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um

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foreign

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this

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stay

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um

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outside

so

life

is disappointing

forget it

we have no troubles here

here

life is beautiful

the girls are beautiful

even the orchestra is beautiful

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foreign

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and now presenting the cabaret girls

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rosie so cold because of her cheeks

see

lulu

she's a tiger

frenchy

she loves to polish

and kicks us

you like texas

we're too bad cause texas likes girls

rosie lulu frenchie and texas each and

everyone

a virgin

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you don't believe me

don't take my word for it

go ahead

try her

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outside it is winter but in here it's so

hot

every night we have to battle with the

girls to keep them from taking off all

of their closings so don't go away who

knows tonight we may lose the

battle

and are here to serve you

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wow

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oh

is

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my dad

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happy to see you live

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is

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thank you

club

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occupied ah it is permitted oh please

america oh i might as well wear a sign

yankee doodle uh sherman

berlin

ernst ludwig cliff bradshaw harrisburg

pennsylvania

are we uh slowing down for the german

border uh

yeah

oh you've taken this trip before

many many times you are a tourist oh no

i'm not exactly i'm a writer and i give

english lessons

ah

would you care for a cigarette

hair libby

yeah cigarette no thank you

grant's controller

thank

you ah

welcome to germany mr bradshaw

yours

thank you

thank you

thank you

i wish you will enjoy your stay in

germany and the most happy new year

deutsche grand controller uh what's in

the bag

oh hey baubles from paris perfumes

silk stalkings about uh more than is

permitted

you understand well i guess i've done a

little smuggling myself

oh you are most understanding i thank

you very much

and i would like to see to it that

berlin will open its arms to you we

begin tonight new year's eve

the kitkat club the hottest spot in

berlin

telephones on every table girls call you

boys call you you call them instant

connections thanks but i've still got to

find a room you have no room

but this is no problem i know the finest

residents in all believe just tell

freudline schneider yeah that ernst

ludwig has recommended i can't afford

the finest residence in all berlin i

need something inexpensive oh but this

is inexpensive it's very inexpensive i

don't care if it's awful as long as it's

cheap oh but this is awful

now now you will love it freudline

schneider you see you see you have a new

friend and exclusive you have a fine

place to live

and you have perhaps even your first

english pupil yeah so welcome to berlin

my friends welcome to battling

welcome

to

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foreign rest

stay

so you see here bread sure all comforts

and with breakfast only 100 marks oh

it's very nice for lance schneider but

you don't have something cheaper but for

a friend of her ludwig very little money

but you will give english lessons and

you will have many pupils and they will

pay you and then you will pay me 50

marks is my absolute limit unacceptable

you don't have anything else i don't

care how small how far from the bathroom

but for a professor this is more

suitable i'm not a professor think of me

as a starving author what do you have

for a starving author an author

a poet you have the lord

and you will be most famous there is no

doubt this is your room look here for

your clothing and here somewhere for you

to write come

sit

a novelist it's like years ago and in

all my rooms persons of real quality i

can still only afford 50 marks this room

is worth 100 more than 100.

50.

