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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:11,000 (wind whistling) 2 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:18,000 (piano playing lively tune) 3 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:30,000 MAN: ♪ I don't want ♪ 4 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:33,000 TWO MEN: ♪ No sugar in my coffee ♪ 5 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:34,000 ♪ It makes me mean ♪ 6 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:36,000 ♪ Lord, it makes me mean ♪ 7 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:38,000 MAN: ♪ I don't want ♪ 8 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,000 MEN: ♪ No sugar in my coffee ♪ 9 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:42,000 ♪ It makes me mean ♪ 10 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:44,000 ♪Lord, it makes me mean ♪ (horse whinnies) 11 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:46,000 ♪ I got a bulldog ♪ 12 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,000 MEN: ♪ He weigh 500 ♪ 13 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:49,000 ♪ In my backyard ♪ 14 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,000 ♪ Lord, in my backyard ♪ 15 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:53,000 MAN: ♪ I got a bulldog ♪ 16 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:55,000 MEN: ♪ He weigh 500 ♪ 17 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:56,000 ♪ In my backyard ♪ 18 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:58,000 ♪ Lord, in my backyard. ♪ 19 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:00,000 ♪ Oh, when he bark ♪ 20 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:02,000 MEN: ♪ He roll like thunder ♪ 21 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:04,000 ♪ Up in the cloud ♪ 22 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:05,000 ♪ Lord, up in the cloud ♪ 23 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:07,000 MAN: ♪ Oh, when he bark ♪ 24 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:10,000 (pumping brake peddle) ♪He roll like thunder, up... ♪ 25 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:14,000 Hit them brakes! Man, what's up... 26 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:17,000 (pumping brake peddle) 27 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:18,000 (tires squealing) Watch it...! 28 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:20,000 Lymon, watch it! 29 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:29,000 (laughing) 30 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:31,000 You think that's funny, huh? 31 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:33,000 You really think that's funny? 32 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:35,000 Whoo! 33 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:37,000 (chuckles) 34 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:38,000 Hey! (tires squeal) 35 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:39,000 (laughing) 36 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:43,000 Whoa! 37 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:46,000 (lilting piano melody plays) 38 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:52,000 (strikes off-key chords) 39 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:55,000 (replayingsection) 40 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:57,000 Hmm, hmm, hmm. 41 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:13,000 (replayingsection) 42 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:16,000 Maretha, when you finish your lesson, 43 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,000 I want you to see if your Uncle Doaker 44 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:19,000 need anything from the store. 45 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:21,000 Then you get upstairs and change your clothes. 46 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,000 Yes, ma'am. 47 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:26,000 (resumes playing) 48 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:27,000 ♪ ♪ 49 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:30,000 (radiator hissing) 50 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:35,000 We got to go get some water. 51 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:36,000 I ain't going nowhere. 52 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,000 You go. 53 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:39,000 I ain't going by myself. 54 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:40,000 Well, then, we can stay here then. 55 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,000 If you took care of your truck, 56 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:46,000 we wouldn't be here! 57 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,000 We'd be in Pittsburgh! 58 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:59,000 At my sister's house! 59 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:03,000 Eating fried chicken and cornbread. 60 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:10,000 Hey, Lymon! 61 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,000 Wait up! 62 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:14,000 You don't know how to find no water! 63 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:20,000 (replaying off-key segment) 64 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:27,000 When you and Avery gonna get married? 65 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:30,000 I ain't said nothing about getting married. 66 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,000 Well, that's what the matter is. 67 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:37,000 Maybe you ought to be saying something about it. 68 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:40,000 ♪ Who broke the lock? ♪ 69 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:41,000 ♪ On the hen house door ♪ 70 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:43,000 ♪ Who broke the lock? ♪ 71 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:46,000 ♪ On the hen house door ♪ 72 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:47,000 ♪ Who broke the lock? ♪ 73 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:48,000 ♪ Somebody tell me... ♪ 74 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,000 (wind whistling) 75 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:55,000 (dog barking) 76 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:58,000 (dog continues barking) 77 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:13,000 (piano plays bright piece) 78 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:20,000 (playing) 79 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:22,000 (plays discordant notes) 80 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,000 MAN: You watch, Lymon, 81 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:37,000 as soon as Berniece see me, 82 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:38,000 she gonna try and start something. 83 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:39,000 You watch. 84 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:51,000 Yeah, yeah, yeah-- this is it! 85 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:56,000 (turns engine off) 86 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:12,000 (aggressive knocking) 87 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:15,000 MAN: Hey, Doaker! 88 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:16,000 (knocking) 89 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:17,000 Hey, Berniece! 90 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:19,000 Boy Willie, what if they 'sleep? 91 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:20,000 They ain't 'sleep. 92 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:22,000 (knocking) 93 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:24,000 BOY WILLIE: Hey, Doaker! 94 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:27,000 (knocking) 95 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:28,000 Hey, Doaker! 96 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,000 (knocking) 97 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:31,000 Hey, Doaker! 98 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:32,000 (cocks gun) 99 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:33,000 (knocking) 100 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:34,000 Who is it? 101 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:36,000 Open the door-- 102 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:37,000 it's me, Boy Willie! 103 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:40,000 Who? 104 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:41,000 Boy Willie! Open the door! 105 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:43,000 (laughing) 106 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:44,000 Whaa! 107 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:45,000 What you doing up here? 108 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:46,000 (laughing) 109 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,000 I thought you was in Sunflower, Mississippi. 110 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:50,000 I told you, Lymon. 111 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:52,000 Lymon talking about you might be 'sleep. 112 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:54,000 You remember Lymon Jackson from down home? 113 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,000 Sure... This my Uncle Doaker. 114 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:58,000 What you doing up here? 115 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:00,000 Me and Lymon selling watermelon. 116 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:01,000 That's Lymon's truck. 117 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:03,000 Where Berniece? 118 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:04,000 Berniece up there asleep. 119 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:05,000 Well, let her get up. 120 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:07,000 She can go back to bed. 121 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:09,000 Me and Lymon been riding two days in that truck. 122 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:11,000 Least she can do is get up and say hi. 123 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:13,000 Hey, Berniece! 124 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:15,000 She got to go to work in the morning! 125 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:16,000 Hey, well, she can get up and say hi. 126 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:19,000 It's been three years since I seen her. 127 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,000 LYMON: I told you they was 'sleep. 128 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,000 BOY WILLIE: I ain't thinking about no nothing. 129 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:26,000 DOAKER: You two need to be quiet. 130 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:29,000 (Boy Willie laughing) 131 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:31,000 What you doing making all that noise? 132 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:33,000 Hey, Berniece! 133 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:34,000 It's 5:00 in the morning. 134 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:36,000 You can't come in like normal folk? 135 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:38,000 Oh, I ain't done nothing. 136 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:39,000 You start all that noise 'fore you hit the door. 137 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:42,000 Oh, woman, I was glad to see Doaker. 138 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:43,000 You didn't have to come down 139 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:44,000 if you didn't want to. 140 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:47,000 I come 1,800 miles to see my sister. 141 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:50,000 I figure she might want to get up and say hi. 142 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:52,000 Other than that, you can go back upstairs! 143 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:54,000 Hey, you remember Lymon Jackson? 144 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:55,000 How you doing, Berniece? 145 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:57,000 You look just like I thought you'd look. 146 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:59,000 BOY WILLIE: Hey, me and Lymon selling watermelons. 147 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:00,000 We got a truck out there. 148 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:01,000 Hey, Doaker, 149 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:02,000 where your bottle? 150 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:04,000 Me and Lymon celebrating-- 151 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:08,000 the ghosts's of the Yellow Dog got Sutter. 152 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:11,000 Say he drowned in his well. 153 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:12,000 When this happen, Boy Willie? 154 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:13,000 Oh, about three weeks ago. 155 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:15,000 Me and Lymon was over in Stone County 156 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:16,000 when we heard about it. 157 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:17,000 We laughed, 158 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:18,000 we thought it was funny. 159 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:21,000 A great big old 340-pound man 160 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:23,000 gonna fall down his well! 161 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:25,000 Reminded me of Humpty Dumpty. 162 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:27,000 Everybody say 163 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:30,000 the ghosts's of the Yellow Dog pushed him. 164 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:32,000 I don't want to hear that nonsense. 165 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:33,000 Somebody down there pushing them people 166 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:35,000 in they wells. 167 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:37,000 The only thing I want to know is when you and Lymon 168 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:39,000 plan on going back. 169 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:40,000 Lymon say he's staying. 170 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:43,000 As soon as we sell them watermelons, 171 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:44,000 I'm going on back. 172 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:45,000 That's what you need to do. 173 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:47,000 And you need to do it quick. 174 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:49,000 Coming here disrupting this house. 175 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:51,000 I'm surprised you ain't woke Maretha up! 176 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:53,000 Well, you going up there, wake her up and tell her 177 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:54,000 her uncle's here. I ain't waking that child up. 178 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:57,000 You and Lymon need to sell them watermelons and go on back. 179 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:01,000 (mouthing words) 180 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:03,000 I see Berniece still act stuck up. 181 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:06,000 You hear from Wining Boy? 182 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:08,000 That's my uncle. 183 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:10,000 Oh, he come through here about a year ago. 184 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:11,000 Had a whole sack of money, 185 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:13,000 ain't offered nothing. 186 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:14,000 Berniece asked him for $3.00, 187 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:16,000 and he got mad and left. 188 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:18,000 He still making them records? 189 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:21,000 Oh, he made one or two records a long time ago. 190 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:24,000 That's the only ones I ever known him to make. 191 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:25,000 If you let him tell it, 192 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:27,000 he a big recording star. 193 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:29,000 Is that that piano? 194 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:31,000 Yeah... that's it, Lymon. 195 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:39,000 You see how it got all them carvings on it? 196 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:40,000 Mm-hmm. 197 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:43,000 That's what I was talking about. 198 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:47,000 You never find you another piano like that. 199 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:48,000 Yeah, that looks real nice. 200 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:50,000 I told you. 201 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:51,000 Mm-hmm. 202 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:53,000 You see how it's polished? 203 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:56,000 My mama used to polish it every day. 204 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:57,000 Yeah, that's real nice. 205 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:58,000 I told you. 206 00:08:58,000 --> 00:08:59,000 Mm-hmm. 207 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:01,000 Hey, Doaker? 208 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:02,000 Sutter's brother selling the land. 209 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:04,000 Say he gonna sell it to me. 210 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:06,000 Say he wanna see me with it. 211 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:07,000 Ask Lymon. ! Mm-hmm. 212 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,000 How much land Sutter got left? 213 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:13,000 Got a hundred acres. 214 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:14,000 Good land. 215 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:17,000 His brother don't wanna be bothered with it. 216 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:21,000 Told me he'd let me have it for $2,000 cash money. 217 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:24,000 Told him to give me two weeks. 218 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:26,000 That's why I come up here. 219 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:28,000 Sell all them watermelons. 220 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,000 Get Berniece to sell that piano. 221 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:31,000 Put them two parts 222 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:33,000 with the part I done saved. 223 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:35,000 Ah, Doaker... 224 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:37,000 I walk in there... 225 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:40,000 tip my hat, 226 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:42,000 lay my money down on the table, 227 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:44,000 get my deed, 228 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:47,000 and walk on out. 229 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:48,000 This time... 230 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:52,000 I get to keep all the cotton. 231 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:54,000 Hmm. 232 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:56,000 Berniece ain't gonna sell that piano. 233 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:58,000 Oh, no, I'm... I'm gonna talk to her, now. 234 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:00,000 She been playing on it? 235 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,000 Now, you know she won't touch that piano. 236 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:04,000 I ain't never known her to touch it 237 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:05,000 since your mama died, 238 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:08,000 that's over seven years now. 239 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:11,000 She say it's got blood on it. 240 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:13,000 She got Maretha playing on it, though. 241 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:14,000 Oh, Maretha don't need to be playing 242 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:15,000 on no piano. 243 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:17,000 She can play on the guitar. 244 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:18,000 Well, you gonna have a hard time 245 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:21,000 trying to get Berniece to sell that piano. 246 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:22,000 You know Avery Brown. 247 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:23,000 (laughing) 248 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:25,000 He followed Berniece up here, 249 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:26,000 trying to get her to marry him 250 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:29,000 after Crawley got killed. 251 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:30,000 Call himself a preacher now. 252 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:32,000 Oh, I know Avery. 253 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:33,000 Lymon know him, too. 254 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:36,000 Hey, Avery think all white men is big shots. 255 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:38,000 He don't know that some white men 256 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:40,000 ain't got as much as he got. 257 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:41,000 Mm, that's why I know Berniece 258 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:43,000 ain't gonna sell that piano. 259 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:44,000 He tried to get her to sell it 260 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:46,000 to help him start his church. 261 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:48,000 Sent a man around and everything. 262 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:49,000 What man? 263 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:50,000 Oh, some white fellow was going around 264 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:52,000 all the colored people's houses 265 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:54,000 looking to buy up musical instruments. 