas.
1096
01:29:31,627 --> 01:29:34,760
I can't turn
your boy loose.
1097
01:29:34,804 --> 01:29:38,373
Now, you just take your money
and run on home, hear, uncle?
1098
01:29:41,724 --> 01:29:44,030
I ain't no kind o' kin
to you, Captain.
1099
01:29:52,778 --> 01:29:55,390
You want me to bring him
in so's you can see him?
1100
01:30:01,526 --> 01:30:02,832
No.
1101
01:30:08,664 --> 01:30:11,710
I just as soon as
not see him here.
1102
01:30:16,106 --> 01:30:19,326
Captain, I'd like to leave
some money for him then.
1103
01:30:19,370 --> 01:30:21,372
No cash money.
1104
01:30:21,416 --> 01:30:23,809
That's against
all regulations.
1105
01:30:27,639 --> 01:30:28,597
[COUGHS]
1106
01:30:42,132 --> 01:30:43,742
[COUGHING]
1107
01:30:56,363 --> 01:31:00,063
Supposin' I left some money
for you to give to him...
1108
01:31:00,106 --> 01:31:01,804
Listen, I told you...
1109
01:31:01,847 --> 01:31:03,370
Hear...
1110
01:31:03,414 --> 01:31:04,894
Hear me!
1111
01:31:06,112 --> 01:31:08,637
You take it
1112
01:31:08,680 --> 01:31:11,640
and get my boy
the kind of guitar
he plays.
1113
01:31:13,511 --> 01:31:17,776
Don't cost
but $15 or $20
in a hock shop.
1114
01:31:20,431 --> 01:31:22,477
If that's all
I can do for him,
1115
01:31:23,434 --> 01:31:26,306
well, so be it.
1116
01:31:37,622 --> 01:31:38,580
All right, Ledbetter.
1117
01:31:44,455 --> 01:31:46,152
Anything you want me
to tell him?
1118
01:31:51,288 --> 01:31:52,594
No.
1119
01:31:57,381 --> 01:31:59,949
No, there ain't nothin'
you can tell him for me.
1120
01:32:02,125 --> 01:32:06,477
Anything I got to
hand down to my boy
I already done.
1121
01:32:07,826 --> 01:32:10,481
Just goodbye.
1122
01:32:10,525 --> 01:32:13,310
Ain't likely
I'm gonna see him again.
1123
01:32:50,782 --> 01:32:53,176
[THUMPING]
1124
01:32:59,486 --> 01:33:01,532
[GUITAR PLAYING]
1125
01:33:04,535 --> 01:33:09,540
HUDDIE:
♪ Irene, goodnight
1126
01:33:09,584 --> 01:33:14,371
♪ Irene, goodnight
1127
01:33:14,414 --> 01:33:19,419
♪ Goodnight, Irene
Goodnight, Irene
1128
01:33:19,463 --> 01:33:24,468
♪ I'll kiss you
in my dreams
1129
01:33:24,511 --> 01:33:28,385
♪ Sometimes I live
in the country
1130
01:33:29,952 --> 01:33:34,783
♪ Sometimes
I live in town
1131
01:33:34,826 --> 01:33:39,831
♪ Sometimes I have
a great notion
1132
01:33:39,875 --> 01:33:44,706
♪ To jump in the river
and drown
1133
01:33:45,576 --> 01:33:50,189
♪ Irene, goodnight
1134
01:33:50,929 --> 01:33:55,412
♪ Irene, goodnight
1135
01:33:55,455 --> 01:34:00,460
♪ Goodnight, Irene
Goodnight, Irene
1136
01:34:00,504 --> 01:34:05,901
♪ I'll kiss you
in my dreams
1137
01:34:05,944 --> 01:34:08,294
♪ You caused me to weep
1138
01:34:08,338 --> 01:34:10,775
♪ You caused me to moan
1139
01:34:10,819 --> 01:34:15,998
♪ You caused me
to leave my home
1140
01:34:16,041 --> 01:34:20,959
♪ The last words
I heard her say
1141
01:34:21,003 --> 01:34:25,094
♪ I want you
to sing me a song
1142
01:34:26,573 --> 01:34:31,013
♪ Irene, goodnight ♪
1143
01:34:31,056 --> 01:34:33,755
GUARD: Walter Boyd,
Governor Pat Neff's here.
1144
01:34:35,321 --> 01:34:37,106
The Captain wants you
to sing for him.
