All language subtitles for [English] Pride of Jesse Hallam (1981) _ Full Drama Film _ Johnny Cash, Brenda Vaccaro [DownSub.com]

[Music] be sure it's tied down good 8 10 Somewhere With You Son Well Charlie I'm ready to close that deal how about you you sure Jazz you real [Music] sure I'm sure Charlie got a pin your deed your place Sarah it'll always be partly yours Jeff and this is at least to us whole 15,000 is there Jess just want to be sure Charlie I've been dealing with you for so long I don't want to be cut short you wouldn't cut me short would you Uncle Charlie it's all load and ready to go daddy okay son sweetheart we won't make Sunday dinner out of manura okay Charlie take care of youself good hold on byebye bye bye let us know how Jenny does come on Charlie come on je show them how I'm sensing [Music] that honey have you heard the news I've paid up all my union do like a bird to flew when lightning struck I'm breaking out and I'm moving up if the creek don't rise and I don't die we'll live on steak and apple pie doing without just never stuck I'm getting mine and I'm moving up I'm moving up a little higher Breaking All the chains at home I may not be a big high flyer but there's freedom in my soul I've got open eyes and mind and the love of man and womankind it'll work out with a little love and I'll be all right cuz I'm moving [Music] up I'm moving up a little higher Breaking All the chains at home I may not be a big high fly but there's freedom in my soul I've got open eyes and mind and a love of man and womankind it'll work out with a little love and I'll be all right cuz I'm moving up this is our surgical release read and sign it please Dr funderberg told us all about it where' I put my name here yes and now I need your insurance cards I think cash ma'am anything else is Charity to my mind I don't need charity Mr H we don't require payment in advance well the doc said it might be $14,000 maybe more count the operation in the hospital for 2 months he said we don't get it done though my Jin going to grow up to be all humped over and breathless so I come prepared to pay the whole your bank and that's yours to draw on so long as you have to and that way I know my baby's treated right I know how many kids go to the school do you think Daddy it's awful big oh not too big for you son water off of Duck's back ma'am you yes ma'am I'd like to enroll my boy in your school and there's his transfer papers well let's see mulberg County Consolidated High is that down in Kentucky yes ma'am 10th grade well of course it's a rural School your son will be given some tests here Mr Hen to indicate us which level he's on if you'll fill out this form as soon as we get the information there then Theodore can start right in there's no need for him to miss any more school than he has to looks as if he's ready for gym though anyhow track oh I see well I really don't have time for this I got to go looking for a job well it really won't take that much time at all it's not detailed I bet you know this town pretty good you know where I can find a job doing what anything doesn't matter anything except dog holding in a coal mine like I've been doing since I was 12 well there's some big plans out in Norwood rout 71 there's always the wholesale produce market but that's unskilled labor you can always try down there there's guchis my father's Warehouse he's always looking for some help gr you feel out Ted I got to be going hey Ted run like a deer [Music] [Music] uh this the employment office uh-uh employees only in here it's down the hall um how many doors about 45 on your right thank you hi this is where I apply for work that's what the sign says oh yeah fill this out then you take our Personnel exam then we file your application and if something comes up to fit we'll call you it's them what for aptitudes you know everybody's got aptitudes the exam shows us what you can do well are you just just put me to work and you'll see what I can do Mister if you want a job here this is the procedure Daddy won't you take me back to muber County Down By The Green River where Paradise l I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking Mr pe's cold trained uned away when I was a child my family would travel back to Western Kentucky where my parents were born to a backward Old Town that I often remember so many times that my memories worn then some sometimes we travel on down the Green River to the abandoned old prison down by adri Hill where the air smelled like snakes and we had shoot with our pistol but empty pop bottles was all we would kill Oh Daddy won't you take me back to mberg County Down By The Green River where Paradise lay I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking Mr pe's cold trained un Haled [Music] away I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking Mr PE his cold train done hold it [Music] way I did the mile in 4:30 Daddy can you believe it you should have seen a look on the coach's face man that track's like running on clouds after what we had at mberg hey what's the crumbs eat at the table sir are you going down to norw after a job again today no I don't think so I about fished it out last week reading and lachland all the way out to Sharonville it's either a union shop or they're not hiring surely somebody in this area has got something to suit your daddy's style I got to go back to the hospital too the doctor called wants to talk to me about something I don't know what hey daddy this