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♪ In the isle of Cape Breton my father did stay ♪

♪ and his father's father before ♪

♪ the fishing banks and digging for coal ♪

♪ from the mines that don't give no more ore. ♪

♪ And I'm goin' down the road, boys ♪

♪ seeking what I'm owed, boys ♪

♪ and I know it must get better ♪

♪ if far enough I go. ♪

♪ I remember the fishermen returning so gay ♪

♪ their nets with the silver cod blessed ♪

♪ but they couldn't compete with the company fleets ♪

♪ now it's welfare relief, or go west. ♪

♪ So I'm goin' down the road, boys ♪

♪ seeking what I'm owed, boys ♪

♪ and I know it must get better ♪

♪ if far enough I go. ♪

- I sure hope we're doing the right thing that's all.

- Oh for Christ's sake Joey, I told you my aunt

and uncle would put us up.

Hanson said he'd get us a job so what're you worrying about?

- You know I heard they were taking on guys

in the cannery next week just when we leave.

- The cannery?

Christ Joey, I'm not working in any more canneries.

That's why we left.

You'd be working for a buck and a quarter

from now till the rest of your life.

- I just keep on thinking about Jerry, Merks, and Freddy.

They didn't do too good.

They were back in three months.

- Three dummies.

I don't get you.

When we were leaving you couldn't get

out of the place fast enough.

Now you go on about some job in a cannery.

Oh, listen Joey, it's going to be so different.

There you can get all kinds of jobs, not just sweat

and dirt all the time.

The places you go,

we're going to hit some nice spots, have us some good times.

No more sitting in some restaurant all night or driving

up and down main street looking

for something you know damn well ain't there.

Oh Joey.

It's going to be so much there.

We won't know where to begin.

- Hey Pete, there she is! Don't she look good?

- Didn't I tell ya it'd be great?

- Yee-ha!

- Hey who is this guy up front? Beep the horn.

Come on, move it you bum!

- Look out Toronto, here we come!

- All the way! Woo!

Hide your daughters!

Lock the doors!

Cause we're about to drop our drawers!

- Looks pretty dead in there, Pete.

Can she cook?

- I don't know, I never met her before.

- Well I'll eat anything right now.

- They've been knocking for five minutes now.

Anyone with any sense would have given up long ago.

Now just look at that dreadful car.

- Oh yeah Pete, the aunt and uncle are going

to fix it up for sure.

- Hanson will help us out. stop crying for one minute.

- And he better have those jobs waiting for us too.

- For Christ sake, will you shut up?

- Oh yeah sure just, shut up like that.

Nothing at all, that's all we have to do is,

just come to Toronto just like old Petey-boy said,

just come away sure, ho, ho there's a nice.

Will you just shut up!?

Hi Hanson!

Hey, how are you?

It's Pete.

Pete McGraw.

Yeah that's right.

Hey me and Joey got in today.

Oh, I don't know for a while I guess.

Hey how are you anyway?

Long time no see.

Yeah. Ha-ha!

Yeah?

Oh.

Yeah, okay, okay.

- Well what did he say?

Can he put us up?

- Nah, he's only got this small place.

Said we should go to Salvation Army for tonight.

- What!? A flop house?

- No, no, no, it's a nice place.

- What about the jobs, Pete?

- Oh, yeah, well, you know.

Says I should call him back in a few days.

- In a few days?

Oh that's great, that's, that's, oh that's wonderful.

That is.

- Look he is out of work himself.

Things ain't go good right now.

He might even go back home.

Says we picked a bad time to come.

- We picked?

Listen buddy boy, you're the one

that told me everything was all set.

The jobs were going to be waiting an everything.

- Look, relax will you?

A couple of things go wrong and you start running

around like a chicken with your head cut off.

- Jesus! Jesus! Jesus, boy.

We're 1500 miles from home and we only got 30 bucks between us.

How long you that's going to last?

- Will you go sit in the car and shut up.

I can't think with you flapping all over the place.

- Yeah, sure, okay, I'll go sit in the car alright, yeah.

First the aunt and uncle then this and that.

- Maybe we should go back home, hey Pete?

