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- [Tom] Ha, ha!

(playful electronic music)

♫ Now listen here folks

♫ My name is Tom Sawyer

♫ I don't wanna be no doctor or no lawyer

♫ Fishin' by the river

♫ That's the only place to be

♫ And I wanna be free sittin' under a tree

♫ That's me

Ha ha!

♫ These are the stories of Tom Sawyer

♫ Me and Huck Finn just playin' by the river

♫ Chasin' that steamboat teacher let me be

♫ I wanna be free sittin' under a tree

♫ That's me, ha ha

(gentle electronic music)

- Blessed are the poor in spirit

for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are they that mourn

for they shall be comforted.

Blessed are they which do hunger

and thirst after righteousness.

- For they shall be.

- Right, for they shall be filled.

Thank you, Mary.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Blessed are they that are persecuted for righteousness,

for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are the meek, for they shall in inherit the earth.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they,

how does the rest go?

Shall be called the children of God, right?

- Why, Sid, that's wonderful!

You know your verses so well,

and you recite them beautifully.

- Thank you, Mary.

I've been workin' real hard at 'em.

I promised myself I'd know 'em all by heart

by the time you got home.

- That's right from the time you left a week ago,

Sid's been recitin' 'em every day.

- Wow, that's just great!

Now, look, if you can learn a few more

and recite them from memory,

you'll have a chance at first prize in the recitin' contest.

- [Sid] A new Bible?

Jiminy, wouldn't that be fine!

- I suspect that Tom is still in bed.

- Tom's always been a late riser.

Maybe he doesn't remember that it's Sunday.

- He remembers, all right.

That boy'd do anything to avoid goin' to church.

- Layin' in the bed is the best place I know of

to concentrate on somethin' or someone.

In this case, the love of my life, Becky Thatcher.

Mm, Becky.

Yesterday, I saw her for the first time.

She just moved into town,

and I thought I'd seen an angel.

I was wishin' she'd see me and like me

just as much as I liked her.

And when she threw me that flower,

I knowed my wish had come true.

Wow, a flower!

I know just what I'll say when I see her.

My name's Tom Sawyer,

the boy you gave the flower to, remember?

Matter of fact, I'll go right over and see her

just as soon as everybody leaves while they're at church.

The church!

Becky, she'll be there!

So will I!

Right, yep!

Becky's gonna be there, no doubt about it!

(footsteps thud) (water splashes)

Don't wanna get there late, Mary, wake up!

(fist thuds)

Jiminy Christmas, maybe everyone's already gone!

Mary, Sid, Aunt Polly, are you still here?

Hey!

Oh, uh, what are you all standin' around for?

Don't you know it's Sunday morning?

Better hurry up, or we'll be late for church.

We just have to get there on time,

so I sure hope you're ready to go when I am

or else I'm leavin' without you.

Yes siree, I gotta look the best I can this morning.

(playful instrumental music)

- What in tarnation's gotten into him?

My, my.

- Well, I'll be.

Aunt Polly, maybe he's sick.

- There, I'm almost ready.

Will you tie my necktie for me, Mary?

I can't do it.

- You might at least let her finish her breakfast, Tom.

- I'm finished, Mother.

I think you should eat a little, Tom.

You're gonna get hungry in church.

- Nah, I'll be just fine, Mary.

If you're all finished with breakfast, we better go.

Wouldn't wanna be late for church, would ya?

- Stop worryin', we've got time yet.

Tom, what have you got in your hand?

Aren't those the socks I put out for you this morning?

You weren't plannin' on wearing 'em over your shoes,

were you, Tom?

- No, of course not.

(shoes shuffle)

Don't know why shoes were ever invented.

It's a lot more practical goin' barefoot, you ask me.

- You might get used to 'em if you'd wear 'em more often

instead of only on Sunday.

- It's too tight!

I'll never get them on.

- Hm?

Well no wonder.

You been tryin' to fit your right shoe onto your left foot.

(midtempo instrumental music)

- [Reverend] Mornin'.

Good mornin'.

- I'm goin' ahead, I'll meet you inside.

- My word, what's come over that boy?

You'd think he was runnin' off to the swimmin' hole,

not the Sunday service.

Dressed so proper and all, my oh my,

the wonders never cease.

- [Sid] Tom'd rather be whipped than go to church.

Somethin' mighty peculiar goin' on.

(churchgoers chatter)

- I don't see her anywhere.

She must know I'd be here.

How could she do this to me?

What if I came for nothin', that'd be terrible.

(birds chirp) (church organ music)

Now, if this didn't beat all.

I mean, it wasn't enough

having to feel like the biggest fool of all time,

I had to be standin' there in the middle of all those folks

lookin' like one to boot.