is some operation you know one slip of the knife and assist is a veg for sure Ted don't talk like that well I got to go Daddy hey it's an hour to school I know but some of the team runs mornings too I figure I'll get to know the guys better hey Daddy you know what some of the guys on the team they drive their own cars yeah your time's coming son hey some Lun money maybe shouldn't paid rent two months in advance payday is just around the corner son how'd the test go last week I don't know don't let that big Schoo Buffalo you son you're going to be all right okay hey better luck Daddy okay hi sweetheart how's it going okay I guess Hey Now what's this why do I have to have dumb scoliosis it's going to be tomorrow I'm going to be operated I know honey Dr thunderberg told me all about it but he says all it test show that your health is a horse but I've been stuck in bed off and on the whole week and it'll be all the time afterwards hey remember what we said now you got to have patience it'll help if you're stubborn like your old dad you know what the doctor said he said he's going to put a steel bar in my back inside Daddy he says it won't rust or anything well better not no cheap goods for us ham sweetheart if I could have that operation for you you know i' do three times over if there's anything I could do for you to help you you know I'm daddy could you I mean I can't hold a book and well I know it was mom I always used to read to me but couldn't you do it a little while well honey I got so much to do I got to look for work I got a lot of people to see I just don't have time I'll be back tonight okay I promise tall and straight and gorgeous that's what my gin's going to be you just think about that all right bye sweetheart Oh Daddy won't you take me back to muber County Down By The Green River where Paradise lay I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking Mr pe's cold trained unall it away the coal company came with the world's largest shovel they tortured the Timber and stripped all the land they dug for the coal till the land was for forsaken then roll it all down to the progress of man when I dial it my ashes float down the Green River let my soul roll on up to the Rochester down I'll be happyway to heaven with Paradise waiting 5 miles away from wherever I am Oh Daddy won't you take me back to Mu andberg County Down by the green River where Paradise lay I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking Mr peab is cold trained anded it away I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking Mr PE is cold train done hold it [Music] away I'm stay hi any work here does it look like it to you no looks like some kind of happy hour to me I hear some place called guchi might be hiring where's that you passed it coming down produce Street you're just off of the hill and out of the holler ain't you you want a job go back where you come from Mr there's work here night work lumping what's lumping loading unloading Produce Market opens around 5: in the morning morning what you got to do you got to hang around and when a trucker holls for a lump you got to jump or he gets beat out no offense but lumping sure sounds like what it is youall to know the pain all that rich thanks anyway [Music] [Music] conations [Music] sorry officer I saw the light too late [Applause] oh don't want your wallet license Only You Kentucky Briars come up here you don't know how to drive you don't know anything make work that's all you are you got no right to talk to me like that get over here I'll spread him all right turn around now give me your license might know out of date 7 months my wife always took care of that 7 months you can see for yourself you're driving illegally in Ohio and Kentucky oh man you're not worth the jail space but that's 95 bucks for the double violation Here sign it you can mail it in but don't let me catch you driving without a valid license on this side of the river again next time I won't be so easy on you where do I get it I mean uh an Ohio license you can read all about that in the Driver's Handbook you get one at the license bureau [Applause] [Applause] T dad what are you doing home so early what about you I thought you had practice I got kicked out out of school and off the team hey come back here Ted what did you do don't you know better than to cause trouble in a new school I didn't daddy it was them dumb test they say I can't read good enough I got to go back to 9th grade that's Junior High that's a different School Daddy and you're from Kentucky oh I've been getting it too but not my boy let principal keep hours after school I guess so get your track shoes and let's go [Applause] [Music] I want to see the principal I'm sorry the principal's not in oh yeah may I help you I want to talk to you Miss guchi is our vice principal gives test and stuff D she'll do just fine can we use that office certainly wait out here Ted find Mr Scofield for me will you sure [Music] Ted tells me that you're putting him back in junior high and for no good reason that's not true I demoted him because his score indicates a level far my boy passed every grade all his life what's the matter Kentucky school's not good enough for you Mr H whether the school is in Kentucky or timbuk to has nothing to do with it each system has its own standards bull no not bull perhaps his old school passed him through because of his athletic abilities but Ted is not in this school to learn to run your son Reeds far