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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:14,666 --> 00:00:20,455 Go down, Ol' Hannah 2 00:00:23,371 --> 00:00:28,245 Don't you rise no more 3 00:00:29,942 --> 00:00:36,688 Well, if you rise in the mornin' 4 00:00:37,994 --> 00:00:42,303 Bring Judgment Day 5 00:00:44,044 --> 00:00:49,962 You oughta been on the brazis 6 00:00:51,964 --> 00:00:56,491 Nineteen and ten 7 00:00:58,406 --> 00:01:04,499 They was drivin' the women 8 00:01:06,370 --> 00:01:11,201 Like they do the men 9 00:01:12,898 --> 00:01:18,034 Oh, the sun was shinin' 10 00:01:20,471 --> 00:01:25,824 And the men was flyin' 11 00:01:27,043 --> 00:01:33,832 Oh, the cap'n was a-hollerin' 12 00:01:35,791 --> 00:01:41,971 And the men was dyin' 13 00:01:42,014 --> 00:01:47,237 Go down, Ol' Hannah 14 00:01:49,848 --> 00:01:55,724 Doncha rise no more 15 00:01:55,767 --> 00:02:01,338 Well, if you rise in the mornin' 16 00:02:03,949 --> 00:02:09,085 Bring Judgment Day 17 00:02:39,115 --> 00:02:40,203 Ledbetter! 18 00:02:42,466 --> 00:02:43,380 Come on! 19 00:02:43,424 --> 00:02:45,121 They want you in the office. 20 00:03:38,653 --> 00:03:42,874 I'm Professor Lomax, this is my assistant Tom. 21 00:03:44,354 --> 00:03:46,008 Want to take his chains off? 22 00:03:46,051 --> 00:03:47,662 Orders are to leave 'em on. 23 00:03:47,705 --> 00:03:49,881 This nigger's a real bad one. 24 00:03:51,796 --> 00:03:54,016 Right this way. 25 00:04:07,595 --> 00:04:09,336 Have a seat. 26 00:04:12,991 --> 00:04:17,039 I guess they told ya, we're here collectin' songs. 27 00:04:17,082 --> 00:04:19,128 There ain't a damn thing I can do for you, 28 00:04:19,171 --> 00:04:21,043 'cept maybe a sack of Bull Durham, 29 00:04:21,086 --> 00:04:22,436 couple of hours out of the sun. 30 00:04:23,872 --> 00:04:25,482 Heard a lot about you. 31 00:04:25,526 --> 00:04:28,485 That's why I've come all the way down here to record you. 32 00:04:33,925 --> 00:04:35,971 I knows a lots of songs. 33 00:04:36,754 --> 00:04:38,626 Some of 'em I made up, 34 00:04:38,669 --> 00:04:41,368 some of 'em I changed from other folks's. 35 00:04:42,543 --> 00:04:43,892 You got some picks for me? 36 00:04:44,675 --> 00:04:46,547 Yeah, here. 37 00:04:48,853 --> 00:04:50,638 What are you in for? 38 00:04:51,682 --> 00:04:53,380 Murder. 39 00:04:53,423 --> 00:04:56,078 I calls it self-defense. 40 00:04:56,121 --> 00:04:58,515 He stuck me with a knife, but I stuck him better. 41 00:05:00,648 --> 00:05:02,389 He stuck me with a knife, but I stuck him better. 42 00:05:06,610 --> 00:05:08,482 You see, it's easy. 43 00:05:09,831 --> 00:05:11,876 Lord. 44 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:14,966 I ain't never sung in no machine before. 45 00:05:19,057 --> 00:05:23,975 Well, this is a song I used to sing back home 46 00:05:24,019 --> 00:05:26,282 in Mooringsport, Louisiana. 47 00:05:26,326 --> 00:05:27,675 It's around 1907. 48 00:05:27,718 --> 00:05:30,242 My uncle, Terrell, taught it to me. 49 00:05:30,286 --> 00:05:33,985 Saturday night we used to have play party dancin'. 50 00:05:34,029 --> 00:05:35,857 Sukey Jumps we calls it. 51 00:06:09,630 --> 00:06:10,979 Yes, sir. 52 00:06:11,022 --> 00:06:14,461 Everybody come to dance. Just had a fine time. 53 00:06:14,504 --> 00:06:15,592 Heh. Weren't no white folks 54 00:06:15,636 --> 00:06:18,465 maybe 10, 15 miles around. 55 00:06:18,508 --> 00:06:19,988 Pshaw! 56 00:06:20,031 --> 00:06:22,077 I used to ride my daddy's horse, 57 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:24,601 sashay around them girls, 58 00:06:24,645 --> 00:06:26,951 lookin' like Saturday night all the way to Sunday mornin'! 59 00:06:26,995 --> 00:06:30,651 Yes, sir. And everybody knew everybody them days. 60 00:06:30,694 --> 00:06:34,394 Y'know, it was like it was a family. 61 00:06:34,437 --> 00:06:37,135 Evenin', ladies, y'all goin' to the party? 62 00:06:37,179 --> 00:06:38,702 Hah! 63 00:06:38,746 --> 00:06:39,877 Now, there was this ol' Archie Macoomb. 64 00:06:39,921 --> 00:06:41,052 Look out! Here come Archie! 65 00:06:41,096 --> 00:06:42,184 He had a team of bays, 66 00:06:42,227 --> 00:06:44,142 and before you know it, 67 00:06:44,186 --> 00:06:46,101 Lord, he'd come boilin' down the road 68 00:06:46,144 --> 00:06:48,277 and I'd just take out after 'im. 69 00:07:03,379 --> 00:07:04,685 Come on! Hah! 70 00:07:27,838 --> 00:07:30,493 Come on! 71 00:08:04,745 --> 00:08:08,226 Green corn, green corn 72 00:08:08,270 --> 00:08:09,880 Green corn, come along cholly 73 00:08:09,924 --> 00:08:11,621 Green corn, go 'n tell polly 74 00:08:11,665 --> 00:08:14,581 Green corn, green corn 75 00:08:14,624 --> 00:08:18,454 Stand around, stand around 76 00:08:18,498 --> 00:08:20,151 Two little boys to call me poppa 77 00:08:20,195 --> 00:08:21,762 One named Sop and th' other named Gravy 78 00:08:21,805 --> 00:08:25,200 Green corn, green corn 79 00:08:25,243 --> 00:08:27,463 Green corn, come along cholly 80 00:08:27,507 --> 00:08:28,943 Green corn, go 'n tell polly 81 00:08:28,986 --> 00:08:31,511 Green corn, green corn 82 00:08:39,214 --> 00:08:41,042 Two little boys to call me poppa 83 00:08:41,085 --> 00:08:42,957 One named Sop and th' other named Gravy 84 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:44,698 One named Sop and th' other named Gravy 85 00:08:44,741 --> 00:08:46,351 One's gonna put up an' the other's gonna save it 86 00:08:46,395 --> 00:08:49,877 Green corn, green corn 87 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:51,443 Green corn, come along cholly 88 00:08:51,487 --> 00:08:53,358 Green corn, go 'n tell polly 89 00:08:53,402 --> 00:08:55,491 Green corn, green corn 90 00:09:03,891 --> 00:09:05,849 Wake, snake, day's a-breakin' 91 00:09:05,893 --> 00:09:07,503 Peas in the pot, the whole cake's bakin' 92 00:09:07,547 --> 00:09:10,637 Green corn, green corn 93 00:09:10,680 --> 00:09:12,726 Green corn, come along cholly 94 00:09:12,769 --> 00:09:14,815 Green corn, go 'n tell polly 95 00:09:14,858 --> 00:09:18,079 Green corn, green corn 96 00:09:18,122 --> 00:09:19,950 Stand around, stand around the jimmy-john 97 00:09:19,994 --> 00:09:21,909 Stand around, stand around the jimmy-john 98 00:09:21,952 --> 00:09:26,522 Stand around, stand around 99 00:10:06,910 --> 00:10:10,174 Come on, Margaret, I'll take you on with me in my new buggy. 100 00:10:14,178 --> 00:10:16,224 Don' you be mule stubborn. 101 00:10:16,267 --> 00:10:17,268 Come on. 102 00:10:19,793 --> 00:10:21,882 This here seat's made outta real oak. 103 00:10:21,925 --> 00:10:23,231 No, thank you kindly. 104 00:10:23,274 --> 00:10:24,841 Promise to let Huddie carry me home. 105 00:10:24,885 --> 00:10:27,583 Yeah, well, Huddie Ledbetter ain't gonna take you nowheres! 106 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:30,499 Archie Macoomb, you let go me. 107 00:10:30,542 --> 00:10:33,023 You all liquored up, else you wouldn't! 108 00:10:37,114 --> 00:10:38,159 Archie, please! 109 00:10:40,552 --> 00:10:42,946 Stop, Huddie! Archie, stop! 110 00:10:42,990 --> 00:10:45,862 Oh, my God. Y'all are liquored, throw it away! 111 00:10:45,906 --> 00:10:48,082 Archie... Oh, my God. 112 00:10:48,125 --> 00:10:49,649 Stop! No! 113 00:10:50,780 --> 00:10:52,303 Huddie! 114 00:11:06,187 --> 00:11:08,276 Black girl 115 00:11:08,319 --> 00:11:14,064 Black girl, where did ya sleep last night? 116 00:11:14,108 --> 00:11:19,766 Did you shiver the whole night through? 117 00:11:21,332 --> 00:11:23,770 Supposin' you killed Archie, just supposin'? 118 00:11:23,813 --> 00:11:25,467 No. 119 00:11:25,510 --> 00:11:28,731 You can't hit the inside of a barn wall with one of these pistols. 120 00:11:30,864 --> 00:11:33,997 You know, one day I'm gonna get away from here. 121 00:11:34,041 --> 00:11:35,956 What you mean, "Away from here"? 122 00:11:35,999 --> 00:11:38,262 Shreveport, that's what I mean. 123 00:11:38,306 --> 00:11:39,916 Shreveport. 124 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:42,005 Way away from here. 125 00:11:42,049 --> 00:11:43,964 My daddy say there ain't nothin' in Shreveport, 126 00:11:44,007 --> 00:11:46,140 but the white man you owes money to 127 00:11:46,183 --> 00:11:47,794 and his co'thouse and his jail. 128 00:11:47,837 --> 00:11:49,839 Oh, no! 129 00:11:49,883 --> 00:11:52,189 There's Fannin Street. That's what there is in Shreveport. 130 00:11:52,233 --> 00:11:54,714 Fannin Street. 131 00:11:54,757 --> 00:11:57,020 Huddie honey, I don't want to hear nothin' more 132 00:11:57,064 --> 00:11:58,674 'bout no Fannin Street. 133 00:11:58,718 --> 00:12:00,589 Unless you ever been to Fannin Street, 134 00:12:00,632 --> 00:12:03,026 well, you won't never know. 135 00:12:03,070 --> 00:12:05,986 Listen, honey, we gotta get married. 136 00:12:06,029 --> 00:12:07,204 What? 137 00:12:07,248 --> 00:12:08,945 I missed my time. 138 00:12:08,989 --> 00:12:10,164 Twice. 139 00:12:10,207 --> 00:12:12,470 Fan Belle said I'm gonna have a baby. 140 00:12:12,514 --> 00:12:13,863 You can't go nowhere now. 141 00:12:13,907 --> 00:12:15,865 Aw, come on. 142 00:12:15,909 --> 00:12:19,521 That's what you said last Christmas and you come 'round. 143 00:12:19,564 --> 00:12:24,178 Huddie, it's gonna be real sweet when we married, baby. 144 00:12:24,221 --> 00:12:25,570 Huddie? 145 00:12:25,614 --> 00:12:26,963 Are you listenin' to me, Huddie? 146 00:12:27,007 --> 00:12:29,661 Uh, yeah, I'm listenin' to you, honey. 147 00:12:29,705 --> 00:12:31,533 Hmm. I'm listenin'. 148 00:12:52,597 --> 00:12:54,512 Mornin', Wes. 149 00:12:58,690 --> 00:12:59,866 Morning, Sheriff. 150 00:13:02,085 --> 00:13:03,434 Your boy at home? 151 00:13:04,044 --> 00:13:05,523 No. 152 00:13:05,567 --> 00:13:07,177 He didn't come home last night. 153 00:13:13,967 --> 00:13:17,405 Well, then that's what I'm 'bliged to believe. 154 00:13:19,407 --> 00:13:24,238 Fact is, Leonard Macoomb come into town this mornin' 155 00:13:24,281 --> 00:13:27,502 to swear out a complaint. 156 00:13:27,545 --> 00:13:33,769 Seems your Huddie laid open his boy's head with a pistol barrel. 157 00:13:35,945 --> 00:13:39,340 Now, you know me, Ledbetter. 