sit

you say 50 marks

i say 100 marks

a difference of 50 marks

why should that stand in our way

as long as the room's too lit the 50

that i will get is 50 more than i had

yesterday yeah

yeah when you're as old as i ha

is anyone as old as i

what difference does it make and offer

comes

your take

for the sun will rise and the moon will

set and you learn how to settle for what

you get it will all go on if we're here

or not so who cares

so what

so who cares

so what

when i was a girl my summers were spent

by the sea

so what and i had a maid doing all of

the housework not me

so what

now i scrub up the floors and i washed

down the walls and i emptied the chamber

pot

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so what

when i had a man my figure was dumpy and

fat

so what

through all of our years he was so

disappointed in that

so what

now i have what he missed and my figure

is trim but he lies in a churchyard plot

if it wasn't to be that he ever should

see the ant

in me so what

for the sun will rise and the moon will

set and you learn how to settle for what

you get it will all go on if we're here

or not so who cares

so what

so who cares

so what so once i was rich and now all

my fortune is gone

so what

and love disappeared and only the memory

lives on

so what

if i live through all that and i live

through all that 50 marks doesn't mean a

lot

if i like that you're here and i like

the choice here happy new year my dear

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so what so who cares

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who cares

so

the what is in the hole i will fetch you

towels

coming

schneider there you are there's no hot

water in the bathroom it's the second

time this week please excuse me here

bread sure no you have finally rented

this room uh this is here clifford

bradshaw the world famous american

novelist

how do you do

i'm proline cost

across the hall

please feel free huh any time

where are you

it's my nephew

yeah he is

visiting me from

hamburg

come we talk outside we are disturbing

here brochure and take your nephew with

you from hamburg

please accept my apologies here brad so

i guarantee she will not bother you

again bother me

what is it now hey schneider it is

eleven o'clock

it's eleven o'clock already i was just

showing here bradshaw his room here

brett joy he assures who also lives here

oh please to me i'm an american i have a

cousin in buffalo felix tannenbaum it is

possible you know him

he has a wife uh berta

i hardly ever get to buffalo

yeshua's is proprietor of the finest

fruit market on the knowledge of plants

italian oranges delicious i will dress

now here schultz has been kind enough to

invite me to join him for a glass of

schnapps for a new year and a little

fruit

and after all why not

otherwise i'm in my bed with a hot water

bottle

and perhaps have retro oh no no i uh

another time i want to wish you much

muscle in the new year

uh muscle it's jewish means luck oh

thanks same to you i got you for a live

in 10 minutes with the snaps and the

fruit

and now please anything you require

knock on my door anytime day or night

also

welcome to bellee

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welcome to berlin

famous novelist

open the remington

hello

that's what you came here for sitting

all alone like that you happen to catch

my eye

would you like to buy a girl a drink

would you like to buy a boy

a drink

welcome to berlin

famous novelist

yeah

you would

come on over

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and now

ladies and gentlemen

the kid cat club is proud to present the

most talented young lady from england

yes

england

she is so

early yesterday i said to her i want you

for my wife and she said your wife why

would she convince me

thank you

the glass of fashion and the mode of

form fineline sally balls

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you have to understand

the way i am

my hair

a tiger is a tiger

not a lamb

my hair

you'll never turn the vinegar to

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so i do

what i do

when i'm through

then i'm through

and i'm through

today

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i always said that i was a robot

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the continent of europe

is so

wide

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my hair

not only up and down

but side to side

right here

i couldn't ever cross it

if i tried

my hair

but i do

what i can

inch by inch

step by step

my boy

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right

is

oh

thank you

she's so

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hot table number three

hello you're english

absolutely

you're american

but you speak english beautifully

i'm a table number four

we just keep talking please you can't

imagine how stuffed i feel uh okay uh

let's see

oh somewhere in this favored land the

sun is shining bright the band is

playing somewhere and somewhere hearts

are light

and somewhere men are laughing and

somewhere people shout

but there is no joy in mudville

mighty casey has struck out oh yes yes

dan stop please

that's all there is

my name's cliff bradshaw i'm from

harrisburg pennsylvania

you never heard of it such a beautiful

language

are you alone

yes then let me buy you a drink

but not right at this time

ladies and gentlemen it is almost

midnight husbands you have only 10

seconds in which to loose your ways five

four

two

one

happy new year

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would you uh recite that again about

mudville

uh oh somewhere in this favorite lamb

the sun is

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happy new year uh thanks why did you say

you were in english uh a whim you never

had a whim oh constantly

i used to love pretending i was someone

else someone quite mysterious and

fascinating

until one day i grew up and realized i

was mysterious and fascinating

i'm sally bose

are you new in berlin uh yeah i've only

been here three hour

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three hours

and how long are you planning to stay

uh well i'm writing a novel i'll stay

till it's finished you're a writer

would i know your books it's highly

unlikely anyway it's book singular was

it a huge series ah well i said it

showed promise promise let's talk about

sally bowles what part of england are

you from london

stratford uneven

stonehenge

you must never ask me questions if i

want to tell you anything i will

why did you come to berlin to do your

novel

uh well i already tried london rome

paris just looking for a place to write

something to write about and where are

you staying

how about you where do you live

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over the club

we could sneak upstairs

possibly

later on

if you like

sneak

max is made terribly jealous oh max your

husband

no

he's just the man i'm living with

this week

i say am i shocking you talking like

this i say are you trying to shock me

you're quite right you know

tell is that truly a place called

mountville absolutely it's in new jersey

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hello

happy new year

thanks my name's bobby oh this is my

friend victor

i was introduced to you in london at the

nightingale bar

nightingale bar

but you were there correct

correct i knew it i'm

fabulous with

phases

would you care to dance

uh not right now oh but everybody dances

together here not right now thank you

you americans

you're so inhibited

but this is berlin

so why don't you just relax

take off your closet

be yourself

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you know what is the trouble with