beneath 9th grade level given his age we're only dropping him back one year we do care about the whole child here I've seen my boy with his scho work I know Ted can read have you ever once looked at his homework Mr ham I'd like to introduce you to the principal of Harding High Mr scoffield Excuse me I want my boy back in here now what do you people expect he comes into you new high tone school here has to take a bunch of tests the first week he's scared to death Mr ham I'll explain if you'll listen a moment she just did talking about the whole child it's not enough that I have to take the boy out of the only home he ever had bring him to a strange place he's just getting used to it and you want to throw him out it's two months till School's Out Ted would make it if you'd give him half a chance all right but if Ted doesn't measure up back he goes at least the track coach will be pleased well Ted sure can run and he'll do his school work I'll see to that hey Ted you're back in don't give me all the credit you're some Runner you know man you see the look on Miss galucci's face hey to never mind son just do your school work all right now go on you're late for practice uh Mr G Luchi yeah you a lumper i PID 20 bucks for half a load you want it yes sir I sure do come on where you been I got me a lumber sure too late I hire him 1150 a buck of top grade apples I'm taking 20 bucks for him off the top your bill huh yeah move it you just docked yourself a tener I I checked the order he's got he got them on the truck now here he comes I call you later winer's Market called they ordered three Flats of mushrooms and not two you understand not two all right ni Mr guchi I spilled a box of apples so spill them back in the Box okay but Mr guchi you ought to top grade you didn't get top grade you got storage apples in they worming hey hey best Carolina apples huh last Summer's michigans you switched them on me it's not what I ordered they stink you what I should call a federal inspector huh huh now get out of here I got four crates back there you wait 30 bucks for your trouble now get out go on you call my Marion you fight no doctor NE now get back to work you don't treat an old man like that now you [Applause] [Music] [Applause] moveing you all right yeah I'm okay the doctor he says I get upset too much so you know what he gives me nitroglycerin someday I blow myself up all together I like the way you dump bad apples you know the good and better vegetables too yes sir I raised my own food in Kentucky why you lumping HH you like me you too all for lumping almost Your Mother of God would my Mariana tell me that if I let Tully call her tly he don't know nothing from quality and who's going to check the load with drivers like that I don't got the time that's stupid I I give you you five bucks an hour 7 hours a day 6 days a week H all right some lump and sure you got to move the produce but you check the quality you make deliveries and things like that he you want it the job with me yes sir Mr guchi I'm I'm Jesse Halen yeah come on now I show you around the place come on um Mr guchi ni s um well s about today I can't work past 700 this morning well you you just started now already you want a holiday no sir it's not for me it's my it's my little girl you see she's at Children's Hospital and going to be operated on today and well I got to be there oh yeah oh okay sure sure you you going to make good care of your little girl huh a little girls a quite extraordinary huh I know come on come on I show you around the place and then you go to the hospital okay come [Music] on it's been over 4 hours doctor never said it take this long maybe something went wrong hey Ted why don't you go back to school oh not yet dad Jen's going to be all right I know she's just going pull through this just fine when it's over she's okay tonight you and I ought to go celebrate you know what take in a movie or something we've hardly said more and hello or goodbye since we got here I uh I got some other plans Daddy I mean if is okay something with the team no no those guys they they think I run okay you know like they keep saying and I've been running up and down some Brier Hollow all my life but no it's it's his kid in Home Room he got a set of wheels and uh he said if I wanted to I'd go with him and some other guys in that and kind of cruise around what about homework well it's Friday I got all weekend Mr ham yes [Music] ma'am okay little darling you'll be all right the doctor said you did just fine he said you grew two inches L right on the table Daddy what baby hurts Daddy I know it does honey it hurts awful but it will quit pretty soon and daddy will be right here with you I'll be right here [Music] baby doc says we got to give Jen about 5 months to heal up and then after that that hey looks like an old-fashioned Farmers Market back home some farmers are sure some like me old push Carters who don't know when to quit don't pay me the gas to come here but it's nice M you take the table any place special so what do you think where my name is down the street there [Applause] guch hey this is not my place G says G not guchi what's the matter you don't read good bring the table yeah yeah guchi put over there huh good you know not know how to read huh why you not learn you not stupid all this I know but not to learn when you can yes stupid come on you think it make you less a man you try to learn you less a man you don't when I come to America I not to read