266 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:59,000 How much he offer her for it? 267 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:01,000 Now, you know me. 268 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:03,000 She didn't say, and I didn't ask. 269 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:05,000 I just know it was a nice price. 270 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:11,000 (rumbling and clacking) 271 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:14,000 (gasps) 272 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:15,000 (Berniece screaming) 273 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:18,000 Doaker! 274 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:21,000 (Berniece screaming) Berniece! 275 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:22,000 (screaming) Berniece! 276 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:24,000 (shouting) 277 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:25,000 Oh, Berniece! 278 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:27,000 What's the matter? 279 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:28,000 You all right? 280 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:34,000 (Berniece gasping) 281 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:51,000 Sutter. 282 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:55,000 Sutter is standing at the top of the steps. 283 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:56,000 Boy Willie! 284 00:11:58,000 --> 00:11:59,000 What's wrong with her, Doaker?! 285 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:01,000 She says she seen Sutter's ghost 286 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:04,000 standing at the top of the stairs! 287 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,000 Seen what? 288 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:08,000 Sutter? 289 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:09,000 She ain't seen no Sutter! 290 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:11,000 You want a glass of water, Berniece? 291 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:12,000 Get her a glass of water, Boy Willie. 292 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:14,000 She don't need no water. 293 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:15,000 She ain't seen nothing. 294 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:16,000 Oh, let Berniece tell it. 295 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:18,000 What happened, Berniece? I ain't stopping 296 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:19,000 her from telling it. 297 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:22,000 I come out of my room to come back down here. 298 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:25,000 And Sutter was standing in the hall. 299 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:27,000 DOAKER: What he look like? 300 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:30,000 He looked like Sutter. 301 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,000 Looked like he always look. 302 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:36,000 Oh, Sutter couldn't find his way from Big Sandy to Little Sandy. 303 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:38,000 How he gonna find his way all the way up here to Pittsburgh? 304 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:40,000 Sutter ain't never even heard of Pittsburgh. 305 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:41,000 Go on, Berniece. 306 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:44,000 The man ain't never left Sunflower County 307 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:45,000 when he was living. 308 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:47,000 And he gonna come all the way up here 309 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:48,000 now that he's dead?! 310 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:49,000 Oh, go on, Berniece. 311 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:51,000 Don't pay Boy Willie no mind. 312 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:52,000 (screams) Oh. 313 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:55,000 (Boy Willie chuckling) 314 00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:59,000 He was standing there. 315 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:02,000 He had his hand on top of his head. 316 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:05,000 Look like he might've thought if he took his hand down, 317 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:06,000 his head might've fallen off. 318 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:09,000 Did he have on a hat? 319 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:17,000 He just had on that blue suit. 320 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:19,000 Standing there, holding onto 321 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:20,000 the top of his head. 322 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:30,000 Calling Boy Willie's name. 323 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:32,000 What-What he calling my name for? 324 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:37,000 I believe you pushed him down that well. 325 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:39,000 (chuckles) 326 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:41,000 Now, what kind of sense that make? 327 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:45,000 Oh, you telling me I'm gonna go out there and hide in the weeds, 328 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:48,000 with all them dogs and things he got 'round there, 329 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:50,000 I'm gonna hide and wait till I catch him 330 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:52,000 looking down his well just right. 331 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:54,000 Then, I'm gonna run over and push him in, 332 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:58,000 a great, big old 340-pound man? 333 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:00,000 Well, what he call your name for? 334 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:02,000 He bending over looking down his well, woman. 335 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:03,000 How he know who pushed him? 336 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:04,000 Could've been anybody. 337 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:08,000 Oh, where was you when Sutter fell in his well? 338 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:09,000 Where was Doaker? 339 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:11,000 The ghost of the Yellow Dog pushed him. 340 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:12,000 That's what the people say. 341 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:13,000 Just like all them other men. 342 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:15,000 Come talking 'bout he looking for me. 343 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:17,000 That ain't nothing but in Berniece head. 344 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:20,000 Ain't no telling what she liable to come up with next. 345 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,000 You don't do nothing but bring trouble with you, 346 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:25,000 everywhere you go. 347 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:28,000 If it wasn't for you, my husband would still be alive. 348 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:36,000 I ain't have nothing to do 349 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:39,000 with Crawley getting killed. 350 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:42,000 That was his own fault. 351 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:45,000 Just go on and leave 352 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:48,000 and let Sutter go looking somewhere else for you. 353 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:51,000 Sutter looking for that piano. 354 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:52,000 BOY WILLIE: That's what he looking for. 355 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:55,000 He had to die to find out 356 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:56,000 where that piano was at. 357 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:58,000 If I was you, I'd get rid of it. 358 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:00,000 That's the way to get rid of Sutter's ghost. 359 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:01,000 Get rid of that piano. 360 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:03,000 I want you and Lymon to go on 361 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:05,000 and take all this confusion out of my house. 362 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:07,000 I ain't going nowhere till we sell them watermelons! 363 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:11,000 Well, why don't you go on out there and sell them?! 364 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:14,000 We waiting till the people get up. 365 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:17,000 Come on, Doaker. 366 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:20,000 Come walk up here with me. 367 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:22,000 Let me get Maretha started. 368 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:24,000 I got to get ready myself. 369 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:26,000 (pants) 370 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:35,000 BOY WILLIE (chuckling): If you see Sutter up there, 371 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:37,000 tell him I'm down here waiting on him. 372 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:40,000 (laughing) 373 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:42,000 BOY WILLIE: I wish I could see Sutter. 374 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:43,000 Then I'd put a whomping on him. 375 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:47,000 Hey, Sugar. 376 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:49,000 Come on, give Uncle Boy Willie a hug. 377 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:51,000 Don't be shy. 378 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:52,000 Oh, Doaker, look at her. 379 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:54,000 She done got bigger. Ain't she got big? 380 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:56,000 Yeah, she getting up there. 381 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:58,000 How you doing, Sugar? 382 00:15:58,000 --> 00:15:59,000 Fine. 383 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:03,000 This your Uncle Boy Willie from down south. 384 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:05,000 Hey, that there Lymon. He my friend. 385 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:06,000 Hi. 386 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:07,000 How you doing? 387 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:09,000 LYMON: You look just like your mama. 388 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:10,000 I remember you was wearing diapers. 389 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:12,000 (chuckles) 390 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:14,000 Hey, you gonna come down south and see me? 391 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:17,000 Uncle Boy Willie gonna get him a farm. 392 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:21,000 You come down there, I'll teach you how to ride a mule. 393 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:24,000 I'll teach you how to kill a chicken, too. 394 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:25,000 I seen my mama do that. 395 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:27,000 Oh, it ain't nothing to it. 396 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:29,000 You just grab him by his neck and twist it. 397 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:30,000 You get a real good grip. 398 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:33,000 You just wring his neck, throw him in that pot. 399 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:38,000 Hey, your mama got you playing on that piano? 400 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:40,000 You like that? 401 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:43,000 You like playing on the piano. 402 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:45,000 It's all right. You just got to read the notes off the paper. 403 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:47,000 And they be hard to see. 404 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:50,000 Hey, well, then Uncle Boy Willie gonna buy you a guitar. 405 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:53,000 Let Uncle Doaker teach you how to play on that. 406 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:56,000 You don't need to read no paper to play on the guitar. 407 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:57,000 BERNIECE: Maretha. 408 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:59,000 I got to get ready to go. 409 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:02,000 BERNIECE: You get up here and get ready to go, so you'll be on time. 410 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:04,000 Whoa. 411 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:08,000 All right, Doaker. (dog barking) 412 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:09,000 BOY WILLIE: This smells good. 413 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:10,000 MAN: What you barking at? 414 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:12,000 Here come Avery now. 415 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:14,000 (laughing) 416 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:17,000 (barking continues) 417 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:19,000 I see you out there, messing 'round my tomatoes. 418 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:21,000 Hey, Doaker. Hey, how you doing? 419 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:22,000 (laughing) 420 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:24,000 Look at him, Lymon. Look at him. 421 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:26,000 He don't know what to say! (Lymon laughing) 422 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:27,000 How you doing, Avery?! 423 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:28,000 Great, Boy Willie! 424 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:30,000 (all laughing) 425 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:31,000 Is that Lymon? 426 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:32,000 Lymon Jackson! 427 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:34,000 Yeah, you know Lymon. 428 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:35,000 Yeah. 429 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:36,000 What y'all doing up here? 430 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:38,000 That must be your truck full of watermelons 431 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:39,000 sitting in front of the house. 432 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:40,000 BOY WILLIE: Yeah, that's Lymon's truck. 433 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:42,000 Hey, hey, hey. 434 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:43,000 Doaker say you a preacher now. 435 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:44,000 Well. 436 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:45,000 What? 437 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:47,000 We supposed to call you Reverend Avery? 438 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:49,000 I remember you were 439 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:51,000 down on the Wilshire place planting cotton. 440 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:54,000 You wasn't thinking 'bout no reverend then. 441 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:55,000 LYMON: Avery said he gonna be 442 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:57,000 a preacher so he don't have to work. 443 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:58,000 DOAKER: Oh, Avery working. 444 00:17:58,000 --> 00:17:59,000 Avery got him one of them good jobs. 445 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:01,000 He down there working in one of them skyscrapers. 446 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:03,000 AVERY: Yeah, I'm running an elevator. 447 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:05,000 Got a pension and everything. 448 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:07,000 They even give you a turkey on Thanksgiving. 449 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:09,000 Berniece be down in a minute. 450 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:11,000 She say y'all going down to the bank. 451 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:13,000 Yeah, I'm going down there. 452 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:16,000 See if I can get me a loan to expand my church. 453 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:18,000 How you get to be a preacher, Avery? 454 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:21,000 It come to me in a dream. 455 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:22,000 God called me. 456 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:25,000 Told me he wanted me to be a shepherd for his flock. 457 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:28,000 And that's what I call my church-- 458 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:30,000 The Good Shepherd Church of God in Christ. 459 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:31,000 Tell them what you told me. 460 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:33,000 Tell them about the three hobos. 461 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:38,000 Well, I was sitting out in this railroad yard, 462 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:40,000 just watching trains go by. 463 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:43,000 The train stopped, and these three hobos got off. 464 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:45,000 Told me to come go along with them. 465 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:48,000 They give me a candle, told me to light it, 466 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:51,000 but to make sure it didn't go out. 467 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:53,000 Then, they took me to this place 468 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:55,000 that was filled with all kinds of different people, 469 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:57,000 only they all had sheep heads 470 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:00,000 and was making noise like sheep make. 471 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:02,000 And then, they showed me these three doors 472 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:04,000 and told me to pick one. 473 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:06,000 Well, I went through one of them doors. 474 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:08,000 That flame leapt off that candle. 475 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:10,000 Seemed like my whole head caught fire. 476 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:12,000 I looks around, there are four or five other fellows 477 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:16,000 standing now, and then we heard a voice tell us to... 478 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:18,000 ♪ Look out across this valley... ♪ 479 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:21,000 We looked, and we seen the valley was full of wolves. 480 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:23,000 The voice told us that the sheep people 481 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:26,000 had to go over to the other side of this valley, 482 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:27,000 and somebody had to take them. 483 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:30,000 And then, I heard another voice say, 484 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:32,000 "Who shall I send?" 485 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:36,000 And next thing I knew, I said, "Here I am! Send me!" 486 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:37,000 And that's when I met Jesus. 487 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,000 (chuckles) 488 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:43,000 He said, "If you go, I'll go with you." 489 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:45,000 Then something told me to say, 490 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:48,000 "Well, come on, let's go!" 491 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:50,000 (chuckles) 492 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:51,000 That's when I woke up. 493 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:54,000 I knew right then I'd been filled with the Holy Ghost, 494 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:57,000 called to be a servant of the Lord. 495 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:01,000 Is we gonna take the streetcar? 496 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:02,000 Ain't no "we." 497 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:05,000 Me and Avery dropping you off at the Settlement House. 498 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:08,000 And don't you go down there showing your color, you hear? 499 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:10,000 How you doing, Avery? 500 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:11,000 Well, you look nice. 501 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,000 Thank you. 502 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:15,000 Doaker, I'll see you later. 503 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:17,000 BOY WILLIE: Hey, Berniece. 504 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:22,000 What's the name of that man Avery sent past the house? 505 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:24,000 Say he wants to buy the piano. 506 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:27,000 (chuckles) 507 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:29,000 I knew it. 508 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:30,000 I knew it when I first seen't you. 509 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:33,000 I knew you was up to something. 510 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:36,000 Berniece, Sutter's brother selling the land. 511 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:38,000 Say he gonna sell it to me. 512 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:40,000 Now I need to sell the piano 513 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:43,000 to get me the money to buy Sutter's land. 514 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:46,000 I ain't selling that piano, Boy Willie, 515 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:48,000 and that's all there is to it. 516 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:49,000 And if that's what you come up here for, 517 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:51,000 you done come up here for nothing. 