english

it is not like german

not it's not an exact language either

one must memorize fifty thousand words

either one cannot speak it correctly

either one must memorize or one cannot

speak ah-ha either oh

oh the time is now finished oh i'm in a

hurry no no the lesson is one hour no

another pupil is waiting what other

people

no other pupil

then i make a suggestion

i have a telephone a lady friend and she

will bring a friend for you elsa a

genuine flapper uh not tonight ernst

you have not seen this elsa hot stuff

believe me in one minute i guarantee you

were making a pass after her

a pass at her

pass at her

besides i've got a date tonight

a typewriter won't come and do with a

typewriter not very much lately well

then come with me we make a large

whoopee

for one thing i've got a budget and it

only allows for a very small whoopee

unfortunately then you are my guest now

i show you

the real berlin

so come

we will acquaint with one another

as soon as i can afford it

oh it is difficult you know

adjusting to the idea of a poor american

but

i tell you a secret

there's no need for this poverty

now if you're willing i'll show you a

most excellent way to supplement your

income

doing what or by taking very brief trips

to paris perhaps a few days each time

nothing more but it'll pay you well

extremely well

uh come in

here bradshaw

there is a young lady to see you a young

lady in a fur coat a young lady floyline

bowles

or balls oh well ask her to come in

you are old friends you and florian

balls from london perhaps from the

kitkat club last night last night you

are some snappy operator

cliff

is dirty silly

will you be up there and get my bag

it's lovely bro line schneider

all these wonderful old pieces

just put it anywhere i'll unpack later

unpack but here brett shaw did not

mention i'll just be here temporarily

i'm sorry but this is not possible how

much are you paying uh 50 marks 60 marks

it is not the money

i cannot permit 80. this room is worth

100 more than 100. 80.

85.

done

and now you make yourself cozy

frow bread sure

yes well i will see you friday for the

next lesson

then i tell you something i think i'm

taking from you who's the wrong kind of

lesson

sally what the hell's this all about oh

could you guess i was terrified no were

you well what have you thrown me out can

you imagine how that would feel

being thrown out twice in one day oh you

mean max oh dear max

and you know whose fault it was don't

you

if you hadn't come to the kitkat club

and been so dreadfully attractive

and recited poetry uh listen sally uh

about you staying you know right now a

spot of gin

gin you've got some i mean i think one

mask no i i don't have any gin oh well

prairie oysters then prairie oysters

i practically live on them just ruined

washed around in some worcestershire

sauce

it's heaven for a hangover i haven't got

a hangover

say that's quite a coat

should be

cost me all i had

little did i realize how soon i'd be

unemployed

what about your job at the club well

that's rather complicated you see one of

the owners of the club oh dear max

oh

you're divinely intuitive

i do hope i'm not going to fall madly in

love with you

are you in the theatre in any way no

then you're safe

more or less

though i do believe a woman can't be a

truly great actress so she's had several

passionate affairs

and had her heart broken

should have let hands pay my cap there

he's got all that money from paris paris

he smuggles it in for some political

party orange is in politics he didn't

know

he goes to paris about once a month and

brings back pots of money and he has to

smuggle it in it's terribly dangerous

but ernst is so resourceful

he's discovered the customs people

almost never opened the bags of

non-germans

so just before the border you find some

innocent looking englishman

or american it's hard to imagine an

american that gullible

house

it means neck and leg break supposed to

stop it happening though i doubt it does

listen sally drink

this thing amazing

you know what it tastes like peppermint

oh

well it's your toothbrush glass

i should have rinsed it

listen sally you've got to

understand this is your novel

but it's in german

my camp

it's not my novel i thought i should

learn something about german politics

why you're an american

you know i've never known a novelist

before

will i be allowed to watch you work

i promise to be incredibly quiet

sally i i don't think i can work with

someone else on the premises i go out

when you're writing take long

invigorating walks

in the middle of the night

and uh there's another thing uh

look i'm

not a prude at least are you homosexual

in any way

bobby thinks you are

bobby

one of the boys at the club

he claims he met you in london

at the nightingale bar

uh

it's possible

it is

how fascinating

and did you and bobby have an affair

did he say that he implied it

the truth about bobby is

he's not my type

i say am i shocking you talking like

this oh not a bit

but is it true

you're not just saying it hoping i'll

take my bag and round screaming into the

night oh the thought had occurred to me

but uh

no it's all true

however

it's not the sort of thing you generally

go around advertising is it

i guess not

and isn't that sad

because i think people are people

i really do cliff

don't you

i don't think we should have to

apologize for anything

for example

if i paint my fingernails green and it

happens i do paint them

green if someone should ask me why

i say i think it's pretty

i think it's pretty a reply

so if someone should ask about you and

me one day

you have two alternatives

you can either say oh yes it's true

we're living in delicious sin

or you can simply tell them the truth

and say

i

met this

perfectly marvelous girl in this

perfectly wonderful place as i lifted a

glass to the start of a marvelous year

before i knew

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charming american

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in my perfectly beautiful room and we're