158 00:13:39,383 --> 00:13:41,255 Fact is, Wes, I come out here 159 00:13:41,298 --> 00:13:44,258 'cause I got a deal of respect for you. 160 00:13:46,260 --> 00:13:48,392 But I'm worried about your boy. 161 00:13:49,524 --> 00:13:51,439 Why, you just let him run wild! 162 00:13:51,482 --> 00:13:54,181 Nobody tell me how to raise my own boy. 163 00:13:59,447 --> 00:14:01,057 I respect that. 164 00:14:01,101 --> 00:14:04,191 What'd you come into my dooryard to tell me, Sheriff? 165 00:14:04,234 --> 00:14:07,063 Bring your boy into town, hear? 166 00:14:08,848 --> 00:14:11,459 I won't pay no mind to no assault truck, 167 00:14:11,502 --> 00:14:14,505 I'll just fine the boy $25 for carryin' concealed weapons 168 00:14:14,549 --> 00:14:17,769 and that'll be an end on it. 169 00:14:17,813 --> 00:14:20,120 Now, you watch your boy, Ledbetter. 170 00:14:23,427 --> 00:14:25,603 That's a word to the wise. 171 00:14:27,170 --> 00:14:27,910 Hiyah! 172 00:14:51,455 --> 00:14:53,240 Come outta there, boy. 173 00:14:57,505 --> 00:15:00,203 Wes, Wes! Shut up! Shut up, woman! 174 00:15:02,597 --> 00:15:06,775 Goddamnit, boy, you listen to sense. 175 00:15:06,818 --> 00:15:10,257 I told you never to take that gun outta this house 176 00:15:10,300 --> 00:15:11,998 without good reason. 177 00:15:33,410 --> 00:15:35,673 Where you gonna go? You got the Sheriff down on you. 178 00:15:38,372 --> 00:15:39,460 Shreveport. 179 00:15:39,503 --> 00:15:41,244 Fannin Street, that's where I go. 180 00:15:41,288 --> 00:15:43,029 Play my music. 181 00:15:44,682 --> 00:15:46,771 All of a heap you in a hurry? 182 00:15:47,772 --> 00:15:49,600 Wes, he's just a child. 183 00:15:49,644 --> 00:15:51,211 No, he ain't. 184 00:15:52,647 --> 00:15:56,390 Sam Judd come by on his way to meetin'. 185 00:15:56,433 --> 00:15:58,914 You been lyin' with that gal of his? 186 00:15:58,958 --> 00:16:00,698 Answer me, boy. 187 00:16:01,177 --> 00:16:02,222 Yeah. 188 00:16:02,265 --> 00:16:03,266 What? 189 00:16:05,921 --> 00:16:07,227 Yes, sir. 190 00:16:07,270 --> 00:16:09,403 When?This mornin'. 191 00:16:17,715 --> 00:16:19,935 Judd say he'd come around with all his menfolks 192 00:16:19,979 --> 00:16:22,764 with their duck pieces and rifle guns, 193 00:16:22,807 --> 00:16:24,809 make Huddie marry that gal. 194 00:16:28,335 --> 00:16:30,990 Sheriff's down on him for a bad nigger. 195 00:16:33,557 --> 00:16:36,691 Judd's bad mouthin' him around the parish. 196 00:16:41,391 --> 00:16:45,134 Give a dog a bad name, folks gonna chunk rocks at him. 197 00:16:47,571 --> 00:16:51,445 By and by, he gonna bite somebody for sure. 198 00:17:03,413 --> 00:17:06,808 You leave the horse with Will Farrell in Mooringsport. 199 00:17:07,722 --> 00:17:09,463 Yes, I will, Pa. 200 00:17:13,162 --> 00:17:14,555 Huddie... 201 00:17:16,818 --> 00:17:18,602 I'll be givin' help to the Judd girl 202 00:17:18,646 --> 00:17:20,822 when that child o' hers come. 203 00:17:22,215 --> 00:17:24,347 You best keep your mind on helpin' her, too, 204 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:26,306 whenever you can. 205 00:17:26,349 --> 00:17:27,437 Yes, sir. 206 00:17:32,225 --> 00:17:34,531 And you come back home some day, you hear, Huddie? 207 00:17:38,013 --> 00:17:39,928 Well, you better be gettin' on down the road. 208 00:18:12,439 --> 00:18:16,878 My mama told me My papa told me, too 209 00:18:16,921 --> 00:18:20,708 The women in Shreveport, son, gonna be the death of you 210 00:18:56,526 --> 00:19:00,095 I got a woman, live on Stony Hill 211 00:19:00,139 --> 00:19:03,098 Been settin' down gamblin' with Buffalo Bill 212 00:19:03,925 --> 00:19:06,232 Mmm, mmm, mmm 213 00:19:08,277 --> 00:19:11,889 Follow me down, follow me down 214 00:19:11,933 --> 00:19:15,502 Follow me down to Mr. Tom Hughes' town 215 00:19:40,744 --> 00:19:43,617 Laura, put your hand on your hip. 216 00:19:43,660 --> 00:19:45,314 Sugar Tit, look far over the fan. 217 00:19:45,358 --> 00:19:47,186 Now, hold it there, all of you. 218 00:19:49,144 --> 00:19:50,232 Thank you. 219 00:19:54,802 --> 00:19:57,848 Hey! You lookin' for somethin'? 220 00:19:59,981 --> 00:20:01,678 He lookin' for his plow. 221 00:20:01,722 --> 00:20:04,507 Done follered his mule clear down Fannin Street. 222 00:20:11,427 --> 00:20:13,342 Hey, watch your feet, Country Boy. 223 00:20:13,386 --> 00:20:15,779 You get cow shit on Miss Eula's Turkey carpet, 224 00:20:15,823 --> 00:20:17,955 she have your ass! 225 00:20:21,524 --> 00:20:24,223 Hey, plow this, Country Boy. 226 00:20:24,266 --> 00:20:26,486 Acres an' acres, and it's all yours. 227 00:20:29,576 --> 00:20:32,318 This here's, uh, Sugar Tit. 228 00:20:32,970 --> 00:20:34,668 She does specials. 229 00:20:37,192 --> 00:20:38,672 I'm Sugar Tit, 230 00:20:38,715 --> 00:20:40,500 and you ain't gonna do no better 231 00:20:40,543 --> 00:20:43,067 on Fannin Street, Country Boy. 232 00:20:43,111 --> 00:20:45,809 Now, which one you want, mmm? 233 00:20:45,853 --> 00:20:47,376 Take your pick. 234 00:20:54,383 --> 00:20:55,906 I choose you. 235 00:20:57,081 --> 00:20:58,866 'Cause I like to see them sassy ones 236 00:20:58,909 --> 00:21:00,781 holler and screamin' for more. 237 00:21:03,697 --> 00:21:07,483 Country Boy, I got a boss longshoreman comin' in 238 00:21:07,527 --> 00:21:10,399 for his regular in half an hour, 239 00:21:10,443 --> 00:21:13,446 and I ain't gonna even be breathin' hard. 240 00:21:13,489 --> 00:21:16,362 Right, right! 241 00:21:16,405 --> 00:21:18,233 Mercy, mercy! 242 00:21:21,192 --> 00:21:23,934 Ooh!Point it upstairs and follow me. 243 00:21:23,978 --> 00:21:27,198 'Bye, Country Boy.Bye-bye. 244 00:21:27,242 --> 00:21:28,548 Bye, Country Boy. 245 00:21:40,473 --> 00:21:41,691 Hello, girls. 246 00:21:41,735 --> 00:21:43,563 Good day, Miss Eula. 247 00:21:46,609 --> 00:21:49,177 Uh, the longshoreman's on his way, where's Sugar Tit? 248 00:21:49,220 --> 00:21:52,136 Um, upstairs, takin' a nap. 249 00:21:52,180 --> 00:21:54,269 Takin' a nap? 250 00:22:18,772 --> 00:22:20,034 Well! 251 00:22:34,091 --> 00:22:36,006 I don't see no money. 252 00:22:36,050 --> 00:22:37,617 This ain't no four-bit crib. 253 00:22:37,660 --> 00:22:39,619 This is a parlor house. 254 00:22:39,662 --> 00:22:43,013 You take one of my girls upstairs, you owe me $5. 255 00:22:43,057 --> 00:22:45,059 Have you got $5? 256 00:22:48,671 --> 00:22:49,411 Albert! 257 00:22:51,021 --> 00:22:52,458 Albert! 258 00:22:56,679 --> 00:22:57,811 What's your name? 259 00:22:57,854 --> 00:22:58,855 Huddie Ledbetter. 260 00:22:58,899 --> 00:23:00,379 Ledbetter. 261 00:23:05,122 --> 00:23:06,559 Leadbelly! 262 00:23:10,867 --> 00:23:13,435 Albert, stay right where you are. 263 00:23:16,220 --> 00:23:19,485 Good mornin', blues 264 00:23:19,528 --> 00:23:23,271 Blues, how do you do? 265 00:23:26,361 --> 00:23:27,580 That Miss Eula, 266 00:23:27,623 --> 00:23:30,191 she really turned out to be somethin'. 267 00:23:30,234 --> 00:23:33,368 I stayed with that woman for quite some time. 268 00:23:33,412 --> 00:23:35,022 I learned a lot from her. 269 00:23:35,065 --> 00:23:37,241 She even taught me how to sing the blues. 270 00:23:37,285 --> 00:23:38,721 That's not it. 271 00:23:38,765 --> 00:23:41,681 You ain't playin' it at all. 272 00:23:43,378 --> 00:23:44,640 Well, that's the tune. 273 00:23:46,294 --> 00:23:48,339 Ain't got nothin' to do with the tune. 274 00:23:48,383 --> 00:23:51,342 You're talkin' 'bout the blues. 275 00:23:51,386 --> 00:23:52,996 You got to feel the blues. 276 00:23:54,215 --> 00:23:59,133 New Orleans blues, woman blues, whore blues. 277 00:24:07,924 --> 00:24:11,406 It's gonna cost you dear to learn the blues. 278 00:24:19,849 --> 00:24:21,851 Nobody can turn you around, can they? 279 00:24:25,942 --> 00:24:28,641 Tonight it's the blues, 280 00:24:30,077 --> 00:24:33,297 tomorrow night it'll be the barrelhouse. 281 00:24:39,129 --> 00:24:41,567 That's it! That's it! 282 00:25:01,717 --> 00:25:02,762 Come on, now. 283 00:25:22,390 --> 00:25:24,435 Good mornin', blues 284 00:25:24,479 --> 00:25:26,960 Blues, how do you do? 285 00:25:29,223 --> 00:25:31,268 Good mornin', blues 286 00:25:31,312 --> 00:25:34,184 Blues, how do you do? 287 00:25:35,925 --> 00:25:38,058 Well, I'm doin' all right 288 00:25:38,101 --> 00:25:40,190 Good mornin' How are you? 289 00:25:43,063 --> 00:25:44,368 Lay down last night 290 00:25:44,412 --> 00:25:47,850 I was turnin' from side to side 291 00:25:49,765 --> 00:25:52,202 Oh... 292 00:25:52,246 --> 00:25:54,727 Turnin' from side to side 293 00:25:56,206 --> 00:26:00,559 I was not sick, but I was just dissatisfied 294 00:26:02,778 --> 00:26:05,651 Well, I got up this mornin' 295 00:26:05,694 --> 00:26:09,176 Blues walkin' 'round my bed 296 00:26:09,959 --> 00:26:11,874 Oh... 297 00:26:11,918 --> 00:26:15,051 Blues walkin' 'round my bed 298 00:26:16,575 --> 00:26:18,664 Well, I went to eat my breakfast 299 00:26:18,707 --> 00:26:22,755 The blues was all in my bread 300 00:26:22,798 --> 00:26:24,757 Hey, hey, hey! 301 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:27,368 Drinks for everybody. Drinks for everybody! 302 00:26:27,411 --> 00:26:29,588 How about that? Y'all go and get some drinks! 303 00:26:43,427 --> 00:26:45,038 Keep your hands off her 304 00:26:46,169 --> 00:26:48,868 Keep your hands off her 305 00:26:48,911 --> 00:26:49,999 Keep your hands off her... 306 00:26:50,043 --> 00:26:52,045 Bitch! 307 00:26:55,570 --> 00:26:57,050 You're fired outta my house. 308 00:26:57,093 --> 00:26:59,356 You can go on back to that sidewalk crib 309 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:01,924 and peddle your skinny ass on the street two for a quarter. 310 00:27:05,928 --> 00:27:08,801 Customers are always complainin' about that girl. 311 00:27:08,844 --> 00:27:11,891 I tell her, "Wiggle your ass sometimes, honey, 312 00:27:11,934 --> 00:27:13,109 "so people know you're alive." 313 00:27:16,504 --> 00:27:19,072 It's time to come on home, honey. 314 00:27:21,988 --> 00:27:24,033 I said come on home. 315 00:27:28,777 --> 00:27:31,345 We got Saturday night company, I need you. 316 00:27:33,434 --> 00:27:34,435 Albert. 317 00:27:39,048 --> 00:27:40,441 Come on, honey. 318 00:27:46,186 --> 00:27:48,144 Britt, bring me my guitar. 319 00:27:55,891 --> 00:27:57,937 Woman, don't bother me none, 320 00:27:57,980 --> 00:28:00,113 I am playin' my music. 321 00:28:02,637 --> 00:28:03,986 What are you talkin' about? 