- We only got 26 bucks left.

That's not enough to get us halfway.

- Yeah I know but this place gives me the creeps.

- Ain't going to kill you for one night.

Just got to figure things out better, that's all.

No more hang-ups like today.

- Yeah, of all the rotten luck.

- Hey, what is this?

There's hundreds of jobs here.

Look all kinds, three pages, full of them.

- Here let me see.

- Listen to this...

- What?

- Reservation agency, textile salesman,

assistant manager, sales trainees.

We offer excellent promotional opportunities for the right man.

- That's me I am the right man.

- Well listen to this.

Management trainee, large advertising company is opening

for young men interested in the advertising business.

Hey now this is more like it.

It's all right here, all you got to do is go out and get it.

- Hey that looks good here.

Let me see that, Pete.

1960 Plymouth - five bucket seats.

Real sharp

$1,699.

- Hey look at this.

You can even phone up somebody if you're lonely.

- You know I wouldn't mind having a job in an office.

- Yeah, you've to get dressed up all the time. Eh.

- Some chick for a secretary, company card,

my name right on the door.

Why not?

- Yeah, it's not for me.

- Whatever possessed you to come here looking for a job,

there is nothing in your background is suggesting even an

interest in advertising.

- Oh, well

but you know I used to watch a lot

of commercials down home in the TV.

I mean I really enjoyed them.

You know in some of those car commercial, hey when GTO comes

over the hill and it shoots across the desert...

- Excuse me.

Yeah, yeah I know, yeah I'll just be a minute.

Okay, I'll be right in.

Well, it's obvious you've been influenced by them,

but there's a lot more to it than that.

I mean, you've been a carpenter apprentice, a house painter,

six months with a cartage company.

You don't even have a high school diploma.

The job you're applying for calls for a university degree.

- You know, what's the sense in getting an education?

I mean you need an education to work

on the docks, or in the mines?

There isn't a lot to choose from in the Maritime you know.

- Well the only advice I can give you,

is go back there, or go back to school.

- Hey buddy boy!

Thought I was a cop, huh?

- Funny. Where the hell have you been?

It's one in the morning.

- Ah, I looked the whole town over.

Hey, I got a job.

- You did?

- Yup.

- That's great, son of a gun Joey!

So where, what kind of a job?

- Loading, unloading trucks.

80 bucks a week and a swell bunch of guys too.

- Great!

Now we can get a hot meal, eh?

- How do you do, any luck?

- Nah, I... couldn't find anything I liked.

- Don't worry, no sweat.

Listen you can get on there with me.

They're hiring a heck of a lot of guys tomorrow.

- Sure.

- Okay?

- For now I guess it'll be okay.

Come on McGraw, get the lead out!

- Come on! Come on!

Put 'em over there!

- Yeah Frenchie, don't trip over your own feet!

- Yeah, shake it!

- Hey Ted, who's the chick over there?

- Oh yeah that's Nicole.

She comes in here twice a day, takes stock totals.

She's something else, eh?

- All right you guys, cut it out!

Come on, come on...

get the hell back to work!

- Now we've got 1226's of rye and 10 cases of beer

and by Sunday night

- Guys start turning tables, whipping bottles around

you should've seen it...

- Yeah, we haven't had a good fight since we left home, Pete

remember that night out on the pier? I tell you...

- Shh! Here she comes!

- Hey, what a pair of knockers, huh?

- She's French.

- Boy is she ever.

Both of them.

- You ever go out with her?

- Nah, she's not my type.

- She's a bitch...

she won't even talk to us guys in the plant.

- Ah, forget about her.

Wait'll you see the broads on Yonge Street.

Yeah, do they kiss with their tongue?

Oh, they kiss with more than that!

- Hey you guys, come down to the Country & Western section

it's downstairs.

- Hey. You kind of like that stuff, huh?

You come here a lot?

I was just wondering.

I come here a lot too, but I don't know anything

about classical music, but, but I like it though, you know?

- Well, I better go now.

Bye.

- Um, what is that thing?

- Satie.

Beautiful, isn't it?

- Yeah. I'll...

I'll take one, sure.