living together

distracting

no

inspiring

tells me

perfectly marvelous tales of her throny

scandal of life which i'll probably use

as a chapter or two in my

book and since my stay in berlin was too

forth

creation

what luck to fall on a fabulous source

of skin

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in

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ew it's a taxi man

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hello taxi man

just leave them outside i'll get them

later

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seriously

please

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i

met

this

truly remarkable girl in this really

incredible town

and she skillfully managed to talk away

into my room

i've got a terrible feeling i've said

i don't think

besides i've only got one narrow bed

of

something

so you see everyone in berlin has a

perfectly marvelous roommate

some people have two people

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i go out daily to earn a daily bread but

with one singing come and hit

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please

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too

let's go for one

that's sailor

out of my house

that's sailor dear lady that's my

brother

out out out no wait

wait

how dare you

do you think it is easy finding a sailor

oh this was only my second one since new

year's and what is it now april you're

second you're second you think i don't

know what goes on here sailors all the

time in out in out

god only knows what the neighbors think

i have here a battleship

while i cost one sailor more i warn you

i call the police

and if i cannot pay the rent

the rent is due each friday as always no

sailors

no rent

i move

move move what am i supposed to do with

your room out of the blue she tells me i

move

is that gratitude for you

only last week i gave you another new

mattress

all right all right so i will leave the

end of the week since you insist i

insist you insist

what about the sailors sailors

well i'm cursed if you wish to continue

living here you must not let me catch

you bringing in any more sailors

you understand

very well

so it is the same as always

no it is not the same as always

do you hear foil and curse i have put my

foot down

while i'm cursed foreign cursed okay

schneider good evening oh it sure is

such a surprise

you are occupied no

no free as a bird

oh please forgive my appearance oh but

it is most becoming oh thank you

i i brought you a little something from

the shop another little something my

compliments

oh so heavy what can it be pears

last wednesday you brought me pears and

such pears

apples possibly no friday was apples

friday was apples

so i cannot guess then open

look at shorts can i believe what i see

this is too much to accept

so rare so costly so luxurious

you bought me diamonds

if you bought me pearls

if you bought me roses like some other

gents might bring for other girls

it couldn't please me more

than the gift i see

a pineapple

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grab the chair to keep from fading dead

away

it couldn't please me

more than to see you clean

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it's from

california

even so

how am i to thank you

kindly let it pass

would you like a slice that might be

nice but frankly it would give me gas

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me

but you must not bring me any more

pineapples

you're here

it's not proper

it's a gift a young man would present to

his lady love

it makes me blush

there's no one no one in the whole of

berlin who is multi-serving if i could

i'd fill your entire room with

pineapples

for you

from your

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oh

i think i will

lie down for a few moments

my head is

spinning

good evening roy lane schneider

good evening headshots oh

i am overwhelmed

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this way

you're looking for a quotient

i'm looking for two marks

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hmm

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is

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oh

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is

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coming

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it's not the novel i'm writing to my