322 00:28:06,162 --> 00:28:09,949 Tellin' me when to come and when to go, 323 00:28:09,992 --> 00:28:12,255 and don't do this and don't do that. 324 00:28:12,299 --> 00:28:15,519 I ain't one of your whores. 325 00:28:15,563 --> 00:28:17,783 No, you ain't one of my whores, 326 00:28:17,826 --> 00:28:19,654 'cause they are hard-working girls 327 00:28:19,698 --> 00:28:21,264 and they earn their keep. 328 00:28:23,876 --> 00:28:27,967 You come here, you a green country boy, 329 00:28:28,010 --> 00:28:32,014 didn't know nothin' 'cept play party hollers, 330 00:28:32,058 --> 00:28:33,146 wanderin' on Fannin Street 331 00:28:33,189 --> 00:28:35,888 without the price of a piece of ass. 332 00:28:35,931 --> 00:28:38,542 I bought you that guitar! 333 00:28:38,586 --> 00:28:40,544 I went your bail when Sheriff Tom Hughes 334 00:28:40,588 --> 00:28:43,504 dragged you in for drunk fighting. 335 00:28:43,547 --> 00:28:46,289 And when you went and dipped your wick in some chippie 336 00:28:46,333 --> 00:28:49,031 and caught the clap. 337 00:28:49,075 --> 00:28:51,686 I cured you with Lafayette Mixture. 338 00:28:54,123 --> 00:28:55,298 I'm tellin' you... 339 00:28:56,647 --> 00:28:59,128 Nobody make me small, ya hear? 340 00:28:59,172 --> 00:29:01,827 If I walk out of here by myself, 341 00:29:01,870 --> 00:29:03,916 that's the way it's gonna stay! 342 00:29:06,353 --> 00:29:07,833 You hear what I'm tellin' you? 343 00:29:07,876 --> 00:29:09,922 You're born for trouble, 344 00:29:09,965 --> 00:29:11,184 and you're hurryin' out to catch it 345 00:29:11,227 --> 00:29:14,013 like it was the railroad train to New Orleans. 346 00:29:17,538 --> 00:29:20,062 You ain't never goin' home. 347 00:29:20,106 --> 00:29:24,719 You're goin' to die alone and a million miles away! 348 00:29:32,422 --> 00:29:34,598 You comin' home now? 349 00:29:53,008 --> 00:29:54,140 Well, whatcha y'all wanta hear? 350 00:29:54,183 --> 00:29:55,924 Anything. 351 00:29:55,968 --> 00:29:59,232 Oh, we're gonna party for long now, man. 352 00:29:59,275 --> 00:30:00,668 Come on, we can still have a good time. 353 00:30:00,711 --> 00:30:01,800 Come on, y'all! 354 00:30:01,843 --> 00:30:03,323 Join me. Step right up and have a drink. 355 00:30:03,366 --> 00:30:05,542 Guys, order whatever y'all want, hear? 356 00:30:07,806 --> 00:30:09,808 Gimme a bottle o' liquor, Shorty. 357 00:30:11,461 --> 00:30:12,985 Miss Eula. 358 00:30:16,249 --> 00:30:17,467 Hmm. 359 00:30:22,646 --> 00:30:24,692 What you talkin', she got Albert? 360 00:30:24,735 --> 00:30:25,911 Huh! 361 00:30:25,954 --> 00:30:29,697 He ain't nothin' but a damn piano player. 362 00:30:29,740 --> 00:30:32,134 If you want to make music, you got to sing the songs. 363 00:30:32,178 --> 00:30:33,744 Ain't that right? 364 00:30:33,788 --> 00:30:35,007 Come on, now! Ain't that right? 365 00:30:35,020 --> 00:30:37,206 - Ain't that right? - Yeah! 366 00:30:38,271 --> 00:30:40,795 I was the best singer around Caddo Lake. 367 00:30:41,970 --> 00:30:44,538 I is the best on Fannin Street! 368 00:30:45,844 --> 00:30:49,195 That's right. The king, that's it. 369 00:30:49,238 --> 00:30:52,111 The king, the king of Fannin Street. 370 00:30:52,154 --> 00:30:53,547 Ain't that right, Shorty? 371 00:30:53,590 --> 00:30:54,940 Ain't many better. 372 00:30:54,983 --> 00:30:57,246 Goddamnit, ain't none better! 373 00:30:57,290 --> 00:30:59,683 Goddamnit, I put my money where my mouth is. 374 00:30:59,727 --> 00:31:00,815 Now! 375 00:31:03,513 --> 00:31:06,734 $10 gold, double eagle. 376 00:31:06,777 --> 00:31:08,823 Here, we can put that right there in the kitty. 377 00:31:08,867 --> 00:31:10,042 Anybody... 378 00:31:12,871 --> 00:31:16,309 Now, anybody think he can out pick and out-sing me? 379 00:31:16,352 --> 00:31:18,964 Let him step right on up here and try. 380 00:31:19,007 --> 00:31:20,139 And this here will be his. 381 00:31:20,182 --> 00:31:21,488 And then I'll just go on back 382 00:31:21,531 --> 00:31:23,838 and sing at play parties for the children. 383 00:31:28,625 --> 00:31:30,149 Now, how about that? 384 00:31:32,455 --> 00:31:34,153 What you reachin' for? 385 00:31:34,196 --> 00:31:35,632 I picks guitar some. 386 00:31:45,642 --> 00:31:47,688 You goin' to out pick me? 387 00:31:48,384 --> 00:31:50,169 That's fair enough. 388 00:31:55,565 --> 00:31:57,002 Shorty, 389 00:31:58,394 --> 00:32:01,615 pour this here guitar-pickin' fool a drink. 390 00:32:01,658 --> 00:32:03,008 Come on over here, y'all, ya'all goin' to hear. 391 00:32:03,051 --> 00:32:04,792 Get that chair over here... 392 00:32:05,924 --> 00:32:08,056 We'll find out who's the king. 393 00:32:08,100 --> 00:32:09,840 Bring the chairs out over here. 394 00:32:22,418 --> 00:32:24,812 What kinda guitar is that you got, ol' man? 395 00:32:24,855 --> 00:32:27,032 Just an old guitar. 396 00:32:30,731 --> 00:32:32,341 Well, how many strings you got there? 397 00:32:32,385 --> 00:32:33,647 Twelve. 398 00:32:37,912 --> 00:32:39,392 Two to one, huh? 399 00:32:39,435 --> 00:32:41,394 Well, I guess I'm the scratch horse in this race! 400 00:32:46,181 --> 00:32:47,574 You ready, ol' man? 401 00:35:38,745 --> 00:35:40,355 Sheriff Tom Hughes is comin'! 402 00:35:40,399 --> 00:35:43,228 Sheriff! Sheriff's comin'! Oh, my God! 403 00:35:44,707 --> 00:35:47,580 He'll lock up the whole street! 404 00:35:47,623 --> 00:35:49,408 What's he doin'? I thought we pay protection. 405 00:36:20,526 --> 00:36:22,441 Huddie, Huddie, come in the house. 406 00:36:22,484 --> 00:36:23,746 Sheriff Tom Hughes never come in my place. 407 00:36:23,790 --> 00:36:25,183 I got an arrangement. 408 00:36:25,226 --> 00:36:26,923 Don't just stand there, come on inside. 409 00:36:26,967 --> 00:36:28,621 You're safe in my place. 410 00:36:28,664 --> 00:36:30,318 Huddie, Huddie! 411 00:36:32,146 --> 00:36:33,887 Damn fool. 412 00:38:16,946 --> 00:38:18,600 Hey, old man, come here. 413 00:38:25,912 --> 00:38:27,609 Come on, hurry up! 414 00:38:34,660 --> 00:38:36,749 Where is this place? 415 00:38:41,319 --> 00:38:43,321 This is Texas cotton country. 416 00:38:44,539 --> 00:38:46,324 Well, this's where I'm gettin' off. 417 00:38:53,983 --> 00:38:57,422 Some fool plowboy stomped on my guitar back there. 418 00:38:59,467 --> 00:39:01,687 I still got that $10 gold. 419 00:39:03,079 --> 00:39:04,907 I ain't sayin' you won it, mind you. 420 00:39:14,003 --> 00:39:15,788 You take it easy, ol' man. 421 00:39:25,145 --> 00:39:26,451 When I was a little baby 422 00:39:26,494 --> 00:39:29,236 My mother would a rock me in the cradle 423 00:39:29,279 --> 00:39:33,936 In them old cotton fields at home 424 00:39:33,980 --> 00:39:36,112 When I was a little baby 425 00:39:36,156 --> 00:39:38,767 My mother would a rock me in the cradle 426 00:39:38,811 --> 00:39:42,858 In them old cotton fields at home 427 00:39:42,902 --> 00:39:45,818 When them cotton bolls got rotten 428 00:39:45,861 --> 00:39:47,994 You couldn't pick very much cotton 429 00:39:48,037 --> 00:39:51,171 In them old cotton fields at home 430 00:39:52,607 --> 00:39:57,177 It was down in Louisiana, just a mile from Texarkana 431 00:39:57,220 --> 00:40:00,963 In them old cotton fields at home 432 00:40:01,007 --> 00:40:02,356 Hey, girl. 433 00:40:03,313 --> 00:40:04,663 You, good-lookin' girl. 434 00:40:16,762 --> 00:40:18,633 It may sound a little funny 435 00:40:18,677 --> 00:40:21,201 But you didn't make very much money 436 00:40:21,244 --> 00:40:25,205 In them old cotton fields at home 437 00:40:25,248 --> 00:40:27,120 It may sound a little funny 438 00:40:27,163 --> 00:40:29,688 But you didn't make very much money 439 00:40:29,731 --> 00:40:33,692 In them old cotton fields at home 440 00:40:33,735 --> 00:40:36,042 When them cotton bolls got rotten 441 00:40:36,085 --> 00:40:38,131 You didn't pick very much cotton 442 00:40:38,174 --> 00:40:42,352 In them old cotton fields at home 443 00:40:42,396 --> 00:40:46,400 It was down in Louisiana, just a mile from Texarkana 444 00:40:46,444 --> 00:40:50,273 In them old cotton fields at home 445 00:41:13,949 --> 00:41:16,343 Quittin' time, y'all! 446 00:41:51,291 --> 00:41:53,467 Ooh, what's that? 447 00:41:53,511 --> 00:41:57,210 Gun oil, that's sovereign for a pickin' back. 448 00:42:00,648 --> 00:42:02,041 You're not bad at it... 449 00:42:03,825 --> 00:42:05,566 For a Louisiana man. 450 00:42:09,396 --> 00:42:11,093 How you know where I'm from? 451 00:42:11,137 --> 00:42:13,835 Oh, I know. 452 00:42:13,879 --> 00:42:18,448 You play that big ol' twelve-string guitar over in the saloons. 453 00:42:18,492 --> 00:42:20,668 You a whiskey drinker. 454 00:42:21,887 --> 00:42:24,411 And you got your eye on every gal 455 00:42:24,454 --> 00:42:25,760 in Marshall, Texas, 456 00:42:25,804 --> 00:42:28,328 twixt twelve and too old! 457 00:42:43,386 --> 00:42:49,088 Lethe, how come you ain't got no man hangin' his pants on your bedpost every night? 458 00:42:51,873 --> 00:42:52,961 Like you, maybe? 459 00:42:54,484 --> 00:42:55,529 Yeah. 460 00:42:58,793 --> 00:43:03,406 I chooses you one night, that's my lookout. 461 00:43:03,450 --> 00:43:06,322 When you're done ramblin', 462 00:43:06,366 --> 00:43:08,237 when you ready to live my way 463 00:43:08,281 --> 00:43:13,503 in one place, with one woman, 464 00:43:14,896 --> 00:43:17,682 you come back, see me then. 465 00:43:21,163 --> 00:43:25,864 Oh, you got a lot of ramblin' left in your bones. 466 00:43:28,083 --> 00:43:29,911 So it's just... 467 00:43:32,218 --> 00:43:35,351 Thank you kindly now. 468 00:43:43,098 --> 00:43:45,405 And make sure that latch catch on the way out 469 00:43:45,448 --> 00:43:47,276 the door in the mornin'. 470 00:43:59,941 --> 00:44:02,814 O' the Rock Island Line is a mighty good road 471 00:44:02,857 --> 00:44:05,033 O' the Rock Island Line is the road to ride 472 00:44:05,077 --> 00:44:07,427 O' the Rock Island Line is a mighty good road 473 00:44:07,470 --> 00:44:09,777 If you want to ride, you got to ride it like you find it 474 00:44:09,821 --> 00:44:13,259 Get your ticket at the station on the Rock Island Line 475 00:44:13,302 --> 00:44:16,784 Tyler. Tyler next. 476 00:44:17,872 --> 00:44:18,917 Tyler! 477 00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:20,614 Jesus died to save our sins 478 00:44:20,658 --> 00:44:23,791 Glory to God We gonna meet him againTyler! 