1145
01:34:37,149 --> 01:34:39,630
Come on, we'll take
your chains off.
1146
01:34:53,644 --> 01:34:56,125
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
1147
01:35:54,879 --> 01:35:56,098
What's his name?
1148
01:35:56,141 --> 01:35:57,621
Walter Boyd.
1149
01:35:58,970 --> 01:35:59,928
Hey, you!
1150
01:36:01,886 --> 01:36:04,715
You sing me a song now,
ya hear?
1151
01:36:05,237 --> 01:36:06,238
[CHUCKLES]
1152
01:36:18,207 --> 01:36:21,732
♪ Mary, sweet Mary
1153
01:36:27,216 --> 01:36:29,784
♪ 1923
1154
01:36:29,827 --> 01:36:33,265
♪ The judge took my liberty
away from me
1155
01:36:36,529 --> 01:36:38,967
♪ 1923
1156
01:36:39,010 --> 01:36:42,057
♪ The judge took my liberty
away from me
1157
01:36:46,148 --> 01:36:48,237
♪ I'm your servant,
compose this song
1158
01:36:48,280 --> 01:36:51,066
♪ Please, Governor Neff,
let me go back home
1159
01:36:51,109 --> 01:36:52,763
[LAUGHS]
1160
01:36:53,546 --> 01:36:55,287
[CROWD LAUGHING]
1161
01:36:55,331 --> 01:36:57,246
♪ I'm your servant,
compose this song
1162
01:36:57,289 --> 01:37:00,249
♪ Please, Governor Neff,
let me go back home
1163
01:37:03,774 --> 01:37:08,648
♪ Goin' back to Mary
Oh, Mary
1164
01:37:10,607 --> 01:37:13,001
[LAUGHTER]
1165
01:37:13,044 --> 01:37:15,655
Ain't nothin'
can sing like a darkie
1166
01:37:15,699 --> 01:37:18,571
when he puts
his mind to it.
1167
01:37:18,615 --> 01:37:20,356
Ah, great.
1168
01:37:23,315 --> 01:37:25,578
♪ Please, Governor Neff,
be good and kind
1169
01:37:25,622 --> 01:37:28,625
♪ If I don't get a pardon,
will you cut my time?
1170
01:37:28,668 --> 01:37:30,105
[LAUGHING]
1171
01:37:32,672 --> 01:37:35,153
♪ Please, Governor Neff,
be good and kind
1172
01:37:35,197 --> 01:37:37,939
♪ If I don't get a pardon,
will you cut my time?
1173
01:37:41,464 --> 01:37:44,075
♪ If I had you, Governor Neff,
like you got me
1174
01:37:44,119 --> 01:37:46,817
♪ I'd wake up in the mornin'
and set you free
1175
01:37:46,861 --> 01:37:50,734
Look there,
playin' darkie for
the white folks.
1176
01:37:50,777 --> 01:37:53,563
♪ If I had you, Governor Neff,
like you got me
1177
01:37:53,606 --> 01:37:57,523
♪ I'd wake up in the mornin'
and set you free ♪
1178
01:37:57,567 --> 01:38:00,831
You know, I'll bet he's
been makin' that song up
for the last week.
1179
01:38:00,875 --> 01:38:02,050
[LAUGHTER][STRUMMING CONTINUES]
1180
01:38:02,093 --> 01:38:03,181
That's like one of 'em.
1181
01:38:03,225 --> 01:38:04,313
They'll think of
every way in the world
1182
01:38:04,356 --> 01:38:05,618
to get out of payin',
you know that.
1183
01:38:05,662 --> 01:38:07,446
Shoot.
1184
01:38:09,013 --> 01:38:10,145
[APPLAUSE]
1185
01:38:21,547 --> 01:38:24,289
Well, ol' Walter,
[CHUCKLES]
1186
01:38:24,333 --> 01:38:26,552
you know I could
give you a pardon.
1187
01:38:30,513 --> 01:38:32,210
But then... [LAUGHING]
1188
01:38:33,908 --> 01:38:36,432
I wouldn't have you
down here to sing for me
1189
01:38:36,475 --> 01:38:38,347
when I came down next time.
1190
01:38:38,390 --> 01:38:39,522
[LAUGHTER]
1191
01:38:45,136 --> 01:38:46,572
Listen to this.
1192
01:38:47,834 --> 01:38:52,100
Ol' Walter, you know
what I'm gonna do?
