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(choral singing of "Watermelon Time")

♪ Watermelon time is the only time ♪

♪ You can dress in your best Sunday dress ♪

♪ Because it's time for celebrating ♪

(choral singing continues)

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♪ Way down upon the Suwannee River ♪

♪ Far, far away ♪

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All over town, right back where we started from!

Well, where do we go from here?

Well, Island Queen come in this morning,

let's go down to the levee and see what she brought in.

Yeah, you can go down to the levee if you wanna.

I went down there yesterday and got insulted.

Who insulted you?

When that boat pulled in, outta all of them folks

standing around on the levee,

the man had to come off the boat and walk up and insult me.

How'd he insult you?

Asked me did I want to work.

Now, Blondie, that's one thing you sure is got to do is work!

I ain't got to do nothing but stay dark and die.

Well, if you don't get a job so you can eat more often,

you gonna die all right,

and you gonna die from starvation.

Well, I might die hungry

but I'll never die tired.

And another thing, I don't mind dying, no how.

'Cause Heaven is my home.

Well, if Heaven's your home,

what you doin' walkin' around here on Earth?

Just a delegate here, it's in conditions.

Say, listen here, Blondie, does you want a job?

Nobody with any sense wants to work.

And besides that, I can't find the kinda job I want.

-Well, how-- - --anyhow.

Listen here, Blondie, does you wanna make one hundred dollars?

-Without working? -Yeah!

-Can't be done. -Yes it can.

-How can it? -I seen a ad in the paper

where a man is offering one hundred dollars

for he's got a house that nobody can live in.

-Steam musta ain't comin' up. -Yes it is.

-Musta ain't paid they rent. -Yes they did.

And he's offering one hundred dollars

for anybody who stays in there all night alone.

-Alone? -Alone.

Can't be by yourself.

-Alone. -Alone.

Uh... What's the man--

--puttin' you out and you get two weeks behind in your rent,

then a man gon' give you a hundred dollars

to stay in his house.

Oh, there can't be nothin' the matter.

Ah, where the house at?

You go down the street one block,

-then you turn to the right-- -Wait a minute.

Hold the deal, wait a minute.

I know exactly where the house is at.

It's a blue house, ain't it?

-Yeah! -It's got red blinds.

-Yeah! -One of the windows is broke out

and the blind knocked off.

See, look here, boy, you been by that house.

Yeah, I been in that house.

You been in the house?

I'm the cause of that window being broke out

and the blind knocked off.

You the cause of the window being broke out

and the blind knocked off?

-How'd that happen? -Boy, you remember

the other night when the rain come up?

-Yeah. -Boy, that rain was a whang,

-wasn't it? -Oh man.

When I was comin' by that house,

me and another Hawaiian boy,

and we was walkin' along, and I didn't wanna get wet.

-No. -So I said I'm goin' in there

-and gettin' me a room. -Yeah.

So I walked up there and I thought somebody

was livin' in the house.

-Did you? -So when I got up on the porch,

I went to ring the bell.

-Mm-hm. -Before I could

touch the bell, the bell rung by itself

and I ain't had my finger on it.

The bell rung and you ain't never touched it?

Ain't touched it!

Oh, Blondie, that's imag-i-nation.

That's what you said. Boy, that house is haunted!

-Is it? -There's a gang of ghosts

hanging out down there.

-And you was in there? -And boy,

and I went to put my hand on the knob

to open the door--

-Yeah! -Before I could touch the knob,

the knob turned by itself.

And the door flew open and nobody home.

What kinda door was that?

Gee, listen, Blondie, I can explain that.

Maybe the wind blowed that door open.

Boy, there's always a solution to every problem.

You win the first point in the debate.

The wind coulda blowed that door open.

The wind blowed it open!

Hmm.

But there ain't no wind turned that knob.

Now boy, if there's anything what I'm scared of

it's thunder and lightning.

-Mm-hm. -All at once,

the lightning thundered and the thunder lit,

and that scared me so bad I turned black in the face

for a minute.

And boy, when I found myself,

I done jumped into that haunted house.

-In the house? -In the house.

And I was scared to stay in

and I was scared to come out.

Anyway, I know there was ghosts in that house.

-How'd you know it? -'Cause it was chilly in there.

And I thought I'd build me a fire.

I looked down into the fireplace.

There was wood and shavings all ready to be lit.

I reached up on the mantelpiece to get a match.

Just as I went to light the wood and the shavings,

wood and the shavings disappeared.

Wasn't no wood and there wasn't no shavings.

Live coals burning in the grate, red hot.

What kind of grate was that?

Red hot and still a-heatin'. And that ain't all.

I could see them hot coals movin' around.

-Yeah. -All at once, a little kitty

come crawling outta them hot coals.

-Outta the hot coals? -A little tiny kitten

outta the hot coals, turned around

and eat some of the fire-- looked at me and laughed,

"Ha-ha," like that.

Now now, I don't blame that cat for laughing

'cause the first time I seen you

I'd like to laugh myself to death.

(laughing)

And boy, the cat had on a bathing suit!

-Yeah. -And got up on the edge

of the fire and dived down into them hot coals

and when it come up, it had on a tuxedo.

It come in talking Polish to me.

What kinda cat was that?

A polecat, fool.

And you know I don't like no cats, no how.

And I hollered at him. I said, "Scat!"

Boy, the cat commenced to growing.

Commenced to gettin' bigger right in front of me.

-Got big as a dog. -No, he didn't!

Then I hollered at him again.

I said..."Scat."

And boy, the cat got big as a calf.