479 00:44:23,835 --> 00:44:26,098 Tyler, Texas! O' the Rock Island Line is a mighty good road 480 00:44:26,141 --> 00:44:28,361 O' the Rock Island Line is the road to ride 481 00:44:28,404 --> 00:44:30,319 O' the rock island line Is a mighty good roadTyler, Texas! 482 00:44:30,363 --> 00:44:33,061 If you want to ride it, you got to ride it like you find it 483 00:44:33,105 --> 00:44:36,891 Get your ticket at the station on the Rock Island Line 484 00:44:41,679 --> 00:44:44,290 I may be right, I may be wrong 485 00:44:44,333 --> 00:44:48,033 Know you gonna miss me when I'm gone 486 00:44:48,076 --> 00:44:50,992 O' the Rock Island Line is a mighty good road 487 00:44:51,036 --> 00:44:52,994 O' the Rock Island Line is the road to ride 488 00:44:53,038 --> 00:44:55,431 O' the Rock Island Line is a mighty good road 489 00:44:55,475 --> 00:44:57,607 If you want to ride it, you got to ride it like you find it 490 00:44:57,651 --> 00:45:01,829 Get your ticket at the station on the Rock Island Line 491 00:45:04,353 --> 00:45:06,573 Shut off that pig squealin'[STRUMMING STOPS] 492 00:45:06,616 --> 00:45:08,967 so's a man can sleep. 493 00:45:13,014 --> 00:45:14,929 What I hear you say? 494 00:45:16,452 --> 00:45:18,672 I said it sound like a hog with his whanger 495 00:45:18,716 --> 00:45:21,327 caught in the hinge side of a gate. 496 00:45:23,546 --> 00:45:27,420 Whyn't I just cut yours off and stick it in your ear? 497 00:45:27,463 --> 00:45:30,336 Well, leastways then I wouldn't have to hear that jackass hollerin'. 498 00:45:36,908 --> 00:45:38,474 Come on, fool. 499 00:45:38,518 --> 00:45:39,606 Come on! 500 00:45:39,649 --> 00:45:41,521 You know it's hog killin' time now. 501 00:45:52,097 --> 00:45:55,187 Just shut off that laughin' or I'm gonna shut it for you. 502 00:46:00,235 --> 00:46:02,716 I'm gonna, I'm gonna stick you right in your gizzard. 503 00:46:03,499 --> 00:46:05,197 You hear? 504 00:46:09,767 --> 00:46:12,857 Dammit! Somebody gimme my knife, do ya hear? 505 00:46:15,076 --> 00:46:17,644 Who the hell took my knife? 506 00:46:17,687 --> 00:46:20,690 Fat boy, I got your knife. 507 00:46:24,607 --> 00:46:27,219 How you want this pig-sticker back, 508 00:46:27,262 --> 00:46:28,307 open or closed? 509 00:46:33,965 --> 00:46:36,228 What's your name? 510 00:46:37,925 --> 00:46:39,492 Huddie Ledbetter. 511 00:46:39,535 --> 00:46:41,233 Nickname, Leadbelly. 512 00:46:43,757 --> 00:46:48,066 Lemon Jefferson. They call me Blind Lemon. 513 00:46:48,109 --> 00:46:49,241 It's a damn lie. 514 00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:51,721 I can see... 515 00:46:51,765 --> 00:46:54,507 Some. 516 00:46:54,550 --> 00:46:57,336 You're, you're that blues-shoutin' Lemon I hear so much about! 517 00:46:58,946 --> 00:47:00,426 Yeah, that's me. 518 00:47:06,301 --> 00:47:09,914 Uh, I figure I better take that knife back closed. 519 00:47:24,798 --> 00:47:27,105 Silver City bound 520 00:47:27,148 --> 00:47:30,151 Silver City bound 521 00:47:30,195 --> 00:47:32,284 Oh, tell my baby 522 00:47:32,327 --> 00:47:35,026 I'm Silver City bound 523 00:47:35,069 --> 00:47:39,639 Me and Blind Lemon gonna ride on down 524 00:47:39,682 --> 00:47:42,120 Silver City bound 525 00:47:42,163 --> 00:47:44,774 I'm Silver City bound 526 00:47:44,818 --> 00:47:49,605 I'm gonna tell my baby I'm Silver City bound 527 00:47:49,649 --> 00:47:54,349 Me and Leadbelly gonna ride on down 528 00:47:54,393 --> 00:47:57,439 Catch me by the hand 529 00:47:57,483 --> 00:48:01,095 Oh, baby 530 00:48:01,139 --> 00:48:04,098 Blind Lemon was a blind man 531 00:48:04,142 --> 00:48:07,145 Catch me by the hand 532 00:48:07,188 --> 00:48:10,452 Oh, baby 533 00:48:10,496 --> 00:48:13,107 Leadbelly was a fine man 534 00:48:13,151 --> 00:48:15,805 BOTH: Silver City bound 535 00:48:15,849 --> 00:48:18,330 Silver City bound 536 00:48:18,373 --> 00:48:20,810 Mmm, tell my baby 537 00:48:20,854 --> 00:48:23,509 I'm Silver City bound 538 00:48:23,552 --> 00:48:27,817 Me and Blind Lemon gonna ride on down 539 00:48:27,861 --> 00:48:30,864 Catch me by the hand Catch me by the hand 540 00:48:30,908 --> 00:48:32,387 Oh, baby 541 00:48:32,431 --> 00:48:33,998 Oh, baby, baby 542 00:48:34,041 --> 00:48:37,479 Blind Lemon was a blind man 543 00:48:37,523 --> 00:48:40,395 Catch me by the hand Catch me by the hand 544 00:48:40,439 --> 00:48:43,790 Oh, baby Oh, baby, baby 545 00:48:43,833 --> 00:48:46,706 Blind Lemon was a blind man 546 00:48:46,749 --> 00:48:48,577 Silver City bound 547 00:48:48,621 --> 00:48:51,363 Silver City bound 548 00:48:51,406 --> 00:48:55,715 Oh, tell my baby I'm Silver City bound 549 00:48:55,758 --> 00:49:00,198 Me and Blind Lemon gonna ride on down 550 00:49:05,943 --> 00:49:08,771 What you doin'? 551 00:49:08,815 --> 00:49:10,860 You been boozin' all night in that saloon, 552 00:49:10,904 --> 00:49:13,211 you can't drive, you drunk. 553 00:49:16,301 --> 00:49:18,259 You blind. 554 00:49:47,158 --> 00:49:49,508 You ever drive one of these things before? 555 00:49:49,551 --> 00:49:51,727 Nope. 556 00:49:58,038 --> 00:50:02,477 There's one kind of favor I asks of you 557 00:50:04,523 --> 00:50:08,875 There's one kind of favor I asks of you 558 00:50:11,312 --> 00:50:17,449 There's one kind of favor I asks of you 559 00:50:17,492 --> 00:50:21,844 See that my grave is kept clean 560 00:50:23,759 --> 00:50:28,155 It's a long lane, ain't got no end 561 00:50:29,765 --> 00:50:36,555 It's a long lane, ain't got no end 562 00:50:36,598 --> 00:50:42,735 It's a long lane, ain't got no end 563 00:50:42,778 --> 00:50:44,650 Feel so bad 564 00:50:44,693 --> 00:50:49,524 It is a miserable shame 565 00:50:49,568 --> 00:50:54,529 Have you ever heard a coffin sound? 566 00:50:55,922 --> 00:51:02,320 Have you ever heard a coffin sound? 567 00:51:02,363 --> 00:51:09,022 Have you ever heard a coffin sound? 568 00:51:09,066 --> 00:51:13,940 Then you know the po' boy's in the ground 569 00:51:16,290 --> 00:51:20,816 Oh, dig my grave with a silver spade 570 00:51:22,383 --> 00:51:27,388 Dig my grave with a silver spade 571 00:51:28,911 --> 00:51:34,700 Dig my grave with a silver spade 572 00:51:34,743 --> 00:51:39,966 You may place four diamonds on my grave 573 00:51:41,533 --> 00:51:45,885 Have you ever heard a death bell toll? 574 00:51:47,930 --> 00:51:52,631 Have you ever heard a death bell toll? 575 00:51:54,415 --> 00:52:00,595 Have you ever heard a death bell toll? 576 00:52:00,639 --> 00:52:07,254 Then you know the po' boy's dead and gone 577 00:52:07,298 --> 00:52:12,955 Then you know the po' boy's dead and gone 578 00:52:22,965 --> 00:52:25,446 That's what is the blues, 579 00:52:25,490 --> 00:52:29,102 not that sticky sweet whore blues you learned in Shreveport. 580 00:52:30,277 --> 00:52:31,583 Well, we's doin' all right. 581 00:52:31,626 --> 00:52:34,020 What, playin' in saloons? 582 00:52:34,063 --> 00:52:36,544 We bein' nickel-and-dimed to death. 583 00:52:36,588 --> 00:52:37,937 What are we? 584 00:52:37,980 --> 00:52:39,634 Well I was the King of Fannin Street. 585 00:52:39,678 --> 00:52:42,028 King? 586 00:52:42,071 --> 00:52:43,638 King? 587 00:52:45,814 --> 00:52:49,992 Hey, man, you ever hear them Victrola records? 588 00:52:50,036 --> 00:52:51,516 Yeah, plenty times. 589 00:52:51,559 --> 00:52:53,996 They make 'em in Chicago and Memphis, 590 00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:56,608 see that's where I'm goin' some day. 591 00:52:56,651 --> 00:52:58,610 They gonna know who I am. 592 00:52:58,653 --> 00:53:02,266 Ain't nobody gonna say, "Hey you, Fat Boy." 593 00:53:02,309 --> 00:53:04,050 They gonna know my name. 594 00:53:04,093 --> 00:53:06,618 Your songs got too much misery in 'em. 595 00:53:06,661 --> 00:53:10,143 Keep you hungry and evil all the time. 596 00:53:11,100 --> 00:53:12,319 Oh! 597 00:53:12,363 --> 00:53:15,453 You like a chicken tied to a pole. 598 00:53:15,496 --> 00:53:19,544 Runnin' around in circles and cacklin' a lot, 599 00:53:19,587 --> 00:53:21,328 but you ain't goin' no place. 600 00:53:21,372 --> 00:53:23,374 And some day somebody gonna catch up with you 601 00:53:23,417 --> 00:53:26,028 and wring your goddamn neck. 602 00:53:26,638 --> 00:53:28,248 Hee-hee-hee! 603 00:53:31,077 --> 00:53:33,819 Lemme get outta here, boy, nature done callin' me. 604 00:53:33,862 --> 00:53:37,170 Well, I hope you miss 605 00:53:37,214 --> 00:53:38,998 and hit yourself in the shoe. 606 00:53:39,041 --> 00:53:41,479 And one more thing, Leadbelly... 607 00:53:42,088 --> 00:53:43,698 Leadbelly? 608 00:54:24,609 --> 00:54:26,350 Let's get outta here, Lemon. 609 00:54:28,874 --> 00:54:30,571 Hey, boy. 610 00:54:30,615 --> 00:54:32,269 Who the hell told you to stop playin'? 611 00:54:33,182 --> 00:54:34,793 It's gettin' late. 612 00:54:34,836 --> 00:54:36,273 You keep playin'. 613 00:54:40,538 --> 00:54:44,063 Man, it's after 2:00 in the mornin'. 614 00:54:44,106 --> 00:54:45,369 What the hell do you care what time it is? 615 00:54:45,412 --> 00:54:47,284 You keep on playin'. 616 00:54:48,589 --> 00:54:50,896 You said $3 till midnight. 617 00:54:50,939 --> 00:54:53,507 God dammit, don't argue with me, boy! 618 00:54:56,510 --> 00:54:58,207 We'll just take our $3. 619 00:54:58,251 --> 00:55:00,688 You'll take shit if you don't start playin'. 620 00:55:03,082 --> 00:55:04,388 I say that's it. 621 00:55:07,173 --> 00:55:10,002 God damn it, don't sass me, boy! 622 00:55:10,045 --> 00:55:12,439 You spoilin' the party, you hear, nigger? 623 00:55:12,483 --> 00:55:15,834 Now, you pick up the goddamn guitar and you play! 624 00:55:42,077 --> 00:55:43,644 Lead! 625 00:55:58,050 --> 00:56:01,183 Damn ol' nigger. 626 00:56:42,834 --> 00:56:44,357 Lead. 627 00:56:46,707 --> 00:56:47,665 Lead. 628 00:56:50,407 --> 00:56:53,410 Hey, man, you all right, man? 629 00:56:56,195 --> 00:57:00,417 Hey, that bartender, he kicked you in the balls before the Sheriff come. 630 00:57:01,330 --> 00:57:02,636 Yeah. 631 00:57:03,898 --> 00:57:06,205 Somebody knocked my tooth out. 632 00:57:06,248 --> 00:57:08,207 Stole my watch, too. 633 00:57:09,730 --> 00:57:12,820 What you doin' out there with me in here? 634 00:57:12,864 --> 00:57:15,519 I went through the window in the dark. 635 00:57:15,562 --> 00:57:18,347 Listen, I ain't got much time. 636 00:57:19,697 --> 00:57:20,915 It cost me six bits to get... 637 00:57:20,959 --> 00:57:22,134 Oh! 638 00:57:23,570 --> 00:57:25,093 Here. 639 00:57:31,404 --> 00:57:34,059 Cost me six bits to get in. 640 00:57:35,669 --> 00:57:38,324 You get the money outta the snuff can to pay my fine. 641 00:57:41,762 --> 00:57:43,372 Ain't no fine. 642 00:57:43,416 --> 00:57:48,377 They holdin' you till Judge Baines get back from Dallas, Saturday. 