Italian forget English I as 16 I'm in New York I go to school with babies I learned more more fast than them I tell you yeah but everybody knows you can't teach an old dog new tricks it's not true I tell my Mariana if she find to make good lessons for you huh I thought you might have heard she and I didn't exactly hit it off you know that's just my Mariana's bad Italian temple with me too all the time she shouts you're too old for this business the truth is she don't want Italian green Ross of Papa she want a nice retired American Papa she no no more Mariana Mariana finito since 12 years old she call herself Marian but she got good brains H you you want to work of for Sal guchi you must learn to read and write fito I I speak to her for you huh oh no no I speak to her myself if I decide to sh Mr Alam did you want to see me please come in you know I work for your daddy now well I respect him and he said he thought that you might be able to fix up some lessons I can't read or write are you totally illiterate well now what kind of dumb question is that that's like asking are you totally pregnant I'm sorry I never took any reading prizes okay well now your fine state of Ohio says I got to pass a written test in this manual to get my driver's license oh they'll let you take that test orally Ted could help you with the manual he could use the reading practice now T Ted's not to know anything about this all right how soon can I get the lessons takes time to learn to read if it were easy there wouldn't be 25 million adult functional illiterates in this country it's plain hard work nobody ever accused me of being afraid of hard work all my life I wanted to read I can find your literacy lessons let me check into when and where and I'll call you thanks Miss guchi Mr Alam yes may I ask you a personal question how have you managed this long you lie a lot you get cheated some you wrap yourself in a sweet cocoon like mberg County Kentucky and you fake it but up here no way I'm telling you it's on the wrong side it's backwards home don't look like that it's my picture not yours why'd you come to see me anyhow to tell me I'm wrong you only come when Daddy makes you do feel like going to practice how do you stand it Sis all this I have to don't I yeah well I don't well I wish I didn't either you sure are in a bad mood wait till you have to go to school here okay at least down in mberg there was folks the way daddy talks I thought you liked everything yeah sure I got no R to complain one to look at you and I know that I see her you can let the dishes drain in the sink if you want to Ted Jenny said you came by to see her today she looks good huh if you like mommies going back to the hospital again how'd your my go today did you break you 4:30 I ran this morning that was plenty coach thinks so too don't you have homework you don't know damn all about H what kind of talk is that you don't talk to me that way in this house I got study hul tomorrow you know you spend all your time with her and you take it out on me how I got to stay in all the time and how we don't get to see each other all that much anymore I'm not going to the hospital Ted got a prospect for a job for two nights a week I got to go check it out and what am I supposed to do stay here all by myself in this cruddy place you know what we got to do son we got to go find us a fishing hole and go bass fishing again have some fun like we used to just you and me we'll do it too real soon sure [Applause] daddy The Secret of learning to read is drill drill drill first we memorize our letters then we learn to recognize them in words then we memorize the words and only then can we read now open your books class here is our very first letter A A is for apple say it Class A A is for apple B B is for bear C C is for cat C is for cat now we turn the fourth page and we come to d d is for right d is for dog take your pencils in hand please you hold a pencil like this while I write our first new letters on the board I want you to write them on your pads you start from the top down always ma'am Miss cleman I can count off my letters like I can count off my numbers and I don't need any practice holding a pencil I can even get the start of some words but I was hoping that I might be able to learn to read a few words right away can you write sir just man name I see like making a picture it really is best if you learn to read and write simultaneously I know how hard it is not to be impatient but you must realize that since we meet only twice each week it will be a year even two before you're reading and writing well I wouldn't take any bets on me being in this town at long unless I'm in jail okay that's the way it is I'm needed at home thank you ma'am [Music] [Music] breakfast Papa why didn't I do what I asked teach Jess Papa please drop it drop this conversation I have not taught in years and it takes a very special skill to teach an adult illiterate I don't have that skill you're so smart you can't learn how you're breakfast is getting cold Papa I have a job I have a responsibility and I'd like to live my own life please what kind of life is that anyhow Mariana my Mariana you go to school you push papers all day you come home cook my dinner cook my breakfast you go back and push more papers what kind of life is that since your Paul died you stopped teaching you have no joy no laugh even you die too like him Papa that's not true that's nonsense I moved up that's all to Administration