-Got bigger? -But that last time

I hollered at him, I know he didn't want no more of me.

I know you hollered loud enough to scare all the cats.

Everybody heard me.

I said...

And boy, the cat got big as a mule!

Mm-mm-mm.

And turned around and told me to shut up

and started over where I was at.

And that's when it happened.

And that's when what happened?

That's when the window got broke out

and the blind knocked off.

You don't mean to stood up here and tell me

that you come through the window.

I didn't go around it.

All I remember was I started

and the window was in my way,

and boy, if I had-a missed that window,

that wall would've been ruined.

You'd leave that house in such an unindignified manner?

Why didn't door?

-The door? -Yes, the door.

You're showin' your ignorance now.

-Is I? -Showin' your ignorance.

-Is I? -Have you ever been

to any school outside of the reform school?

-Yeah! -Mm-hm.

Well, in school, did you take up any kind of manual training?

-Yes. -Did you study woodwork?

-Yeah! -Well, in your studies

of woodwork, did you take up

windowry or doory?

-No. -You didn't take them?

-No. -But you knows a couple

carpenters and a architect or two?

-Yeah! -Well, the next carpenter

you see, you ask him

and he'll explain to you about doors.

He'll tell you that a door was made by folks

what had a lot of time.

-But when that cat spoke to me-- -Yeah?

--By me being punctual,

my time there was up

and right then, the window got well.

What do you mean, the window got well?

Got rid of its pane.

♪ Ain't it a shame to steal on Sunday ♪

♪ Ain't it a shame ♪

♪ Ain't it a shame to steal on Sunday ♪

♪ Ain't it a shame ♪

♪ Ain't it a shame to steal on Sunday ♪

♪ When you got

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday ♪

♪ Friday, Saturday too ♪

♪ Ain't it a shame ♪

♪ Ain't it a shame to shimmy on Sunday ♪

♪ Ain't it a shame ♪

♪ Ain't it a shame to shimmy on Sunday ♪

♪ Ain't it a shame to shimmy on Sunday ♪

♪ Ain't it a shame, ain't it a shame ♪

♪ Ain't it a shame to gamble on Sunday ♪

♪ Ain't it a shame ♪

♪ Ain't it a shame to gamble on Sunday ♪

♪ Ain't it a shame ♪

♪ Ain't it a shame to gamble on Sunday ♪

♪ When you got

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday ♪

♪ Friday, Saturday too ♪

♪ Ain't it a shame ♪

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♪ And now we will sing to you

some grand opera ♪

(operatic choral singing)

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Here's old Sister So-and-so.

What's she doing here?

What is that--

(overlapping greetings, chatter)

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-♪ Sisters ♪ -Yes!

-♪ Brothers ♪ -Yes!

♪ Good book teachin'

ain't been reachin' you ♪

(overlapping chatter)

-♪ Sisters ♪ -Yes!

-♪ Brothers ♪ -Yes!

♪ I've been preachin'

and you know it's true ♪

(overlapping chatter)

♪ Sisters, you strut the aisle ♪

♪ All dressed to kill with style ♪

♪ You wink your eye and smile ♪

♪ Is that religion ♪

(unintelligible singing)

♪ One thing I do despise ♪

♪ You catch the deacon's eye ♪

♪ That's where his weakness lies ♪

♪ Is that religion ♪

(unintelligible singing)

-I ain't mad. -♪ Hallelujah ♪

I ain't mad.

What's the matter Sister So-and-so?

♪ Is that religion ♪

(unintelligible singing)

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♪ Is that religion ♪

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(jaunty jazz singing)

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(clears throat)

Eh, brothers and sisters,

seems as though the congregation

is a little bit skimpy this evening.

Seems as though the contribution box

is gonna be sadly reglected.

I got a few renouncements to make here this evening.

I wants to renounce that on next Tuesday evening

there's gonna be a grand strawberry festival

down to Sister Chickenfoot's house.

I want all the brother and sisters to come out.

Come out and fetch on your own strawberries

'cause times is very, very ticklish.

If you ain't got no strawberries,

fetch a little corn, little gin.

Anything like that'll do.

Small pints will be thankfully received

and large quarts (unintelligible).

I also wants to renounce that on next Wednesday evening,

we gonna christen the babies

at the east end.

And on next Thursday evening,

we're gonna christen the babies at the west end.

On next Frosday, we're going to christen them

at both ends, you see here.

O' course, some of 'em'll need it

and some of 'em won't.

Some of 'em may had no water on 'em

for a long time.

There's a lot of old ones could stand a little christening too.

Lookin' down on page two hundred and twoty-two,

we find here where it say,

"A, B, C, D-E-F-G-H-I-J-K,

LMNOPQRST,

U, V, W, XYZ."

(clears throat)

A, B, C, DEFG, HI, JK.

I, J, K.

I, JK.

LM. LM.

Now, that's the question. LM.

LMNOP, QRSTU--

UVWXYZ!

ABC, DEFG, HIJK...

LMNOPQRST, UVWXYZ.

Now ain't that a glorious feeling?

(laughing)

Just imagine that.

Ain't that glorious?

ABC, DEFG, HIJK,

LMNOP, QRST, UVWXYZ.

Can you imagine that?

(laughing)

ABCD--HIJK!

LMNO, PQRST,

UVWXYZ!

ABCDEFGHIJK,

LMNOP,

QRST,

UVWXYZ!

Mm-mm!

(grunting)

Doxology.

(clears throat)

Well, sisters, I'll be seeing you some more.

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(jaunty jazz singing)

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