518 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:56,000 Well, all right. 519 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:03,000 Hey, Doaker. 520 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,000 Mm-hmm. 521 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:08,000 If Berniece don't want to sell that piano, 522 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:11,000 I'm 'a go ahead and cut it in half and sell my half. 523 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:18,000 MAN: That's your generator. 524 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:19,000 You need a new generator. 525 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:21,000 Can't fix that. 526 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:23,000 Got to put a new one in there. 527 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:25,000 Just leave it sit here. 528 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:26,000 I'll have it ready for you tomorrow. 529 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:29,000 No, no, we got to have it fixed today. 530 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:31,000 Well, can't fix it without the part, 531 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:33,000 and can't get the part till tomorrow. 532 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:36,000 And that'll cost you $10. 533 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:37,000 Lymon. Hmm? 534 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,000 Give the man $10. What? 535 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:41,000 Why I always got to pay? 536 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:43,000 Here you go. 537 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:45,000 Come on, let's go see Avery. 538 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:48,000 DOAKER: We were just talking about you, Wining Boy. 539 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:51,000 When you left out of here with that sack of money, we thought 540 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:53,000 we wasn't never gonna see you no more. (laughs) 541 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,000 Boy Willie said we wasn't gonna see you till you got broke. 542 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:57,000 Broke? 543 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:58,000 What you mean broke? 544 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,000 I got a whole pocket full of money. 545 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:03,000 You wait till he come in here. I'm gonna tell him 546 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,000 about hisself. (laughs) 547 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:08,000 They been around here three days trying to sell them watermelons, 548 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:09,000 but the truck keep breaking down. 549 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:11,000 Yeah. He say as soon as 550 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:13,000 he can get that truck empty to where he can 551 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,000 sit that piano up in there, he gonna take it out of here 552 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:16,000 and go sell it. 553 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:18,000 Oh, shoot, Berniece ain't gonna sell that piano. 554 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:20,000 And I can't understand 555 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:22,000 how he don't know that. 556 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:25,000 Well, it ain't done nothing but cause trouble. 557 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,000 She need to go ahead and get rid of it. 558 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:29,000 How long you been in Kansas City? 559 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:30,000 Oh, since I left here. 560 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:32,000 (chuckles) Yeah. 561 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:35,000 Got tied up with some old gal down there. 562 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:37,000 (laughs) 563 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:40,000 Oh... 564 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:43,000 You know Cleotha passed. 565 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:44,000 Yeah, I heard that. 566 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:45,000 I was sorry to hear that. 567 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:47,000 One of her friends wrote and told me 568 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:50,000 by the name of Willa Dean Purda. Mm-hmm. 569 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:51,000 I was down there in Kansas City. 570 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:53,000 She say she know Cousin Rutha, too. 571 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:56,000 Uh-huh. 572 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:58,000 It says, "Dear Wining Boy, 573 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:01,000 "I am writing this letter to let you know 574 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:06,000 "Miss Cleotha Holman passed on Saturday the first of May. 575 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:10,000 "She departed this world in the loving arms of her sister, 576 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:12,000 "Miss Alberta Samuels. 577 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:15,000 "I know you would want to know this 578 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:18,000 "and am writing as a friend of Cleotha. 579 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:22,000 "There have been many hardships since last you seen her, 580 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:28,000 "but she survived them all and to the end was a good woman 581 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:33,000 "whom I hope have God's grace and is in His paradise. 582 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:37,000 "I pray this reaches you about Cleotha. 583 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:38,000 "Miss Willa Dean Purda, 584 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,000 a friend." 585 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:45,000 Man, that hit me so. 586 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:48,000 They was nailing her coffin shut by the time I got the letter. 587 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:51,000 And that just bust me all up inside. 588 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:54,000 So I said, "Well, let me go see family," 589 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:55,000 so I stopped by here 590 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,000 to see you and Berniece. 591 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:00,000 Cleotha always did have a nice way about her. 592 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:04,000 Oh, man, that woman was something! 593 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:05,000 I used to thank the Lord. 594 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:06,000 Yeah. 595 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,000 I looked out over my life. 596 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,000 I said, "Well, I had Cleotha." 597 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:12,000 When it didn't look like there was nothing else 598 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:16,000 for me, I said, "Well, thank God, at least I had that." 599 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:19,000 And if ever I go anywhere in this life, 600 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:22,000 I done known a good woman. 601 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:23,000 Mm. 602 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:37,000 LYMON: Boy Willie, 603 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:41,000 how high do you think that is? 604 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,000 (elevator bell dings) 605 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,000 There go Avery. 606 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:52,000 Look at him. He wasn't expecting to see us. 607 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:53,000 (chuckling) 608 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:56,000 Boy Willie, what you doing down here? 609 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:58,000 Just stopped by to see you. 610 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:00,000 Come on, take us for a ride. 611 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:01,000 I can't have no company on my job. 612 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,000 You gonna get me fired. 613 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:05,000 Oh, you ain't gonna get fired. Come on, Lymon. 614 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,000 Oh, no. That-That rope might break. 615 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,000 A-Avery, ain't you scared that rope gonna break? 616 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:11,000 Morning, sir. 617 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:12,000 Morning. 618 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:13,000 (whispers): Morning, sir. 619 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:14,000 (bell dings) 620 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:16,000 Look, I'll be back. Wait for me. 621 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:17,000 Mm-hmm. Morning, sir. 622 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:18,000 Morning to you, Avery. 623 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,000 ( indistinct voices in distance ) 624 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:34,000 (whirring) 625 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:35,000 Yeah. 626 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:38,000 This is nice, Avery. 627 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,000 I can see how they give you 628 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,000 a turkey on Thanksgiving. 629 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:45,000 Woo-hoo. 630 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,000 Ooh, it run fast, too. 631 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,000 I ain't know it run this fast. 632 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:50,000 (low creaking) 633 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,000 (indistinct chatter) 634 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:53,000 (bell dings) 635 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:56,000 Yeah, it's gonna be all right. 636 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:02,000 Boy Willie, come back here. 637 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:04,000 Don't worry, I'll be back. 638 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,000 ( car horn honks in distance) 639 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,000 (phone ringing) 640 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:15,000 (yelling): Hey, Lymon. 641 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:16,000 (echoing) 642 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,000 (chuckling) 643 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:24,000 Boy Willie, I'm not allowed no company on my job. 644 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,000 I'm working. I ain't got time to talk. 645 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:29,000 Well, I just stopped by to find out the name of that man 646 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:32,000 who say he wants to buy the piano. 647 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,000 Doaker say you sent him by the house. 648 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,000 I forgot his name. 649 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:39,000 He give Berniece a card with his name and number on it, 650 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:40,000 but I believe she throwed it away. 651 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:42,000 That's a while back. 652 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,000 I can't recall his name. 653 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:46,000 (bell dings) 654 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:47,000 See you later, Avery. 655 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:49,000 Come on, Lymon. 656 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:51,000 (buzzer sounds) 657 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:56,000 (indistinct chatter) 658 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:04,000 Oh, look it here. 659 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:05,000 (laughing) Wining Boy. 660 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:06,000 What you doing here? 661 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,000 Where you coming from? Where you been? 662 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:10,000 I've been down in Kansas City. 663 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:11,000 Hey, you remember Lymon-- Lymon Jackson? 664 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,000 Yeah, yeah. 665 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:14,000 This my Uncle Wining Boy. 666 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:16,000 I used to know his daddy. 667 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:19,000 Hey, Doaker say Berniece asked you 668 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,000 for three dollars, 669 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:23,000 and you got mad and left. 670 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:24,000 WINING BOY: Oh, shoot. 671 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:26,000 Berniece try to rule over you too much with me. 672 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:27,000 Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. That's why I left. 673 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:28,000 Oh, no, no, no, no. 674 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:30,000 That wasn't about no three dollars. 675 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,000 Hey, hey, Doaker tell you about Sutter? 676 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:34,000 The ghosts's of the Yellow Dog got him 677 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:35,000 about three weeks ago. 678 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:39,000 Berniece done seen his ghost and everything. 679 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:43,000 Now, how many that make that the ghost of the Yellow Dog 680 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,000 done got? 681 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:47,000 I don't know. Must be about nine or ten. 682 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:50,000 Hey, Berniece say she don't believe in all that 683 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:51,000 about the ghosts's of the Yellow Dog. 684 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,000 Berniece ain't got to believe it. 685 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:55,000 You go down there in Sunflower County and ask 686 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:56,000 them white folks, see if they believe it. 687 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,000 (laughter) 688 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:00,000 I don't care if Berniece believe it or not. 689 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:01,000 I done been to where 690 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:04,000 the tracks of the southern railroad crossed the tracks 691 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:05,000 of the Yellow Dog. 692 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:07,000 And called out the names 693 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,000 of the ghosts. 694 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,000 And they talk back to you, too. 695 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:12,000 LYMON: Whoa. 696 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:13,000 You done been there for real, 697 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:14,000 Wining Boy? 698 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:16,000 1930. 699 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:19,000 July 19 and 30. 700 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:22,000 I stood right there on that spot. 701 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,000 Didn't seem like nothing was going right in my life, 702 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,000 so I said, "Well, let me go down near the ghosts of Yellow Dog, 703 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,000 call on them and see if they can help me." 704 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,000 I went down there, and I stood right there on that spot 705 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,000 and called out their names. 706 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,000 Called out the names of the ghosts. 707 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:36,000 I didn't want to leave. 708 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:37,000 And it seemed like 709 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:40,000 the longer I stood there, the bigger I got. 710 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,000 I seen the train coming, 711 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:45,000 and it seemed like I got bigger than the train. 712 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:47,000 Started not to move. 713 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:50,000 Something told me to go ahead on and get out of the way. 714 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,000 When I walked away from there, I was feeling like a king. 715 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:53,000 (chuckles) 716 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,000 Had a stroke of luck that lasted 717 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:56,000 for three years, so see, I don't care 718 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,000 if Berniece believe it or not. 719 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:00,000 I know, because I've been there. 720 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:02,000 Oh, Berniece don't believe in nothing. 721 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:03,000 She just thinks she believes. 722 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:06,000 WINING BOY: Oh, now let's not get on Berniece now. 723 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:08,000 Hey, Doaker tell me that you're gonna buy Sutter's land. 724 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:09,000 Mm-hmm. 725 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:11,000 How you know Sutter's brother 726 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:12,000 ain't sold that land already? 727 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,000 Uh-uh, he say he waiting on me. 728 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:15,000 Now you know he gonna sell that land 729 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:18,000 to the first one walk up there and hand him the money. 730 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,000 That's just who I'm gonna be. 731 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:21,000 Look, you ain't got to know he waiting on me. 732 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:22,000 I know. I know what the man told me. 733 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:25,000 The man say he waiting on me, he waiting on me. 734 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:30,000 BOY WILLIE: Uh-uh, Doaker. 735 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,000 Come on, give me a drink. 736 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:34,000 I see Wining Boy got his glass. 737 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:35,000 (laughing) 738 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:36,000 Wining Boy. 739 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,000 (laughter) 740 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:40,000 Hey, Doaker tells me 741 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:43,000 they had you and Lymon down there in the penitentiary 742 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:45,000 on Parchment Farm. 743 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,000 Had you all down there on my old stomping ground. 744 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,000 Yeah, they looking for Lymon down there now. 745 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:53,000 Rounded him up, put him in jail for not working. 746 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:55,000 Mm-hmm. Fined me $100. 747 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:57,000 Mr. Stovall come and paid my $100. 748 00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,000 Mm-hmm. 749 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,000 And the judge say I got to work for him 750 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:03,000 to pay him back his $100. 751 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:04,000 (chuckles) 752 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:06,000 I told them I'd rather take my 30 days, 753 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:07,000 but they wouldn't let me do that. 754 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,000 Uh-uh. 755 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:12,000 As soon as Stovall turned his back, Lymon was gone. 756 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,000 I told Boy Willie I'm staying up here. 757 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:15,000 I ain't going back with him. 758 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:17,000 They treat you better up here. 759 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,000 BOY WILLIE: I ain't worried about nobody mistreating me. 760 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,000 They treat you like you let them treat you. 761 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:24,000 They mistreat me, I mistreat 'em right back. 762 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:26,000 Ain't no difference in me and the white man. 763 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:28,000 WINING BOY: Well, now, I'll tell you the difference 764 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,000 between the colored man and the white man. 765 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:33,000 The colored man can't fix nothing with the law. 766 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:36,000 Now that's the difference between the colored man 767 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:38,000 and the white man. Mm. 768 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,000 Oh, I don't... It don't matter to me what the law say. 769 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,000 The law liable to say anything. Mm-hmm. 770 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:43,000 I take a look at it for myself. 