mother thanking her for the check

it finally arrived she says she's

knitting you a sweater you're joking

i've started a sweater for your friend

sally you sent her my measurements the

way she knits it doesn't matter

oh and uh she says tell sally to lay off

the gin she does not listen to this

we're really excited about you finishing

your book

what a liar i am it's my fault if i

weren't always dragging you off to party

after party but i like those parties

truth is i like this whole city it's so

tacky and terrible everybody's having

such a great time if this were a movie

do you know what would happen it'd be a

tidal wave or a volcano would arrive

or maybe you should write for the cinema

as soon as i finish the novel

as soon as i start the novel

must be something to write about

sally ball of course

i told you i'd inspire you

the affairs of sally

but make me ravishing and sublimely

seductive so no man can resist me

not even a very handsome rather strange

young american

who allows me to share his room and his

bed and falls desperately in love with

me

this is fiction

a guaranteed bestseller

so now all i have to do is ride it

oh

poor cliff

it is my fault

i'm afraid i am rather distracting oh

you're right we could possibly do any

writing with you around

oh sally it didn't mean time cliff

i've never stayed so long with anyone

what's the matter

got a better offer who doesn't

one must keep mobile mustn't one

i'm sure you've offers two oh dozens

a couple

not one

not even that persistent gottfried

what's his name from schwartzenberg

von schwarzenbaum

he found three times yesterday and i

don't get it in america if you tell

someone you're not interested in them

you don't want to talk to them in fact

you wish they go the hell away they

generally take the hint but in europe

well why did you give him your number he

must have been drunk well whatever you

captivated him

i wish i could have been at that party

a fly on the wall it wasn't that

exciting believe me but it seems to have

been exciting for god free from

schwarzenegger don't go

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what

don't

go you serious

one must keep mobile mustn't worry go to

hell with it

maybe i like it here

i

need you here i mean

you're the only uh

woman

i've ever

listen sally maybe you're the only girl

i'll ever want

i've never felt this way before

you truly mean this

or is it some sort of joke we'll love

ourselves sick about later on well if

it's a joke it's on me because i mean it

more than i've ever meant anything

and now you want to tell me what's wrong

oh

nothing

not a thing

i'm pregnant

you sure

uh well what are we gonna do what am i

going to do

the usual thing i guess you've done it

before oh thousands of times well

don't you think you ought to tell the

father

why well i'll pay for the doctor for one

thing

i do say hate it cliff

that awful doctor

then maybe who is the father

it could be anyone it could be me

sally it could be me and sally if it is

mine we will never know we could oh yes

nine months of being sick every morning

and then the heavy day

and whom does it resemble

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a horrid little german infant with a

moustache

bordering us about

i'm willing to take that chance

or perhaps an oriental i seem to recall

a rather taciturn malaysian sally

will you do me a favor and shut up we'd

just be serious for a minute i'd be

doubting it would be the best thing that

ever happened to us i doubt it because

the truth is we're drifting we have no

focus to our lives a baby would make all

the difference an awkward to me i'll get

a job i'd have to i'd stay home nights

write the novel wash the diapers the

whole bit sally would be wonderful

father i love kids

this is totally crazy

i know that's why i thought you might go

for it

listen sally will you do one thing for

me please

at least would you at least think about

this

before you see the doctor

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maybe this time

i'll be lucky

maybe this time you'll stay

maybe this time

for the first time

love won't hurt

he will hold me fast

i'll be home at last

not a loser

anymore like the last time and

the time before

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everybody

loves the winner

so nobody loved me

lady peaceful

lady happy

that's what i longed to be

sometimes

so nobody loved me

that's what i long to be

only

it's gotta happen

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sometime

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maybe this time

maybe this time

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it would never work out it could

clifford sally

i i do not wish to intrude

would you like something

only if you will join with me

well just this once

what's on your mind ernst

you remember i mentioned the possibility

of an occasional business trip to paris

if you are interested i think in the

next few days uh what would i have to do

oh it is so very simple you go to an

address i will give you you pick up a

small briefcase you bring it back to

berlin and i pay you 75 marks

and i promise you're giving help to a

very good cause oh well whatever it is

don't tell me i don't want to know as

you wish how about tomorrow

tomorrow now now we're all going to a

party i think i'll skip it but why

clifford

let's just say i'm

turning over a new leaf

turning over a new tree

and you say you are turning over as well

who knows

i mean cliff and i may just turn out to

be the two most utterly boring people

you've ever met

but uh you will go to paris oh

absolutely anything for a buck

you bros

there's more than one way to make money

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money makes

the world go around

the world

it makes

the world

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is that makes the world go round that

clinking clanking sound

can make

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sure

mummy

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um

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oh

next up

next up

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all right there's no need to say it i

know it's my heart already

so no lectures please about sailors

they're just lonesome patriotic german

boys

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i have a duty

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boy

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um

you must be sure to come again soon huh

anytime

bring your friends

oh boy schneider

a busy evening no

i see we are after all sisters hmm under

the skin

final cost yes this fine lady is not

your sister

this fine lady has just honored me by

consenting to give me her hand in

marriage

marriage yes

we marry him in three weeks

three weeks

so a little respect for the future for

our shorts

if you

flower please

oh thank you hair shirts you wear

supreme what else could i do

but such a magnificent lie

to preserve my reputation why did i say

three weeks well three months or three

years

in this way she will find out the truth

so quickly

unless

unless

and let's walk

you said unless

oh but it is foolish

i mean after all who would hack me

an elderly widower bald-headed with

heartburn

and a little fruit

am i such a bargain an unbeautiful

spinster with a few rooms to let poorly

furnish i work 14 hours a day i do all

my own scrubbing my livelihood bothers

me i have palpitations well i've got a

well-mannered am i a woman

but what are we talking about

we're

alive and what good is it

alone

so if you'd even consider marriage

i will consider it take your time by all

means it's no hurry we should discuss it

we must not marry merely to humiliate

foreign costs

i assure you foreign this is not the

case let us be honest had she not seen

us today you would not have proposed

today tomorrow

you mean this i had it in my mind but

it's also impulsive

you hesitate

because you've never been married

it frightens you

but believe me

it can work wonders

how

the world

can change

it can change

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due to one little word

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says to be

for you wake one day

look around and say

somebody wonderful

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no

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is

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one does growing

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oh

one day

look around

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somebody

wonderful somebody

wonderful

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well this is not decided yet then you're