- Hey Pete! Come on, come on we gotta get out!

- What's the hurry?

I'll tell you later. Come on!

Hey, what'd you do? Buy a record?

- Yeah, it was half price so I thought what the hell.

- Should have waited man...

Donald would have picked you up one for nothing.

- Here's the one you wanted Joey.

- No that's mine, Hank Thompson?

- Hey come on, let's go, let's get a beer eh.

- Toast. Gentlemen let me propose a toast,

to the women gentlemen, to the women,

to the women on Yonge Street.

♪... Back in dear ol' Nova Scotia ♪

♪ the place where I was born. ♪

♪ The Scotian and the Ocean Limited ♪

♪ and the Maritime Express ♪

♪ their mighty engines throbbing ♪

♪ make their way towards the west ♪

♪ And the sturdy fishin' schooner sways ♪

♪ so lazily, to and fro ♪

♪ Nova Scotia is my sanctuary, and I love it so. ♪

♪ Far across the great dominion, I have travelled far and wide ♪

♪ Where the shores out in Vancouver ♪

♪ kiss the blue Pacific tide ♪

♪ I've crossed the snow-capped Rockies ♪

♪ saw the wheat fields golden blaze ♪

♪ I'm headed back to Nova Scotia ♪

♪ Where contented cattle graze. ♪

- Watch the birdie!

- Hey, I'd love to watch her birdie!

- Window, five dollars.

- You idiots.

- Window, four dollars.

- They're not selling windows.

- $4 for a window...

- Oh, what are you talking about?

she'll be comin' round the mountain

- Otto Mayor, Gerald Wayland, Peter McGraw, Joey Male,

Joey Male, it's all yours.

- Thank you.

- Come on, come on!

- Boy, doesn't that broad think she's something?

- Ah, she's only out for what she can get.

- What she can get it for me any time.

- I could take her out if I wanted.

- Listen, I met this real nice girl named Betty.

Took her home, the whole bit.

So I was thinking, maybe you could go

out with her girlfriend.

What do you think?

- I don't know.

What she look like?

- Nice, real nice.

No kidding.

- Yeah, okay.

Why not?

- Good.

Fix it up.

- Well what do you think?

- I don't know, not bad.

- What do you mean, not bad?

Take a look.

- Oh, what's her name?

- Selina or something.

- Okay.

Let's see what's Selina's got.

- Alright.

- God's strike me dead,

right here if I'm not telling the truth.

Ain't that right Seli?

- I'm not kidding Joey.

Every time Grace gets a little headache.

She goes home.

- You gotta say something.

What about this Wan guy?

Don't he say nothing?

- Nothing.

Besides I told you what I thought was going on there.

- Old Wan's the chink who runs the joint

he's making it with one of the broads there.

- I'd rather die.

- She gets away with murder.

You know what Grace did last Friday, Joey?

- No, what honey?

- Oh this is really terrible.

- I just hate her.

- She's really stupid too

She never does anything right.

- I know it's her business what she does.

Only we got to make up for her.

Well that ain't fair is it?

Mean look at tonight, Agnes was off at eight,

and there was just me and Seli

you know, what are you going to do?

- Oh I told you, you got to talk up more honey.

- Oh I don't know, it's not that easy you know.

- Come one, Pete, let's take a walk huh?

- Want somebody to hold your hand?

- Ha, ha, you're a riot.

- Do you like him?

- I think he's really cute.

- Well?

- Well, what?

- Well, what you think?

- She hasn't said anything to me

except "hi", when we met.

- Alright, sh, sh, sh, sh, sh.

- All they do is yak with each other.

- Okay, okay.

I know they'll hear us.

- No come on, take it easy Joey.

I haven't finished my coke.

- Come on Bets, what the hell?

- Come on in a minute eh?

- Well if you can't drink it, throw it away.

- What you... can't you wait?

- No.

- Joey be careful, you'll rip it!

- Hey, how you guys doing back there?

- Joey!

- Don't do anything I wouldn't do, Pete.