771 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:45,000 Mm-hmm, and that's why you gonna end up back down there 772 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:46,000 on the Parchment Farm. 773 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:48,000 (laughter) 774 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:51,000 I ain't thinking about no Parchment Farm. 775 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:52,000 You liable to go back before I do. 776 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:53,000 No, I ain't. 777 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:56,000 They had Lymon down there singing "Berta, Berta." 778 00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:58,000 No, they didn't. Why you go telling a lie, Boy Willie? 779 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:00,000 Yeah, they did. Yeah, they did. 780 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:01,000 Hey sing, he sing. Never been in no Parchment 781 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,000 penitentiary. He sing. 782 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:06,000 ♪ Oh, Lord ♪ 783 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:14,000 ♪ Berta ♪ 784 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:17,000 (in harmony): ♪ Oh, now, gal ♪ 785 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,000 ♪ Well, uh... ♪ 786 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:23,000 ♪ Go ahead and marry ♪ 787 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,000 ♪ Don't ya ♪ 788 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:31,000 ♪ Wait on me, oh, huh ♪ 789 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:34,000 ♪ Go ahead and marry ♪ 790 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:35,000 ♪ Don't ya ♪ 791 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:39,000 ♪ Wait on me ♪ 792 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,000 ♪ Well, now ♪ 793 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:46,000 ♪ Might not want ya when I ♪ 794 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:50,000 ♪ I go free, oh I ♪ 795 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:55,000 ♪ Might not want ya when I ♪ 796 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:58,000 ♪ I go free ♪ 797 00:31:58,000 --> 00:31:59,000 ♪ Well, now... ♪ 798 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:01,000 (humming) 799 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,000 Come on, Doaker. Doaker know this one. 800 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:08,000 ♪ Whoa, now gal, oh, I ♪ 801 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:12,000 ♪ Oh, Lord, Berta, Berta ♪ 802 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:16,000 ♪ Oh Lord, gal, well now ♪ 803 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:17,000 WINING BOY: ♪ Raise 'em up! ♪ 804 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:20,000 ♪ Raise 'em up higher, let 'em ♪ 805 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:24,000 ♪ Drop on down, oh I ♪ 806 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:28,000 ♪ Raise 'em up higher, let 'em ♪ 807 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:31,000 ♪ Drop on down, well now ♪ 808 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:34,000 ♪ I'm on ol' Parchment, got to ♪ 809 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:37,000 ♪ Work hard... ♪ 810 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:40,000 ♪ Oh, I, I'm on ol' Parchment ♪ 811 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:44,000 ♪ Got to work hard, well now ♪ 812 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:48,000 ♪ Oh, Alberta, Berta ♪ 813 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:51,000 ♪ Oh, Lord, gal, oh I ♪ 814 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:54,000 ♪ Oh, Alberta, Berta ♪ 815 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:58,000 ♪ Oh, Lord gal, well now ♪ 816 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:02,000 ♪ When you marry, don't you marry a farming man ♪ 817 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,000 ♪ Oh I ♪ 818 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:07,000 ♪ Every day, Monday hoe and a ha ♪ 819 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,000 ♪ In your hand, well now ♪ 820 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:14,000 ♪ When you marry, marry a railroad man ♪ 821 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,000 ♪ Oh, ah ♪ 822 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,000 ♪ Every day Sunday, now, now ♪ 823 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:21,000 ♪ In your hand, well now ♪ 824 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:24,000 ♪ Oh, Alberta, Berta ♪ 825 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:28,000 (singing alone): ♪ Oh, Lord gal, oh I ♪ 826 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:29,000 ♪ Oh, Alberta, Berta... ♪ 827 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:33,000 (laughter) 828 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:35,000 (all talking at once) 829 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,000 Hey, Wining Boy. 830 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:38,000 Come on, play some piano. 831 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:39,000 You play the piano. Come on, play. 832 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:41,000 Lymon want to hear you play. Mm-hmm. 833 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:42,000 Oh, shoot. I give that piano up. 834 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:44,000 That's a nice piano. 835 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:45,000 If I knew how to play it, 836 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:46,000 I would play it. 837 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,000 Otherwise, I would sell it. 838 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:49,000 'Cause you can get a nice price for that piano. 839 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,000 BOY WILLIE: That's right. Mm-hmm. 840 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:53,000 Now, I'm gonna tell you something. 841 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:56,000 Now, Lymon don't know this. 842 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:59,000 But I'm 'a tell you why me and Wining Boy say 843 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:01,000 Berniece ain't gonna sell that piano. 844 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:02,000 BOY WILLIE: She... 845 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:06,000 ain't got to sell it. 846 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:08,000 I'm gonna sell it. 847 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:11,000 Now, Berniece ain't got no more rights 848 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:13,000 to that piano than I do. 849 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:14,000 I'm talking to the man. 850 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:19,000 Now let me talk to the man. 851 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:39,000 DOAKER: See now, to understand why we say that, 852 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,000 to understand about that piano... 853 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,000 Mm-hmm. 854 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,000 ...well, you got to go back to slavery time. 855 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:50,000 See, our family was owned 856 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,000 by a fellow named Robert Sutter. 857 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:54,000 Now that was Sutter's grandfather. 858 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,000 All right. 859 00:34:56,000 --> 00:35:00,000 The piano was owned by a fellow named Joel Nolander. 860 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,000 Now he was one of the Nolander brothers 861 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,000 from down in Georgia. 862 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:07,000 Now Miss Ophelia-- 863 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,000 that was Sutter's wife's name-- 864 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:11,000 she fancied herself a player of the piano, 865 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:14,000 having taking it up when she was a little girl. 866 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:17,000 Now it was coming up on their wedding anniversary, 867 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:21,000 and Sutter figured he'd get her this piano for a present. 868 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,000 The only thing with him, 869 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,000 Sutter ain't had no money. 870 00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:30,000 But he had some slaves. 871 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:33,000 Told Mr. Nolander he'd give him one and a half slaves 872 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:36,000 for that piano. 873 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:39,000 Mr. Nolander told him, say, "Okay." 874 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:42,000 But he wanted to have the pick of the litter. 875 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:46,000 He didn't want Sutter to give him just any old body. 876 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:49,000 So Sutter lined up his slaves, 877 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:51,000 and out the whole bunch, 878 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:55,000 Mr. Nolander picked my grandmother, Berniece. 879 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:58,000 Now, that's who Berniece is named after. 880 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,000 And he picked my daddy 881 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,000 when he wasn't nothing but a little boy. 882 00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:05,000 Nine years old. 883 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,000 (speaking inaudibly) 884 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:17,000 DOAKER: So Sutter traded Mama Berniece and my daddy for that piano, 885 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:22,000 and Mr. Nolander carried them down to his place in Georgia. 886 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:31,000 Papa Willie Boy stayed on there at Sutter's. 887 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:36,000 And he never did see his family again. 888 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:40,000 ( piano playing lilting melody) 889 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:42,000 Miss Ophelia was as happy as she could be 890 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,000 playing on that piano. 891 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:45,000 She would get up in the morning, 892 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:49,000 get all dressed up, sit down and play on that piano. 893 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,000 All right... 894 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:55,000 time go along. 895 00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:57,000 Time go along. 896 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,000 Miss Ophelia got to missing my grandmother. 897 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:04,000 The way she would cook and clean the house, 898 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,000 and talk with her and whatnot. 899 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:08,000 And she missed having my daddy around the house 900 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:10,000 to fetch things for her. 901 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,000 So, she asked to see if maybe 902 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:15,000 she trade the piano back and get her slaves back. 903 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,000 Well, Mr. Nolander said no. 904 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:19,000 A deal was a deal. (closing drawer) 905 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,000 Well, him and Sutter had a big falling out about it, 906 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:29,000 and Miss Ophelia took sick to the bed. 907 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:32,000 That's when Sutter called my granddaddy up to the house. 908 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:38,000 Now, our granddaddy's name 909 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,000 was Boy Willie. 910 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:44,000 Now that's who Boy Willie is named after. 911 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:45,000 He was a worker of wood. 912 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:47,000 WINING BOY: Uh-huh. 913 00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:50,000 Ah, he could make you anything you wanted out of wood. 914 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:51,000 Yeah. 915 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,000 So, Sutter called my grandfather up to the house 916 00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:56,000 and told him to carve a picture of my grandmamma, 917 00:37:56,000 --> 00:38:00,000 and my daddy's picture on the piano for Miss Ophelia. 918 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:03,000 And he took and carved this. 919 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:11,000 See that right there? 920 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:12,000 LYMON: Mm-hmm. 921 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:15,000 That's my grandmother, Berniece. 922 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:18,000 And here he put a picture of my daddy. 923 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:21,000 Now he made them up out of his memory. 924 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:25,000 The only thing, he didn't stop there. 925 00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:26,000 He carved all this. 926 00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:31,000 He got a picture of his mama, Mama Esther, 927 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:33,000 and his daddy, Boy Charles. 928 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:34,000 WINING BOY: Now that was 929 00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:36,000 the first Boy Charles. 930 00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:37,000 DOAKER: Then he put here on this side 931 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:40,000 all kinds of things. 932 00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,000 Mm-hmm. 933 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:44,000 That's when him and Mama Berniece got married. 934 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:47,000 They called it "Jumping the broom." 935 00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:50,000 And here he got when my daddy was born. 936 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:56,000 And he got here Mama Esther's funeral. 937 00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:00,000 And here he got Mr. Nolander taking Mama Berniece 938 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:03,000 and my daddy away to his place down in Georgia. 939 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:06,000 Now he got all kinds of things 940 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,000 that what happened with our family. 941 00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:11,000 When Sutter seen the piano with all them carvings on it, 942 00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:13,000 he got mad. 943 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,000 He didn't ask for all that. 944 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:18,000 When Miss Ophelia seen it, she got excited. 945 00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:23,000 Now she had her piano, and her slaves, too. 946 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,000 She took back to playing on it, 947 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:28,000 and played on it right up to the day she died. 948 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,000 All right. 949 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:35,000 Now... 950 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:38,000 our brother, Boy Charles-- 951 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:42,000 that's Boy Willie and Berniece's daddy-- 952 00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:46,000 now I'll tell you what kinda man he was. 953 00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:49,000 He was the oldest of us three boys. 954 00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:52,000 He dead now, but he would've been 57 if he lived. 955 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:58,000 He died in 1911 when he was 31 years old. 956 00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:02,000 Boy Charles used to talk about that piano all the time. 957 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:05,000 He never could get it off his mind. 958 00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:09,000 Even years later, he was still talking about it. 959 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:12,000 He'd be talking about taking it out of Sutter's house. 960 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,000 Say it was the story of our whole family, 961 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:16,000 and as long as the Sutters had it, 962 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:18,000 they had us. 963 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:20,000 Say we were still in slavery. 964 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:23,000 Well, me and Wining Boy would try to talk him out of it, 965 00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:25,000 but it wouldn't do any good. 966 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:28,000 So, on the Fourth of July in 1911, 967 00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:30,000 when the Sutter family was at the picnic 968 00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:32,000 that the county give every year, 969 00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:33,000 we went on in there with him 970 00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:36,000 and took that piano out of Sutter's house. 971 00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:39,000 Me and Wining Boy carried it over into the next county 972 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:40,000 to Boy Willie's mama-- 973 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:43,000 Mama Ola and her people. 974 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:46,000 Now, I don't know what happened 975 00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:50,000 when Sutter came home and found the piano gone, 976 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,000 but somebody went up to Boy Charles' house 977 00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:54,000 and set it afire. 978 00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:57,000 But he wasn't in there. 979 00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:00,000 He must've seen it coming, 'cause he went down 980 00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:03,000 and caught the 3:57 Yellow Dog. 981 00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:08,000 Now he ain't know they was gonna come down and stop the train. 982 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:11,000 They stopped the train and found Boy Charles in the boxcar 983 00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:13,000 with four of them hobos. 984 00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:16,000 They must've got mad when they couldn't find the piano, 985 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:18,000 'cause they set the boxcar afire. 986 00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:21,000 They killed... everybody. 987 00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:41,000 Now nobody know who done that. 988 00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:45,000 Some people say it was Sutter, because it was his piano. 989 00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:47,000 Some people say it was Sheriff Carter, 990 00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:50,000 but don't nobody know for sure. 991 00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:54,000 It's about two months after that Ed Saunders fell down his well. 992 00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:58,000 Just up and fell down his well for no reason. 993 00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:00,000 People say it was the ghosts of those men 994 00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:02,000 who burnt up in the boxcar 995 00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:05,000 that pushed him in his well. 996 00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:09,000 They started calling them the "ghosts of the Yellow Dog." 997 00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:13,000 Now that's how all that got started. 998 00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:17,000 And that's why we say Berniece ain't gonna sell that piano. 999 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:23,000 'Cause her daddy died over it. 1000 00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:34,000 Yeah, well... 1001 00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:37,000 that's all in the past. 1002 00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:39,000 If my daddy had seen 1003 00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:43,000 where he could've traded that piano in 1004 00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:46,000 for some land of his own, 1005 00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:49,000 it wouldn't be sitting up here now. 1006 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:54,000 He spent his whole life farming on somebody else's land. 1007 00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:58,000 Doaker, I ain't gonna do that. 1008 00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:01,000 And the only thing my daddy had to give me 1009 00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:02,000 was that piano, 1010 00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:04,000 and he died over giving me that, 1011 00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:07,000 and I ain't gonna let it sit up there and rot 1012 00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:09,000 without trying to do something with it. 1013 00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:11,000 And, Doaker, you know I'm right. 