643 00:57:48,421 --> 00:57:51,859 You on your way to the Harrison County Chain Gang. 644 00:57:56,124 --> 00:57:57,125 Tsk. 645 00:58:07,614 --> 00:58:10,399 Man say, a year on the inside. 646 00:58:17,363 --> 00:58:19,887 What you study on doin'? 647 00:58:21,410 --> 00:58:27,329 Get me a train to Memphis, maybe Chicago. 648 00:58:27,373 --> 00:58:31,203 Make me some of them Victrola records on the Bluebird 649 00:58:32,987 --> 00:58:34,946 or OKeh label. 650 00:58:36,643 --> 00:58:40,865 Hey, Huddie, we got $14 and four cents. 651 00:58:42,344 --> 00:58:44,608 $14 four bits in the snuff can. 652 00:58:44,651 --> 00:58:46,305 Now, half's yours. 653 00:58:46,348 --> 00:58:48,002 Time's up. 654 00:58:52,180 --> 00:58:55,662 Money ain't gonna do me no good on no Chain Gang. 655 00:58:59,840 --> 00:59:01,276 With $14... 656 00:59:07,935 --> 00:59:10,851 I can get me a regular one-way ticket to Memphis. 657 00:59:10,895 --> 00:59:11,896 $14. 658 00:59:16,030 --> 00:59:18,642 Huddie, you keep the bottle, okay, you hear? 659 00:59:21,819 --> 00:59:23,081 Hear? 660 00:59:30,044 --> 00:59:32,612 Look, now I'll see ya. 661 01:02:28,092 --> 01:02:31,008 Bring a little water, SilvyYah, yah! 662 01:02:31,051 --> 01:02:34,011 Bring a little water now 663 01:02:34,054 --> 01:02:36,535 Bring a little water, Silvy 664 01:02:36,578 --> 01:02:38,406 Ev'ry little once in a while 665 01:02:38,450 --> 01:02:39,581 Huddie! 666 01:02:39,625 --> 01:02:41,627 Ev'ry little once in a whileYeah. 667 01:02:41,670 --> 01:02:44,282 Huddie! 668 01:02:44,325 --> 01:02:47,241 Don't you see me comin'? 669 01:02:47,285 --> 01:02:50,375 Don't you see me now? 670 01:02:50,418 --> 01:02:52,986 Don't you see me comin' 671 01:02:53,030 --> 01:02:55,859 Ev'ry little once in a while 672 01:02:55,902 --> 01:02:57,948 Ev'ry little once in a while 673 01:02:57,991 --> 01:02:59,645 Brought you some water. 674 01:03:14,312 --> 01:03:15,443 Ow! 675 01:03:17,445 --> 01:03:19,578 Don't you hear me comin'? 676 01:03:19,621 --> 01:03:22,581 Don't you hear me now? 677 01:03:22,624 --> 01:03:25,236 Don't you hear me comin'? 678 01:03:25,279 --> 01:03:28,152 Ev'ry little once in a while 679 01:03:28,195 --> 01:03:32,417 Ev'ry little once in a while 680 01:03:32,460 --> 01:03:37,378 Oh, someday I aim to take you a long way from here. 681 01:03:37,422 --> 01:03:41,600 'Way from all this white man's trouble and this white man's land. 682 01:03:43,297 --> 01:03:46,213 Bring a little water, Silvy 683 01:03:46,257 --> 01:03:49,260 Bring a little water now 684 01:03:49,303 --> 01:03:52,089 Bring a little water, SilvyAhh! 685 01:03:52,132 --> 01:03:55,266 Ev'ry little once in a while 686 01:04:04,492 --> 01:04:06,538 Ain't you gonna get ready? 687 01:04:06,581 --> 01:04:08,105 For what? 688 01:04:08,148 --> 01:04:10,020 For de dance at the Kingston place. 689 01:04:10,629 --> 01:04:11,804 I ain't goin'. 690 01:04:13,284 --> 01:04:16,504 What you talkin' 'bout? 691 01:04:16,548 --> 01:04:21,727 Ain't no particular pleasure watchin' all them womens climbin' all over you. 692 01:04:21,770 --> 01:04:24,556 They can't help it. 693 01:04:24,599 --> 01:04:25,818 Pshaw! 694 01:04:25,862 --> 01:04:27,515 I can just sing as sweet and tender. 695 01:04:29,866 --> 01:04:31,432 I don't pay 'em no mind now, do I? 696 01:04:34,653 --> 01:04:37,177 Anyway, it's too dangerous. 697 01:04:37,221 --> 01:04:39,005 Sheriff ain't but a few miles away. 698 01:04:39,049 --> 01:04:41,790 Nobody 'round here know me by my name. 699 01:04:41,834 --> 01:04:43,836 I'm Walter Boyd. 700 01:04:43,880 --> 01:04:46,143 Ain't no sheriff lookin' for no Walter Boyd. 701 01:04:47,144 --> 01:04:49,233 Sure. 702 01:04:49,276 --> 01:04:51,409 And when you get to playin' on that ol' 703 01:04:51,452 --> 01:04:53,324 twelve-string guitar, 704 01:04:53,367 --> 01:04:55,804 you ain't study about being no Walter Boyd. 705 01:04:55,848 --> 01:04:59,678 Ain't nothin' matter but bein' King of Music. 706 01:04:59,721 --> 01:05:01,506 How long you think it's goin' be, 707 01:05:01,549 --> 01:05:02,855 'fore that sheriff hear 'bout you 708 01:05:02,899 --> 01:05:05,162 and your fame get spread all around? 709 01:05:05,205 --> 01:05:07,729 Well, there's gonna be friends there, 710 01:05:07,773 --> 01:05:12,996 uh, Alex Griffin and Will Stafford, they's all friends. 711 01:05:14,911 --> 01:05:17,914 Time they get that whiskey in 'em, friend don't mean nothin'. 712 01:05:18,610 --> 01:05:20,612 Oh, listen at ya. 713 01:05:22,309 --> 01:05:26,618 Oh, honey, ya stay with me tonight. 714 01:05:28,533 --> 01:05:29,708 Don't you go. 715 01:05:29,751 --> 01:05:31,144 Oh. 716 01:05:31,188 --> 01:05:33,190 They countin' on me for the music. 717 01:05:33,233 --> 01:05:34,365 And we can use that extra money 718 01:05:34,408 --> 01:05:37,063 if I'm ever gonna get you outta here. 719 01:05:37,107 --> 01:05:38,847 Two or three greasy dollars 720 01:05:38,891 --> 01:05:40,066 and a bellyful of corn whiskey, 721 01:05:40,110 --> 01:05:41,502 that's all you're gonna get. 722 01:05:41,546 --> 01:05:42,590 "Two or three greasy dollars 723 01:05:42,634 --> 01:05:44,331 "and a bellyful of corn whiskey." 724 01:05:44,375 --> 01:05:45,419 Well, them "two or three dollars" 725 01:05:45,463 --> 01:05:47,508 will buy you a brand-new travelin' dress. 726 01:05:49,336 --> 01:05:50,685 I love you. 727 01:06:02,523 --> 01:06:04,917 I had this thing going... 728 01:06:04,961 --> 01:06:08,268 Come on, boy, play it. 729 01:06:08,312 --> 01:06:10,923 Dekalb blues, Lawd Dekalb blues, Lawd 730 01:06:10,967 --> 01:06:15,188 Make me feel so bad Make me feel so bad 731 01:06:16,363 --> 01:06:19,540 Dekalb blues, Lawd... 732 01:06:19,584 --> 01:06:21,412 733 01:06:25,720 --> 01:06:27,722 Make me think about 734 01:06:27,766 --> 01:06:30,073 The good times I've had 735 01:06:30,116 --> 01:06:32,684 Yeah! 736 01:06:32,727 --> 01:06:35,774 She longed for the powder and the string and comb 737 01:06:35,817 --> 01:06:37,776 Lord! 738 01:06:37,819 --> 01:06:39,778 Dekalb womanGet away from me. 739 01:06:39,821 --> 01:06:42,389 Would not have a home 740 01:06:42,433 --> 01:06:46,567 Spent all my money on that store dress for that gal 741 01:06:46,611 --> 01:06:50,832 and she spend all her time with anybody come along with two legs in his pants. 742 01:06:50,876 --> 01:06:54,445 She spent most of her time listenin' to ol' Walter here singin', 743 01:06:54,488 --> 01:06:56,186 that's what she done. 744 01:06:58,884 --> 01:07:01,669 Hey, Walter, how 'bout that time you went outdoors to pee? 745 01:07:01,713 --> 01:07:04,324 Huh? 746 01:07:04,368 --> 01:07:07,545 What you talkin' 'bout?When you went out to pee! 747 01:07:09,634 --> 01:07:11,114 That ain't all you was doin' with that thing 748 01:07:11,157 --> 01:07:13,594 out of your pants. 749 01:07:13,638 --> 01:07:16,423 Not with Alex's gal just beggin' for it!Shh! 750 01:07:18,034 --> 01:07:21,472 You prong my gal and you laugh in my face? 751 01:07:26,564 --> 01:07:27,521 Watch out, Walter! 752 01:07:59,292 --> 01:08:00,772 It's your fault. 753 01:08:01,903 --> 01:08:03,601 What'd you make me do that for? 754 01:08:03,644 --> 01:08:05,994 What'd you go and mess with me for? 755 01:08:16,004 --> 01:08:18,355 Walter Boyd done killed Alex Griffin! 756 01:08:24,012 --> 01:08:26,276 What'd you do that for? 757 01:08:32,369 --> 01:08:35,241 We was just friends, man. 758 01:08:38,592 --> 01:08:40,028 We's all good friends. 759 01:08:51,431 --> 01:08:52,780 How long? 760 01:08:54,652 --> 01:08:56,001 Thirty years. 761 01:08:58,264 --> 01:08:59,439 There you go. 762 01:08:59,483 --> 01:09:01,137 That's a lotta years. 763 01:09:03,922 --> 01:09:07,099 Law say you're supposed to stop whippin' when the blood come. 764 01:09:10,015 --> 01:09:12,583 They don't pay no mind here in Sugarland. 765 01:09:32,516 --> 01:09:35,997 Ally George, he the trusty. 766 01:09:41,916 --> 01:09:44,397 He ain't got no leg irons, 767 01:09:44,441 --> 01:09:46,617 how come he walk all cripped up like that? 768 01:09:49,968 --> 01:09:53,711 Him and three others done cut their hamstrings 769 01:09:53,754 --> 01:09:55,321 to keep from goin' out in the field. 770 01:10:00,979 --> 01:10:02,850 He shoulda cut his throat. 771 01:10:04,896 --> 01:10:06,071 Move it! 772 01:10:11,511 --> 01:10:12,991 What's wrong with the Bossman? 773 01:10:14,775 --> 01:10:16,864 Stomach gripes. 774 01:10:16,908 --> 01:10:18,649 Too much whiskey last night. 775 01:10:20,041 --> 01:10:24,132 When his gut gets to him, stay outta his way. 776 01:10:27,919 --> 01:10:29,529 Move it on, move it! 777 01:10:29,573 --> 01:10:31,836 Well he ain't gonna lick me with no whip. 778 01:10:34,055 --> 01:10:35,100 Yeah. 779 01:10:36,188 --> 01:10:37,450 Sure. 780 01:10:39,191 --> 01:10:40,497 Oh! 781 01:10:45,937 --> 01:10:47,155 What's the matter, old man? 782 01:10:47,199 --> 01:10:48,461 You all right? 783 01:10:48,505 --> 01:10:51,986 Come on, get movin', old man. Get movin'! 784 01:10:53,205 --> 01:10:55,947 You goddamn son of a bitch, you! 785 01:10:55,990 --> 01:10:57,731 You black bastard, you! 786 01:10:59,820 --> 01:11:02,127 Put down that hoe, Walter Boyd. 787 01:11:02,170 --> 01:11:04,390 Put down that goddamn hoe! 788 01:11:06,523 --> 01:11:09,134 Nigger, I said put down that hoe! 789 01:11:09,177 --> 01:11:11,571 Dick licker, Henry, Foster! 790 01:11:13,704 --> 01:11:15,488 Get in there, and move your ass! 791 01:11:15,532 --> 01:11:17,229 Get that hoe! 792 01:11:17,273 --> 01:11:20,014 Hey, Walter, it ain't no use. 793 01:11:20,058 --> 01:11:22,103 You're just gonna get whipped. 794 01:11:22,147 --> 01:11:23,888 Walter, put down the hoe. 795 01:11:40,470 --> 01:11:41,775 Put it down. 796 01:12:22,990 --> 01:12:25,297 How many is that? 797 01:12:27,473 --> 01:12:29,475 Fourteen. 