- Please hurry, Edward.

If we're late to our first service in St. Petersburg,

what will people say?

- Don't worry, we'll be there in a moment or two.

- [Margaret] Do hurry, dear.

- Never fear, Margaret,

we'll arrive before the end of the first hymn.

- Since we're newcomers, everyone will be watching us, dear,

so you must put on your best behavior.

- I will, Mother.

Gosh, I sure am lookin' forward to meeting everybody.

♫ Amen

- (clears throat) We have much to be thankful for

on this beautiful Sunday morning.

The Lord has blessed us

with his bounty of plenty here in St. Pete.

If we stopped to count our blessings,

I'd reckon we'd be too busy to do anything else.

But now, the good Lord has seen fit

to give us a nother blessing in St. Petersburg.

We have among us today three new residents

to whom we say welcome.

We all know and respect Lawyer Thatcher and his family,

now his brother, the honorable judge Edward Thatcher

has also decided to make St. Pete his home.

To Judge Thatcher, his lovely wife,

and his lovely daughter, welcome.

I know I speak for all of us when I say

it's a pleasure an honor having you here with us today.

- Thank you, Reverend.

My family and I look forward

to meeting each and every member of your congregation.

May I introduce you to my wife, Margaret,

and my daughter, Rebecca.

- There she is, my Becky.

- Now, brother and sisters, let us offer our thanks.

If you'll please rise,

we'll join our voices together and thank the Almighty

the best way I know how, with the singin' of a hymn.

("The Church's One Foundation" by Samuel John Stone)

♫ The church's one foundation

♫ Is Jesus Christ her Lord

♫ She is His new creation

♫ By water by and the Word

♫ From heaven He came and sought her

♫ To be His holy bride

- Why?

♫ He bought her

- [Tom] She probably doesn't recognize me

in my Sunday clothes, but this'll jog her memory, I bet.

♫ Yet she on earth hath union

♫ With God the Three in One

- [Tom] Why is she actin' like that?

You can't not recognize somebody you give a love token to.

♫ With those whose rest is won

- [Aunt Polly] Behave yourself.

♫ Oh happy ones and holy

♫ Lord, give us grace that we

- [Tom] She's acting like she don't know me from Adam.

I just don't understand it.

♫ In love may dwell with thee

♫ Amen

- Well, Brother Edward, how do you like St. Pete so far?

- I think it's a fine little town,

I'm glad we moved here.

- I can tell ya,

there are a mighty nice bunch of folks livin' here,

all of 'em.

- There was one boy who was sittin' right in front of me

who was acting kinda strange, Uncle Fred.

He wouldn't stop smiling at me the whole time,

and then he started waving some kind of flower,

it's the strangest thing.

- All boys are silly like that, Becky, just ignore him.

- There's Becky now.

- St. Pete has its share of rascals and ne'er-do-wells,

like most towns, but of course they aren't fit company

for a proper young man like my son Jeff, here.

I'm sure he and Becky'll be good friends.

- Just let me catch any boy gettin' smart with you, Becky,

and I'll knock 'em silly.

- Thank you.

Would you like to come over and play with me, Jeff?

- [Jeff] Sure, Becky, soon as I'm done with my school work.

- I'll teach you the new game

Papa brought me from St. Louis.

It's lots of fun.

- [Jeff] That'll be fine, Becky,

I sure am lookin' forward to it.

- [Margaret] Having just moved in,

we have boxes and trunks scattered all over the house.

But just as soon as everything's squared away,

we'll have ya'll over for supper.

- [Fred] Fine, so long!

- [Edward] Good bye!

Get up there.

- Good bye, Margaret! - Bye, Becky!

- [Becky] Bye, Jeff, good bye!

- Hi Becky, remember me?

- Hey, get out of the way!

- I'm the, yeow!

Ow, ooh, phew!

- I almost hit that fool boy.

Lucky he got out of the way in time.

- That's the boy I told you about.

- [Margaret] What?

- Mm-hm, the one who was waving the flower at me.

- [Margaret] He seems to think he knows you, dear.

Could you have met him somewhere before?

- The only boy in St. Petersburg I've met so far

is my cousin Jeff.

Hm, he does look familiar somehow.

I wonder why.

(dark electronic music)

- She pretended like she didn't know me at all,

like I wasn't even there.

It just don't make no sense treatin' me that way

after showin' how much she liked me.

She should be ashamed of herself,

actin' that way towards someone she'd give a love token.

Ah!

And she and Jeff Thatcher were cooin' at each other

like a couple of love birds, you ask me.

Say Jeff, why don't you come over and play with me?

Eh, just as soon as I'm done with my school work, Becky.

We can play that new game of mine,

the one that Papa brought all the way from St. Louis,

it's lots of fun.