1193
01:38:52,143 --> 01:38:55,190
Tell you what
I'm gonna do for you.
1194
01:38:55,233 --> 01:38:57,235
Just 'cause I like
your singin' so much.
1195
01:38:57,279 --> 01:38:57,975
[LAUGHING]
1196
01:39:00,064 --> 01:39:04,503
Last thing I do
while I'm in office,
1197
01:39:04,547 --> 01:39:08,638
put your pardon papers
on my desk.
1198
01:39:08,681 --> 01:39:11,554
Yes, sir,
I'm gonna set you free.
1199
01:39:12,903 --> 01:39:14,644
[LAUGHING]
1200
01:39:15,819 --> 01:39:16,820
Here.
1201
01:39:18,561 --> 01:39:22,608
Have one of
Captain Freeman's
15-cent cigars.
1202
01:39:31,922 --> 01:39:33,445
[GOVERNOR PAT LAUGHING]
1203
01:39:33,489 --> 01:39:36,144
[GOVERNOR PAT
SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
1204
01:40:23,887 --> 01:40:25,367
Gov'nor goin' to
turn me loose.
1205
01:40:27,456 --> 01:40:29,153
Pig shit!
1206
01:40:31,721 --> 01:40:33,462
Are you callin' me a liar?
1207
01:40:33,505 --> 01:40:37,335
[CHUCKLES] I said to
that Pat Neff, I said...
1208
01:40:37,379 --> 01:40:40,121
"You redneck
cracker chicken plucker."
1209
01:40:40,164 --> 01:40:41,644
[LAUGHTER]
1210
01:40:44,908 --> 01:40:46,475
I said, "You goin'
to turn me loose!"
1211
01:40:46,518 --> 01:40:49,391
He say,
"Yes, yes, yes, yes!"
1212
01:40:52,176 --> 01:40:53,960
Bastard ain't gonna
turn nobody loose.
1213
01:40:56,398 --> 01:41:00,315
You a damn fool,
shufflin' your feets
in the dirt for him,
1214
01:41:00,358 --> 01:41:02,273
playin' nigger.
1215
01:41:02,317 --> 01:41:03,840
Ain't gonna do you no good.
1216
01:41:05,755 --> 01:41:07,061
[GRUNTING]
1217
01:41:09,411 --> 01:41:13,154
Like you said,
you suit yourself
to the situation.
1218
01:41:18,376 --> 01:41:21,901
And that son of a bitch
is goin' to turn me loose!
1219
01:41:38,092 --> 01:41:39,615
[GUITAR STRUMMING]
1220
01:43:26,896 --> 01:43:28,811
Walter Boyd!
1221
01:43:28,854 --> 01:43:32,293
Get your ass over here,
the Captain wants to see you.
1222
01:43:51,137 --> 01:43:52,574
Captain sir?
1223
01:43:54,053 --> 01:43:56,447
Walter, you go on home.
1224
01:43:56,491 --> 01:43:59,189
We can't waste
no more vittles
on you here.
1225
01:44:07,589 --> 01:44:09,547
What's the matter
with you?
1226
01:44:09,591 --> 01:44:10,331
Do you hear me?
1227
01:44:10,374 --> 01:44:12,855
Pat Neff's out of office,
1228
01:44:12,898 --> 01:44:15,161
Ma Ferguson's
the new governor.
1229
01:44:21,994 --> 01:44:25,041
He left the pardon paper
behind like he said.
1230
01:44:35,965 --> 01:44:37,923
You go on home, Walter.
1231
01:44:43,102 --> 01:44:45,235
[LAUGHING]
1232
01:44:58,596 --> 01:45:00,555
Open it up.
1233
01:45:16,614 --> 01:45:18,486
Take it easy,
Walter.
1234
01:45:39,463 --> 01:45:42,292
♪ Yon come Miss Rosie
1235
01:45:42,336 --> 01:45:45,426
♪ How in the world
do you know?