1014 00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:13,000 I ain't said nothing about 1015 00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:15,000 who's right or who's wrong. 1016 00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:19,000 I was just telling the man about the piano. 1017 00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:21,000 I was telling him why we say Berniece ain't gonna sell it. 1018 00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:24,000 I told Boy Willie he ought to stay up here with me. 1019 00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:26,000 You stay, Lymon. All right? You stay! 1020 00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:29,000 Stay up here and make it your own way, if that's what you want to do! 1021 00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:33,000 I'm going back and live my life the way I wanna live it! 1022 00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:42,000 (groans) 1023 00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:44,000 Hey, let's see what we got here. 1024 00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:46,000 You know, I ain't played this thing for a while. 1025 00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:47,000 DOAKER: You was playing on it 1026 00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:49,000 the last time you come through here. 1027 00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:51,000 We couldn't get you off of it. 1028 00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:53,000 Go on, play something. 1029 00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:55,000 (plays flourish) 1030 00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:57,000 (plays bluesy chords) 1031 00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:03,000 ♪ I'm a rambling, gambling man ♪ 1032 00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:07,000 ♪ I gambled in many towns ♪ 1033 00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:10,000 ♪ I rambled this wide world over ♪ 1034 00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:13,000 ♪ And I rambled this world around ♪ 1035 00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:16,000 ♪ I've had my ups and downs through life ♪ 1036 00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:19,000 ♪ Lord, bitter times I saw ♪ 1037 00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:22,000 ♪ I never knew what measly was ♪ 1038 00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:25,000 ♪ Till I land on Arkansas ♪ 1039 00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:28,000 ♪ Well, I work six months for a rascal ♪ 1040 00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:31,000 ♪ Joe Harry was his name ♪ 1041 00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:34,000 ♪ Well, he fed me old corn dodgers ♪ 1042 00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:37,000 ♪ That was a-hard as any rock ♪ 1043 00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:40,000 ♪ Well, my tooths is all got looser ♪ 1044 00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:43,000 ♪ And my knees began to knock ♪ 1045 00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:47,000 ♪ Well, that was the kind of hash I got ♪ 1046 00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:49,000 ♪ In the state of Arkansas ♪ 1047 00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:50,000 Come on, Boy Willie! 1048 00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:52,000 ♪ Travelin' man ♪ 1049 00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:55,000 ♪ Yes, I travel all around the world ♪ 1050 00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:58,000 ♪ Yes, I'm a travelin' man ♪ 1051 00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:00,000 ♪ Yes, I traveled from the land of man ♪ 1052 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:02,000 Whoo! ♪Yes, I'm a ♪ 1053 00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:03,000 ♪ Travelin' man ♪ ♪ 1054 00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:06,000 ♪ Yes, I traveled all around the world ♪ 1055 00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:08,000 ♪ Well, now, it ain't no use ♪ 1056 00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:10,000 ♪ Sweatin' no news ♪ 1057 00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:13,000 ♪ I'm a travelin' man! ♪ 1058 00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:15,000 (song ends with flourish) 1059 00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:16,000 (cheering and laughing) 1060 00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:19,000 BERNIECE: I know that ain't Wining Boy sitting there. 1061 00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:20,000 Berniece! 1062 00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:22,000 You all had this planned! 1063 00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:23,000 (laughing) 1064 00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:24,000 You and Boy Willie had this planned! 1065 00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:25,000 Oh, Berniece, 1066 00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:27,000 I didn't know he was gonna be here. 1067 00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:29,000 No, no. 1068 00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:30,000 BERNIECE: Maretha, go on upstairs and change your clothes. 1069 00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:32,000 Uncle Wining Boy! 1070 00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:33,000 Maretha, yeah! 1071 00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:35,000 Oh! Wining Boy, let me get ready. 1072 00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:37,000 I'm gonna fix you something to eat. All right. 1073 00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:38,000 Yeah... 1074 00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:40,000 BOY WILLIE: Hey, Lymon? Hmm? 1075 00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:42,000 Get up on this side of the piano and let me see something. 1076 00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:44,000 Boy Willie, what you doing? I'm seeing how heavy this piano is. 1077 00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:45,000 Get up over there, Lymon. 1078 00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:46,000 WINING BOY: Go one and leave that piano alone. 1079 00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:48,000 You ain't taking that piano out here and selling it. 1080 00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:50,000 One, two, three. 1081 00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:51,000 BERNIECE: You gonna play around with me 1082 00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:53,000 one too many times, Boy Willie. 1083 00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:56,000 And then God gonna bless you and rest's gonna dress you. 1084 00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:57,000 Now set that piano back over there. 1085 00:45:57,000 --> 00:46:02,000 I need this piano to get me some money to buy Sutter's land. 1086 00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:04,000 Money can't buy what that piano cost. 1087 00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:06,000 You can't sell your soul for money. 1088 00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:08,000 (sighs) 1089 00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:11,000 I ain't talking about selling my soul. 1090 00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:13,000 I'm talking about trading 1091 00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:16,000 that piece of wood for some land. 1092 00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:20,000 Land is the only thing God ain't making no more of. 1093 00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:23,000 You can always get you another piano. 1094 00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:26,000 Wining Boy, you want me to fry you some pork chops? 1095 00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:28,000 Yeah. 1096 00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:31,000 Now I'm gonna tell you the way I see it now. 1097 00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:35,000 The only thing make that piano worth something is them 1098 00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:37,000 carvings Papa Willie Boy put on there. 1099 00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:39,000 That was my 1100 00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:41,000 great-granddaddy. 1101 00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:44,000 Now Papa Boy Charles brought that piano into the house. 1102 00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:47,000 I'm supposed to build on what they left me. 1103 00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:49,000 All right. 1104 00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:53,000 If you say to me, "Boy Willie, I'm using the piano. 1105 00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:56,000 I give out lessons on it, and that help me make my rent," 1106 00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:59,000 or whatever, then that'd be something else. 1107 00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:02,000 But Doaker say you ain't touched the piano the whole time 1108 00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:06,000 it's been up here, so why you want to stand in my way? 1109 00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:10,000 Now I want to get Sutter's land with that piano, Berniece. 1110 00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:14,000 Now the kind of man my daddy was, 1111 00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:16,000 he would've understood that. 1112 00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:23,000 And Berniece, 1113 00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:27,000 I'm sorry if you can't see it that way. 1114 00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:30,000 But that's why I'm gonna take that piano out of here, 1115 00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:33,000 and I'm gonna sell it. 1116 00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:39,000 You ain't taking that piano out of my house. 1117 00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:46,000 Look at that piano. 1118 00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:50,000 Look at it! 1119 00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:02,000 Mama Ola polished this piano 1120 00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:05,000 with her tears for 17 years. 1121 00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:10,000 For 17 years, she rubbed on it 1122 00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:12,000 till her hands bled. 1123 00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:14,000 Then she rubbed the blood 1124 00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:17,000 and mixed it up with the rest of the blood on it. 1125 00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:22,000 Every day that God breathed life into her body, 1126 00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:24,000 she rubbed and cleaned 1127 00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:28,000 and polished and prayed over it. 1128 00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:31,000 "Play something for me, Berniece." 1129 00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:36,000 "Play something for me, Berniece." 1130 00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:40,000 Every day. 1131 00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:42,000 "I cleaned it up for you." 1132 00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:45,000 "Play something for me, Berniece." 1133 00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:50,000 You always talking about your daddy, 1134 00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:53,000 but you ain't never stopped 1135 00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:56,000 to look at what his foolishness cost your mama. 1136 00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:02,000 17 years worth of cold nights in her empty bed. 1137 00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:06,000 And for what? 1138 00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:08,000 For a piano? 1139 00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:10,000 For a piece of wood? 1140 00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:13,000 To get even with somebody. 1141 00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:19,000 I look at you, and you're all the same. 1142 00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:22,000 You, Papa Boy Charles, 1143 00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:24,000 Wining Boy, Doaker, Crawley! 1144 00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:27,000 You all alike! 1145 00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:29,000 All this thieving and killing. 1146 00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:32,000 And thieving and killing. 1147 00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:34,000 And what it ever lead to? 1148 00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:37,000 More killing, more thieving. 1149 00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:39,000 I ain't never seen it come to nothing. 1150 00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:42,000 People getting burnt up. 1151 00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:44,000 People getting shot. 1152 00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:46,000 People falling down their wells. 1153 00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:48,000 It don't never stop. 1154 00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:50,000 BOY WILLIE: I ain't never killed nobody. 1155 00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:55,000 Now, I can't speak for nobody else, 1156 00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:57,000 but I ain't never killed nobody. 1157 00:49:57,000 --> 00:50:00,000 You killed Crawley 1158 00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:02,000 just as sure as you pulled the trigger. 1159 00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:09,000 (sighs) 1160 00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:11,000 Now you see, that's ignorant. 1161 00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:15,000 That's downright foolish for you to say 1162 00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:18,000 something like that, Berniece. 1163 00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:20,000 Crawley tried to be a big man 1164 00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:22,000 and bully them fellas, and they cut 1165 00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:23,000 him down. 1166 00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:25,000 That was his own fault. 1167 00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:27,000 It's the smart man that lives 1168 00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:28,000 to fight another day. 1169 00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:30,000 Crawley ain't know you stole that wood. 1170 00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:32,000 Oh, we ain't stole no wood, Berniece. 1171 00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:34,000 Me and Lymon was hauling wood 1172 00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:38,000 for Jim Miller, keeping us a little bit on the side. 1173 00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:39,000 We dumped that little bit off 1174 00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:42,000 down there by the creek until we had enough to make a load. 1175 00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:45,000 Me and Boy Willie told him 1176 00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:47,000 about the wood. 1177 00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:48,000 We told him some fellas might be trying 1178 00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:50,000 to beat us to it. 1179 00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:52,000 He say, "Let me go back and get my .38." 1180 00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:53,000 Now that's what caused all the trouble. 1181 00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:56,000 If Crawley ain't had that gun, 1182 00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:57,000 he'd be alive today. 1183 00:50:57,000 --> 00:50:59,000 He'd liked to got me and Lymon killed. 1184 00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:01,000 They shot Lymon in his stomach. 1185 00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:04,000 LYMON: We had it about halfway loaded when they come up on us. 1186 00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:05,000 We seen the sheriff was with them, and we tried 1187 00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:07,000 to get away. 1188 00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:08,000 We ducked around near that bend in the creek, 1189 00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:09,000 but they was down there, too. 1190 00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:11,000 Boy Willie say, "Let's give in." 1191 00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:13,000 But Crawley pulled out his gun and started shooting, 1192 00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:14,000 and that's when they started 1193 00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:16,000 shooting back. 1194 00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:17,000 All I know is, Crawley would be alive 1195 00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:19,000 if you hadn't come up there and got him. 1196 00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:22,000 My husband is dead and in the ground, 1197 00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:24,000 and you still walking around here eating. 1198 00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:25,000 That's all I know. 1199 00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:27,000 He went off to load some wood with you, 1200 00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:28,000 and he ain't never come back. 1201 00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:31,000 Berniece, I ain't have nothing to do 1202 00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:32,000 with Crawley getting killed. 1203 00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:35,000 It was his own fault. He ain't here, is he? 1204 00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:38,000 I said, he ain't 1205 00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:39,000 here, he ain't here! 1206 00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:41,000 Come on, come on, Berniece. Is he? 1207 00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:42,000 Don't do this, Berniece, come on. He ain't here. 1208 00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:45,000 BERNIECE: He ain't here, is he? He ain't here! 1209 00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:46,000 DOAKER: Come on. 1210 00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:48,000 He ain't here! Come on now. 1211 00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:50,000 DOAKER: Berniece, let it go. It ain't his fault. 1212 00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:52,000 He ain't here, is he? Now, stop it. I ain't had nothing... 1213 00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:54,000 He ain't... he ain't... I told you I ain't responsible for Crawley... 1214 00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:55,000 He ain't here, is he? Is he? 1215 00:51:55,000 --> 00:52:00,000 (Maretha screaming) 1216 00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:08,000 ♪ I'm gonna leave Jackson, Mississippi ♪ 1217 00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:10,000 (dog barking) 1218 00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:12,000 ♪ Go to Memphis ♪ 1219 00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:14,000 ♪ Double on back to Jackson ♪ 1220 00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:17,000 ♪ Come on down to Hattiesburg ♪ 1221 00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:20,000 (barking) ♪Change cars on the Yellow Dog... ♪ 1222 00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:21,000 BOTH: Watermelons! 1223 00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:23,000 (Doaker shouting) 1224 00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:24,000 ♪Red to the ripe ♪ ♪Red... red ♪ 1225 00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:26,000 (Doaker shouting) 1226 00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:28,000 Watermelons! Hey people, we got watermelons! 1227 00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:30,000 Watermelons! 1228 00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:32,000 Watermelons, sweet and green. 1229 00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:33,000 We got watermelons. 1230 00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:34,000 ♪ Best watermelon you ever seen. ♪ 1231 00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:36,000 DOAKER: ♪ Can a highball pass on through? ♪ 1232 00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:39,000 DOAKER: Highball on through, sir. 1233 00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:42,000 Grand Carson, 31st Street Depot, 1234 00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:46,000 Fourth Street Depot... 1235 00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:51,000 DOAKER: ♪ I'm on my way to Memphis...♪ 1236 00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:53,000 Are your watermelons sweet? 1237 00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:57,000 Is they sweet? 1238 00:52:57,000 --> 00:52:58,000 Lady, where we grow 1239 00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:02,000 these watermelons, we put sugar in the ground. 1240 00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:03,000 (laughs): I never heard 1241 00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:04,000 of such a thing. 1242 00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:07,000 Oh, yeah, we put it right in the ground with the seed. 1243 00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:08,000 Taste it. 1244 00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:10,000 ( children shouting in the distance ) 1245 00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:13,000 Mmm! Mmm. 1246 00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:14,000 It's sweet. 1247 00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:15,000 Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. 