engaged engaged

engaged will there be a party oh this is

appropriate very appropriate usually

who would come how many people do we

know

friends acquaintances all three

i'll do the inviting i know lots of

people will have music and dancing a

party here but it will disturb my guests

then watch oh no this is foolish a waste

of money have you ever had an engagement

party no of course not neither am i so i

ask you what are we waiting for it's

time

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was paris divine divine it's really

trouble no but i'll be glad to get rid

of this is ernst here not yet look see

the lovely gift we're giving to four

lion schneider and harry schultz oh hey

kevin you're back yes oh fraulein a

mayor

and now open our present

careful oh hey

crystal

cat crystal

it's for fruit

beautiful

thank you and i will keep it filled i

promise as long as we live this bowl

will not be empty

i am welcome

following course forgive me

i did not invite you but only because i

know you work in the evening

tonight i am free

i should live that long

is my

my cousin

from hamburg

my cousin

otto rudy

it's boyle schneider's party if you must

dance dance with her no no no dance with

her otto it's rudy

it's my pleasure proline no but i cannot

and oh you are so young no it is out of

the question

unthinkable absolutely unthinkable

absolutely cliffy

and you have the briefcase baubles from

paris perfume silver stuff i guarantee

it is a very good cause and so for you

75 marks it's a gift from heaven and i

must find fallen schneider if you excuse

me

oh do i have to yes uh french schneider

i wish you much happiness oh thank you

hello i am sorry to be late but there

was a meeting an important meeting no

one does what one must

and now i should like to meet the groom

to be yes but where can he be i've been

having a glass of snaps with everybody

you will forgive him if he's a little

you understand

good evening come here you have a drink

with me who is this

vegan old friend hello

hey

hi your voice welcome hell with me you

join me to staff sir and if you please

you must eat there's so much food and so

many pretty girls i i would introduce

you to them except i do not know their

names so you will introduce yourself and

then you dance

oh would you like another snaps

you did not give him the first one yet

yeah let me do it

thank you well nothing for me you have

had enough

yeah you hear not even married yet and

already she is in charge

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somebody cares when i am foolish oh

many many happy years to an outstanding

catholic thank you

beautiful dancing dance

uh not right now thanks oh by the way

gottfried says regards who

god read von schwarzenbaum

oh don't tell me you've forgotten him

yeah i've forgotten him hey

remember me

um

will you watch my coat

and the briefcase

i'm sorry since you did not wish to know

my politics this is the good cause and

our party would be the builders of the

new germany yeah i've been reading your

leaders book but in our politics what

does it matter we are friends close

friends buddies

what a delightful party

hey schultz are the most generous host

yeah yeah

well he should be

oh he could afford 10 times as much

they have all the money the jews

hair schultz

i think i have uh changed my mind if you

excuse me foreign it's my pleasure

if roland schneider i must speak to you

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without sincerity you and i are old

acquaintances i have sent you many new

lodges so let me urge you think what you

are doing

this marriage is not advisable i cannot

put it too strongly for your own welfare

what about her schulz's welfare he is

not a german he was born he is not a

chairman

good evening

sorry clifford good night

wait you're not leaving so early i do

not find the party amusing

oh but it is only just beginning

come we would make it amusing huh you

and i yeah ladies and gentlemen wait

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ludwig

this is for you

the sun on the meadow is summer reward

the stag in the forest runs free

but gather together to greet the storm

tomorrow below

to me

the branch of the linden is

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tomorrow belongs to me

is

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oh

is

oh

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me

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oh

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it's me

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oh fresh neither good morning good