798 01:12:30,955 --> 01:12:32,565 What the hell... 799 01:12:40,312 --> 01:12:42,923 Go get 'im, go get 'im. 800 01:14:36,080 --> 01:14:37,560 Hey, Boss! 801 01:14:37,603 --> 01:14:39,039 Walter Boyd's runnin', Boss! 802 01:14:39,083 --> 01:14:40,258 Where'd he go? 803 01:14:40,301 --> 01:14:43,914 He went out through there, I tried to stop him. 804 01:15:30,656 --> 01:15:32,571 Come on here. Let's go. 805 01:15:35,008 --> 01:15:37,271 Come on here, Vic. Let's go, Vic. 806 01:15:42,363 --> 01:15:44,670 Come on here, Vic. Come on here. 807 01:15:48,108 --> 01:15:49,501 Come on! 808 01:16:16,572 --> 01:16:18,356 Stop with that noise! 809 01:16:27,408 --> 01:16:29,759 Next one's goin' in somebody's black ass! 810 01:16:43,903 --> 01:16:44,730 You men sit down! 811 01:16:46,384 --> 01:16:47,428 Sit down! 812 01:16:52,608 --> 01:16:56,307 Ol' Riley walked the water 813 01:16:58,048 --> 01:17:02,139 Ol' Riley walked the water 814 01:17:03,270 --> 01:17:09,712 In them long hot summer days 815 01:17:10,974 --> 01:17:15,848 Ol' Riley, he's gone 816 01:17:15,892 --> 01:17:19,722 Ol' Riley, he's gone, long gone 817 01:17:21,071 --> 01:17:26,685 Like a turkey through the corn 818 01:17:35,825 --> 01:17:40,917 Ol' Riley walked the water Here, Rattler, here 819 01:17:40,960 --> 01:17:45,661 Ol' Riley walked the water Here, Rattler, here 820 01:17:45,704 --> 01:17:47,619 Ol' Riley's gone like a turkey through the corn 821 01:17:47,663 --> 01:17:49,969 Now, here, Rattler, here 822 01:17:50,013 --> 01:17:52,450 Ol' Riley's gone like a turkey through the corn 823 01:17:52,493 --> 01:17:54,974 Here, Rattler, here 824 01:18:15,865 --> 01:18:17,605 Child, get in the house. 825 01:18:17,649 --> 01:18:19,520 Get in the house. 826 01:18:34,057 --> 01:18:35,580 What you want, sonny? 827 01:18:40,890 --> 01:18:44,371 You gonna help me get these chains off, ol' lady? 828 01:18:44,415 --> 01:18:46,286 Oh, yeah, that be's what they say. 829 01:18:46,330 --> 01:18:47,984 Come 'round here botherin' a body. 830 01:18:49,115 --> 01:18:50,638 Any time o' day, just come a-runnin'. 831 01:18:50,682 --> 01:18:53,511 Don't care nothin' about no manners. No, sir. 832 01:18:53,554 --> 01:18:56,557 Lutie, bring the ax and wedge. 833 01:18:57,341 --> 01:18:58,734 Hurry, child. 834 01:19:25,325 --> 01:19:28,328 Well, look at that. 835 01:19:28,372 --> 01:19:30,853 They ain't makin' the chains like they used to. 836 01:19:34,465 --> 01:19:35,858 If you listen careful, sonny, 837 01:19:35,901 --> 01:19:38,425 you can hear them dogs back there where you come from. 838 01:19:48,131 --> 01:19:51,569 You get the shovel later, Lutie, you bury them, right? 839 01:20:13,330 --> 01:20:17,943 Ol' Riley walked the water Here, Rattler, here 840 01:20:17,987 --> 01:20:22,252 Ol' Riley walked the water Here, Rattler, here 841 01:20:26,647 --> 01:20:28,736 Ol' Riley gone like a turkey through the corn 842 01:20:28,780 --> 01:20:30,651 Here, Rattler, here 843 01:20:30,695 --> 01:20:33,002 Ol' Riley gone like a turkey through the corn 844 01:20:33,045 --> 01:20:34,786 Here, Rattler, here 845 01:20:51,977 --> 01:20:54,371 Rattler come when I blow my horn 846 01:20:54,414 --> 01:20:56,242 Here, Rattler, here 847 01:20:56,286 --> 01:20:58,549 Rattler come when I blow my horn 848 01:20:58,592 --> 01:21:00,768 Here, Rattler, here 849 01:21:00,812 --> 01:21:04,816 Toot, toot, toot Here, Rattler, here 850 01:21:04,860 --> 01:21:08,951 Toot, toot, toot Here, Rattler, here 851 01:21:46,249 --> 01:21:47,424 Come on! 852 01:21:47,467 --> 01:21:49,513 Here, Rattler, here, Rattler 853 01:21:49,556 --> 01:21:51,776 Here, Rattler, here 854 01:21:51,819 --> 01:21:53,821 Here, Rattler, here, Rattler 855 01:21:53,865 --> 01:21:55,649 Here, Rattler, here 856 01:21:57,042 --> 01:21:59,523 Come on. 857 01:22:21,501 --> 01:22:25,549 Ol' Riley walked the water Here, Rattler, here 858 01:22:25,592 --> 01:22:29,596 Ol' Riley walked the water Here, Rattler, here 859 01:23:00,888 --> 01:23:02,455 There's something going on there. 860 01:23:11,595 --> 01:23:12,900 Get down from there! 861 01:23:12,944 --> 01:23:14,859 No!We're takin' you back to camp. 862 01:23:14,902 --> 01:23:17,296 No!Come on down, Walter. 863 01:23:17,340 --> 01:23:18,341 We're goin' back to camp. 864 01:23:18,384 --> 01:23:19,907 No! 865 01:23:55,769 --> 01:24:01,297 Ol' Riley walked the water 866 01:24:04,343 --> 01:24:09,609 Ol' Riley walked the water 867 01:24:11,698 --> 01:24:17,791 In them long, hot summer days 868 01:24:35,244 --> 01:24:36,201 Walter. 869 01:24:39,074 --> 01:24:40,771 Walter! 870 01:24:44,949 --> 01:24:46,037 Here are your vittles, Walter. 871 01:24:48,300 --> 01:24:53,131 Hey, let go, let go, let go! 872 01:24:55,612 --> 01:24:58,180 I brung your vittles, ya ol' fool. 873 01:25:02,880 --> 01:25:05,448 I hear you holler on me. 874 01:25:05,491 --> 01:25:07,189 "Boss, Walter's runnin'!" 875 01:25:08,581 --> 01:25:10,105 When I get you, I'm gonna kill you. 876 01:25:11,541 --> 01:25:12,803 You hear me. 877 01:25:12,846 --> 01:25:14,457 When I went down, I knowed I wasn't gonna make it. 878 01:25:14,500 --> 01:25:16,415 And the Boss was comin'. 879 01:25:16,459 --> 01:25:19,766 It didn't matter to you one way or the other, so I hollered. 880 01:25:19,810 --> 01:25:21,159 Saved myself a lickin'. 881 01:25:27,296 --> 01:25:28,384 In times like these, 882 01:25:28,427 --> 01:25:30,864 you got to live the way you got to. 883 01:25:37,001 --> 01:25:39,438 I look at it this way. 884 01:25:39,482 --> 01:25:41,919 That ol' white man don't care if I live or die. 885 01:25:41,962 --> 01:25:44,835 Fact is, he'd just as soon I die. 886 01:25:47,707 --> 01:25:50,710 Every day, I say to myself... 887 01:25:53,539 --> 01:25:54,758 "Forget him!" 888 01:25:55,715 --> 01:25:57,108 Ain't gonna die. 889 01:25:59,502 --> 01:26:02,461 Ya suit your ways to the situation. 890 01:26:02,505 --> 01:26:06,073 Some other time, you can chonk that white man on his head. 891 01:26:08,163 --> 01:26:11,035 But now, you just study on livin' till tomorrow. 892 01:26:11,949 --> 01:26:13,603 You gonna learn. 893 01:26:14,473 --> 01:26:16,083 Now you take these peas 894 01:26:17,476 --> 01:26:19,174 and you eats every crumb 895 01:26:20,175 --> 01:26:21,654 and bide your time. 896 01:26:22,699 --> 01:26:23,787 That's the way you live. 897 01:26:26,964 --> 01:26:31,403 'Course when they wants to kill you, just livin' is winnin'. 898 01:26:31,447 --> 01:26:32,709 Here. 899 01:26:35,581 --> 01:26:37,714 Here! 900 01:27:11,704 --> 01:27:12,836 Can I help you? 901 01:27:12,879 --> 01:27:14,403 I come to get my boy. 902 01:27:14,925 --> 01:27:16,100 Come with me. 903 01:27:36,120 --> 01:27:37,730 Captain, here's that Ledbetter fella. 904 01:27:38,601 --> 01:27:40,298 All right, send him in. 905 01:27:53,006 --> 01:27:54,356 Have a seat. 906 01:27:55,574 --> 01:27:56,967 Thank you. 907 01:27:58,925 --> 01:28:00,753 So you're Walter Boyd's father. 908 01:28:02,015 --> 01:28:03,234 That's right. 909 01:28:03,713 --> 01:28:05,062 He my boy. 910 01:28:05,758 --> 01:28:07,586 Your name Ledbetter? 911 01:28:07,630 --> 01:28:08,761 Wesley Ledbetter? 912 01:28:09,762 --> 01:28:13,549 Well, Walter was a stepson. 913 01:28:13,592 --> 01:28:15,855 That's how come he got the name Boyd. 914 01:28:15,899 --> 01:28:17,727 All right, all right. 915 01:28:17,770 --> 01:28:20,469 Walter Boyd is good enough. 916 01:28:20,512 --> 01:28:21,905 Now... 917 01:28:24,603 --> 01:28:26,257 what can I do for you? 918 01:28:27,693 --> 01:28:32,655 I took 15 acres of good bottom land 919 01:28:32,698 --> 01:28:37,224 and I sold it to Mr. Braithwaite over in Mooringsport. 920 01:28:39,096 --> 01:28:40,793 I got the money right here. 921 01:28:42,752 --> 01:28:43,840 Every dollar. 922 01:28:48,888 --> 01:28:49,889 Captain... 923 01:28:52,979 --> 01:28:54,720 You take this here money 924 01:28:55,982 --> 01:28:57,288 and you turn my boy loose. 925 01:28:57,332 --> 01:29:00,509 Hold on, old man. I can't take your money. 926 01:29:01,292 --> 01:29:02,293 I ain't... 927 01:29:04,730 --> 01:29:07,342 Asking for no mercy or nothin'. 928 01:29:08,517 --> 01:29:11,171 You take it, hear, Captain! 929 01:29:14,044 --> 01:29:17,134 My wife died last corn-plantin' 930 01:29:17,177 --> 01:29:19,571 and I need my boy back on the farm. 931 01:29:19,615 --> 01:29:23,053 Listen to me, ol' man, it don't work that way. 932 01:29:23,096 --> 01:29:26,230 You can't buy your boy free. 933 01:29:26,273 --> 01:29:28,624 Your boy's been sentenced to 30 years 934 01:29:28,667 --> 01:29:31,583 under the laws of the sovereign state of Texas. 935 01:29:31,627 --> 01:29:34,760 I can't turn your boy loose. 936 01:29:34,804 --> 01:29:38,373 Now, you just take your money and run on home, hear, uncle? 937 01:29:41,724 --> 01:29:44,030 I ain't no kind o' kin to you, Captain. 938 01:29:52,778 --> 01:29:55,390 You want me to bring him in so's you can see him? 939 01:30:01,526 --> 01:30:02,832 No. 940 01:30:08,664 --> 01:30:11,710 I just as soon as not see him here. 941 01:30:16,106 --> 01:30:19,326 Captain, I'd like to leave some money for him then. 942 01:30:19,370 --> 01:30:21,372 No cash money. 943 01:30:21,416 --> 01:30:23,809 That's against all regulations. 944 01:30:56,363 --> 01:31:00,063 Supposin' I left some money for you to give to him... 945 01:31:00,106 --> 01:31:01,804 Listen, I told you... 946 01:31:01,847 --> 01:31:03,370 Hear... 947 01:31:03,414 --> 01:31:04,894 Hear me! 948 01:31:06,112 --> 01:31:08,637 You take it 949 01:31:08,680 --> 01:31:11,640 and get my boy the kind of guitar he plays. 950 01:31:13,511 --> 01:31:17,776 Don't cost but $15 or $20 in a hock shop. 951 01:31:20,431 --> 01:31:22,477 If that's all I can do for him, 952 01:31:23,434 --> 01:31:26,306 well, so be it. 953 01:31:37,622 --> 01:31:38,580 All right, Ledbetter. 954 01:31:44,455 --> 01:31:46,152 Anything you want me to tell him? 955 01:31:51,288 --> 01:31:52,594 No. 956 01:31:57,381 --> 01:31:59,949 No, there ain't nothin' you can tell him for me. 957 01:32:02,125 --> 01:32:06,477 Anything I got to hand down to my boy I already done. 958 01:32:07,826 --> 01:32:10,481 Just goodbye. 959 01:32:10,525 --> 01:32:13,310 Ain't likely I'm gonna see him again. 