1236
01:45:45,469 --> 01:45:48,472
♪ Well, I knows her
by the apron
1237
01:45:48,516 --> 01:45:50,169
♪ And the dress she wore
1238
01:45:50,213 --> 01:45:55,784
♪ Umbrella on her shoulder,
a piece o' paper in her hand
1239
01:45:55,827 --> 01:45:58,961
♪ Well, she's gonna
tell the gov'nor
1240
01:45:59,004 --> 01:46:00,615
♪ Turn loose my man
1241
01:46:00,658 --> 01:46:04,923
♪ Let the Midnight Special
shine the light on me
1242
01:46:06,316 --> 01:46:09,014
♪ Let the Midnight Special
1243
01:46:09,058 --> 01:46:11,539
♪ Shine its ever-lovin'
light on me
1244
01:46:11,582 --> 01:46:14,324
♪ If you ever go
to Houston
1245
01:46:14,368 --> 01:46:17,240
♪ Boy, you better
walk right
1246
01:46:17,283 --> 01:46:21,026
♪ Well,
you better not squabble
and you better not fight
1247
01:46:21,070 --> 01:46:23,986
♪ Or that sheriff
will arrest you
1248
01:46:24,029 --> 01:46:26,684
♪ And he will take you down
1249
01:46:26,728 --> 01:46:30,993
♪ And that judge
will sentence you
penitentiary bound
1250
01:46:31,036 --> 01:46:36,128
♪ Let the Midnight Special
shine its light on me
1251
01:46:36,172 --> 01:46:39,044
♪ Let the Midnight Special
1252
01:46:39,088 --> 01:46:44,398
♪ Shine its ever-lovin'
light on me ♪
1253
01:47:28,572 --> 01:47:29,878
Huddie!
1254
01:47:33,359 --> 01:47:35,231
That's...
1255
01:47:35,274 --> 01:47:37,233
That's Huddie Ledbetter,
that's who.
1256
01:47:37,276 --> 01:47:38,756
That's you.
1257
01:47:47,069 --> 01:47:48,418
Eula?
1258
01:47:48,462 --> 01:47:50,115
[GIGGLES]Eula?
1259
01:47:51,073 --> 01:47:53,031
[CHUCKLING] Miss Eula!
1260
01:47:53,075 --> 01:47:55,207
Lord!
1261
01:48:00,082 --> 01:48:01,910
I guess there's
nothin' more pitiful
1262
01:48:01,953 --> 01:48:03,999
than a broke ol' whore,
is there?
1263
01:48:04,042 --> 01:48:05,957
Oh, you all right.[CHUCKLES]
1264
01:48:06,001 --> 01:48:08,569
Come, sit. Come.
1265
01:48:08,612 --> 01:48:09,570
Come.
1266
01:48:11,397 --> 01:48:12,616
Oh.
1267
01:48:16,881 --> 01:48:17,882
[CHUCKLES]
1268
01:48:19,797 --> 01:48:21,407
Lord!
1269
01:48:22,452 --> 01:48:24,019
Oh!
1270
01:48:25,803 --> 01:48:27,675
[WINCES]
1271
01:48:27,718 --> 01:48:29,764
There ain't no more
Fannin Street no more.
1272
01:48:29,807 --> 01:48:30,808
[CHUCKLES] No.
1273
01:48:30,852 --> 01:48:32,984
I can see that.Yeah.
1274
01:48:33,942 --> 01:48:37,772
Sheriff Tom Hughes,
gone.
1275
01:48:37,815 --> 01:48:39,425
Sheriff Tom Hughes.
[GRUNTS IN FRUSTRATION]
1276
01:48:39,469 --> 01:48:41,471
Well, that's good.
1277
01:48:42,777 --> 01:48:44,953
[SIGHS]
1278
01:48:44,996 --> 01:48:46,781
Since you left,
I tell you,
1279
01:48:46,824 --> 01:48:50,828
nobody play
no music here, y'know?
1280
01:48:50,872 --> 01:48:54,092
Ain't nothin' here
on Fannin Street no more.
1281
01:48:55,485 --> 01:48:57,618
It used to be the place.
1282
01:48:57,661 --> 01:48:59,358
Nobody remembers.
1283
01:49:01,578 --> 01:49:04,450
Ain't nothin' in the world
harder to remember
1284
01:49:04,494 --> 01:49:07,323
than the sweet taste of honey
1285
01:49:07,366 --> 01:49:09,760
when you was young.
1286
01:49:11,501 --> 01:49:12,502
Oh.
1287
01:49:14,330 --> 01:49:16,288
You know, I think...
1288
01:49:16,332 --> 01:49:19,944
I think I might just
open me another house.
1289
01:49:19,988 --> 01:49:23,426
The way things is goin'...
1290
01:49:23,469 --> 01:49:26,429
Yeah, that's
what I'll do.
1291
01:49:26,472 --> 01:49:27,604
I'll...