and I think you should be very proud of me besides nobody cares anymore anyway I don't want to teach and stand at the head of the classroom all day long screaming for attention you lose the good students anyway so you don't care neither huh you go be mariang guchi vice principal Papa I changed my name to Marian when I was a little girl it's stuck what can I do you listen to me Mariana this Jess is not a kid in school he cares Jess is a man for me you tell me I need somebody I need just him and me we we how do you say we you connect yeah yeah all right I'll find him a private teacher no not any teacher you eat your breakfast it's cold yes come in good morning Mr ham good morning your daddy said you found a teacher for me yes if you'd like to sit down we'll get started well he didn't say it was going to be you there was no other volunteer no I can't ask that you don't understand to volunteer mean I understand English Miss guchi it's your volunteer time that worries me there's no way that I could ever repay you Mr halam I have spent 15 hours over this past weekend with the Literacy Council learning how to teach you you will sit here and we will begin please thank you this is lesson one this is chart one this is a bird with a long tail and a round body say bird say bird bird good this looks like a bird with a long tail and a round body say bird bird this is the word bird breed bird bird very very good the word bird begins with the sound b b say b b good again b b again b b Miss guchi how's this going to be faster than the other class you sent me to well for one thing we're going to meet more days a week May I continue yeah and then when you turn on the next page it's going to be a for apple right wrong Apple isn't until the fourth lesson and it isn't a for apple it's a for apple and bat and Cat it would help me if you just explain what's going on here all right I'm prepared for that there's a bird here's the bee now when you see this in print it will remind you of the picture which will remind you of the sound B and that along with all the other sounds that you will learn here will help you to sound out any new words you see you already have a million words in your mind you're an adult not a child learning to read so you have to sound out the word and then match it in your mind with the word you already know and then you'll be reading is that clear mhm this is the LA box system and it lets you find your own speed would you like to try it yourself then mhm all right I'm going to give one to you right here so you can try it yourself right and this is that's like that see um this is a cup sitting up on its Edge unless you got the picture turned wrong no I have it turned right it's right this cup C so the sound is C that's right there C C very good that's right c c c c c very good really do you want do another one mhm this is a boy with his arms up and this is the letter U and it's pronounced uh uh for an up right right very good uh uh uh you have gone through 23 initial letters and I think that's really well done Mr H and you're remembering the key words it's really wonderful I'd like to give you a word to read read this word you can do it [Music] PR PR in no from in PR is promise yes you've done it you just read really read your first word that's wonderful promise do you ever see such H scratches the rate I'm going your Mariana's going to be giving me lessons till doomsday she worried about that that's my fishing t I keep hoping I'll get to take my boy fishing some Sunday oh I don't know if she worries about it or not she seems to think I'm a fast learner sometimes what worries me is how I'm going to PIR back take Gass some night why [Music] not hey you crazy what's the matter you rub a bank or something you got to hide from a cop well get us out of [Music] here hey you all right huh why you hide from the police you got trouble or something no it's just that he's the one cop in this town knows I don't have El why you not tell me your truck needs new shocks what am I going to do say no we can't deliver yeah no deliver better go ziper zip Zer then [Music] crash oh oh dear me so I got to get that license down in mberg my brother-in-law would fix me up in no time he's County Clerk this Manual's written at eighth grade level well why don't you make up word list like we've been do and I'll memorize them words like intersection violation obstruction it's too difficult it's not only that they make these tests far trickier than they have to be even I had to take mine twice even you huh you in I'm just an old chunk of cold but I'm going to be a diamond someday I'm going to grow and glow till I'm so blue pure perfect I'm going to put a smile on everybody's face all but I'm going to kneel and pray every day lest I should become vain along the way I'm just an old chunk of coal now Lord but I'm going to be a diamond someday I'm going to learn the right words to talk I'm going to search and find a better way to walk I'm going to spit and polish my oldid self until I get rid of every single flaw oh I want to be the world's best friend I'm going to go around shaking everybody's hand I'm just an old chunk of coal now Lord but I'm going to be a diamond someday [Music] I'm just an old chunk of coal now Lord but I'm going to be a diamond someday [Music] you're late and where were you yesterday I fell asleep over my homework ever since yesterday well Ted had a track meet and I'd already missed too many besides I came by to tell you