morning here

new apples fresh from the tree

delicious

please perhaps later

about the party last evening

i'm afraid i do not remember it too well

was i that inebriated

can you ever forgive me for what a few

glasses of schnapps i promise you no

more drinking on our wedding day you

will be proud of me i'm already proud of

you

but

as far as the wedding is concerned

yes

there is a problem

a new problem

a new problem

new to me because i had not thought

about it

but

last night at the party

my eyes were opened

and

i saw that one can no longer dismiss the

nazis they are my friends and neighbors

and how many others are there of course

many

and many are communists and socialists

and social democrats

so what is it you want to wait for the

next election and then decide

but if the nazis come to power

you'll be married to a jew

but also a german a german as much as

anyone

i need a license to let my rooms

if they take that away i will take

nothing away

and for lunch tonight it's not always a

good thing to settle for the lowest

apple on the tree the one easiest to

reach

climb up a little way it is worth it up

there the apples are so much more

delicious and if i fall i will catch you

i promise

i feel such tenderness for you

it's difficult to express

are we too old for words like love far

too old i am no juliet you want to romeo

we must be sensible live alone

how many meals have you eaten alone a

thousand five thousand twenty thousand

be sensible when governments come

governments go how much longer can we

wait

here

let me peel an orange

i will do it

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and the old despair

that was all

suddenly she says to be

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for you wake

one day

look around and say

somebody wonderful

man

it's nothing it's it's

it's children on their way to school

mischievous children nothing more i

assure you

just children how young follow mischief

you understand

i understand

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i know what you thinking

you wonder why i chose

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if you could see has moved my eyes

you wouldn't wander at all

if you could see her through my eyes

i guarantee you would fall

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maybe they'd leave us alone

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how can i speak of havoc

i don't know where to begin

she's clever she's smart she reads music

she doesn't smoke or drink jingle

do yet when they're walking together

maybe they'd all understand

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bye

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is it a crime to fall in love

can we ever tell where the heart truly

leads us

all we are asking

is a little understanding why can't the

world live

in us

i understand your objection

i grant you the problems not small

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she wouldn't look

jewish at all

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food

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did you get a job

uh i'll try again tomorrow and you'll

find something i'm sure of it

president of a bank they're closed

for good

i have the most marvelous news

guess who came to visit me today

bobby and victor

they say business at the club is way off

since i left

so who's making a triumphant return

immediately

isn't that heaven yeah heaven oh think

of the money cliff

we need it so badly not that badly

i don't understand you i really don't

first you tell me you're not going to

paris for ernst anymore even though it

does seem the very easiest way in the

world to make money or the hardest

one of these days i've got to sit you

down and read you a newspaper you'll be

amazed at what's going on out there oh

you mean politics

what has that got to do with us oh yeah

right's got nothing to do with us

sally don't you understand if you're not

against all this you're for it or you

might as well be

come in

i intrude oh no no come in for line

schneider

is that the fruit bowl

is something wrong with it

i cannot keep it

but why

an engagement present but there is no

engagement

what do you mean we have reconsidered

hey schultz and i freulin you can't give

up in that way yes i can

it's easy for you

easy to say fight

and if you fail what does it matter you

pack up your belongings you go to paris

and if you do not like paris where

it's easy for you

but if you were me

with time rushing by

what would you do

with the clock running down

what would you do

the young always have the cure

being brave be sure

and

free

but imagine

if you

were

me

alone

like me

and this is the only world i know some

rules to let

the sum of a lifetime

even so

i'll take your advice

what would you do

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would you pay the price

what would you do

suppose simply keeping still

means you manage until

the end

what would you do

my brave

young

friend

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old

like me

with neither the will nor wish to run

run tired like me

who hurries to bed when day is done

grown wise

like me

who

isn't anyone

without anyone

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a storm in the wind

what would you do

suppose your one frightened voice

being told what the choice

must be

go on tell me

i will listen

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what would you do

if you

were wow

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frolin if you marry her schultz whatever

happens you have each other all my life

i've managed by myself it's too old a

habit to change i battled alone

and i survived there was a war and i

survived there was a revolution and i

survived there was an inflation billions

of marks for one loaf of bread yet i

survived and if the nazis come i will

survive

and if the communists come i will still

be here letting my rooms for in the end

what other choice have i

this is my world

i regret very much returning the fruit

bowl

it is truly magnificent

i regret

everything

oh cliff should i speak to her what

would you say

oh that it will all work itself out

i don't think she'd believe you

seems nobody believes me today

did it ever occur to you that i just

might be a tremendous asset to that club

the fact is they're waiting there this

very minute to rehearse my numbers

so i really must go the fact is you're

going a lot further than the kitkat club

i am you're going home

my home

america you're choking i'm gonna sell

this

should get us as far as paris and i can

cable home for the steamship fair what

are you talking about leaving berlin as

soon as possible tomorrow we love it

sally wake up

the party in berlin is over it was a lot

of fun but it's over

and it's gonna get a lot worse

so how can we stay here how can we

raise a family what is america the

officer running away to america not

running away there's nowhere to run to

we're going home oh certainly that's

fine for you but what about me

my career you've got a new career

hey i can work at the club for several

months at least and and then in november

okay i want the world for our baby all

the most elegant expensive things we'll

talk about it tomorrow on the train give

wait

we can't just not root our lives that

quickly oh no you give me one hour sit

down and don't move or better still

start packing there's plenty to do here

call the club tell them

goodbye

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i

don't

care

much

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care

very much

eyes

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grow

hard

ones

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to

me

so

if you

kiss

me

if we

die

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i don't care

very

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much i

don't

care

much

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what the hell do you think you're doing