960 01:33:04,535 --> 01:33:09,540 Irene, goodnight 961 01:33:09,584 --> 01:33:14,371 Irene, goodnight 962 01:33:14,414 --> 01:33:19,419 Goodnight, Irene Goodnight, Irene 963 01:33:19,463 --> 01:33:24,468 I'll kiss you in my dreams 964 01:33:24,511 --> 01:33:28,385 Sometimes I live in the country 965 01:33:29,952 --> 01:33:34,783 Sometimes I live in town 966 01:33:34,826 --> 01:33:39,831 Sometimes I have a great notion 967 01:33:39,875 --> 01:33:44,706 To jump in the river and drown 968 01:33:45,576 --> 01:33:50,189 Irene, goodnight 969 01:33:50,929 --> 01:33:55,412 Irene, goodnight 970 01:33:55,455 --> 01:34:00,460 Goodnight, Irene Goodnight, Irene 971 01:34:00,504 --> 01:34:05,901 I'll kiss you in my dreams 972 01:34:05,944 --> 01:34:08,294 You caused me to weep 973 01:34:08,338 --> 01:34:10,775 You caused me to moan 974 01:34:10,819 --> 01:34:15,998 You caused me to leave my home 975 01:34:16,041 --> 01:34:20,959 The last words I heard her say 976 01:34:21,003 --> 01:34:25,094 I want you to sing me a song 977 01:34:26,573 --> 01:34:31,013 Irene, goodnight 978 01:34:31,056 --> 01:34:33,755 Walter Boyd, Governor Pat Neff's here. 979 01:34:35,321 --> 01:34:37,106 The Captain wants you to sing for him. 980 01:34:37,149 --> 01:34:39,630 Come on, we'll take your chains off. 981 01:35:54,879 --> 01:35:56,098 What's his name? 982 01:35:56,141 --> 01:35:57,621 Walter Boyd. 983 01:35:58,970 --> 01:35:59,928 Hey, you! 984 01:36:01,886 --> 01:36:04,715 You sing me a song now, ya hear? 985 01:36:18,207 --> 01:36:21,732 Mary, sweet Mary 986 01:36:27,216 --> 01:36:29,784 1923 987 01:36:29,827 --> 01:36:33,265 The judge took my liberty away from me 988 01:36:36,529 --> 01:36:38,967 1923 989 01:36:39,010 --> 01:36:42,057 The judge took my liberty away from me 990 01:36:46,148 --> 01:36:48,237 I'm your servant, compose this song 991 01:36:48,280 --> 01:36:51,066 Please, Governor Neff, let me go back home 992 01:36:55,331 --> 01:36:57,246 I'm your servant, compose this song 993 01:36:57,289 --> 01:37:00,249 Please, Governor Neff, let me go back home 994 01:37:03,774 --> 01:37:08,648 Goin' back to Mary Oh, Mary 995 01:37:13,044 --> 01:37:15,655 Ain't nothin' can sing like a darkie 996 01:37:15,699 --> 01:37:18,571 when he puts his mind to it. 997 01:37:18,615 --> 01:37:20,356 Ah, great. 998 01:37:23,315 --> 01:37:25,578 Please, Governor Neff, be good and kind 999 01:37:25,622 --> 01:37:28,625 If I don't get a pardon, will you cut my time? 1000 01:37:32,672 --> 01:37:35,153 Please, Governor Neff, be good and kind 1001 01:37:35,197 --> 01:37:37,939 If I don't get a pardon, will you cut my time? 1002 01:37:41,464 --> 01:37:44,075 If I had you, Governor Neff, like you got me 1003 01:37:44,119 --> 01:37:46,817 I'd wake up in the mornin' and set you free 1004 01:37:46,861 --> 01:37:50,734 Look there, playin' darkie for the white folks. 1005 01:37:50,777 --> 01:37:53,563 If I had you, Governor Neff, like you got me 1006 01:37:53,606 --> 01:37:57,523 I'd wake up in the mornin' and set you free 1007 01:37:57,567 --> 01:38:00,831 You know, I'll bet he's been makin' that song up for the last week. 1008 01:38:02,093 --> 01:38:03,181 That's like one of 'em. 1009 01:38:03,225 --> 01:38:04,313 They'll think of every way in the world 1010 01:38:04,356 --> 01:38:05,618 to get out of payin', you know that. 1011 01:38:05,662 --> 01:38:07,446 Shoot. 1012 01:38:21,547 --> 01:38:24,289 Well, ol' Walter, 1013 01:38:24,333 --> 01:38:26,552 you know I could give you a pardon. 1014 01:38:30,513 --> 01:38:32,210 But then... 1015 01:38:33,908 --> 01:38:36,432 I wouldn't have you down here to sing for me 1016 01:38:36,475 --> 01:38:38,347 when I came down next time. 1017 01:38:45,136 --> 01:38:46,572 Listen to this. 1018 01:38:47,834 --> 01:38:52,100 Ol' Walter, you know what I'm gonna do? 1019 01:38:52,143 --> 01:38:55,190 Tell you what I'm gonna do for you. 1020 01:38:55,233 --> 01:38:57,235 Just 'cause I like your singin' so much. 1021 01:39:00,064 --> 01:39:04,503 Last thing I do while I'm in office, 1022 01:39:04,547 --> 01:39:08,638 put your pardon papers on my desk. 1023 01:39:08,681 --> 01:39:11,554 Yes, sir, I'm gonna set you free. 1024 01:39:15,819 --> 01:39:16,820 Here. 1025 01:39:18,561 --> 01:39:22,608 Have one of Captain Freeman's 15-cent cigars. 1026 01:40:23,887 --> 01:40:25,367 Gov'nor goin' to turn me loose. 1027 01:40:27,456 --> 01:40:29,153 Pig shit! 1028 01:40:31,721 --> 01:40:33,462 Are you callin' me a liar? 1029 01:40:33,505 --> 01:40:37,335 I said to that Pat Neff, I said... 1030 01:40:37,379 --> 01:40:40,121 "You redneck cracker chicken plucker." 1031 01:40:44,908 --> 01:40:46,475 I said, "You goin' to turn me loose!" 1032 01:40:46,518 --> 01:40:49,391 He say, "Yes, yes, yes, yes!" 1033 01:40:52,176 --> 01:40:53,960 Bastard ain't gonna turn nobody loose. 1034 01:40:56,398 --> 01:41:00,315 You a damn fool, shufflin' your feets in the dirt for him, 1035 01:41:00,358 --> 01:41:02,273 playin' nigger. 1036 01:41:02,317 --> 01:41:03,840 Ain't gonna do you no good. 1037 01:41:09,411 --> 01:41:13,154 Like you said, you suit yourself to the situation. 1038 01:41:18,376 --> 01:41:21,901 And that son of a bitch is goin' to turn me loose! 1039 01:43:26,896 --> 01:43:28,811 Walter Boyd! 1040 01:43:28,854 --> 01:43:32,293 Get your ass over here, the Captain wants to see you. 1041 01:43:51,137 --> 01:43:52,574 Captain sir? 1042 01:43:54,053 --> 01:43:56,447 Walter, you go on home. 1043 01:43:56,491 --> 01:43:59,189 We can't waste no more vittles on you here. 1044 01:44:07,589 --> 01:44:09,547 What's the matter with you? 1045 01:44:09,591 --> 01:44:10,331 Do you hear me? 1046 01:44:10,374 --> 01:44:12,855 Pat Neff's out of office, 1047 01:44:12,898 --> 01:44:15,161 Ma Ferguson's the new governor. 1048 01:44:21,994 --> 01:44:25,041 He left the pardon paper behind like he said. 1049 01:44:35,965 --> 01:44:37,923 You go on home, Walter. 1050 01:44:58,596 --> 01:45:00,555 Open it up. 1051 01:45:16,614 --> 01:45:18,486 Take it easy, Walter. 1052 01:45:39,463 --> 01:45:42,292 Yon come Miss Rosie 1053 01:45:42,336 --> 01:45:45,426 How in the world do you know? 1054 01:45:45,469 --> 01:45:48,472 Well, I knows her by the apron 1055 01:45:48,516 --> 01:45:50,169 And the dress she wore 1056 01:45:50,213 --> 01:45:55,784 Umbrella on her shoulder, a piece o' paper in her hand 1057 01:45:55,827 --> 01:45:58,961 Well, she's gonna tell the gov'nor 1058 01:45:59,004 --> 01:46:00,615 Turn loose my man 1059 01:46:00,658 --> 01:46:04,923 Let the Midnight Special shine the light on me 1060 01:46:06,316 --> 01:46:09,014 Let the Midnight Special 1061 01:46:09,058 --> 01:46:11,539 Shine its ever-lovin' light on me 1062 01:46:11,582 --> 01:46:14,324 If you ever go to Houston 1063 01:46:14,368 --> 01:46:17,240 Boy, you better walk right 1064 01:46:17,283 --> 01:46:21,026 Well, you better not squabble and you better not fight 1065 01:46:21,070 --> 01:46:23,986 Or that sheriff will arrest you 1066 01:46:24,029 --> 01:46:26,684 And he will take you down 1067 01:46:26,728 --> 01:46:30,993 And that judge will sentence you penitentiary bound 1068 01:46:31,036 --> 01:46:36,128 Let the Midnight Special shine its light on me 1069 01:46:36,172 --> 01:46:39,044 Let the Midnight Special 1070 01:46:39,088 --> 01:46:44,398 Shine its ever-lovin' light on me 1071 01:47:28,572 --> 01:47:29,878 Huddie! 1072 01:47:33,359 --> 01:47:35,231 That's... 1073 01:47:35,274 --> 01:47:37,233 That's Huddie Ledbetter, that's who. 1074 01:47:37,276 --> 01:47:38,756 That's you. 1075 01:47:47,069 --> 01:47:48,418 Eula? 1076 01:47:48,462 --> 01:47:50,115 Eula? 1077 01:47:51,073 --> 01:47:53,031 Miss Eula! 1078 01:47:53,075 --> 01:47:55,207 Lord! 1079 01:48:00,082 --> 01:48:01,910 I guess there's nothin' more pitiful 1080 01:48:01,953 --> 01:48:03,999 than a broke ol' whore, is there? 1081 01:48:04,042 --> 01:48:05,957 Oh, you all right. 1082 01:48:06,001 --> 01:48:08,569 Come, sit. Come. 1083 01:48:08,612 --> 01:48:09,570 Come. 1084 01:48:11,397 --> 01:48:12,616 Oh. 1085 01:48:19,797 --> 01:48:21,407 Lord! 1086 01:48:22,452 --> 01:48:24,019 Oh! 1087 01:48:27,718 --> 01:48:29,764 There ain't no more Fannin Street no more. 1088 01:48:29,807 --> 01:48:30,808 No. 1089 01:48:30,852 --> 01:48:32,984 I can see that.Yeah. 1090 01:48:33,942 --> 01:48:37,772 Sheriff Tom Hughes, gone. 1091 01:48:37,815 --> 01:48:39,425 Sheriff Tom Hughes. 1092 01:48:39,469 --> 01:48:41,471 Well, that's good. 1093 01:48:44,996 --> 01:48:46,781 Since you left, I tell you, 1094 01:48:46,824 --> 01:48:50,828 nobody play no music here, y'know? 1095 01:48:50,872 --> 01:48:54,092 Ain't nothin' here on Fannin Street no more. 1096 01:48:55,485 --> 01:48:57,618 It used to be the place. 1097 01:48:57,661 --> 01:48:59,358 Nobody remembers. 1098 01:49:01,578 --> 01:49:04,450 Ain't nothin' in the world harder to remember 1099 01:49:04,494 --> 01:49:07,323 than the sweet taste of honey 1100 01:49:07,366 --> 01:49:09,760 when you was young. 1101 01:49:11,501 --> 01:49:12,502 Oh. 1102 01:49:14,330 --> 01:49:16,288 You know, I think... 1103 01:49:16,332 --> 01:49:19,944 I think I might just open me another house. 1104 01:49:19,988 --> 01:49:23,426 The way things is goin'... 1105 01:49:23,469 --> 01:49:26,429 Yeah, that's what I'll do. 1106 01:49:26,472 --> 01:49:27,604 I'll... 1107 01:49:32,566 --> 01:49:35,786 God almighty! You're still a hard man, Leadbelly. 1108 01:49:35,830 --> 01:49:37,658 What you doin' all these years? 1109 01:49:37,701 --> 01:49:40,878 I been doin' lots of time. 1110 01:49:40,922 --> 01:49:42,445 Lots of bad time. 1111 01:49:46,971 --> 01:49:48,886 You know, I guess I'm gonna do what you... 1112 01:49:48,930 --> 01:49:51,759 You told me to do way back ago. 1113 01:49:54,239 --> 01:49:55,371 Ol' Lead's goin' home. 1114 01:49:56,067 --> 01:49:57,503 Thank, you, Jesus. 1115 01:49:59,723 --> 01:50:01,856 Yes, ol' Lead's goin' home. 1116 01:50:02,857 --> 01:50:04,380 Uh-huh. 1117 01:50:07,122 --> 01:50:09,385 Say, you still got your ol' guitar? 1118 01:50:11,474 --> 01:50:13,215 I still picks a little. 1119 01:50:14,390 --> 01:50:15,521 Uh... 1120 01:50:15,565 --> 01:50:18,829 I got somethin' I kept... 1121 01:50:20,439 --> 01:50:22,528 All these years I kept for you. 1122 01:50:23,834 --> 01:50:26,054 It's two of your favorite picks. 