1248 00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:17,000 I'll take two of them. Oh, you want two. 1249 00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:19,000 Hey, two watermelons for the lady. 1250 00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:20,000 Two watermelons coming up. 1251 00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:22,000 (laughs) 1252 00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:23,000 ♪ One watermelon's awful sweet ♪ 1253 00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:26,000 ♪ Two watermelons can't be beat ♪ 1254 00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:27,000 ♪ Three is better, and four is best ♪ 1255 00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:29,000 ♪ Somebody come up here and buy the rest... ♪ 1256 00:53:29,000 --> 00:53:30,000 (laughter) 1257 00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:32,000 All right, give this lady a watermelon here. 1258 00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:33,000 Give this lady a watermelon here. 1259 00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:35,000 Here you go, lady. 1260 00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:36,000 All right, lady. 1261 00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:37,000 All right, give me that money first, ma'am. 1262 00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:39,000 (dog barking) 1263 00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:42,000 Here we go, James. 1264 00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:43,000 Yeah. 1265 00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:46,000 ( girl shouting indistinctly) 1266 00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:48,000 GIRL: ♪ ...And she's a beauty ♪ 1267 00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:51,000 (train whistle blowing) 1268 00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:55,000 ♪ I bet you five dollars she can't do this ♪ 1269 00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:56,000 ♪ A lady on one foot ♪ 1270 00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:58,000 ♪ One foot, one foot ♪ 1271 00:53:58,000 --> 00:53:59,000 ♪ A lady... ♪ 1272 00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:02,000 Hey, mister. 1273 00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:06,000 (humming) 1274 00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:08,000 (door closing) 1275 00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:11,000 I thought you took that suit to the pawn shop. 1276 00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:13,000 I went down there, 1277 00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:15,000 and the man say the suit is too old. 1278 00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:17,000 Now look at this suit. 1279 00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:21,000 This is 100% genuine silk. 1280 00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:23,000 Now how is a silk suit gonna get too old? 1281 00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:26,000 Well, they got another pawn shop up on Wylie. 1282 00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:27,000 Mm-hmm, I carried it up there. 1283 00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:28,000 He didn't want it, either. 1284 00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:30,000 He don't take no clothes. 1285 00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:33,000 The only thing he take is guns, 1286 00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:35,000 radios and maybe a guitar or two. 1287 00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:36,000 (laughs) 1288 00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:39,000 Well, Maretha's scared to sleep up there now. 1289 00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:40,000 Hmm. 1290 00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:41,000 Berniece figure if Boy Willie leave, 1291 00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:43,000 Sutter's ghost will follow. 1292 00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:45,000 She don't know, 1293 00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:48,000 I seen Sutter's ghost before Boy Willie come. 1294 00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:51,000 Say what?! 1295 00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:53,000 Yeah, I was in 1296 00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:56,000 my room, and I heard that piano playing. 1297 00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:58,000 I thought it was Berniece, 1298 00:54:58,000 --> 00:55:00,000 but then she don't play that kind of music. 1299 00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:01,000 I come out, 1300 00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:04,000 and I didn't see nobody, but them piano keys 1301 00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:06,000 was moving a mile a minute. 1302 00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:08,000 Well, I tell you outright. 1303 00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:10,000 If I see Sutter's ghost, 1304 00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:14,000 I'll be on the first thing that got wheels on it. 1305 00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:16,000 How we do? 1306 00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:18,000 Charge them a quarter more. All right. 1307 00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:22,000 Watermelons! Fresh, ripe, red! 1308 00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:24,000 We got watermelons out here! 1309 00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:43,000 What time Berniece get home? 1310 00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:46,000 I don't see how I let her get away from me this morning. 1311 00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:50,000 What kind of business you got with Berniece? 1312 00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:52,000 My business. 1313 00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:54,000 I ain't ask you what kind of business you got. 1314 00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:56,000 Now Berniece ain't got no money, 1315 00:55:56,000 --> 00:55:58,000 if that's why you was trying to catch her. 1316 00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:01,000 She having a hard enough time trying to get by as it is. 1317 00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:03,000 Well, let me have $5. 1318 00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:06,000 I just give you a dollar 'fore you left out of here. 1319 00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:08,000 You ain't gonna take my $5 out there 1320 00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:09,000 and gamble and drink it up. 1321 00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:11,000 Oh, let me have $5. 1322 00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:13,000 I'll give it back to you. 1323 00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:25,000 Make it seven? You take this $5, and you bring 1324 00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:27,000 my money back here, too. LYMON: We almost sold 1325 00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:29,000 all of them, Boy Willie! 1326 00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:31,000 Oh, boy! 1327 00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:33,000 Boy, they was lining up for them, boy. 1328 00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:35,000 Me and Boy Willie couldn't sell them fast enough. 1329 00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:37,000 (laughs) 1330 00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:38,000 Oh, I got something for Lymon. 1331 00:56:38,000 --> 00:56:41,000 I ain't never seen nobody snatch a dollar fast as Boy Willie. 1332 00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:42,000 (both laugh) 1333 00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:43,000 Hey, Lymon. Hmm? 1334 00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:44,000 Look at this. 1335 00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:45,000 Whoa... 1336 00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:48,000 WINING BOY: This is 100% genuine silk! 1337 00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:50,000 Come on, put it on, see how it fit you. 1338 00:56:53,000 --> 00:56:55,000 Yeah. 1339 00:56:55,000 --> 00:56:57,000 I got that in Chicago. 1340 00:56:57,000 --> 00:56:59,000 See, you can't get clothes like this 1341 00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:02,000 nowhere but in New York or Chicago. (chuckles) 1342 00:57:02,000 --> 00:57:04,000 See, you can't get clothes like that here in Pittsburgh. 1343 00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:06,000 See, these folks here in Pittsburgh, 1344 00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:08,000 they ain't never seen no clothes like this. 1345 00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:09,000 Yeah, this is nice. 1346 00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:11,000 This feel real nice and smooth. 1347 00:57:11,000 --> 00:57:13,000 Yeah. 1348 00:57:13,000 --> 00:57:14,000 Woo... 1349 00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:16,000 That's a $55 suit. Oh. 1350 00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:17,000 Yeah, that's the kind of suit 1351 00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:20,000 the big shots wear. 1352 00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:22,000 Oh, you need you a pistol and a pocketful of money 1353 00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:24,000 to wear a suit like that. 1354 00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:25,000 No, no, no. 1355 00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:28,000 Now, I'll let you have it... for $3. 1356 00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:32,000 All the women will fall out their windows, 1357 00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:34,000 they see you in a suit like that. 1358 00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:35,000 (laughing) Ow. 1359 00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:36,000 Yeah, go on, give me $3. 1360 00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:39,000 Go on down the street, get dressed and get you a woman. 1361 00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:40,000 Oh, that look nice, Lymon. 1362 00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:41,000 Put on the pants. 1363 00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:43,000 Let me see it with the pants. 1364 00:57:49,000 --> 00:57:50,000 Yeah. (laughs) 1365 00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:52,000 Yeah, now don't that look nice? 1366 00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:54,000 Yeah, see, now go on and give me $3. 1367 00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:55,000 Go on and take it. 1368 00:57:55,000 --> 00:57:56,000 Look, I got a shirt to go with it. 1369 00:57:56,000 --> 00:57:59,000 Cost you a dollar extra. 1370 00:57:59,000 --> 00:58:00,000 Four dollars, you got the whole deal. 1371 00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:02,000 Four dollars for everything? 1372 00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:03,000 The suit and the shirt? 1373 00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:05,000 Now that's cheap. 1374 00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:11,000 All right. 1375 00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:13,000 Now, you got some shoes? Uh-uh. 1376 00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:14,000 What size shoes you wear? Size nine. 1377 00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:16,000 That's what size I got, size nine. 1378 00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:18,000 Look, I'll let you have them for $3. 1379 00:58:18,000 --> 00:58:19,000 Where they at? Let me see them. 1380 00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:20,000 They nice shoes, too. 1381 00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:22,000 They got a nice tip to them. 1382 00:58:22,000 --> 00:58:24,000 They got a pointed toe just like you want. (laughs) 1383 00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:25,000 Come on, Boy Willie, 1384 00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:27,000 let's go out tonight. (laughs) 1385 00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:30,000 We can go to a picture show and find some women! 1386 00:58:30,000 --> 00:58:31,000 (chuckles) 1387 00:58:31,000 --> 00:58:33,000 Hey, Doaker, I got the name of that man 1388 00:58:33,000 --> 00:58:35,000 say he want to buy the piano. 1389 00:58:35,000 --> 00:58:37,000 The man was fixing the truck gave me his name. 1390 00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:38,000 I got his name and number. 1391 00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:40,000 It ain't gonna do you no good. 1392 00:58:40,000 --> 00:58:41,000 WINING BOY: All right. 1393 00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:44,000 Here you go, size nine. 1394 00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:46,000 All right, put them on. 1395 00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:50,000 Eh... that's the kind Stagger Lee wore. 1396 00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:52,000 Yeah, now that'll cost you $3. 1397 00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:55,000 (straining) 1398 00:58:55,000 --> 00:58:57,000 Woo. 1399 00:58:57,000 --> 00:58:59,000 You sure this size nine? 1400 00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:00,000 Well, now, you can 1401 00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:03,000 look at my feet and see we wear the same size. 1402 00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:07,000 (shoes creaking) 1403 00:59:07,000 --> 00:59:09,000 Look, go on and take them. 1404 00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:10,000 Two dollars. 1405 00:59:10,000 --> 00:59:12,000 (laughing) 1406 00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:18,000 Come on, Boy Willie. 1407 00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:20,000 Let's go find some women. 1408 00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:26,000 (playing bluesy chords) 1409 00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:34,000 Hey, look like you ready to railroad some, boy. 1410 00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:39,000 Yeah, I got to make that run overnight to Philadelphia. 1411 00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:41,000 How I look? 1412 00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:42,000 Whoa! Whoa, boy! 1413 00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:44,000 (laughs) 1414 00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:46,000 You look like a million dollars! Whoo! 1415 00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:47,000 Don't he look good, Doaker? 1416 00:59:47,000 --> 00:59:48,000 Yeah. 1417 00:59:48,000 --> 00:59:50,000 Ah, boy, yeah. 1418 00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:52,000 Hey, you want to play some cards? 1419 00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:53,000 Come on, let's play some cards. 1420 00:59:53,000 --> 00:59:54,000 Oh, no, no, no. 1421 00:59:54,000 --> 00:59:56,000 We ain't gonna play no cards with you. 1422 00:59:56,000 --> 00:59:58,000 Lymon, don't you play no cards with Wining Boy. 1423 00:59:58,000 --> 01:00:00,000 He'll take all your money. 1424 01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:03,000 Oh, you got a magic suit there. 1425 01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:07,000 Oh, now, you'll get you a woman easy with a suit like that. 1426 01:00:07,000 --> 01:00:10,000 But you got to know the magic words. 1427 01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:13,000 You know the magic words to get you a woman? 1428 01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:14,000 Uh-uh. 1429 01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:17,000 I just talk to them, see if I like them and they like me. 1430 01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:20,000 Oh, that man don't need you to tell him nothing about no women. 1431 01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:21,000 These women these days ain't gonna fall 1432 01:00:21,000 --> 01:00:24,000 for that kind of stuff you talking. 1433 01:00:24,000 --> 01:00:26,000 You got to buy them a present. 1434 01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:28,000 That's what they're looking for these days. 1435 01:00:28,000 --> 01:00:29,000 Come on, I'm ready. 1436 01:00:29,000 --> 01:00:30,000 You ready, Lymon? 1437 01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:31,000 Uh-huh. 1438 01:00:31,000 --> 01:00:34,000 Let's go find some women. 1439 01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:40,000 (Lymon laughs) 1440 01:00:40,000 --> 01:00:42,000 (laughs) 1441 01:00:42,000 --> 01:00:43,000 I'm gonna walk out with you. 1442 01:00:43,000 --> 01:00:44,000 I want to see them women 1443 01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:47,000 fall out their windows when they see Lymon. 1444 01:00:47,000 --> 01:00:49,000 (laughs) 1445 01:00:52,000 --> 01:00:54,000 ( wind whistling, dog barking ) 1446 01:01:02,000 --> 01:01:04,000 (laughing) 1447 01:01:04,000 --> 01:01:07,000 No, no. Now don't mess with that man's shoes. 1448 01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:08,000 Oh, you looking good. 1449 01:01:08,000 --> 01:01:11,000 Hey, there you go, Doaker. 1450 01:01:12,000 --> 01:01:14,000 (wind whistling) 1451 01:01:14,000 --> 01:01:17,000 (bright tune playing) 1452 01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:30,000 DOAKER: All right, I got to go this way. All right. See you later. 1453 01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:32,000 Y'all stay out of trouble. BOY WILLIE: All right. 1454 01:01:33,000 --> 01:01:36,000 (laughing) 1455 01:01:36,000 --> 01:01:38,000 Like I told you now, they gonna fall out their windows. 1456 01:01:38,000 --> 01:01:40,000 All right, boy. All right. 1457 01:01:43,000 --> 01:01:46,000 Boy Willie... whoo! 1458 01:01:55,000 --> 01:01:56,000 ( movie playing in background) 1459 01:01:56,000 --> 01:01:58,000 You get the tickets, Lymon. 1460 01:02:03,000 --> 01:02:05,000 Come on, Boy Willie. 1461 01:02:05,000 --> 01:02:08,000 Come on. 1462 01:02:08,000 --> 01:02:10,000 WOMAN: Oh, John, please listen to me. 1463 01:02:10,000 --> 01:02:11,000 Please, I can explain everything. 1464 01:02:11,000 --> 01:02:13,000 John, I didn't know what they were going to do! 1465 01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:16,000 Let me go with you, John! 1466 01:02:16,000 --> 01:02:17,000 Please? 1467 01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:19,000 Please, let me explain it to you, John! 1468 01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:21,000 Please let me go with you! 1469 01:02:21,000 --> 01:02:24,000 Please! John! 1470 01:02:24,000 --> 01:02:25,000 MAN: He wants to see you. 1471 01:02:25,000 --> 01:02:27,000 Listen to me, ma'am. I want you to do as I say. 1472 01:02:27,000 --> 01:02:29,000 I want them both arrested. 1473 01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:30,000 You tell the police department to pick up Trammell. 1474 01:02:30,000 --> 01:02:31,000 I've got the girl here. 1475 01:02:31,000 --> 01:02:33,000 I don't care what you charge him with. 1476 01:02:33,000 --> 01:02:34,000 If you're worried, let him go in the morning, 1477 01:02:34,000 --> 01:02:36,000 but keep him in jail overnight. 1478 01:02:38,000 --> 01:02:39,000 MAN: Sit down there! 1479 01:02:45,000 --> 01:02:47,000 MAN: Hey, sit down, man. 1480 01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:52,000 WOMAN: I've got your father's diary, Ann. 1481 01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:54,000 GIRL: Father's...? 1482 01:02:54,000 --> 01:02:56,000 I never knew he had a diary. (giggling) 1483 01:02:56,000 --> 01:02:59,000 There's enough in there for 100 speeches. 1484 01:02:59,000 --> 01:03:00,000 Things people ought to hear nowadays... 1485 01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:04,000 ( movie playing indistinctly) (giggling) 1486 01:03:11,000 --> 01:03:13,000 MAN: Hey, Wining Boy back in town. 1487 01:03:15,000 --> 01:03:18,000 WOMAN: Hey, Wining Boy, over here, baby. 1488 01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:23,000 Hey, Wining Boy, good to see you again. 1489 01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:29,000 (indistinct voices) 1490 01:03:29,000 --> 01:03:31,000 Wining Boy. 1491 01:03:31,000 --> 01:03:33,000 Hey, Wining Boy. 1492 01:03:33,000 --> 01:03:38,000 ♪ Oh, 'tis thee, oh ♪ 1493 01:03:38,000 --> 01:03:41,000 ♪ Ship of life... ♪ 1494 01:03:41,000 --> 01:03:44,000 (dog barking) 1495 01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:48,000 (knocking on door) 1496 01:03:48,000 --> 01:03:49,000 Who is it? 1497 01:03:49,000 --> 01:03:51,000 It's me, Avery. 1498 01:03:59,000 --> 01:04:01,000 Avery, I was just getting ready to take my bath. 1499 01:04:01,000 --> 01:04:03,000 Oh, where Boy Willie? 1500 01:04:03,000 --> 01:04:06,000 I see that truck out there almost empty. 1501 01:04:06,000 --> 01:04:07,000 They was gone when I got home. 1502 01:04:07,000 --> 01:04:08,000 I don't know where they went off to. 1503 01:04:08,000 --> 01:04:11,000 Boy Willie around here 'bout to drive me crazy. 1504 01:04:11,000 --> 01:04:13,000 Well, they sell them watermelons, he be gone soon. 1505 01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:16,000 Berniece, I be sitting at home 1506 01:04:16,000 --> 01:04:17,000 and I get to thinking 1507 01:04:17,000 --> 01:04:19,000 I'm down there and you up here. 1508 01:04:19,000 --> 01:04:22,000 Now, you know how I feel about you, Berniece. 1509 01:04:22,000 --> 01:04:23,000 I get to thinking how that look 1510 01:04:23,000 --> 01:04:25,000 to have a preacher that ain't married. 1511 01:04:25,000 --> 01:04:28,000 Now it make for a better congregation 1512 01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:29,000 if the preacher was settled down and married. 1513 01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:30,000 Not now, Avery. 1514 01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:32,000 I'm fixing to take my bath. 1515 01:04:32,000 --> 01:04:33,000 I ain't got much in the way of comfort. 1516 01:04:33,000 --> 01:04:35,000 I got a hole in my pocket 1517 01:04:35,000 --> 01:04:36,000 near about far as money's concerned, 1518 01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:39,000 but I ain't never found my way through life 1519 01:04:39,000 --> 01:04:41,000 to a woman I care about like I care about you. 1520 01:04:41,000 --> 01:04:43,000 Now, I need that. 1521 01:04:43,000 --> 01:04:46,000 I need somebody on my bond side. 1522 01:04:46,000 --> 01:04:51,000 Now I need a woman that fits in my hand. 1523 01:04:51,000 --> 01:04:56,000 Avery, I'm not ready to get married now. 1524 01:04:59,000 --> 01:05:01,000 Now, you too young a woman to close up, Berniece. 1525 01:05:01,000 --> 01:05:04,000 I ain't said nothing about closing up. 1526 01:05:04,000 --> 01:05:06,000 I got a lot of woman left in me. 1527 01:05:06,000 --> 01:05:08,000 So, where's it at? 1528 01:05:08,000 --> 01:05:10,000 When the last time you looked at it? 1529 01:05:10,000 --> 01:05:13,000 That's a nasty thing to say. 1530 01:05:13,000 --> 01:05:14,000 And you call yourself a preacher. 1531 01:05:14,000 --> 01:05:16,000 You trying to tell me a woman ain't nothing 1532 01:05:16,000 --> 01:05:19,000 unless she got a man? 1533 01:05:19,000 --> 01:05:21,000 You can just walk outta here without me, 1534 01:05:21,000 --> 01:05:23,000 without a woman, and you still a man. 1535 01:05:23,000 --> 01:05:24,000 That's all right for you. 1536 01:05:24,000 --> 01:05:27,000 But everybody gonna be worried about Berniece. 