How could she? (groans)

It's just not fair!

Jeff Thatcher, you snake in the grass!

I'll teach you a lesson, take that, and that and that!

Stand up you coward!

Stand up and take what you got comin' to ya!

Hey, come back here you cowardly good-for-nothin'!

Take that and that!

You're ready to give up?

Ah-ha!

That's where a coward belongs, on his knees, like you are.

Now say you're sorry.

That is, unless you want me to whoop you again,

now come on, you coward!

Guess you thought you could make a fool outta me.

Now that you got black eye,

and you're sleeve's all ripped,

I guess you know who's the better man.

What was that you said, Jeff?

I can't hear you, you better say it again, real loud.

All right, that's better, but I'm warnin' you,

you better not cross me again

'cause I won't be so easy on you next time.

Now get goin', go on!

Don't forget, nobody makes a fool out of Tom Sawyer.

(Tom sobs)

How could she do that to me?

How could she?

Huh?

(water splashes)

How are you this mornin', Huck?

- Hm?

Fine, Tom.

You must've gone to church this morning.

With all them fancy duds you're wearin'.

Listen, how about comin' over to my place?

I caught me a whole mess of catfish this morning,

they outta be through roastin' by now.

Whadya say?

- Sounds great!

(boat toots)

(gentle instrumental music)

- Mm, boat comin'.

Big one, Tom.

- [Tom] So?

- They'll be all kind of folks aboard,

this bein' Sunday morning, worth a look.

- [Tom] Thanks, but I don't feel like doin'

much of anything right now.

- Hey, Old Sam's the very one that could help you out,

I'll bet ya.

Reckon you know who I mean.

The gray haired old man who sells produce and such

down along the river.

- Yep, I remember.

I hear tell he's a peculiar sort of fella, though.

Keeps away from other folks

and lives by himself way out in the deep woods.

- Just because he's peculiar

don't mean he ain't nice enough once you get to know him.

Old Sam, he knows about all sorts of things

that most folks don't even consider worth thinkin' about

like magic spells and seein' the future

and he tells the scariest ghost stories you ever heard.

You like ghost stories, don't you, Tom?

- Yeah, I suppose so.

- Hey Tom, you and me ain't had an adventure

in a long time.

Go with me tonight to Old Sam's shack,

and we'll sure enough have a barrel of fun.

He'll show you how to make Becky like you, too.

- Well, maybe I'll go.

- Yeah! (laughs)

I'll be comin' 'round your place about 10.

When you hear a cat howlin', you'll know it's me, Tom.

- [Tom] Now I've always been good at tellin' scary stories

about ghosts and such,

but listenin' to 'em is a different matter entirely.

Traipse not into the deep woods in the dead of the night

in order to sit and be scared half to death

by Old Sam's ghost stories

is the kind of adventure that even I think twice about.

But Huck's mighty convincing when he wants to be.

And the minute I heard that Old Sam might help me

work a charm on Becky

there weren't nothin' that could have kept me from goin'.

(crickets chirp)

- Meow!

Meow!

Meow, meow!

(cat yowls)

Go back inside, Peter, I wasn't callin' you.

- Ready when you are, Huck.

- Come on, this way.

- Right.

(cat yowls)

(suspenseful electronic music)

- Sam lives in that old run down shack yonder.

Come on, Tom.

- [Sam] Now, this might surprise you,

but most of the rovin' spirits are friendly types,

but the one I met down in Blackbottom Swamp

was as evil as the devil his self.

He was a horrible thing to behold, I can tell you.

It didn't have no skin, just a bunch of green, slimy goo

and it made sounds like a body suckin' in its last breath

or the sound quicksand make when it sucks a man under.

(Sam slurps)

- See there, Tom?

You think you got problems.

Which reminds me, Sam.

Tom's got a problem, and we was wonderin'

if you could help him.

- [Sam] Does he now?

- Mm-hm, only first I wanna hear what happened

to you and that ghost in the swamp.

- Tom, if you wanna get home by dawn, don't encourage him.

- What's the matter, you scared, Huck?

I won't let nothin' happen to you, okay?

No ghost will be able to harm you

with me here to protect you, Huck.

- Hey, stick to what we came for.

Look, Sam, what Tom needs is a love charm.

- You mean magic?

I want her to like me, sure enough,

but I ain't no magician.

- Call it what you like, but whatever Sam tells you to do,

it'll work, no doubt about that.

- Course, if you don't believe in such things

in the first place,

it ain't worth a plug nickel, you still wanna try?

- Uh, to get Becky to like me, I'll try anything.

- All right, but I gotta warn you, boy,

you can't get somethin' for nothin'.

Accomplishin' a charm takes hard work and concentration.