1292
01:49:32,566 --> 01:49:35,786
God almighty! You're still
a hard man, Leadbelly.
1293
01:49:35,830 --> 01:49:37,658
What you doin'
all these years?
1294
01:49:37,701 --> 01:49:40,878
I been doin' lots of time.
1295
01:49:40,922 --> 01:49:42,445
Lots of bad time.
1296
01:49:46,971 --> 01:49:48,886
You know, I guess
I'm gonna do what you...
1297
01:49:48,930 --> 01:49:51,759
You told me to do
way back ago.
1298
01:49:54,239 --> 01:49:55,371
Ol' Lead's goin' home.
1299
01:49:56,067 --> 01:49:57,503
Thank, you, Jesus.
1300
01:49:59,723 --> 01:50:01,856
Yes, ol' Lead's goin' home.
1301
01:50:02,857 --> 01:50:04,380
Uh-huh.
1302
01:50:07,122 --> 01:50:09,385
Say, you still got
your ol' guitar?
1303
01:50:11,474 --> 01:50:13,215
I still picks a little.
[CHUCKLES]
1304
01:50:14,390 --> 01:50:15,521
Uh...
1305
01:50:15,565 --> 01:50:18,829
I got somethin' I kept...
1306
01:50:20,439 --> 01:50:22,528
All these years
I kept for you.
1307
01:50:23,834 --> 01:50:26,054
It's two of your
favorite picks.
1308
01:50:55,605 --> 01:50:58,260
HUDDIE:
You take care now, you hear?
1309
01:51:06,572 --> 01:51:08,574
♪ Good mornin', blues
1310
01:51:08,618 --> 01:51:11,142
♪ Blues, how do you do?
1311
01:51:13,405 --> 01:51:15,407
♪ Good mornin', blues
1312
01:51:15,451 --> 01:51:18,367
♪ Blues, how do you do?
1313
01:51:20,108 --> 01:51:22,240
♪ Well, I'm doin' all right
1314
01:51:22,284 --> 01:51:24,242
♪ Good mornin'
How are you?
1315
01:51:26,810 --> 01:51:28,551
♪ Lay down
last night
1316
01:51:28,594 --> 01:51:32,033
♪ I was turnin'
from side to side
1317
01:51:33,948 --> 01:51:36,385
♪ Oh...
1318
01:51:36,428 --> 01:51:37,647
♪ Turnin' from side to side ♪
1319
01:51:37,691 --> 01:51:40,868
[MISS EULA'S VOICE]
♪ Good mornin', blues
1320
01:51:40,911 --> 01:51:44,654
♪ Blues, how do you do?
1321
01:51:47,613 --> 01:51:49,615
♪ Good mornin', blues
1322
01:51:51,139 --> 01:51:54,795
♪ Blues, how do you do? ♪
1323
01:52:08,678 --> 01:52:10,071
[CHILDREN CHATTERING]
1324
01:52:18,035 --> 01:52:19,384
Amy!
1325
01:52:19,428 --> 01:52:21,256
You better come on here,
or Mama's goin' to whip you.
1326
01:52:21,299 --> 01:52:22,474
Amy, come on!
1327
01:52:22,518 --> 01:52:26,000
Betcha,
I know who you is.
1328
01:52:26,043 --> 01:52:29,481
You sung at a Sukey Jump
on a Saturday night
at Collinses.
1329
01:52:32,354 --> 01:52:33,834
Green Corn,
1330
01:52:36,097 --> 01:52:37,098
Grey Goose
1331
01:52:38,752 --> 01:52:40,623
and Yellow Gal.
1332
01:52:40,666 --> 01:52:42,190
The Collinses?
1333
01:52:42,233 --> 01:52:44,496
You wasn't
even born yet, girl.
How you know that?
1334
01:52:44,540 --> 01:52:46,194
My mama told me.
1335
01:52:46,237 --> 01:52:47,673
[CHUCKLES] What's
your mama's name?
1336
01:52:47,717 --> 01:52:48,718
Miss Margaret Hayes.
1337
01:52:53,505 --> 01:52:54,506
Mar...
1338
01:52:56,682 --> 01:52:58,728
Lawd today!
1339
01:53:02,514 --> 01:53:03,689
What's your name?
1340
01:53:03,733 --> 01:53:05,126
Amy.
1341
01:53:05,169 --> 01:53:06,127
[CHUCKLES]
1342
01:53:08,042 --> 01:53:09,478
Amy.