1537 01:05:27,000 --> 01:05:29,000 "How Berniece gonna take care of herself? 1538 01:05:29,000 --> 01:05:32,000 How she gonna raise that kid without a man?" 1539 01:05:32,000 --> 01:05:36,000 Everybody telling me I can't be a woman without a man. 1540 01:05:36,000 --> 01:05:39,000 Well, you tell me, Avery, you know. 1541 01:05:39,000 --> 01:05:40,000 How much woman am I? 1542 01:05:40,000 --> 01:05:42,000 It wasn't me, Berniece. 1543 01:05:42,000 --> 01:05:47,000 Now you can't blame me for Crawley or nobody else. 1544 01:05:47,000 --> 01:05:49,000 I ain't blaming nobody for nothing. 1545 01:05:49,000 --> 01:05:51,000 Just stating facts. 1546 01:05:51,000 --> 01:05:53,000 This is a big world. 1547 01:05:53,000 --> 01:05:55,000 Life's got all kinds of twists and turns, 1548 01:05:55,000 --> 01:05:58,000 but that don't mean you stop living. 1549 01:05:58,000 --> 01:05:59,000 Now, you can't go through life 1550 01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:01,000 carrying Crawley's ghost with you. 1551 01:06:01,000 --> 01:06:03,000 Crawley been dead three years. 1552 01:06:03,000 --> 01:06:05,000 Three years, Berniece. 1553 01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:07,000 I know how long Crawley been dead. 1554 01:06:07,000 --> 01:06:11,000 You ain't got to tell me that. 1555 01:06:11,000 --> 01:06:14,000 Well I'm standing here now, Berniece. 1556 01:06:14,000 --> 01:06:15,000 But I don't know how much longer 1557 01:06:15,000 --> 01:06:19,000 I'm gonna be standing here waiting on you. 1558 01:06:22,000 --> 01:06:25,000 Avery, it's just that I've got so many other things 1559 01:06:25,000 --> 01:06:27,000 on my mind right now. 1560 01:06:27,000 --> 01:06:29,000 After I come home yesterday, 1561 01:06:29,000 --> 01:06:31,000 me and Boy Willie were arguing 1562 01:06:31,000 --> 01:06:33,000 about the piano, and Maretha saw Sutter's ghost 1563 01:06:33,000 --> 01:06:36,000 standing at the top of the steps. 1564 01:06:36,000 --> 01:06:40,000 She's scared to sleep up there now. 1565 01:06:40,000 --> 01:06:45,000 Maybe if you bless the house, he'll go away. 1566 01:06:45,000 --> 01:06:46,000 I don't know, Berniece. 1567 01:06:46,000 --> 01:06:47,000 Now, I don't know if I should fool around 1568 01:06:47,000 --> 01:06:49,000 with something like that. 1569 01:06:49,000 --> 01:06:52,000 I keep telling myself that when Boy Willie leaves 1570 01:06:52,000 --> 01:06:54,000 Sutter's ghost will leave, too, 1571 01:06:54,000 --> 01:06:56,000 but now he talking about selling the piano. 1572 01:06:56,000 --> 01:06:59,000 Well, maybe if Boy Willie see you was doing something with it. 1573 01:06:59,000 --> 01:07:01,000 If you told him you was gonna 1574 01:07:01,000 --> 01:07:04,000 put it down in the church and start a choir. 1575 01:07:07,000 --> 01:07:10,000 When my mama died, I closed the lid on that piano 1576 01:07:10,000 --> 01:07:12,000 and I ain't opened it since. 1577 01:07:12,000 --> 01:07:15,000 She used to have me playing on it. 1578 01:07:17,000 --> 01:07:19,000 I used to think them pictures come to life at night 1579 01:07:19,000 --> 01:07:21,000 and walk around the house. 1580 01:07:23,000 --> 01:07:26,000 Sometimes late at night I could hear my mama talking to them. 1581 01:07:29,000 --> 01:07:31,000 I said that wasn't gonna happen to me. 1582 01:07:33,000 --> 01:07:35,000 I don't play on that piano 1583 01:07:35,000 --> 01:07:38,000 'cause I don't wanna wake them spirits. 1584 01:07:38,000 --> 01:07:40,000 Then they'll be walking around this house. 1585 01:07:40,000 --> 01:07:41,000 Now you got to put 1586 01:07:41,000 --> 01:07:45,000 all that behind you, Berniece. 1587 01:07:45,000 --> 01:07:47,000 Everybody got stones in their pathway. 1588 01:07:47,000 --> 01:07:50,000 You got to step over them or walk around them. 1589 01:07:50,000 --> 01:07:53,000 Now you picking them up and carrying them with you. 1590 01:07:53,000 --> 01:07:57,000 You can walk over there right now and play that piano. 1591 01:07:57,000 --> 01:08:00,000 You can walk over there right now. 1592 01:08:03,000 --> 01:08:07,000 And God'll walk over there with you. 1593 01:08:07,000 --> 01:08:09,000 Come on, Berniece. 1594 01:08:09,000 --> 01:08:11,000 Play That Old Ship of Zion. 1595 01:08:13,000 --> 01:08:16,000 You can walk over here, 1596 01:08:16,000 --> 01:08:19,000 claim it as an instrument of the Lord. 1597 01:08:21,000 --> 01:08:25,000 You can walk over here right now... 1598 01:08:29,000 --> 01:08:31,000 ...and make this into a celebration. 1599 01:08:31,000 --> 01:08:32,000 Avery... 1600 01:08:32,000 --> 01:08:34,000 Bible says, "The Lord is my refuge 1601 01:08:34,000 --> 01:08:36,000 and my strength." 1602 01:08:36,000 --> 01:08:40,000 With the strength of God, you can put the past behind you. 1603 01:08:40,000 --> 01:08:42,000 With the strength of God, 1604 01:08:42,000 --> 01:08:44,000 you can do anything. 1605 01:08:49,000 --> 01:08:52,000 Avery, just leave. 1606 01:08:52,000 --> 01:08:54,000 Let me finish my bath. 1607 01:08:54,000 --> 01:08:57,000 I'll see you tomorrow. 1608 01:09:01,000 --> 01:09:03,000 Okay, Berniece. 1609 01:09:03,000 --> 01:09:07,000 I'm gonna go home and read up on my Bible. 1610 01:09:07,000 --> 01:09:09,000 And tomorrow... 1611 01:09:09,000 --> 01:09:11,000 good Lord, give me strength. 1612 01:09:11,000 --> 01:09:13,000 I'm gonna come by and bless this house. 1613 01:09:13,000 --> 01:09:17,000 And show you the power of the Lord. 1614 01:09:17,000 --> 01:09:19,000 Now, it's gonna be all right, Berniece. 1615 01:09:19,000 --> 01:09:24,000 God said He'll soothe the troubled water. 1616 01:09:30,000 --> 01:09:31,000 (laughing) 1617 01:09:31,000 --> 01:09:32,000 You crazy. 1618 01:09:32,000 --> 01:09:35,000 (laughing continues) 1619 01:09:35,000 --> 01:09:37,000 I'm telling you... 1620 01:09:41,000 --> 01:09:43,000 Come on in. 1621 01:09:43,000 --> 01:09:44,000 This my sister's house. 1622 01:09:44,000 --> 01:09:45,000 My sister live here. 1623 01:09:45,000 --> 01:09:47,000 Come on, I ain't gonna bite you. 1624 01:09:47,000 --> 01:09:48,000 Shh! ( laughing grows louder ) 1625 01:09:48,000 --> 01:09:51,000 Shh! 1626 01:09:51,000 --> 01:09:53,000 Oh, put some light on. 1627 01:09:53,000 --> 01:09:55,000 I can't see. Shh! 1628 01:09:55,000 --> 01:09:58,000 All you need to see is me. 1629 01:09:58,000 --> 01:10:02,000 If you can't see me, you can feel me in the dark. 1630 01:10:02,000 --> 01:10:03,000 How's that, sugar? 1631 01:10:03,000 --> 01:10:05,000 Go on, now wait. 1632 01:10:05,000 --> 01:10:06,000 Oh, come on. Give me a little kiss. 1633 01:10:08,000 --> 01:10:09,000 Boy Willie, what you doing down here? 1634 01:10:11,000 --> 01:10:13,000 You know I don't allow that in my house. 1635 01:10:13,000 --> 01:10:14,000 You have to take 1636 01:10:14,000 --> 01:10:16,000 your "company" somewhere else. 1637 01:10:16,000 --> 01:10:19,000 Allow what? 1638 01:10:19,000 --> 01:10:21,000 We just sitting here talking. 1639 01:10:21,000 --> 01:10:23,000 I'm sorry, Miss, but he know I don't allow that. 1640 01:10:23,000 --> 01:10:25,000 Uh, you ain't got to tell me but once. 1641 01:10:25,000 --> 01:10:27,000 I don't stay nowhere I ain't wanted. 1642 01:10:29,000 --> 01:10:31,000 Now you ain't... you ain't gotta be like that, Berniece. 1643 01:10:31,000 --> 01:10:32,000 Embarrassing me in front of my company. 1644 01:10:32,000 --> 01:10:33,000 WOMAN: Come on! 1645 01:10:33,000 --> 01:10:35,000 Take me home. 1646 01:10:35,000 --> 01:10:37,000 BERNIECE: Go on, Boy Willie. 1647 01:10:37,000 --> 01:10:38,000 Go on with your company. 1648 01:10:44,000 --> 01:10:45,000 (spluttering) 1649 01:10:52,000 --> 01:10:54,000 (door shuts) 1650 01:11:17,000 --> 01:11:19,000 (pounding on door) 1651 01:11:27,000 --> 01:11:29,000 Boy Will... 1652 01:11:29,000 --> 01:11:31,000 How you doing, Berniece? 1653 01:11:31,000 --> 01:11:33,000 I thought you'd be 'sleep. 1654 01:11:33,000 --> 01:11:35,000 Boy Willie been back here? 1655 01:11:35,000 --> 01:11:37,000 He just left out of here just a minute ago. 1656 01:11:44,000 --> 01:11:45,000 I was with this woman. 1657 01:11:45,000 --> 01:11:47,000 She just wanted to drink up all my money. 1658 01:11:47,000 --> 01:11:48,000 So I left there 1659 01:11:48,000 --> 01:11:50,000 come back looking for Boy Willie. 1660 01:11:50,000 --> 01:11:52,000 You just missed him. He just left out of here. 1661 01:11:52,000 --> 01:11:54,000 They got some nice-looking women in this city. 1662 01:11:54,000 --> 01:11:58,000 I'm gonna like it up here real good. Mm-hmm. 1663 01:11:58,000 --> 01:12:00,000 Boy Willie met a real nice one. 1664 01:12:00,000 --> 01:12:01,000 Wish I met her before he did. 1665 01:12:01,000 --> 01:12:03,000 He just left out of here with some woman 1666 01:12:03,000 --> 01:12:05,000 just a little while ago. 1667 01:12:05,000 --> 01:12:06,000 What she look like? 1668 01:12:06,000 --> 01:12:07,000 The woman he was with. 1669 01:12:07,000 --> 01:12:09,000 Was she a real dark-skinned woman about this high? 1670 01:12:09,000 --> 01:12:11,000 Nice and healthy. 1671 01:12:11,000 --> 01:12:13,000 Got nice hips on her? 1672 01:12:13,000 --> 01:12:14,000 She had on a red dress. 1673 01:12:14,000 --> 01:12:15,000 That's her. That's Grace. 1674 01:12:15,000 --> 01:12:18,000 She real nice. Mm-hmm. 1675 01:12:18,000 --> 01:12:20,000 I seen't her before Boy Willie did, only... 1676 01:12:20,000 --> 01:12:21,000 he beat me to her. 1677 01:12:21,000 --> 01:12:22,000 Doaker gone, huh? 1678 01:12:22,000 --> 01:12:23,000 Say he had to make a trip. 1679 01:12:23,000 --> 01:12:25,000 He had to make a trip. 1680 01:12:25,000 --> 01:12:27,000 He's still cooking for the Pennsylvania Railroad. 1681 01:12:27,000 --> 01:12:30,000 This is usually my time I get some peace and quiet. 1682 01:12:30,000 --> 01:12:31,000 Maretha's asleep. 1683 01:12:35,000 --> 01:12:37,000 She look just like you. 1684 01:12:37,000 --> 01:12:38,000 Got them big eyes. 1685 01:12:38,000 --> 01:12:41,000 She sure is pretty. 1686 01:12:45,000 --> 01:12:48,000 Boy Willie say you staying. 1687 01:12:48,000 --> 01:12:52,000 What you gonna do in the big city? 1688 01:12:52,000 --> 01:12:54,000 You thought about that? 1689 01:12:54,000 --> 01:12:57,000 They'll never get me back down there. 1690 01:12:57,000 --> 01:12:59,000 I figure I'd find me a job. 1691 01:12:59,000 --> 01:13:01,000 Try to get set up. See what the year bring. 1692 01:13:01,000 --> 01:13:05,000 It's not a bad city, once you get to know your way around. 1693 01:13:05,000 --> 01:13:07,000 Wining Boy told me I wear this suit, 1694 01:13:07,000 --> 01:13:10,000 I'd find me a woman. 1695 01:13:10,000 --> 01:13:12,000 He was almost right. (clears throat) 1696 01:13:12,000 --> 01:13:13,000 You don't need to be out there 1697 01:13:13,000 --> 01:13:15,000 in them saloons. 1698 01:13:15,000 --> 01:13:18,000 Ain't no telling what you're liable to run into out there. 1699 01:13:18,000 --> 01:13:19,000 I don't know what them women out there 1700 01:13:19,000 --> 01:13:21,000 be thinking about. 1701 01:13:21,000 --> 01:13:23,000 Mostly they be lonely. 1702 01:13:23,000 --> 01:13:25,000 Looking for somebody to spend the night with them. 1703 01:13:25,000 --> 01:13:27,000 Sometime it matter who it is, sometime it don't. 1704 01:13:27,000 --> 01:13:29,000 I used to be the same way. 1705 01:13:29,000 --> 01:13:31,000 Now it got to matter. 1706 01:13:31,000 --> 01:13:33,000 The way I see it, 1707 01:13:33,000 --> 01:13:35,000 we the only two people like us in the world. 1708 01:13:35,000 --> 01:13:37,000 We got to see how we fit together. 1709 01:13:37,000 --> 01:13:40,000 A woman who don't want to take the time to do that, 1710 01:13:40,000 --> 01:13:42,000 I don't bother with them. 1711 01:13:42,000 --> 01:13:44,000 How come you ain't married? 1712 01:13:44,000 --> 01:13:47,000 I get me a job and a little place 1713 01:13:47,000 --> 01:13:49,000 and get set up to where I can make a woman comfortable, 1714 01:13:49,000 --> 01:13:52,000 I might get married. 1715 01:13:52,000 --> 01:13:53,000 Avery nice. 1716 01:13:53,000 --> 01:13:55,000 You ought to go on ahead and get married. 1717 01:13:55,000 --> 01:13:58,000 You'd be a preacher's wife and not have to work. 1718 01:13:58,000 --> 01:14:00,000 I hate living by myself. 1719 01:14:00,000 --> 01:14:01,000 I ain't want to be no strain on my mama 1720 01:14:01,000 --> 01:14:03,000 so I left home. 1721 01:14:03,000 --> 01:14:05,000 I was about 16. 1722 01:14:05,000 --> 01:14:09,000 Everything I tried, seem like it just didn't work out. 1723 01:14:09,000 --> 01:14:10,000 Now I'm trying this. 1724 01:14:10,000 --> 01:14:12,000 You keep on trying. 1725 01:14:12,000 --> 01:14:14,000 It'll work out for you. 1726 01:14:17,000 --> 01:14:18,000 You ever go down there to the picture show? 1727 01:14:22,000 --> 01:14:25,000 I don't go in for all that. 1728 01:14:25,000 --> 01:14:27,000 It ain't like gambling or sinning or nothing. 1729 01:14:27,000 --> 01:14:29,000 Ain't nothing wrong with it. 1730 01:14:29,000 --> 01:14:31,000 I stay at home most of the time and take care of Maretha. 1731 01:14:34,000 --> 01:14:37,000 It's getting kinda late. 1732 01:14:42,000 --> 01:14:43,000 Was you in bed? 1733 01:14:43,000 --> 01:14:46,000 I ain't mean to be keeping you up. 1734 01:14:46,000 --> 01:14:47,000 You ain't 1735 01:14:47,000 --> 01:14:50,000 keeping me up. 1736 01:14:53,000 --> 01:14:55,000 You got on that nightgown. 1737 01:14:55,000 --> 01:15:00,000 I likes women who wear them fancy nightclothes and all. 1738 01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:02,000 It makes their skin look pretty. 1739 01:15:05,000 --> 01:15:08,000 I-I got this at the five-and-ten-cent store. 1740 01:15:08,000 --> 01:15:10,000 It ain't so fancy. 1741 01:15:12,000 --> 01:15:16,000 I don't too often get to see a woman dressed like that. 1742 01:15:28,000 --> 01:15:33,000 Wining Boy told me this was a magic suit. 1743 01:15:33,000 --> 01:15:36,000 I'm 'a put it on again tomorrow. 1744 01:15:36,000 --> 01:15:39,000 See if it bring me a woman like he say. 1745 01:15:41,000 --> 01:15:44,000 I almost forgot I had this. 1746 01:15:46,000 --> 01:15:50,000 Some man sold me this for a dollar. 1747 01:15:50,000 --> 01:15:52,000 Said it's the same kind of perfume 1748 01:15:52,000 --> 01:15:53,000 the Queen of France wear. 1749 01:15:53,000 --> 01:15:55,000 Mm-hmm, I smelled it. 1750 01:15:55,000 --> 01:15:57,000 It smell good to me. 1751 01:15:57,000 --> 01:15:59,000 Here, you smell it. 1752 01:15:59,000 --> 01:16:00,000 See if you like it. 1753 01:16:00,000 --> 01:16:01,000 I was gonna give it to Dolly, 1754 01:16:01,000 --> 01:16:03,000 but I ain't like her too much. 1755 01:16:06,000 --> 01:16:08,000 It smells nice. 1756 01:16:08,000 --> 01:16:10,000 I wanna give it to you. 1757 01:16:10,000 --> 01:16:12,000 Make you smell nice. 1758 01:16:12,000 --> 01:16:15,000 They tell me you supposed to put it right here. 1759 01:16:15,000 --> 01:16:19,000 Behind your ear. 1760 01:16:19,000 --> 01:16:23,000 Say if you put it there, it make you smell nice all day. 1761 01:16:27,000 --> 01:16:29,000 There. 1762 01:16:29,000 --> 01:16:33,000 You smell real good now. 1763 01:16:40,000 --> 01:16:41,000 You smell real good 1764 01:16:41,000 --> 01:16:45,000 for Lymon. 1765 01:17:04,000 --> 01:17:06,000 Berniece. 1766 01:17:20,000 --> 01:17:22,000 (door shuts) 1767 01:17:30,000 --> 01:17:34,000 (door opens) 1768 01:17:45,000 --> 01:17:46,000 (whispering): Lymon. 1769 01:17:46,000 --> 01:17:48,000 Lymon, come on. Get up. 1770 01:17:48,000 --> 01:17:50,000 Leave me alone. 1771 01:17:50,000 --> 01:17:53,000 Come on. What you want? 1772 01:17:53,000 --> 01:17:54,000 Come on, let's go. 1773 01:17:54,000 --> 01:17:56,000 I called the man about the piano. 1774 01:17:56,000 --> 01:17:58,000 He said to bring it on out. 1775 01:17:58,000 --> 01:17:59,000 Why didn't you tell him 1776 01:17:59,000 --> 01:18:00,000 to come and pick it up? 1777 01:18:00,000 --> 01:18:01,000 I didn't want to have no problem 1778 01:18:01,000 --> 01:18:02,000 with Berniece. 1779 01:18:02,000 --> 01:18:04,000 This way we can just take it on out there 1780 01:18:04,000 --> 01:18:06,000 and it'd be out of the way. 1781 01:18:06,000 --> 01:18:08,000 He just say have it to him by 6:00. 1782 01:18:08,000 --> 01:18:10,000 Come on, let's go. 1783 01:18:11,000 --> 01:18:13,000 All right, look... 1784 01:18:13,000 --> 01:18:14,000 Come on, Lymon. 1785 01:18:14,000 --> 01:18:15,000 Look. Look. 1786 01:18:15,000 --> 01:18:17,000 All you gotta do just move your end out 1787 01:18:17,000 --> 01:18:18,000 so we can work it towards the door. 1788 01:18:18,000 --> 01:18:20,000 Now you gotta get a real good grip on it now. 1789 01:18:20,000 --> 01:18:22,000 I-I got this side. You just get that side. 1790 01:18:22,000 --> 01:18:23,000 Wait till I say ready, all right? 1791 01:18:23,000 --> 01:18:25,000 Now you got it good? You got a real good grip on it? 1792 01:18:25,000 --> 01:18:26,000 Yeah, I got it. Just push that side. 1793 01:18:26,000 --> 01:18:28,000 All right. On three. 1794 01:18:28,000 --> 01:18:29,000 One, 1795 01:18:29,000 --> 01:18:30,000 two, 1796 01:18:30,000 --> 01:18:31,000 three. 1797 01:18:31,000 --> 01:18:33,000 (grunting) 1798 01:18:33,000 --> 01:18:35,000 LYMON: Wait a minute. Something holding this. 1799 01:18:35,000 --> 01:18:37,000 This is gonna take more than me and you to move this piano. 1800 01:18:37,000 --> 01:18:38,000 We can do it. Come on. 1801 01:18:38,000 --> 01:18:39,000 Hey, Doaker. 1802 01:18:40,000 --> 01:18:42,000 How did this piano get in the house? 1803 01:18:42,000 --> 01:18:44,000 Boy Willie, what you doing? 1804 01:18:44,000 --> 01:18:45,000 I'm carrying this piano out the house. 1805 01:18:45,000 --> 01:18:46,000 What it look like I'm doing? 1806 01:18:46,000 --> 01:18:48,000 Come on, Lymon. Let's try it again. 1807 01:18:48,000 --> 01:18:50,000 Go on let the piano sit 1808 01:18:50,000 --> 01:18:51,000 over there till Berniece come home. 1809 01:18:51,000 --> 01:18:53,000 You ain't got nothing to do with this, Doaker. 1810 01:18:53,000 --> 01:18:56,000 This is my business. 1811 01:18:58,000 --> 01:19:00,000 This is my house. 1812 01:19:00,000 --> 01:19:02,000 And I ain't gonna let you 1813 01:19:02,000 --> 01:19:04,000 or nobody else carry nothing out of it. 1814 01:19:04,000 --> 01:19:06,000 This is my piano. 1815 01:19:06,000 --> 01:19:08,000 This ain't got nothing to do with you. 1816 01:19:08,000 --> 01:19:10,000 I say leave it set over there till Berniece come home. 1817 01:19:10,000 --> 01:19:12,000 She got part of it, too. 1818 01:19:12,000 --> 01:19:13,000 Leave it set there 1819 01:19:13,000 --> 01:19:15,000 till you see what she say. 1820 01:19:15,000 --> 01:19:16,000 I don't care 1821 01:19:16,000 --> 01:19:17,000 what Berniece say. 1822 01:19:17,000 --> 01:19:18,000 Come on, Lymon. I got this side. 1823 01:19:18,000 --> 01:19:20,000 All you gotta do is move your end out. 1824 01:19:20,000 --> 01:19:22,000 How we gonna get it in the truck? 1825 01:19:22,000 --> 01:19:24,000 DOAKER: Leave that piano set over there 1826 01:19:24,000 --> 01:19:25,000 till Berniece come back. 1827 01:19:25,000 --> 01:19:29,000 I don't care what you do with it then. 1828 01:19:29,000 --> 01:19:31,000 But you gonna leave it sit 1829 01:19:31,000 --> 01:19:32,000 over there right now. 1830 01:19:37,000 --> 01:19:38,000 All right. 1831 01:19:43,000 --> 01:19:45,000 I'm gonna tell you this, Doaker. 1832 01:19:50,000 --> 01:19:52,000 I'm going out of here. 1833 01:19:52,000 --> 01:19:54,000 I'm gonna get me some rope. 1834 01:19:54,000 --> 01:19:58,000 Find me a plank and some wheels, then I'm coming back. 1835 01:19:58,000 --> 01:20:00,000 When I come back 1836 01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:02,000 I'm gonna carry that piano out of here, 1837 01:20:02,000 --> 01:20:05,000 sell it and give Berniece half the money. 1838 01:20:07,000 --> 01:20:11,000 You see now that's what I'm gonna do 1839 01:20:11,000 --> 01:20:15,000 and you or nobody else gonna stop me. 1840 01:20:17,000 --> 01:20:20,000 Come on, Lymon. 1841 01:20:20,000 --> 01:20:22,000 Let's go get some rope and stuff. 1842 01:20:36,000 --> 01:20:39,000 I'll be back, Doaker. 1843 01:20:45,000 --> 01:20:47,000 My Lord. 1844 01:20:52,000 --> 01:20:53,000 (sighs) 1845 01:20:56,000 --> 01:20:59,000 Then after that... 1846 01:20:59,000 --> 01:21:03,000 all them white folks down there 1847 01:21:03,000 --> 01:21:06,000 started falling down their wells. 1848 01:21:06,000 --> 01:21:09,000 Everybody say 1849 01:21:09,000 --> 01:21:13,000 the ghosts's of the Yellow Dog pushed them. 1850 01:21:13,000 --> 01:21:15,000 Why they wanna call them that? 1851 01:21:15,000 --> 01:21:17,000 'Cause the Yazoo Delta Railroad 1852 01:21:17,000 --> 01:21:20,000 got yellow boxcars. 1853 01:21:20,000 --> 01:21:23,000 (door opening) Sometimes the way the whistle 1854 01:21:23,000 --> 01:21:26,000 ( imitating train whistle): blow... 1855 01:21:26,000 --> 01:21:32,000 sound like an old dog howling. 1856 01:21:32,000 --> 01:21:37,000 So the people call it the Yellow Dog. 1857 01:21:37,000 --> 01:21:38,000 Maretha, you go on 1858 01:21:38,000 --> 01:21:41,000 and get ready for me to do your hair. Yes, ma'am. 1859 01:21:41,000 --> 01:21:44,000 Boy Willie, I done told you 1860 01:21:44,000 --> 01:21:45,000 to leave my house. 1861 01:21:45,000 --> 01:21:47,000 I ain't playing with Boy Willie. 1862 01:21:47,000 --> 01:21:49,000 I got Crawley's gun upstairs. 1863 01:21:49,000 --> 01:21:51,000 You don't know it, 1864 01:21:51,000 --> 01:21:53,000 but I am through with it. 1865 01:21:53,000 --> 01:21:55,000 Where Lymon go? 1866 01:21:55,000 --> 01:21:57,000 Boy Willie sent him for some rope 1867 01:21:57,000 --> 01:21:58,000 just before you come in. 1868 01:21:58,000 --> 01:21:59,000 I ain't standing Boy Willie 1869 01:21:59,000 --> 01:22:02,000 or Lymon or the rope. 1870 01:22:02,000 --> 01:22:03,000 Maretha, you go run across the street 1871 01:22:03,000 --> 01:22:05,000 and get me another can of hair grease. 1872 01:22:05,000 --> 01:22:06,000 And you come straight back, too. 1873 01:22:06,000 --> 01:22:07,000 Don't be playing around out there. 1874 01:22:07,000 --> 01:22:09,000 Be careful crossing the street. 1875 01:22:09,000 --> 01:22:11,000 Yes, ma'am. (roaring) 1876 01:22:11,000 --> 01:22:12,000 (chuckles) 1877 01:22:12,000 --> 01:22:14,000 Boy Willie, I done told you to leave my house. 1878 01:22:14,000 --> 01:22:17,000 (Boy Willie muttering) 1879 01:22:20,000 --> 01:22:23,000 There, now I'm outta your part of the house. 1880 01:22:23,000 --> 01:22:25,000 Consider me to left your part. 1881 01:22:25,000 --> 01:22:26,000 Soon Lymon come back with that rope, 1882 01:22:26,000 --> 01:22:28,000 I'm gonna take that piano outta here and sell it. 1883 01:22:28,000 --> 01:22:30,000 You ain't touching that piano. 1884 01:22:30,000 --> 01:22:32,000 BOY WILLIE: I'm gonna carry it out of here just as big and bold 1885 01:22:32,000 --> 01:22:35,000 like my daddy would've done come time to get Sutter's land. 1886 01:22:35,000 --> 01:22:37,000 Oh, why don't y'all stop that? 1887 01:22:37,000 --> 01:22:38,000 Boy Willie, go on and leave her alone. 1888 01:22:38,000 --> 01:22:41,000 You know how Berniece get. 1889 01:22:41,000 --> 01:22:43,000 I ain't thinking about Berniece. 1890 01:22:43,000 --> 01:22:44,000 DOAKER: Did you say Avery gonna stop by? 1891 01:22:44,000 --> 01:22:46,000 What Avery gonna do? 1892 01:22:46,000 --> 01:22:48,000 Avery can't do nothing with me. 1893 01:22:48,000 --> 01:22:50,000 I wish Avery would say something to me about this piano. 1894 01:22:50,000 --> 01:22:52,000 Berniece ain't said about that. 1895 01:22:52,000 --> 01:22:56,000 (laughing) 1896 01:22:56,000 --> 01:23:00,000 Light that stove and set that comb over there to get hot. 1897 01:23:00,000 --> 01:23:02,000 And get something to put around your shoulders. 1898 01:23:02,000 --> 01:23:09,000 (humming hymn) 1899 01:23:28,000 --> 01:23:29,000 How do you do? 1900 01:23:29,000 --> 01:23:31,000 Pastor. 