♪ Yes, I used to feel so lonesome ♪

♪ till I saw you standing there ♪

♪ eyes like stars, face of an angel ♪

♪ with the moonlight in your hair ♪

♪ tell me darlin' that you love me now ♪

♪ whisper softly in my ear ♪

♪ tell me that you'll never leave me ♪

♪ the words I long to hear. ♪

♪ You're the true love of my heart ♪

♪ and now I know we'll never part ♪

♪ you are my dreams come true ♪

♪ you angel, you. ♪

♪ Tell me darlin' that you love me now ♪

♪ whisper softly in my ear ♪

♪ tell me that you'll never leave me ♪

♪ that's the words I long to hear. ♪

- Come on, Pete.

- Piss off.

- It's 6:30.

- I'm not going to work today.

- Okay, suit yourself.

Hey, Pete, you can't take no day off!

We only been here a month,

you think they're not gonna know something's up?

- I don't give a damn.

Can't go horsing around with broads half the night

and drag my butt out of bed a couple hours later.

All that dumb Selina does is talk.

Last night she told me about her mother

and her brother's hernia operation and Christ knows what.

- I thought you were really getting to like her.

- Yeah.

What I need is someone like that Nicole.

Oh, if I only had that dame here in bed.

- Come on you crazy bugger!

Get up.

- Something inside of me says:

"You don't feel like piling boxes today, Peter."

And I agree.

So you convey my regrets to dear old Frenchie and tell him.

- Yeah and tell him what?

- Well, tell him to kiss my ass,

I don't care what you tell him.

- Okay.

- What you tell him anyway?

- Just what you said.

That you weren't feeling so hot, so he told me to get

on the phone and get you down here, or else!

- Oh Joey I said to say I was sick, real sick.

What time is it?

- Quarter after 11.

- Christ.

I feel like I've been working 10 hours already.

This ain't any better than being back home.

Hey, how do you work that thing?

- Oh, come on, come on, got to get another load.

- Hey McGraw get back to work!

Don't bother those guys on the truck.

You're not smart enough to drive them anyway.

- Wooh hoo!

Let's get outta here!

- Let's grab a beer!

- Hey Pete?

- Hmm?

- How much you Frenchie makes?

- 100? Maybe 100 and a quarter?

- Hey that's pretty good money huh?

- Considering he just stands there

watching us tear our guts out, yeah.

- You know what? I bet if we stuck it out there

for a couple of years, we can make the same kind of money.

- No, no way I'm not going to be

around there in a couple of years.

That job don't amount to nothing better than we had back home.

- Yeah, well I never made no 80 bucks a week back home

and neither did you.

'sides I've had a lot worse jobs.

Remember that job I had tiling roofs?

Oh Jesus that was a rotten job.

I used to break out in a rash all over.

- Okay, listen to this, I figured it out.

You listening?

- Yeah, I'm listening.

- Okay, takes 3 seconds to stack a case, right?

- Yeah, I guess so.

- So in one minute you stack about 20 cases, eh?

You know how many that is in one hour?

1,200. Now in eight hours that's 9,600.

9,600 cases every day!

So. In the two months we've been working there,

we've stacked, now get this

304,000 cases each, that's over one quarter of a million.

- What about it?

- What about it?

For what? That's what I want to know. For what?

- What do you mean for what?

- Alright.

Tell me something.

Could you go, could you go

and see those cases right now if you wanted to?

- Of course not.

- Right.

Well that's what I'm talking about.

Every day is the same thing.

The same bottles go in the same machines,

they go into same cases, eh?

- I know but, what're you talking about?

- Can't you see there ain't nothing happening?

That everything keeps going

around in the same stupid circle,

doing the same stupid thing over and over

and then nothing happening, eh?

You can't see what you've done.

There ain't nothing there.

Don't you understand that?

- What am I supposed to see?

A job's a job, work's work.

- Look, I'll show you, okay.

- Forget it Pete.

- Don't go into it again

because I haven't got the slightest idea what you're

talking about.

- Well can't you see I'm trying to tell you?

Ah, I don't know what I'm trying to tell you.

- Pete, you'll never change.

You'll never change.

But you came up with all these big ideas, eh?

Okay, so they ain't the greatest jobs in the world,

but I don't see anybody walking through that door,

giving us anything else.