- [Tom] I'll do my best, sir.

- First off, you don't want no distractions,

so we find a place no one's gonna bother you.

Then you kneel down with your back to the moon.

Now the only way to get your charm to work

is to say it a hundred times, but nothin' else, mind you.

You got to say it a hundred times

without sayin' another word,

or you might as well not say it at all.

(gentle electronic music)

- Becky's my girl, it's so, Becky's my girl, it's so.

Becky's my girl, it's so, Becky's my girl, it's so.

Becky's my girl, it's so, Becky's my girl, it's so.

Becky's my girl, it's so, Becky's my girl, it's so.

Becky's my girl, it's so, Becky's my girl, it's so.

Becky's my girl, it's so, Becky's my girl, it's so.

Becky's my girl, it's so.

(Sid snores) Becky's my girl, it's so.

Becky's my girl, it's so, Becky's my girl, it's so.

Becky's my girl, it's so, Becky's my girl, it's so.

Becky's my girl, it's so, Becky's my girl, it's so.

Becky's my girl, it's so--

- Tom, what are you doin'?

Maybe you oughta have some more milk.

Aunt Polly always take some when she has trouble sleepin'.

- It's so, Becky's my girl, it's so.

Becky's my girl, it's so.

Becky's my girl, it's so, Becky's my girl, it's so.

Becky's my girl, it's so.

- He keep sayin' it over and over again.

I wonder what's wrong with him.

- Becky's my girl, it's so, Becky's my girl, it's so.

- Oh dear.

- Becky's my girl, it's so.

- (gulps) Don't Tom!

You're scarin' me!

I admit it, you scared me, the joke's over,

now cut it out, will ya?

(Tom groans)

- Becky's my girl, it's so. - Hey, what's wrong, Tom?

I'll go get Aunt Polly, she'll know what to do!

Oh, dear!

(Tom groans)

(crickets chirp)

- Becky's my girl, it's so, Becky's my girl, it's so.

Becky's my girl, it's so, Becky's my girl, it's so.

Becky's my girl, it's so.

- See for yourself! - Dear, oh dear.

Hm, look.

He's gone!

Where do you think he could be?

- Huh.

I think he's outside. - Eh?

- Tom! Becky's my girl, it's so.

- [Sid] What are you doin' on the roof?

(Tom groans)

- Becky's my girl, it's so, Becky's my girl, it's so.

Becky's my girl, it's so.

- Tom, you gotta come inside at once,

do you hear me?

It's dangerous out there on the roof,

you might fall.

- Becky's my girl, it's so. - Tom, listen to me!

- (groans) Becky's my girl, it's so.

Becky's my girl, it's so. - What's goin' on?

What's Tom doin'?

- Becky's my girl, it's so.

- I don't know what he's doin' and he won't stop to tell us.

- Becky's my girl, it's so, Becky's my girl, it's so.

- He's actin' mighty strange,

there's no doubt about it.

- Something's wrong with him,

we gotta get him to a doctor!

- (groans) Becky's my girl, it's so.

- Mama, I do believe Sid's right.

- Yes Mary, I don't think there's any other choice.

- Jim, hitch up the team and bring the carriage around.

We're takin' Tom to the doctor.

- [Jim] Yes ma'am, right away.

- Becky's my, I don't need a doctor, Aunt Polly!

(Mary gasps) - What?

- (groans) I said it 99 times, I was so close!

- Well, you getter get in here

if you know what's good for you, young man.

The middle of the night is no time for practical jokes, Tom.

You can be sure we'll talk about this tomorrow morning.

(Tom groans)

- [Aunt Polly] Now go to bed Tom, you hear me?

- I'm goin'.

Night, Jim.

See ya in the morning.

- Uh-huh, yeah, good night, Tom.

- [Aunt Polly] I'll tell you this, Tom Sawyer.

If you think you can wake up this household

in the middle of the night

for the sake of scarin' us all half to death,

by pretending you've gone clean out of your head,

well then you just better think again.

You'll suffer the consequences tomorrow, young man.

Don't know just what they'll be, yet,

but I'll think of something, I can guarantee you that.

They say you can't learn an old dog new tricks,

but a young pup like you

has got a lot of lessons to learn yet.

And if I were to give up teachin' em to ya,

I'd be shirkin' my duty, and that's the truth.

(Tom snores)

Now turn down them lights and go to bed.

You got school tomorrow,

and you come straight home afterwards.

- [Tom] Becky.

- [Aunt Polly] Tom!

(playful electronic music)

♫ These are the stories of Tom Sawyer

♫ Me and Huck Finn just playin' by the river

♫ Chasin' that steamboat teacher let me be

♫ I wanna be free sittin' under a tree

♫ That's me, ha ha