1901 01:23:37,000 --> 01:23:39,000 Ow! 1902 01:23:39,000 --> 01:23:41,000 Be still, Maretha. If you was a boy, I wouldn't have 1903 01:23:41,000 --> 01:23:43,000 to go through this. Oh, don't you tell 1904 01:23:43,000 --> 01:23:45,000 that girl that. Why you wanna tell here that? You ain't got nothing 1905 01:23:45,000 --> 01:23:48,000 to do with this child. Telling her you wish she was a boy?! 1906 01:23:48,000 --> 01:23:50,000 How that's gonna make her feel? 1907 01:23:50,000 --> 01:23:52,000 If you wanna tell her something, tell her about that piano. 1908 01:23:52,000 --> 01:23:54,000 You ain't even told her about that piano. 1909 01:23:54,000 --> 01:23:57,000 I got something to be ashamed of. 1910 01:23:57,000 --> 01:23:58,000 You ought to mark down on the calendar 1911 01:23:58,000 --> 01:24:01,000 the day Papa Boy Charles brought that piano into the house. 1912 01:24:01,000 --> 01:24:03,000 And every year when it come up, 1913 01:24:03,000 --> 01:24:05,000 throw a party. Have a celebration. 1914 01:24:05,000 --> 01:24:07,000 That way she know where she at in the world. 1915 01:24:07,000 --> 01:24:09,000 You got her going out here thinking 1916 01:24:09,000 --> 01:24:10,000 she all wrong in the world. 1917 01:24:10,000 --> 01:24:12,000 Like there ain't no part of it belong to her. 1918 01:24:12,000 --> 01:24:13,000 You let me take care of my child. 1919 01:24:13,000 --> 01:24:16,000 When you get one of your own, then you can teach it 1920 01:24:16,000 --> 01:24:18,000 what you want to teach it. 1921 01:24:18,000 --> 01:24:21,000 Now, what I want to bring a child into this world for now? 1922 01:24:21,000 --> 01:24:22,000 Now, look, I ain't got no advantages 1923 01:24:22,000 --> 01:24:23,000 to offer nobody. 1924 01:24:23,000 --> 01:24:26,000 Many is the time I looked at my daddy 1925 01:24:26,000 --> 01:24:28,000 and seen him staring off 1926 01:24:28,000 --> 01:24:29,000 at his hands. 1927 01:24:29,000 --> 01:24:32,000 I got a little older, I know just what he was thinking. 1928 01:24:32,000 --> 01:24:34,000 He's sitting there 1929 01:24:34,000 --> 01:24:36,000 saying... 1930 01:24:36,000 --> 01:24:41,000 "I got these big old hands, but what I'm 'a do with them? 1931 01:24:41,000 --> 01:24:46,000 "I can take and build something with these hands, 1932 01:24:46,000 --> 01:24:47,000 "but where's the tools? 1933 01:24:47,000 --> 01:24:52,000 All I got is these hands." 1934 01:24:52,000 --> 01:24:55,000 See, now, if he had his own land 1935 01:24:55,000 --> 01:24:57,000 he wouldn't have felt that way. 1936 01:24:57,000 --> 01:24:58,000 If he had something 1937 01:24:58,000 --> 01:25:00,000 under his feet that belonged to him 1938 01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:02,000 he could stand up taller. That's what I'm talking about. 1939 01:25:02,000 --> 01:25:04,000 If you got a piece of land 1940 01:25:04,000 --> 01:25:07,000 everything else will fall right into place. 1941 01:25:07,000 --> 01:25:09,000 That's all you got going for you is talk. 1942 01:25:09,000 --> 01:25:10,000 All your whole life 1943 01:25:10,000 --> 01:25:12,000 that's all you had going for you was talk. 1944 01:25:12,000 --> 01:25:13,000 Straighten up your head, Maretha. 1945 01:25:13,000 --> 01:25:14,000 Don't be bending down like that. 1946 01:25:14,000 --> 01:25:17,000 All I'm trying to do is mark my passing 1947 01:25:17,000 --> 01:25:19,000 on the road. 1948 01:25:19,000 --> 01:25:21,000 Just like you write it on a tree. 1949 01:25:21,000 --> 01:25:23,000 "Boy Willie was here!" 1950 01:25:23,000 --> 01:25:25,000 That's all I'm trying to do. 1951 01:25:25,000 --> 01:25:27,000 My heart say for me 1952 01:25:27,000 --> 01:25:30,000 to sell that piano and get me some land 1953 01:25:30,000 --> 01:25:32,000 to make a life for myself to live in my own way. 1954 01:25:32,000 --> 01:25:33,000 Other than that, 1955 01:25:33,000 --> 01:25:37,000 I ain't thinking about nothing Berniece got to say. 1956 01:25:37,000 --> 01:25:39,000 (knocking) Here we go. 1957 01:25:39,000 --> 01:25:41,000 (chuckles) 1958 01:25:43,000 --> 01:25:45,000 Lymon, I been wait... 1959 01:25:45,000 --> 01:25:46,000 Oh, I thought you was Lymon. 1960 01:25:46,000 --> 01:25:48,000 Lymon? 1961 01:25:48,000 --> 01:25:51,000 Hey, Berniece, look who here. 1962 01:25:51,000 --> 01:25:53,000 BERNIECE: Come on in, Avery. 1963 01:25:53,000 --> 01:25:55,000 Don't pay Boy Willie no mind. 1964 01:25:55,000 --> 01:25:57,000 Don't pay neither one of them no mind. 1965 01:25:57,000 --> 01:25:58,000 They been arguing all day. 1966 01:25:58,000 --> 01:26:00,000 Well, how's everybody in here? 1967 01:26:00,000 --> 01:26:02,000 DOAKER: Oh, Berniece say you was coming by to bless the house. 1968 01:26:02,000 --> 01:26:04,000 Yeah. I done read up on my Bible. 1969 01:26:04,000 --> 01:26:08,000 She asked me to come by and see if I could get rid of Sutter's ghost. 1970 01:26:08,000 --> 01:26:10,000 There ain't no ghost in this house. 1971 01:26:10,000 --> 01:26:11,000 That's all in Berniece head. 1972 01:26:11,000 --> 01:26:13,000 Go on up there and see if you see him. 1973 01:26:13,000 --> 01:26:15,000 I'll give you $100 if you see him. 1974 01:26:15,000 --> 01:26:16,000 That's all in her imagination. 1975 01:26:16,000 --> 01:26:19,000 Boy Willie, why don't you just be quiet? 1976 01:26:19,000 --> 01:26:21,000 This ain't got nothing to do with you. 1977 01:26:21,000 --> 01:26:23,000 Let him go ahead and do what he gonna do. 1978 01:26:23,000 --> 01:26:25,000 I ain't stopping him. 1979 01:26:25,000 --> 01:26:27,000 Avery ain't got no power to do nothing. 1980 01:26:27,000 --> 01:26:30,000 AVERY: Oh, I ain't got no power?! 1981 01:26:30,000 --> 01:26:34,000 Well, God's got the power. 1982 01:26:34,000 --> 01:26:38,000 Now God's got power over everything in His creation. 1983 01:26:38,000 --> 01:26:40,000 God can do anything. 1984 01:26:40,000 --> 01:26:42,000 God's got a wonderful power. 1985 01:26:42,000 --> 01:26:45,000 He's got power over life and death. 1986 01:26:45,000 --> 01:26:47,000 Now Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead. 1987 01:26:47,000 --> 01:26:49,000 They was getting ready to bury him. 1988 01:26:49,000 --> 01:26:51,000 And Jesus, He told him, "Sir, rise up and walk." 1989 01:26:51,000 --> 01:26:53,000 And he got up and walked. 1990 01:26:53,000 --> 01:26:55,000 And the people made great rejoicing 1991 01:26:55,000 --> 01:26:57,000 in the power of God. 1992 01:26:57,000 --> 01:27:00,000 Now, I ain't worried about Him 1993 01:27:00,000 --> 01:27:03,000 chasing away no little old ghost. 1994 01:27:03,000 --> 01:27:06,000 Mm-mm-mm! 1995 01:27:06,000 --> 01:27:08,000 (knocking at door) 1996 01:27:11,000 --> 01:27:12,000 Hey, where you been? 1997 01:27:12,000 --> 01:27:14,000 I been waiting on you, 1998 01:27:14,000 --> 01:27:16,000 and you run off somewhere? Give me that rope. 1999 01:27:16,000 --> 01:27:18,000 LYMON: I ran into Grace. I stopped and bought her a dress. 2000 01:27:18,000 --> 01:27:20,000 She said she gonna go to a picture show with me. 2001 01:27:20,000 --> 01:27:21,000 Hi, Berniece. 2002 01:27:21,000 --> 01:27:23,000 BOY WILLIE: I ain't thinking about no Grace nothing. 2003 01:27:23,000 --> 01:27:24,000 Get up on this side of the piano. 2004 01:27:24,000 --> 01:27:26,000 DOAKER: Boy Willie, don't start nothing now. 2005 01:27:26,000 --> 01:27:27,000 Leave the piano alone. 2006 01:27:27,000 --> 01:27:29,000 Get that board over there, Lymon. 2007 01:27:29,000 --> 01:27:30,000 Stay out of this, Doaker. 2008 01:27:30,000 --> 01:27:32,000 You just can't take the piano. 2009 01:27:32,000 --> 01:27:33,000 How you gonna take the piano? 2010 01:27:33,000 --> 01:27:35,000 Berniece ain't said nothing about selling that piano. 2011 01:27:35,000 --> 01:27:37,000 She ain't got to say nothing. 2012 01:27:37,000 --> 01:27:39,000 Come on, Lymon. We got to lift one end 2013 01:27:39,000 --> 01:27:40,000 at a time on the board. 2014 01:27:40,000 --> 01:27:42,000 You got to watch, so that the board don't slide up under there. 2015 01:27:42,000 --> 01:27:43,000 What we gonna do with the rope? 2016 01:27:43,000 --> 01:27:44,000 Let me worry about the rope. 2017 01:27:44,000 --> 01:27:45,000 Just get up on this side 2018 01:27:45,000 --> 01:27:46,000 over here with me. 2019 01:27:46,000 --> 01:27:48,000 Boy Willie! 2020 01:27:48,000 --> 01:27:49,000 Berniece! 2021 01:27:49,000 --> 01:27:51,000 Now, why don't y'all sit down 2022 01:27:51,000 --> 01:27:52,000 and talk this out now? 2023 01:27:52,000 --> 01:27:55,000 Ain't nothing to talk out. I'm through talking to Berniece. 2024 01:27:55,000 --> 01:27:57,000 Come on, Lymon. Get upon this side. 2025 01:27:57,000 --> 01:27:59,000 Throw that rope over there and tie it on to the leg. 2026 01:27:59,000 --> 01:28:00,000 Wait a minute. Berniece? 2027 01:28:00,000 --> 01:28:02,000 Did you tell Boy Willie he could take this piano? 2028 01:28:02,000 --> 01:28:05,000 Boy Willie ain't taking nothing out of this house but hisself. 2029 01:28:05,000 --> 01:28:07,000 Come on, Lymon. Get up on this side over here with me. 2030 01:28:07,000 --> 01:28:10,000 Berniece, I got to do this now. 2031 01:28:10,000 --> 01:28:11,000 Boy Willie say he gonna 2032 01:28:11,000 --> 01:28:12,000 give you half the money. 2033 01:28:12,000 --> 01:28:15,000 Go. Just go on, Lymon. 2034 01:28:15,000 --> 01:28:17,000 I done told Boy Willie what to do. 2035 01:28:17,000 --> 01:28:19,000 Boy Willie, you sure you want to do this? 2036 01:28:19,000 --> 01:28:21,000 The way I figure it-- 2037 01:28:21,000 --> 01:28:23,000 I might be wrong-- 2038 01:28:23,000 --> 01:28:25,000 but I figure she gonna shoot you first. 2039 01:28:33,000 --> 01:28:34,000 Well... 2040 01:28:37,000 --> 01:28:40,000 she... 2041 01:28:40,000 --> 01:28:43,000 is just gonna have to shoot me. 2042 01:28:43,000 --> 01:28:45,000 (door opens) ( Wining Boy singing indistinctly ) 2043 01:28:45,000 --> 01:28:46,000 Mommy, please, don't do it. 2044 01:28:46,000 --> 01:28:47,000 Go on, get out of here, Maretha. No, Mommy! 2045 01:28:47,000 --> 01:28:49,000 Doaker, get her on out of here! 2046 01:28:49,000 --> 01:28:51,000 Mommy, no, no! Mommy! 2047 01:28:51,000 --> 01:28:52,000 I stopped at that Seaver place. 2048 01:28:52,000 --> 01:28:53,000 These folks are running around here 2049 01:28:53,000 --> 01:28:56,000 talking about Pass Deck Red is coming. 2050 01:28:56,000 --> 01:28:57,000 Wining Boy, sit down somewhere. 2051 01:28:57,000 --> 01:28:58,000 Back away. Back away. Ah... 2052 01:28:58,000 --> 01:29:00,000 Been out drinking all day. Come in here smelling 2053 01:29:00,000 --> 01:29:03,000 like an old polecat. Sit down out the way. There! 2054 01:29:03,000 --> 01:29:05,000 You know Berniece don't like all that drinking. 2055 01:29:05,000 --> 01:29:07,000 Oh, I ain't disrespecting Berniece. Berniece, 2056 01:29:07,000 --> 01:29:09,000 am I disrespecting you? 2057 01:29:09,000 --> 01:29:12,000 I'm just trying to be nice. 2058 01:29:12,000 --> 01:29:14,000 Oh, I been out with strangers all day. 2059 01:29:14,000 --> 01:29:15,000 And they treat me like family. 2060 01:29:15,000 --> 01:29:17,000 I come up in here to family, and you 2061 01:29:17,000 --> 01:29:19,000 treat me like I'm a stranger! 2062 01:29:19,000 --> 01:29:20,000 Why don't you go somewhere and lay down? 2063 01:29:20,000 --> 01:29:22,000 Oh, I ain't thinking about no laying down. 2064 01:29:22,000 --> 01:29:23,000 I'm gonna play me some piano! 2065 01:29:23,000 --> 01:29:25,000 Come on. No, Wining Boy. Me and Lymon 2066 01:29:25,000 --> 01:29:27,000 fixing to move the piano, Wining Boy. No, no... 2067 01:29:27,000 --> 01:29:28,000 Wining Boy, come on, now, come on! 2068 01:29:28,000 --> 01:29:30,000 Now, wait a minute. Wining...? Oh! Aw, man! 2069 01:29:30,000 --> 01:29:31,000 Wait a minute, now. 2070 01:29:31,000 --> 01:29:32,000 I wrote this song for Cleotha. 2071 01:29:32,000 --> 01:29:34,000 I wrote this 2072 01:29:34,000 --> 01:29:37,000 in memory of Cleotha. 2073 01:29:37,000 --> 01:29:41,000 (playing bluesy chords) 2074 01:29:57,000 --> 01:30:00,000 ♪ Hey, pretty woman ♪ 2075 01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:02,000 ♪ What's the matter ♪ 2076 01:30:02,000 --> 01:30:03,000 ♪ With you now? ♪ 2077 01:30:03,000 --> 01:30:06,000 ♪ Had a storm last night ♪ 2078 01:30:06,000 --> 01:30:09,000 ♪ Drove the line all down ♪ 2079 01:30:09,000 --> 01:30:11,000 ♪ Tell me how ♪ 2080 01:30:11,000 --> 01:30:13,000 ♪ Long ♪ 2081 01:30:13,000 --> 01:30:15,000 (thunder rumbling) 2082 01:30:15,000 --> 01:30:19,000 ♪ I gotta wait ♪ 2083 01:30:20,000 --> 01:30:26,000 ♪ Can I get it now ♪ 2084 01:30:26,000 --> 01:30:30,000 ♪ Or must I hesitate? ♪ 2085 01:30:33,000 --> 01:30:36,000 ♪ It takes the hesitatin' stockings ♪ 2086 01:30:36,000 --> 01:30:39,000 ♪ And the hesitatin' shoes ♪ 2087 01:30:39,000 --> 01:30:41,000 ♪ Takes a hesitatin' woman ♪ 2088 01:30:41,000 --> 01:30:44,000 ♪ Gonna sing the blues ♪ 2089 01:30:44,000 --> 01:30:48,000 ♪ Tell me, tell me how long ♪ 2090 01:30:48,000 --> 01:30:53,000 ♪ Yeah, I've got to wait ♪ 2091 01:30:55,000 --> 01:31:00,000 ♪ Can I kiss you now ♪ 2092 01:31:00,000 --> 01:31:02,000 ♪ Or must I hesitate? ♪ 2093 01:31:02,000 --> 01:31:04,000 ♪Yeah... ♪ Come on, Wining Boy. Come on now. 2094 01:31:04,000 --> 01:31:06,000 Come on, Wining Boy. Me and... me and Lymon fixing to work here. 2095 01:31:06,000 --> 01:31:09,000 Wining Boy, me and Lymon fixing to move the piano. 2096 01:31:09,000 --> 01:31:10,000 You are not moving this piano. 2097 01:31:10,000 --> 01:31:12,000 Come on, Wining Boy! Get out the way, now! 2098 01:31:12,000 --> 01:31:13,000 You take this piano out this house, 2099 01:31:13,000 --> 01:31:15,000 you got to take me with it. 2100 01:31:15,000 --> 01:31:16,000 Get out the way, Wining Boy. 2101 01:31:16,000 --> 01:31:17,000 Doaker, get him, I ain't playing with him now. 2102 01:31:17,000 --> 01:31:18,000 I'll get him, Doaker. 2103 01:31:18,000 --> 01:31:20,000 Come on, Wining Boy. Boy Willie ain't taking this piano. 2104 01:31:20,000 --> 01:31:22,000 (knocking at door) You got to take me with it. 2105 01:31:22,000 --> 01:31:23,000 Get that end, Lymon. 2106 01:31:23,000 --> 01:31:25,000 (knocking continues) 2107 01:31:25,000 --> 01:31:28,000 LYMON: Boy Willie, this thing don't want to move. 2108 01:31:28,000 --> 01:31:30,000 GRACE: Is Lymon here? 2109 01:31:32,000 --> 01:31:34,000 Lymon. 2110 01:31:35,000 --> 01:31:37,000 I thought you was coming back. 2111 01:31:37,000 --> 01:31:39,000 I ain't gonna sit in that truck all day. 2112 01:31:39,000 --> 01:31:40,000 LYMON: I told you I'd be 2113 01:31:40,000 --> 01:31:42,000 right back. BERNIECE: Lymon? 2114 01:31:42,000 --> 01:31:44,000 You have to take your company someplace else. 2115 01:31:44,000 --> 01:31:46,000 You told me you was gonna take me to the movies. 2116 01:31:46,000 --> 01:31:48,000 I got to help Boy Willie move the piano. 2117 01:31:48,000 --> 01:31:50,000 I ain't waiting on you. You told me you was coming right back. 2118 01:31:50,000 --> 01:31:51,000 Now you got to move a piano? 2119 01:31:51,000 --> 01:31:53,000 I knew I shouldn't have come back here. 2120 01:31:53,000 --> 01:31:56,000 You just like all the other men. 2121 01:31:56,000 --> 01:31:59,000 ( wind whistling eerily) 2122 01:31:59,000 --> 01:32:01,000 Something ain't right here. 2123 01:32:01,000 --> 01:32:03,000 I knew 2124 01:32:03,000 --> 01:32:04,000 I shouldn't have come back up 2125 01:32:04,000 --> 01:32:05,000 in... here! 2126 01:32:05,000 --> 01:32:06,000 (screams) 2127 01:32:06,000 --> 01:32:08,000 Wait! I'll be right back, Boy Willie. 2128 01:32:08,000 --> 01:32:09,000 Where you going? I got to take Grace home. 2129 01:32:09,000 --> 01:32:10,000 Hey, Lymon, no! 2130 01:32:10,000 --> 01:32:11,000 (thunder crashing) 2131 01:32:11,000 --> 01:32:13,000 (wind whistling eerily) 2132 01:32:13,000 --> 01:32:14,000 Doaker. Uh-huh. 2133 01:32:15,000 --> 01:32:17,000 WINING BOY: You feel that? 2134 01:32:17,000 --> 01:32:18,000 Uh-huh. 2135 01:32:18,000 --> 01:32:21,000 Berniece, do you feel cold? 2136 01:32:21,000 --> 01:32:22,000 WINING BOY: Doaker... 2137 01:32:22,000 --> 01:32:24,000 I believe that was Sutter. 2138 01:32:24,000 --> 01:32:26,000 Avery, go ahead and bless the house. 2139 01:32:26,000 --> 01:32:27,000 You need to bless that piano. 2140 01:32:27,000 --> 01:32:29,000 That's what you need to bless. Doaker, if he 2141 01:32:29,000 --> 01:32:31,000 gonna bless something, let him bless everything. 2142 01:32:31,000 --> 01:32:33,000 Bless upstairs, bless the kitchen. Go on, bless it all. 2143 01:32:33,000 --> 01:32:35,000 He need to bless Berniece head. 2144 01:32:35,000 --> 01:32:37,000 That's what he need to bless. 2145 01:32:37,000 --> 01:32:40,000 Berniece, hold this candle. 2146 01:32:40,000 --> 01:32:43,000 And whatever you do, 2147 01:32:43,000 --> 01:32:44,000 you make sure it don't go out. 2148 01:32:44,000 --> 01:32:46,000 Ain't no ghosts in this house. 2149 01:32:49,000 --> 01:32:51,000 Oh, Holy Father... (thunder rumbles) 2150 01:32:51,000 --> 01:32:55,000 we gather here this evening in Thy holy name 2151 01:32:55,000 --> 01:32:57,000 to cast out the spirit of one 2152 01:32:57,000 --> 01:32:58,000 James Sutter. 2153 01:32:58,000 --> 01:33:01,000 May this vial of water 2154 01:33:01,000 --> 01:33:02,000 be empowered with Thy spirit. 2155 01:33:02,000 --> 01:33:05,000 May each drop of it be a weapon and a shield 2156 01:33:05,000 --> 01:33:09,000 against the presence of all evil. 2157 01:33:09,000 --> 01:33:11,000 And may it be a cleansing and a blessing 2158 01:33:11,000 --> 01:33:14,000 of this humble abode. (whispers) 2159 01:33:14,000 --> 01:33:16,000 Where there is good, 2160 01:33:16,000 --> 01:33:20,000 so shall it cause evil to scatter 2161 01:33:20,000 --> 01:33:22,000 to the four winds. (thunder rumbling) 2162 01:33:22,000 --> 01:33:24,000 Get thee behind me, Satan! 2163 01:33:24,000 --> 01:33:27,000 Oh, man! Get thee behind the face of righteousness... 2164 01:33:27,000 --> 01:33:29,000 BERNIECE: Yes, yes... ...as we glorify His holy name. 2165 01:33:29,000 --> 01:33:30,000 Get thee behind 2166 01:33:30,000 --> 01:33:31,000 the hammer of truth... Yes. 2167 01:33:31,000 --> 01:33:33,000 ...and breaking down the walls of falsehood. 2168 01:33:33,000 --> 01:33:35,000 Father, Father, praise, praise. 2169 01:33:35,000 --> 01:33:36,000 All this ol' preaching stuff-- 2170 01:33:36,000 --> 01:33:38,000 just tell him to leave. 2171 01:33:38,000 --> 01:33:42,000 As it is written, I will sprinkle clean water upon ya. 2172 01:33:42,000 --> 01:33:46,000 And you shall be clean from all your uncleanliness, 2173 01:33:46,000 --> 01:33:47,000 and from all your idols will I cleanse you. 2174 01:33:47,000 --> 01:33:48,000 Boy Willie! 2175 01:33:48,000 --> 01:33:50,000 A new heart also will I give ya. 2176 01:33:50,000 --> 01:33:52,000 And a new spirit will I put... Hey, Sutter! 2177 01:33:52,000 --> 01:33:54,000 Hey, Sutter, get out of this house! 2178 01:33:54,000 --> 01:33:56,000 Hey, you want some water? I got water for you! 2179 01:33:56,000 --> 01:33:59,000 Get out of this house! Hey, Sutter, get out. 2180 01:33:59,000 --> 01:34:03,000 (indistinct shouting) 2181 01:34:03,000 --> 01:34:05,000 (grunts) 2182 01:34:05,000 --> 01:34:07,000 (thunder crashing) 2183 01:34:11,000 --> 01:34:14,000 Sutter. Sutter! 2184 01:34:14,000 --> 01:34:15,000 Boy Willie! Boy Willie, no! 2185 01:34:15,000 --> 01:34:17,000 Don't go in there! 2186 01:34:18,000 --> 01:34:19,000 Willie! 2187 01:34:21,000 --> 01:34:24,000 (grunting) 2188 01:34:26,000 --> 01:34:28,000 Come on, Avery, don't stop now. 2189 01:34:28,000 --> 01:34:30,000 Berniece, I can't. 2190 01:34:30,000 --> 01:34:31,000 Avery, come on! Avery, don't! 2191 01:34:31,000 --> 01:34:33,000 Berniece, I can't do this. Avery! 2192 01:34:33,000 --> 01:34:34,000 (grunting) 2193 01:34:38,000 --> 01:34:39,000 BOY WILLIE: 2194 01:34:42,000 --> 01:34:43,000 Sutter! 2195 01:34:43,000 --> 01:34:46,000 Mama Berniece! 2196 01:34:47,000 --> 01:34:49,000 BOY WILLIE: Sutter! 2197 01:34:50,000 --> 01:34:51,000 Mama Esther! 2198 01:34:52,000 --> 01:34:54,000 Help me! 2199 01:34:54,000 --> 01:34:57,000 Papa Boy Charles... 2200 01:34:57,000 --> 01:35:00,000 I want you to help me. 2201 01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:03,000 ( screams, strikes loud chords) 2202 01:35:03,000 --> 01:35:07,000 I want you to help me! 2203 01:35:07,000 --> 01:35:11,000 Mama Ola, I want you to help me! (playing bluesy chords) 2204 01:35:11,000 --> 01:35:12,000 Help me! (wailing) 2205 01:35:12,000 --> 01:35:14,000 Thank you, Father. 2206 01:35:14,000 --> 01:35:16,000 (screams) 2207 01:35:16,000 --> 01:35:18,000 BERNIECE: Help me! 2208 01:35:22,000 --> 01:35:24,000 (gasps) 2209 01:35:24,000 --> 01:35:27,000 (piano playing frantically) 2210 01:35:30,000 --> 01:35:32,000 (whistling wind fading) 2211 01:35:36,000 --> 01:35:38,000 (faint yelling) 2212 01:35:38,000 --> 01:35:40,000 LYMON: Boy Willie? 2213 01:35:40,000 --> 01:35:43,000 (frantic piano playing) (Berniece screaming) 2214 01:35:45,000 --> 01:35:49,000 BERNIECE: Papa Boy Charles! Papa! 2215 01:35:49,000 --> 01:35:51,000 Mama Berniece! Help me! Help me! 2216 01:35:51,000 --> 01:35:54,000 Berniece. It's okay, Berniece. Oh! 2217 01:35:54,000 --> 01:35:55,000 Boy Willie's okay. Oh! 2218 01:35:55,000 --> 01:35:57,000 (shrieking) He's okay, all right? 2219 01:35:57,000 --> 01:36:00,000 Nothing's wrong. He's all right. 2220 01:36:00,000 --> 01:36:01,000 He's all right. Everything's gonna be all right. 2221 01:36:01,000 --> 01:36:04,000 (gasping) 2222 01:36:08,000 --> 01:36:09,000 Mama Berniece. 2223 01:36:09,000 --> 01:36:12,000 Thank you, thank you, Papa Boy Charles. 2224 01:36:12,000 --> 01:36:15,000 Thank you. Thank you. 2225 01:36:15,000 --> 01:36:17,000 Thank you, Mama Ola. 2226 01:36:17,000 --> 01:36:20,000 Thank you. Oh! Oh, thank you. 2227 01:36:20,000 --> 01:36:23,000 Thank you. Oh! 2228 01:36:23,000 --> 01:36:26,000 Thank you. Oh! 2229 01:36:26,000 --> 01:36:28,000 Oh, yes. 2230 01:36:28,000 --> 01:36:33,000 Thank you. Thank you. Oh... 2231 01:36:35,000 --> 01:36:38,000 (birds chirping) 2232 01:36:40,000 --> 01:36:42,000 BOY WILLIE: Come on, boy. 2233 01:36:46,000 --> 01:36:48,000 All right. All right, Berniece. 2234 01:36:48,000 --> 01:36:49,000 Take care of him. 2235 01:36:49,000 --> 01:36:51,000 Take care this old brother. 2236 01:36:51,000 --> 01:36:54,000 Oh, hey, baby... You keep playing that piano, hear? 2237 01:36:54,000 --> 01:36:55,000 All right. 2238 01:36:55,000 --> 01:36:56,000 All right now, you have a safe trip 2239 01:36:56,000 --> 01:36:58,000 and you say hello to all the folks down there for me. 2240 01:36:58,000 --> 01:37:00,000 Sooner than you think. (laughs) 2241 01:37:00,000 --> 01:37:03,000 All right, Wining Boy. 2242 01:37:03,000 --> 01:37:05,000 Come here, sugar! 2243 01:37:05,000 --> 01:37:08,000 (laughing) 2244 01:37:08,000 --> 01:37:09,000 Okay, Doak. 2245 01:37:09,000 --> 01:37:12,000 All right now. You take care of yourself, hear? 2246 01:37:12,000 --> 01:37:14,000 Okay. And write. 2247 01:37:18,000 --> 01:37:22,000 Berniece, if you and Maretha don't keep playing 2248 01:37:22,000 --> 01:37:26,000 on that piano, ain't no telling. 2249 01:37:26,000 --> 01:37:30,000 Me and Sutter both liable to be back. 2250 01:37:32,000 --> 01:37:35,000 (laughs) 2251 01:37:37,000 --> 01:37:38,000 Mm. 2252 01:37:38,000 --> 01:37:40,000 BOY WILLIE: All right, Lymon. 2253 01:37:40,000 --> 01:37:41,000 (Doaker chuckles) 2254 01:37:41,000 --> 01:37:43,000 (playing lilting melody) 2255 01:37:43,000 --> 01:37:45,000 LYMON: Would someone please help me with my trunk? 2256 01:37:45,000 --> 01:37:47,000 BOY WILLIE: Oh, come on, Lymon! 2257 01:37:47,000 --> 01:37:49,000 (indistinct shouting) 2258 01:37:49,000 --> 01:37:51,000 (plays off-key notes) 2259 01:37:55,000 --> 01:37:57,000 (plays lilting melody) 2260 01:38:01,000 --> 01:38:04,000 (repeats melody line) 2261 01:38:04,000 --> 01:38:07,000 ( Maretha plays harmonies in tune ) 2262 01:38:12,000 --> 01:38:14,000 (giggling) 152331