1343
01:53:10,392 --> 01:53:11,697
Amy Judd.
1344
01:53:13,003 --> 01:53:16,702
Matt Hayes wouldn't own me
when he married Mama
1345
01:53:16,746 --> 01:53:19,096
because I was
a woods colt.
1346
01:53:19,140 --> 01:53:20,576
[CHUCKLES]
1347
01:53:22,447 --> 01:53:23,753
Your mama
tell you about me?
1348
01:53:23,797 --> 01:53:25,581
Uh-huh.
1349
01:53:25,624 --> 01:53:28,236
She said you were the best
songster 'round Caddo Lake
before you went off.
1350
01:53:28,279 --> 01:53:30,325
[CHUCKLES]
1351
01:53:30,368 --> 01:53:32,370
And...
1352
01:53:32,414 --> 01:53:34,503
You was
in the penitentiary.
1353
01:53:36,940 --> 01:53:38,681
What's it like there?
1354
01:53:41,075 --> 01:53:43,164
Hard work mostly.
1355
01:53:43,207 --> 01:53:45,383
But I was number one roller
on the number one gang.
1356
01:53:45,427 --> 01:53:47,037
That's good?
1357
01:53:48,604 --> 01:53:51,476
It's a way
of stayin' alive.
1358
01:53:51,520 --> 01:53:53,217
Keeps you from thinkin'.
1359
01:53:53,261 --> 01:53:54,828
'Bout what?
1360
01:53:56,568 --> 01:53:58,919
HUDDIE: 'Bout home mostly.
1361
01:54:08,972 --> 01:54:10,800
Hey, where you goin'?
1362
01:54:10,844 --> 01:54:12,410
Don't go up there.
1363
01:54:40,612 --> 01:54:42,136
Hey, Ma!
1364
01:54:53,887 --> 01:54:55,105
Come on, get in
the house, hurry up.
1365
01:54:55,149 --> 01:54:56,802
Get in the house.
Hurry up.
1366
01:54:57,847 --> 01:54:59,675
Henry, Henry!
1367
01:55:10,642 --> 01:55:12,296
Here!
1368
01:55:12,340 --> 01:55:13,341
What do you want here?
1369
01:55:13,384 --> 01:55:14,559
Nothin'.
1370
01:55:14,603 --> 01:55:16,692
This here used to be
my daddy's land.
1371
01:55:19,738 --> 01:55:21,653
This here
used to be our house.
1372
01:55:21,697 --> 01:55:22,785
No more it ain't.
1373
01:55:23,655 --> 01:55:24,874
Belong to
Mr. Braithwaite.
1374
01:55:26,136 --> 01:55:27,094
I know you.
1375
01:55:28,399 --> 01:55:30,793
You Huddie Ledbetter.
1376
01:55:30,836 --> 01:55:32,360
You been
in a penitentiary in Texas.
1377
01:55:32,403 --> 01:55:35,189
This used to be
my daddy's land,
that's all.
1378
01:55:35,232 --> 01:55:36,538
You go on now, hear?
1379
01:55:36,581 --> 01:55:38,366
Land don't belong
to no Ledbetter no more.
1380
01:55:38,409 --> 01:55:39,715
Mr. Braithwaite own it.
1381
01:55:39,758 --> 01:55:41,935
I sharecrop for him.
1382
01:55:46,243 --> 01:55:48,506
I know 'bout you.
You a murderer.
1383
01:55:48,550 --> 01:55:49,855
You go on now, hear?
1384
01:55:49,899 --> 01:55:52,075
Ain't nothin'
for you here no more.
1385
01:55:52,119 --> 01:55:54,251
You got no claim.
1386
01:55:54,295 --> 01:55:56,775
This here been
Ledbetter land
since the War.
1387
01:55:56,819 --> 01:55:59,300
You get away from here.
You don't belong here.
1388
01:56:24,629 --> 01:56:28,938
♪ Black girl,
black girl
1389
01:56:28,982 --> 01:56:33,116
♪ Where will you go?
1390
01:56:33,160 --> 01:56:38,165
♪ I'll go where
the cold winds blow ♪
1391
01:56:42,952 --> 01:56:44,736
Whatcha gonna do now?
1392
01:56:45,607 --> 01:56:46,782
Don't know.
1393
01:56:49,741 --> 01:56:52,266
Mama say you sure know
how to play that guitar.