but you weren't in your office really well you could have let me a note what didn't you think of that did you believe old guchi maguchi was a boyfriend poor guy must be desperate dad did she call you about something about me no no I didn't did your father and I were going to have a cup of coffee together t t yeah um come late for track anyway okay I often wondered what I'd do if that ever happened I guess I didn't have a clue how about that cup of coffee well all right Mr allum as long as I can change it to a chocolate shake well I'll buy you a chocolate shake if you won't call me mister anymore all right okay Jess best chocolate shake you ever tasted you know Jen I've been doing some planning when you get out of here get good and strong the three of us are going to a Red's game and we're going to watch old Johnny bch break his own record with another Homer couldn't we just go back home Daddy honey it's not our home anymore it's Uncle Charlie's any pictures in here sure it's like the movie daddy where's the device I'm too old for it really but it's neat this where you are right here mhm in the middle of the forest are you going to read to me Daddy well don't look at me like that I mean what's so unusual about a daddy reading to his little girl yeah as a matter of fact I am they saw running toward them to two great beasts with bodies like bears and heads like tigers they are the k k i kid I know I never heard that word before the C is Daddy they're monstrous and Dreadful beasts oh I see okay they are the cadus said the Cowardly Lon now this is more like it huh yeah I sure been missing it Daddy you too yeah of course hey Ted remember that time down on the Green River we were fishing you hung That Bass he jerked you off the bank right into water you come out looking like a drowned Mouse yeah I've been missing a lot of things back home Daddy will takes some getting used to you know new faces new friends and a strange Place guess you know about that wouldn't you old guchi maguchi she'd take a whole lot of getting used to hey quit it now don't make fun of Miss guchi she's one of the few good things that have come my way lately well I guess you really like it out here don't you Dad yeah I like it all right a that fine new life just around a corner I promise that's hey you got one I think so don't get wet again going upek going and run going avocado 180 check banana 47 check two 163 check ginger root 147 check going up [ __ ] Creek going in R hey you had yourself a good day huh Jess yeah and I had some fun too what do you think of that bravo bravo go going up CRI Creek I mean it's like I've been standing still but today I think I moved ahead just just a little bit you think you know how to dance Jess back in my Village in Italy on a Moonlight night mus the wine and the soft women I tell you just nothing in the world like Italia for soft women they know how to dance a [Music] maybe so s but you never saw a pretty long tall slim Mountain girl stomping her foot and shaking the roof down swinging that body around and that long sweet smelling hair Falls across your face going up trip [Music] Creek ch ch ch ch [Music] no Chicago Brokers on the phone that crook he's the one delivers wilted lettuce so go tell him now you know better than me now what comes in here huh you fire him you want to yes sir going up cripp creek going in Triple Creek have a little fun wow this place could really hold a lot of hay have you seen a print of this somewhere before uhuhuh another one of a cowboy we called it the cowboy anyway my mama cut the picture out of a magazine and my daddy put a frame around it and it hung over my bed till it just faded away but it was the same painter Frederick Remington no doubt about that that yes same light and color and like it's alive wow now that's dumb what that picture all those feathers tied to that fishing hook nobody fishes for large mouth bass with dry flies use a plug or a popping bug or live Min and that's a largemouth bass if I ever saw one well what difference does that make I mean you look at the brush work and you saw it in the Remington look at the hey but what's what's the point of painting a picture that's not true J please For Heaven's Sake well I mean it just seems dumb to me that that painter went to all that trouble to paint a picture about something that he knew absolutely nothing about see this that's what you use for largemouth bass that's beautiful can you buy these mhm but it's more fun making them yourself just a little something I do when everybody else is reading I thought of this the other day I think it's the right choice some kind of picture well welcome just take me a minute to find this now I think I know where it is you and your daddy you read all these books yes more or less h ah I love this room I love these books a thousand different worlds all ready and waiting can you imagine a thousand different lives now they can be yours too other places other times new thoughts isn't that wonderful well here's your first not Noel IR earn a sing way I chose it for you the OM man and the C understand written words aren't just a code that you have to decipher chest they speak they have voices they paint colors even just like that painting we saw today by Fredick Remington I hope you like it I hope you read it you can Jess it's beautifully written and its language is very simple the man in the story reminds me of you he was an old man who he was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone 