Original subtitles

This is from the piano lesson.

The only thing that make that piano

worth something is them carvings Papa

Willie Boy put on there. That's what

make it worth something. That was my

great granddaddy. Papa boy Charles

brought that piano into the house. Now

I'm supposed to build on what they left

me. You can't do nothing with that piano

sitting up here in the house. That's

just like if I let them watermelon sit

out there and rot. I'd be a fool. All

right. Now, if you say to me, "Boy,

Willie, I'm using that piano. I give out

lessons on it and that help me make my

rent or whatever." Then that'd be

something else. I'd have to go on and

say, "Well, Bernice using that piano.

She building on it. Let her go on and

use it. I got to find another way to get

S's land now. Boka say you ain't touched

that piano the whole time it's been up

here. So why you want to stand in my

way?

Now I want to get S's land with that

piano. I get S's land and I could go

down there and cash in the crop and get

my seed. As long as I got the land and

the seed, then I'm all right. I can

always get me a little something else

cuz that land give back to you. Could

grow me another crop and cash that in. I

still got the land and the seed.

But that piano don't do nothing. You

ain't got nothing working for you.

Now the kind of man my daddy was, he

would have understood that.

I'm sorry you can't see it that way, but

that's why I'm going to take that piano

out of here and sell it.

Great. Very nice.

It's pretty self-explanatory what's

going on,

but just in your own words, what uh

what's going on?

I'm talking to my sister. We have the

family, the piano, our family piano in

her house. I've come up to visit her and

to take the piano back. I want to sell

it to get some land down in the south.

So, we're in Pittsburgh right now. I'm

trying to get this piano from her and

she won't let it go because of our

family history that's carved into it.

Okay.

Want to give you an activity.

Okay. Yeah.

This is too much of

Yeah.

It's a little like a dance, you know? I

mean,

it's not uninteresting, but it's a

little like a dance. I'd like to give

you an activity that is about

maybe exactly what you want to do. You

want to you want land.

Grow things.

So, I want you to plant some stuff while

you do this.

Cool.

Sometimes, we'll talk about this after,

but it's it's sometimes very interesting

to give ourselves an activity

that isn't necessarily in the text

um because it might center something.

So you decide

how you want to go about doing that and

what that means in terms of you know

we're changing the location but we can

do that.

I don't think August will mind.

Okay. All right.

All right.

Uhhuh. Uh a a and in that

um

it's a little bit like um what we talked

about a little earlier which is that you

know this is right. You know this is the

right thing to do.

So don't sell it.

Make the argument

but don't sell it.

The only thing that make that piano

worth something is them carvings Papa

Willy Boy put on there. That's what make

it worth something. That was my great

granddaddy. Papa boy Charles brought

that piano into the house.

Now I'm supposed to build on what they

left me. You can't do nothing with that

piano sitting up here in the house. It's

just like if I let them watermelons sit

out there and rot, I'd be a fool.

All right. Now, if you say to me, "Boy,

Willie, I'm using that piano. I give out

lessons on it and that help me make my

rent or whatever." Then that'd be

something else. And I have to go on and

say, "Well, Benise, using that piano,

she building on it. Let her go on and

use it." I got to find another way to

get Sutter's land.

Now, Boka say you ain't touched that

piano the whole time it's been up here.

So why you want to stand in my way?

I want to get S's land with that piano.

I get S's land and I can go down there

and cash in the crop and get my seed. As

long as I got the land and the seed,

then I'm all right. I can always get me

a little something else cuz that land

get back to you. Could grow me another

crop and cash out in. I still got the

land and the seed.

But that piano don't do nothing. You

ain't got nothing working for you.

Now, the kind of man my daddy was

he would have understood that.

I'm sorry you can't see it that way, but

that's why I'm going to take that piano

out of here and sell it.

Very nice.

Do you I mean it's so interesting how

suddenly

it became about somebody making an

argument rather than trying to sell

someone else on an idea. Number one, but

also there's something so interesting

when we ground ourselves in an activity

that we never thought of doing before.

But it's also interesting because the

land was here, the dirt was there, you

were in it. And I just think it it it it

it just focused the the work and the

intentions in a really really

interesting way. Thank you very much. It

was great. Thank you. Thank you.