1394
01:56:52,309 --> 01:56:53,615
[CHUCKLES]
1395
01:56:53,658 --> 01:56:56,748
Well, ain't nobody can
outpick and outholler me,
1396
01:56:56,792 --> 01:56:58,402
now that's for sure.
1397
01:56:58,446 --> 01:57:00,796
I was the king of, uh...
1398
01:57:01,318 --> 01:57:02,972
King of what?
1399
01:57:04,321 --> 01:57:06,584
Uh, somewhere...
1400
01:57:06,628 --> 01:57:10,284
Somewhere in this world
I'm gonna...
1401
01:57:10,327 --> 01:57:11,633
You want
to be king to me?
1402
01:57:13,374 --> 01:57:14,331
[CHUCKLES]
1403
01:57:18,335 --> 01:57:20,337
Hey! Hey!
1404
01:57:20,381 --> 01:57:21,686
Mr. Braithwaite!
1405
01:57:24,950 --> 01:57:27,692
That Ledbetter fellow was here
messin' around the house.
1406
01:57:27,736 --> 01:57:29,433
Lookin' all over
the place.
1407
01:57:29,477 --> 01:57:31,957
Yeah, I told him to get
the hell outta here.
1408
01:57:32,001 --> 01:57:33,307
Where'd he go?
1409
01:57:33,350 --> 01:57:34,525
Down the road,
straight ahead.
1410
01:58:07,384 --> 01:58:08,472
Y'all get home,
it's gettin' late now.
1411
01:58:08,516 --> 01:58:09,604
I'll be talking
to you later.
1412
01:58:09,647 --> 01:58:12,476
Go! Go, now,
and don't look back.
1413
01:58:13,695 --> 01:58:15,566
How do you
do there, gents?
1414
01:58:16,611 --> 01:58:18,178
You some kind of
tough nigger?
1415
01:58:18,221 --> 01:58:20,180
You goin' back to jail,
ol' boy.
1416
01:58:27,796 --> 01:58:28,797
[GROANS]
1417
01:58:34,411 --> 01:58:35,369
[MEN GRUNTING]
1418
01:58:45,292 --> 01:58:46,684
[GROANS]
1419
01:58:52,429 --> 01:58:53,996
Come on!
1420
01:59:11,144 --> 01:59:13,233
HUDDIE: That's the
way it all happened.
1421
01:59:14,495 --> 01:59:17,324
Songs and everything else.
1422
01:59:28,422 --> 01:59:29,162
Tom.
1423
01:59:31,033 --> 01:59:32,121
[CLICKS BUTTON]
1424
01:59:39,520 --> 01:59:40,477
Huddie...
1425
01:59:43,698 --> 01:59:45,395
Time to go back.
1426
01:59:52,576 --> 01:59:55,144
What you goin' to do
with all them songs?
1427
01:59:55,188 --> 01:59:59,061
Well for one thing,
we'll take 'em to Washington
to the Library of Congress.
1428
02:00:00,802 --> 02:00:02,456
What for?
1429
02:00:02,499 --> 02:00:03,631
We collect songs.
1430
02:00:06,634 --> 02:00:08,766
Like they was
butterflies or somethin'?
1431
02:00:08,810 --> 02:00:10,855
[CHUCKLES] Somethin like that.
1432
02:00:13,554 --> 02:00:15,817
Then you goin' to kill 'em.
1433
02:00:15,860 --> 02:00:19,124
You goin' to stick pins
through 'em and kill 'em.
1434
02:00:22,867 --> 02:00:25,609
They'll be dead
for sure then.
1435
02:00:25,653 --> 02:00:28,003
Songs got to fly free
like the butterflies.
1436
02:00:29,613 --> 02:00:31,311
Well, that's why
we write 'em down
and put 'em on record
1437
02:00:31,354 --> 02:00:32,834
so they won't be forgotten.
1438
02:00:42,017 --> 02:00:44,672
You got my whole
damn life there.
1439
02:00:46,021 --> 02:00:49,198
My mama, my papa...
1440
02:00:51,548 --> 02:00:53,898
And everything
that ain't gone yet...
1441
02:00:55,160 --> 02:00:57,467
'Cept me
singin' about 'em.
1442
02:00:59,556 --> 02:01:03,473
You ain't goin' to stick
no pins in my songs.
1443
02:01:03,517 --> 02:01:06,520
Hide 'em in some
Washington library.