84 days now without taking a fish poor fell right [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] w [Applause] R good son can you hear the groans I'm the one cost is not making the state oh don't take it so hard you're not the only one on the team that cost points today no but I don't know daddy down in mberg a race was just a race up here it's all I got running well then maybe you ought to put a little more time in on it I know nothing's harder than thinking you've just blown the only one good thing you got going for you but you got more than one good thing going for you son you got the team party tonight that'll cheer you up not me not now besides be more like a wake everybody look I got other plans daddy studying at at a guy's house okay he's in my history class yeah finals are coming [Applause] hi how you [Applause] doing adorable what's your name you we [Applause] take boy and his Pals were joy riding downtown I had him all to the station but uh Ted here said you didn't have a phone so I decided to bring him home and make sure you knew about it thanks officer you better know too those kids were drinking boiler makers thanks I thought you were studying I'm sorry Daddy you said you were going to be studying look at me when I'm talking to you I said look at me when I'm talking to you Joy Ryden what kind of word is Joy Ryden lying to me drinking you know what I ought to do to you Ted I'm sorry Daddy go to bed hey Jess FIS order okay it's my break time no I don't have t I'm feeling hotter than a pistol huh Jess chess give me I might as well be blind yes it's my handwriting what does that matter everybody writes different except me I don't hardly write at all so you know how to read don't you are you like old Santiago in in this book huh I like him okay I guess if I could get past five pages in a day's time you listen to me you got to think what you can do not what you can't if I do that I i' not be here in Cincinnati with a pride and all of this hey if I think like that any time in my 65 years I'll be back in Italy a long time ago in your America there is no room for people to say only what they can't do so my people have been in this country 200 years I'm what they came down to [Music] watch for a break in a break in the the traffic the traffic then move qu Qui quietly no quickly move quickly into the flow of traffic of course it's quickly one of the easy ones I know that word oh Jess you've only been at this for 2 weeks why don't you postpone this test or at least take it Orly you know there's material backwards no way I'm not about to tell one more soul that I can't read I just don't think I can handle it oh who cares about anybody else you're the one that matters that's all and this is wrong you're pushing yourself way too hard you should take it slowly and be planning to go to high school you can be studying History Literature not a driver's manual Jess there's a summer school that has a remedial reading class and you're almost ready for it and in the fall you could enter the n9th grade I don't think you understand at all maybe nobody understands except people like us like me I can't help but think that maybe maybe I can just learn so much in and then I can't learn anymore maybe I can just go so far and then I can't go any further of course you can and it's crazy what you said about high school you know I can just see me going home telling Ted and Jen say hey guess what your daddy's in the ninth grade yeah you're such a proud man and so full of Promise you've come so far Jess you don't have to explain anything yeah well slate I got to go with the be closed okay all right bye knock him dead j i I come to say something for courage courage you have a fewer years than me more strength same intelligence same Pride we go good together no Jess if you want we make a good future you and me this is what I come to say s I might never be doing anything up here but lumping no it's it's not true I got to tell you if this doesn't work out the kids just soon to go back to Kentucky and you want to kill yourself with a coldo your son you want him to grow up just like you and your daughter I tell you she'll marry some sh a fool like her father hey hey take it easy you okay yeah yes all right yeah say all about my kids I figure they're so far ahead of me that they're bound to go their own way not mine but however it works out thanks a lot B of [Music] forun please God man I was I wonder if I could take this test orally because I don't I don't read good enough to take it written you had to make an appointment for that sir and bring with you some proof of your illiteracy it can be a letter from your minister your doctor or a school official you trying to tell me I got to show proof of something that I've been denying all my life well we can't give that spatial service to everyone [Music] [Laughter] [Music] a hey what do you think you're doing pulling out like that you on the street or something I on the street when I'm on the right you pulled out all right that's enough cut it out cut it out cut it out cut it back it up back it up I need your driver's license and I need your driver's license sir I need your driver's license sir I don't have [Music] one I can see blue gray Hills before me I can hear the robin as she sing and the cotton would sway In the Heat of the day catfish sleep while The Children Play tell me have you been so lucky to have grown in the peaceful arm of sweet [Music] Kentucky