Eh? and don't forget it was your idea that everything was going

to be great, everything was going to be fine, remember?

- Ah, you just don't know what I'm talking...

- You bet I don't.

Jesus. Every job we get, you're not satisfied with it.

I don't care what's wrong with the job.

It's done alright by me and you too.

- Ah, I just want to do something that matters,

something that shows for myself.

Says I was there.

Peter McGraw was there.

- Hmm, well that's great.

Peter McGraw was there.

Ha!

- It doesn't matter. What the hell.

- Do you know where is Monsieur La Roche?

- Who?

- Monsieur La Roche?

- Oh, yeah, Frenchie.

I, I think he's down at the other end there.

- Thank you.

- So there I am, just lying there see?

Crates all over the place, my head spinning round and round,

so I open my eyes and there they are,

those two great big beautiful things just hanging there.

Are you alright, she says.

- So what did you say to her?

- Couldn't think of anything so I just said, yeah.

- Oh, Pete, you missed your big chance, then.

You should have moved right in.

- Don't worry.

The ice is broken now.

In fact, I think she kind of likes me.

- So what did the frog have to say?

- Nothing.

Just will make keep my ass off the machine, that's all.

- How much damage to the truck?

- Huh, banged up the front a little.

You know Joey you can't win.

You'd think they show a little appreciation

for me trying to better myself.

- Yeah, I know.

- Take it easy.

You smell like a whore house.

- Ah, Bets really like this stuff.

- What, her again tonight?

- Yeah what the hell, a few laughs.

Want me go get Bets to phone up Selena? Make it a foursome?

- Nah that piece of fluff.

No. I think I'll ask Nicole out tomorrow.

- Yeah?

- Mm-hmm.

- Who would have thought Pete had it in him, eh?

- No way.

- A fin he don't.

- You're on.

- Yeah, he did it. I can just tell by his grin there.

- A fin.

- You're on.

- So what happened? Well?

Come on Pete!

- So what happened?

- Give it to me, come on!

- What happened?

- Yeah.

- I don't believe it, no.

- Hey when's it for?

When's it for, Pete?

- Friday night.

- Hey look, you gotta take her out in my Car, eh Pete?

You can't take her in Joey's old heap.

- What's wrong with mine?

- You got to get some new clothes too.

She's a real sharp dresser okay?

- I really had a super time tonight.

- Yeah me too.

I'm going to have to learn to do a few

of those dances myself one of these days.

- Yeah? Thanks again Petey.

I would invite you for a cup

of coffee only I got this girlfriend

of mine staying over for the night.

- Oh that's okay.

Just, just a minute now.

- Night, night.

- Bitch.

- Oh boy there goes the last light!

- Yeah, lucky bastard.

Pete's going to have his hands full tonight I tell you.

- Yeah.

- Let's take a walk.

- Okay.

- What's the matter Peter, don't you like our company?

- Oh I've been waiting here thinking about you.

- Oh, sure.

Tell us another one.

- Well, why can't we come with you?

- Okay, okay.

Come on then if you have to.

- Nah, who wants to if you're going to act like that?

- Oh come on, let's go.

- Hey listen don't be too long eh, because we're going

to make some sandwiches.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- Okay?

- Okay.

- What's up?

- All they do is talk, talk, talk.

How can two broads, talk at the same time,

and know what each other is saying?

You know how? They don't say anything, that's how.

- What are you going on about anyway?

What's the matter with you?

- When we first came here things were great.

We had some good times together.

Then you met her and you can't keep your nose

out of it for one minute.

- Well what else is there to do?

- I think we should blow the place.

Head for the West Coast.

- But we haven't got any money, remember?

Hey Pete, let's me and you go out by ourselves tonight.

Really live it up.

No broads, no nothing, just the two of us.

What do you say?

- Now you're talking.

- Lord thundering Jesus, I know how to do her.

- Yeah?

- You ought to see me go when I really do her.

- Give me a cigarette.

- By the Jesus I can go I tell you.

What for, What are we doing?

We're just having nice time, we're ain't bothering nobody.

It's just, keep the language down.

- But, I ain't said nothing.