1444
02:01:08,391 --> 02:01:10,828
They be dead
for sure then.
1445
02:01:10,872 --> 02:01:12,613
I gotta get outta here.
1446
02:01:13,744 --> 02:01:16,530
Sing my papa alive,
1447
02:01:16,573 --> 02:01:18,532
else won't be
nothin' left of him.
1448
02:01:18,575 --> 02:01:20,229
GUARD: Professor,
you through with that boy?
1449
02:01:20,273 --> 02:01:22,057
LOMAX: Just a minute.
1450
02:01:31,284 --> 02:01:32,372
Professor...
1451
02:01:34,112 --> 02:01:36,767
Couldn't we take
his pardon song,
1452
02:01:36,811 --> 02:01:38,378
the one he sang
for the Governor?
1453
02:01:39,553 --> 02:01:41,598
We'll be in Baton Rouge
next week
1454
02:01:41,642 --> 02:01:44,035
and well, it worked in Texas
with Pat Neff.
1455
02:01:46,081 --> 02:01:48,562
Now listen, Mr. Lomax,
1456
02:01:48,605 --> 02:01:51,782
you can take my song
to that Governor O.K. Allen,
1457
02:01:51,826 --> 02:01:53,175
but I ain't gonna
stand for him in the dust
1458
02:01:53,218 --> 02:01:56,047
like I did for that
Governor Neff in Texas.
1459
02:01:56,091 --> 02:01:57,745
Huddie, we can't
promise you anything.
1460
02:01:57,788 --> 02:01:59,747
Well, I ain't askin'!
1461
02:02:01,662 --> 02:02:04,969
Six months I be turned loose
from here under the Hog Law.
1462
02:02:05,013 --> 02:02:06,493
I be free.
1463
02:02:08,233 --> 02:02:09,583
Be my own man.
1464
02:02:23,684 --> 02:02:25,120
[SNIFFLING]
1465
02:02:43,573 --> 02:02:47,142
I'm gonna sing my songs
in your Washington
Congress Library
1466
02:02:47,185 --> 02:02:50,275
and in Memphis
and Chicago
and New York!
1467
02:02:53,496 --> 02:02:54,628
I will.
1468
02:03:09,033 --> 02:03:10,339
Come on, boy.
1469
02:03:20,871 --> 02:03:22,569
[ENGINE STARTS]
1470
02:03:31,839 --> 02:03:33,275
Hey, you!
1471
02:03:34,624 --> 02:03:36,017
Move your ass!
1472
02:03:44,025 --> 02:03:45,548
Six more months.
1473
02:03:47,420 --> 02:03:49,987
That's all,
just six more months.
1474
02:03:51,249 --> 02:03:52,860
And after seven years,
1475
02:03:54,601 --> 02:03:56,385
you ain't broke my body,
1476
02:03:57,125 --> 02:03:59,257
you ain't broke my mind,
1477
02:03:59,301 --> 02:04:01,434
and you ain't broke
my spirit!
1478
02:04:07,614 --> 02:04:13,402
♪ Go down, Ol' Hannah
1479
02:04:16,100 --> 02:04:21,236
♪ Don't you rise no more
1480
02:04:22,933 --> 02:04:29,679
♪ Well, if you rise
in the mornin'
1481
02:04:31,028 --> 02:04:35,293
♪ Bring Judgment Day
1482
02:04:36,947 --> 02:04:42,910
♪ You oughta been
on the brazis
1483
02:04:44,781 --> 02:04:49,351
♪ Nineteen and ten
1484
02:04:51,266 --> 02:04:57,315
♪ They was drivin' the women
1485
02:04:59,187 --> 02:05:04,061
♪ Like they do the men
1486
02:05:05,759 --> 02:05:10,807
♪ Oh, the sun was shinin'
1487
02:05:13,331 --> 02:05:18,598
♪ And the men was flyin'
1488
02:05:19,816 --> 02:05:25,996
♪ Oh, the cap'n
was a-hollerin'
1489
02:05:28,869 --> 02:05:35,049
♪ And the men was dyin'
1490
02:05:35,092 --> 02:05:40,315
♪ Go down, Ol' Hannah
1491
02:05:42,665 --> 02:05:48,802
♪ Doncha rise no more
1492
02:05:48,845 --> 02:05:54,459
♪ Well, if you rise
in the mornin'
1493
02:05:57,027 --> 02:06:02,163
♪ Bring Judgment Day ♪
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