here

get your code i'm taking you home

mean to live on your mummy's charity

i'll get a job

i'll think of something oh maybe but

this is sure this

what the hell is this you keep talking

about this as if it really existed when

are you going to admit the only way you

got this job any job is by sleeping with

you

what is talk about your career my god

for once in your life face the truth

about yourself

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and now don't you think it's your turn

i don't care

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clifford

will you join me for a drink i'm not

just not interested i've been trying to

reach you at four line schneiders i have

another urgent errand for you sorry this

time the answer

is no

oh what is wrong clifford you are angry

with me am i

well it is because of politics

if you were a german you would

understand these things goodbye and no

wait wait wait

it is very important this errand i pay

200

miles but this is most upsetting

i'm your close friend clifford

i'm so fond of you take your hands off

i know you need some money so why won't

you go

it is because of that jew at the party

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cat club is so happy

to welcome back once again

sally balls

here

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is

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time for a holy day

is

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do

i used to have a girlfriend known as

elsie

with whom i shared for sordid wounds in

chelsea

she wasn't what you'd call a blushing

flower

as a matter of fact she rented by the

hour

the day she died the neighbors came to

snicker

well that's what comes

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she was the happiest

corpse i'd ever

see

i think of elsie to this very day

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i remember

how she turned to me

and said

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what coat

is sitting

alone in your room

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chance

time for a whole day

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i made my

i'm

going like

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is

oh

her shoes excuse me but uh i've come to

say goodbye

oh your eyes oh it's nothing a little

accident uh

where are you going

and i've taken a room on the other side

of the northern door of platts

i think it will be easier for her

you are leaving also you're in four line

balls

yeah we're going home to america

america

i sometimes thought of going there

why don't you

the way things look here oh it will pass

i promise you

i hope you're right

well i know i'm right because i

understand the germans and

after all what am i a german

oh foreign sally i've come to say

goodbye

all good fortune

and i approach a little farewell gift

italian oranges

delicious

goodbye hair shorts

i wish you marzel

oh mazel

yes

that is what we all need

i've been uh

packing for you you won't be able to

find a thing

we leave today for paris remember with

that face oh i got into a little fight

last night didn't you hear about it

you should have seen the other three

guys

not a mark on them

it's about time to go for the train i've

got the tickets the fact is don't say it

whatever it is

let's just forget the last 12 hours okay

forget what i said to you at the kitkat

club

forget that you've gotten even with me

staying out all night

okay

you're so cool

you know what i'd love

a spot of gin

we've got some haven't we

i mean i think one must

at this time in the morning

how about a prairie oyster

can't be good for expectant mothers

where where's your coat your fur coat

did you leave it at the club

i left it at the doctor's office were

you sick last night is that why you

didn't come home

you were such an innocent ready

my one regret

is i honestly believe you would have

been a wonderful father

and perhaps someday you will be

oh yes i have another regret

that greedy doctor

i'm gonna miss my third coat

isn't it funny

it always ends this way

even when i do finally love someone

terribly

for the first time

but it's still not quite enough

i spoil it cliff

i'd ran away with the first exciting

thing that came along

oh you would that's not true i never

left you for any reason not if there was

a baby

to hold us together you mean

oh cliff what a terrible burden for an

infant don't you think it's about time

to go for the train

ah

sally i

i could go tomorrow

or the next day

here's your ticket to paris

sally if for any reason you do decide to

use it

you can uh

contact me at the american express club

i'll be there till friday

the truth is cliff

i've always rather hated paris

oh sally

goodbye

give

dedicate your book to me

i hope you have enjoyed your stay in

germany mr bradshaw

and you will return the game soon

it's not very likely

you did not find that country beautiful

yeah i found it beautiful

good journey sir

there was

a cabaret

and there was a master of ceremonies

and there was a city called berlin

in a country called germany

and it was the end of the world

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and i was dancing with sally bowles

and we were both fast asleep

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welcome and bienvenue welcome

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flanders

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foreign ladies and gentlemen

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where are your troubles now

forgotten

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i told you

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girls are beautiful

even the orchestra is beautiful

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[Music]

just children

mischievous children on their way to

school

you understand

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i understand

one does what one must

it'll all work out

it's only politics and what has that got

to do with us

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[Music]

to see

you

i must be sensible

if the nazis come what other choice have

i

i know i'm right

after all what am i

a german

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if you were a chairman you would

understand

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llc

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[Applause]

is

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real chum

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life is a capable

oh feet are safe

2

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[Applause]

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you