1123 01:50:55,605 --> 01:50:58,260 You take care now, you hear? 1124 01:51:06,572 --> 01:51:08,574 Good mornin', blues 1125 01:51:08,618 --> 01:51:11,142 Blues, how do you do? 1126 01:51:13,405 --> 01:51:15,407 Good mornin', blues 1127 01:51:15,451 --> 01:51:18,367 Blues, how do you do? 1128 01:51:20,108 --> 01:51:22,240 Well, I'm doin' all right 1129 01:51:22,284 --> 01:51:24,242 Good mornin' How are you? 1130 01:51:26,810 --> 01:51:28,551 Lay down last night 1131 01:51:28,594 --> 01:51:32,033 I was turnin' from side to side 1132 01:51:33,948 --> 01:51:36,385 Oh... 1133 01:51:36,428 --> 01:51:37,647 Turnin' from side to side 1134 01:51:37,691 --> 01:51:40,868 Good mornin', blues 1135 01:51:40,911 --> 01:51:44,654 Blues, how do you do? 1136 01:51:47,613 --> 01:51:49,615 Good mornin', blues 1137 01:51:51,139 --> 01:51:54,795 Blues, how do you do? 1138 01:52:18,035 --> 01:52:19,384 Amy! 1139 01:52:19,428 --> 01:52:21,256 You better come on here, or Mama's goin' to whip you. 1140 01:52:21,299 --> 01:52:22,474 Amy, come on! 1141 01:52:22,518 --> 01:52:26,000 Betcha, I know who you is. 1142 01:52:26,043 --> 01:52:29,481 You sung at a Sukey Jump on a Saturday night at Collinses. 1143 01:52:32,354 --> 01:52:33,834 Green Corn, 1144 01:52:36,097 --> 01:52:37,098 Grey Goose 1145 01:52:38,752 --> 01:52:40,623 and Yellow Gal. 1146 01:52:40,666 --> 01:52:42,190 The Collinses? 1147 01:52:42,233 --> 01:52:44,496 You wasn't even born yet, girl. How you know that? 1148 01:52:44,540 --> 01:52:46,194 My mama told me. 1149 01:52:46,237 --> 01:52:47,673 What's your mama's name? 1150 01:52:47,717 --> 01:52:48,718 Miss Margaret Hayes. 1151 01:52:53,505 --> 01:52:54,506 Mar... 1152 01:52:56,682 --> 01:52:58,728 Lawd today! 1153 01:53:02,514 --> 01:53:03,689 What's your name? 1154 01:53:03,733 --> 01:53:05,126 Amy. 1155 01:53:08,042 --> 01:53:09,478 Amy. 1156 01:53:10,392 --> 01:53:11,697 Amy Judd. 1157 01:53:13,003 --> 01:53:16,702 Matt Hayes wouldn't own me when he married Mama 1158 01:53:16,746 --> 01:53:19,096 because I was a woods colt. 1159 01:53:22,447 --> 01:53:23,753 Your mama tell you about me? 1160 01:53:23,797 --> 01:53:25,581 Uh-huh. 1161 01:53:25,624 --> 01:53:28,236 She said you were the best songster 'round Caddo Lake before you went off. 1162 01:53:30,368 --> 01:53:32,370 And... 1163 01:53:32,414 --> 01:53:34,503 You was in the penitentiary. 1164 01:53:36,940 --> 01:53:38,681 What's it like there? 1165 01:53:41,075 --> 01:53:43,164 Hard work mostly. 1166 01:53:43,207 --> 01:53:45,383 But I was number one roller on the number one gang. 1167 01:53:45,427 --> 01:53:47,037 That's good? 1168 01:53:48,604 --> 01:53:51,476 It's a way of stayin' alive. 1169 01:53:51,520 --> 01:53:53,217 Keeps you from thinkin'. 1170 01:53:53,261 --> 01:53:54,828 'Bout what? 1171 01:53:56,568 --> 01:53:58,919 'Bout home mostly. 1172 01:54:08,972 --> 01:54:10,800 Hey, where you goin'? 1173 01:54:10,844 --> 01:54:12,410 Don't go up there. 1174 01:54:40,612 --> 01:54:42,136 Hey, Ma! 1175 01:54:53,887 --> 01:54:55,105 Come on, get in the house, hurry up. 1176 01:54:55,149 --> 01:54:56,802 Get in the house. Hurry up. 1177 01:54:57,847 --> 01:54:59,675 Henry, Henry! 1178 01:55:10,642 --> 01:55:12,296 Here! 1179 01:55:12,340 --> 01:55:13,341 What do you want here? 1180 01:55:13,384 --> 01:55:14,559 Nothin'. 1181 01:55:14,603 --> 01:55:16,692 This here used to be my daddy's land. 1182 01:55:19,738 --> 01:55:21,653 This here used to be our house. 1183 01:55:21,697 --> 01:55:22,785 No more it ain't. 1184 01:55:23,655 --> 01:55:24,874 Belong to Mr. Braithwaite. 1185 01:55:26,136 --> 01:55:27,094 I know you. 1186 01:55:28,399 --> 01:55:30,793 You Huddie Ledbetter. 1187 01:55:30,836 --> 01:55:32,360 You been in a penitentiary in Texas. 1188 01:55:32,403 --> 01:55:35,189 This used to be my daddy's land, that's all. 1189 01:55:35,232 --> 01:55:36,538 You go on now, hear? 1190 01:55:36,581 --> 01:55:38,366 Land don't belong to no Ledbetter no more. 1191 01:55:38,409 --> 01:55:39,715 Mr. Braithwaite own it. 1192 01:55:39,758 --> 01:55:41,935 I sharecrop for him. 1193 01:55:46,243 --> 01:55:48,506 I know 'bout you. You a murderer. 1194 01:55:48,550 --> 01:55:49,855 You go on now, hear? 1195 01:55:49,899 --> 01:55:52,075 Ain't nothin' for you here no more. 1196 01:55:52,119 --> 01:55:54,251 You got no claim. 1197 01:55:54,295 --> 01:55:56,775 This here been Ledbetter land since the War. 1198 01:55:56,819 --> 01:55:59,300 You get away from here. You don't belong here. 1199 01:56:24,629 --> 01:56:28,938 Black girl, black girl 1200 01:56:28,982 --> 01:56:33,116 Where will you go? 1201 01:56:33,160 --> 01:56:38,165 I'll go where the cold winds blow 1202 01:56:42,952 --> 01:56:44,736 Whatcha gonna do now? 1203 01:56:45,607 --> 01:56:46,782 Don't know. 1204 01:56:49,741 --> 01:56:52,266 Mama say you sure know how to play that guitar. 1205 01:56:53,658 --> 01:56:56,748 Well, ain't nobody can outpick and outholler me, 1206 01:56:56,792 --> 01:56:58,402 now that's for sure. 1207 01:56:58,446 --> 01:57:00,796 I was the king of, uh... 1208 01:57:01,318 --> 01:57:02,972 King of what? 1209 01:57:04,321 --> 01:57:06,584 Uh, somewhere... 1210 01:57:06,628 --> 01:57:10,284 Somewhere in this world I'm gonna... 1211 01:57:10,327 --> 01:57:11,633 You want to be king to me? 1212 01:57:18,335 --> 01:57:20,337 Hey! Hey! 1213 01:57:20,381 --> 01:57:21,686 Mr. Braithwaite! 1214 01:57:24,950 --> 01:57:27,692 That Ledbetter fellow was here messin' around the house. 1215 01:57:27,736 --> 01:57:29,433 Lookin' all over the place. 1216 01:57:29,477 --> 01:57:31,957 Yeah, I told him to get the hell outta here. 1217 01:57:32,001 --> 01:57:33,307 Where'd he go? 1218 01:57:33,350 --> 01:57:34,525 Down the road, straight ahead. 1219 01:58:07,384 --> 01:58:08,472 Y'all get home, it's gettin' late now. 1220 01:58:08,516 --> 01:58:09,604 I'll be talking to you later. 1221 01:58:09,647 --> 01:58:12,476 Go! Go, now, and don't look back. 1222 01:58:13,695 --> 01:58:15,566 How do you do there, gents? 1223 01:58:16,611 --> 01:58:18,178 You some kind of tough nigger? 1224 01:58:18,221 --> 01:58:20,180 You goin' back to jail, ol' boy. 1225 01:58:52,429 --> 01:58:53,996 Come on! 1226 01:59:11,144 --> 01:59:13,233 That's the way it all happened. 1227 01:59:14,495 --> 01:59:17,324 Songs and everything else. 1228 01:59:28,422 --> 01:59:29,162 Tom. 1229 01:59:39,520 --> 01:59:40,477 Huddie... 1230 01:59:43,698 --> 01:59:45,395 Time to go back. 1231 01:59:52,576 --> 01:59:55,144 What you goin' to do with all them songs? 1232 01:59:55,188 --> 01:59:59,061 Well for one thing, we'll take 'em to Washington to the Library of Congress. 1233 02:00:00,802 --> 02:00:02,456 What for? 1234 02:00:02,499 --> 02:00:03,631 We collect songs. 1235 02:00:06,634 --> 02:00:08,766 Like they was butterflies or somethin'? 1236 02:00:08,810 --> 02:00:10,855 Somethin like that. 1237 02:00:13,554 --> 02:00:15,817 Then you goin' to kill 'em. 1238 02:00:15,860 --> 02:00:19,124 You goin' to stick pins through 'em and kill 'em. 1239 02:00:22,867 --> 02:00:25,609 They'll be dead for sure then. 1240 02:00:25,653 --> 02:00:28,003 Songs got to fly free like the butterflies. 1241 02:00:29,613 --> 02:00:31,311 Well, that's why we write 'em down and put 'em on record 1242 02:00:31,354 --> 02:00:32,834 so they won't be forgotten. 1243 02:00:42,017 --> 02:00:44,672 You got my whole damn life there. 1244 02:00:46,021 --> 02:00:49,198 My mama, my papa... 1245 02:00:51,548 --> 02:00:53,898 And everything that ain't gone yet... 1246 02:00:55,160 --> 02:00:57,467 'Cept me singin' about 'em. 1247 02:00:59,556 --> 02:01:03,473 You ain't goin' to stick no pins in my songs. 1248 02:01:03,517 --> 02:01:06,520 Hide 'em in some Washington library. 1249 02:01:08,391 --> 02:01:10,828 They be dead for sure then. 1250 02:01:10,872 --> 02:01:12,613 I gotta get outta here. 1251 02:01:13,744 --> 02:01:16,530 Sing my papa alive, 1252 02:01:16,573 --> 02:01:18,532 else won't be nothin' left of him. 1253 02:01:18,575 --> 02:01:20,229 Professor, you through with that boy? 1254 02:01:20,273 --> 02:01:22,057 Just a minute. 1255 02:01:31,284 --> 02:01:32,372 Professor... 1256 02:01:34,112 --> 02:01:36,767 Couldn't we take his pardon song, 1257 02:01:36,811 --> 02:01:38,378 the one he sang for the Governor? 1258 02:01:39,553 --> 02:01:41,598 We'll be in Baton Rouge next week 1259 02:01:41,642 --> 02:01:44,035 and well, it worked in Texas with Pat Neff. 1260 02:01:46,081 --> 02:01:48,562 Now listen, Mr. Lomax, 1261 02:01:48,605 --> 02:01:51,782 you can take my song to that Governor O.K. Allen, 1262 02:01:51,826 --> 02:01:53,175 but I ain't gonna stand for him in the dust 1263 02:01:53,218 --> 02:01:56,047 like I did for that Governor Neff in Texas. 1264 02:01:56,091 --> 02:01:57,745 Huddie, we can't promise you anything. 1265 02:01:57,788 --> 02:01:59,747 Well, I ain't askin'! 1266 02:02:01,662 --> 02:02:04,969 Six months I be turned loose from here under the Hog Law. 1267 02:02:05,013 --> 02:02:06,493 I be free. 1268 02:02:08,233 --> 02:02:09,583 Be my own man. 1269 02:02:43,573 --> 02:02:47,142 I'm gonna sing my songs in your Washington Congress Library 1270 02:02:47,185 --> 02:02:50,275 and in Memphis and Chicago and New York! 1271 02:02:53,496 --> 02:02:54,628 I will. 1272 02:03:09,033 --> 02:03:10,339 Come on, boy. 1273 02:03:31,839 --> 02:03:33,275 Hey, you! 1274 02:03:34,624 --> 02:03:36,017 Move your ass! 1275 02:03:44,025 --> 02:03:45,548 Six more months. 1276 02:03:47,420 --> 02:03:49,987 That's all, just six more months. 1277 02:03:51,249 --> 02:03:52,860 And after seven years, 1278 02:03:54,601 --> 02:03:56,385 you ain't broke my body, 1279 02:03:57,125 --> 02:03:59,257 you ain't broke my mind, 1280 02:03:59,301 --> 02:04:01,434 and you ain't broke my spirit! 1281 02:04:07,614 --> 02:04:13,402 Go down, Ol' Hannah 1282 02:04:16,100 --> 02:04:21,236 Don't you rise no more 1283 02:04:22,933 --> 02:04:29,679 Well, if you rise in the mornin' 1284 02:04:31,028 --> 02:04:35,293 Bring Judgment Day 1285 02:04:36,947 --> 02:04:42,910 You oughta been on the brazis 1286 02:04:44,781 --> 02:04:49,351 Nineteen and ten 1287 02:04:51,266 --> 02:04:57,315 They was drivin' the women 1288 02:04:59,187 --> 02:05:04,061 Like they do the men 1289 02:05:05,759 --> 02:05:10,807 Oh, the sun was shinin' 1290 02:05:13,331 --> 02:05:18,598 And the men was flyin' 1291 02:05:19,816 --> 02:05:25,996 Oh, the cap'n was a-hollerin' 1292 02:05:28,869 --> 02:05:35,049 And the men was dyin' 1293 02:05:35,092 --> 02:05:40,315 Go down, Ol' Hannah 1294 02:05:42,665 --> 02:05:48,802 Doncha rise no more 1295 02:05:48,845 --> 02:05:54,459 Well, if you rise in the mornin' 1296 02:05:57,027 --> 02:06:02,163 Bring Judgment Day 86024