memories come to hold me [Music] tight and share my empty bed at night and eat me back in time to where the Earth and stars were mine for a [Music] while first girl I ever loved was there she had cool soft skin and shiny Raven hair in the tall wet grass the hours passed seems like the whole worlds Shook and left she gave me all her charm and we moved in the triming arm of sweet Kentucky Mr how I get 10% of the bond that'll be $35 [Music] thank you the release for your things you can't sign your name the next will do looking for my curf we take these you got somebody you can call to drive the truck home for you no I'll take a bus I think I've got just about enough left for that up to you the charges 10 bucks a day for impounded vehicle Les call Sal guchi galucci's Warehouse five no he's got heart trouble pay phone by the way you can take that test Orly you know [Music] [Applause] [Music] sorry to get you out this time of night thanks for coming [Music] sure I'm driving but I'm [Music] the test went wrong too huness you can take it again you know [Music] I'll clear up that ticket give Jen a couple of days out of the hospital then me and the kids are moving back to Kentucky you can't oh yes I can I can go home I can work the cold you can't talk to me about working cold you taught me everything I can learn Maran I thank you very much don't thank me just don't turn back don't quit everything's just opening up for you no [Applause] you Ain home yet not yet riding the bus makes him late how's all week you did that bad yeah the pits I'm hoping maybe since you're here he won't get so mad you know how daddy always does making us read the whole report card out loud these days he ain't been a whole lot of fun he's okay with me except the last week or so that's cuz you never do anything wrong he spanked me last year didn't he and I was already turned 10 and a half home early huh good so I don't have to hear about it for the next years three tickets to a [ __ ] for September when Jenny comes back to get her cast changed so how's the report card that bad huh they flunk me out I told you Daddy at least I tried after the last meet running is all I got going for me it's just like it was when we first got here they say I got to go back to ninth grade hey they don't have to know about this down in muber do they I'm scheduled to be a junior back there now hold on hold on Ted the principle said you might not get promoted but putting you back what'd you do get all FS or something no I got um I got a A in gym and I got a D in math I don't understand it I've seen you in your books it's all bunch of gobbly go anyhow daddy who cares about history anyhow we're going back to mbberg wait a minute you got a D in arithmetic right but in biology geography history English everything you got to know how to read for you failed sit down Going H to it your mom's Bible I find me the 40th um what for don't argue just do it read it to me for crap's sake daddy you know I could read just read it uh I wait waited Pat Uh Patty pat pat Patiently I Waited patiently for the Lord and uh he in uh in increased inclined you putting words in the Bible that are not there read on um and and heard my My Cry he he brought me up Al also out out of an horrible pit out of the me uh he brought me also up out of an horrible pit out of the myy clay and he set my feet upon a rock cuz you got it memorized you bet I got it memorized now come back here why sh you can't read for beans anyway he can too he reads to me all the time how long have you known always I thought i' did Mama did the farm books and you paid cash for everything cuz you couldn't wouldn't write a check a lot of folks down home figured it out that way way we cool ourselves all my life all the lies but you do read to me Daddy just lately honey before that I I couldn't the truth of the matter is I've been taking reading lessons ever since we came up here working harder at it than I ever did anything in my whole life and I swear in two months in just two months I read better than you do you think it's shameful going back to that Junior High School the shame of it all is that they would even take you back in the ninth grade reading like you do maybe you lost a lot of respect for your daddy up here maybe you don't look up to me like I'd like for you to but I'll tell you one thing I'm going to fix it so you can always look up to yourself s [Applause] afternoon everybody class will come to order in the next four weeks we're going to work very hard to achieve that grade level where each of you truly belongs hey Fox you up front where you blog Grammar School [Music] hablan Harold turn off that radio hey Pops come on in Disco This Aid is getting you down turn off that radio please uh I must have broke it Mr [Applause] Parker did you turn that radio off please and take your seats [Applause] [Music] [Music] you want to do what I've been doing all my life running away from words well that's up to you but you got to know it's a poverty trade and right here and now you could be digging yourself a hole in the bottom of a mountain that you're never going to climb back up out of well not me and not my boy we're going to high school and we're going on to graduate and nobody or nothing's going to stop us we're going to learn to read [Music] dubb Jacob Freeman Joanne Graham Peter here Callum Jesse here halum Theodore here Harrison Ruth I'm just an old chunk of coal now Lord but I'm going to be a diamond someday [Music] a