- What's the problem, huh?

It's the language, keep the language down.

- What language? What's he saying?

- Jesus.

Jesus!?

- What's wrong with Jesus?

Lord thundering Jesus, what's the matter with Jesus?

- So what's wrong with the language?

- Lots is wrong with the language.

You keep the language down.

- Looking for trouble?

- I'm not looking for trouble, no I work here.

- Ah, sit down Pete, sit down.

- He wants problems?

- Okay, okay, okay, we'll leave it alone.

- If he wants trouble, we'll give him trouble.

- We'll be quiet, don't worry about it.

Ah, Petey!

- I don't put up with that, you know that.

- Come on, have a beer. Have a beer.

Come on now don't be like that. Drink!

Have fun! Everybody's looking at us, man.

Come on, drink, have fun.

- Hey, did you ever scare the piss out of him!

- You and me, we could've taken on the whole club!

I'll say!

- Hey, did you see that, when I was talking to the blonde?

Yuuuummmy!

- You know I, I think I'll phone up Bets.

- Huh?

Now why would you want to go and do that for?

Can't you leave that broad alone for just one night?

Wooh, you're slipping, you're slipping.

- No, I, I really love her.

Oh, bullshit.

I, I mean Betsy is a great gal you know.

Hey but we've got a lot of things to do.

Remember all of the things we talked about, eh?

- Yeah Pete, yeah.

I've been meaning to talk to you about that.

Me and Betsy, well we're going to get married.

- Well, what the hell for?

Why, Christ Joey, we just got here a few months ago!

We haven't even started yet, we haven't done anything!

- Oh, I know, I, I want to wait but it's, it's Bets.

She's knocked up, she's going to have a kid.

- You crazy bastard.

You crazy bastard.

- How about, what the hell.

I mean, everybody's got go to some time or another, Pete.

- Look, listen. It's not too late.

So we just go to Vancouver a little bit early, that's all.

- But, but what'll happen to her, and the kid?

- Lot's of dames getting knocked up.

They've got agencies to take care of that kind of thing.

You just got to stall her, okay?

- I, I can't do that Pete.

Oh, come on, you got to do it!

Look what about us, huh? We made a lot of plans remember?

- Yeah I remember Pete, but this is different.

I just can't do that, and if that's way you feel,

maybe you should go on by yourself.

- Myself, huh?

- Yeah I mean, there ain't no use you messing

up all your plans just because of me.

- Okay.

You ruin your life if you want buddy boy,

but I'm on the move.

I got places to go and things to do and plans and...

do you think I need you?

- Ah, Pete.

- For the bride and groom ladies and gentlemen.

- Now for those of you who don't know me here,

I'm Betsy's uncle Art, and I've been sort of asked to sort

of MC the proceedings here today.

And now we're going to hear a few words from the best man.

Point of order! Point of order!

- Joey shut up.

Joey, Joey.

- Well I got to say something.

- You don't have to say anything,

just shut up and sit down.

- Yeah I do, really.

Listen...

- Joey you'll get your chance to speak later.

Right now we're going to hear from the best man.

I never saw a groom so anxious in my life.

- Ah, well I don't have a lot to say.

That's good.

- Ah, I just hope that Toronto is just as good to all

of us Easterners as it's been to Joey.

So, I, I'd just like you to join me in a toast

to a very lovely bride, and I hope

that all the days will be as happy as this one.

- Hear. Hear.

- That was nice.

- Okay Joey now you can say your bit.

Ah.

Come on, up you go Bets.

- No, no. We're not supposed to...

- Come on, up you go!

Come on Bets!

- Isn't she a sweetheart?

She's lovely.

- Well it's like, like old Pete said.

I haven't got a hell of a lot to say, right.

Well, I know what you all been thinking.

Well let me tell you I'm, I don't really care.

- Joey. No.

- No I get to say this.

Now it's true that, that me and Betsy is going

to have us a little family,

but that ain't the reason we gettin' married because,

because that's just the way we feel for each other.

I mean we would have made it in anyway, huh baby?

Well that's just the way we feel for each other and that's all.

Thank you very much.

- What did you have to go and tell everybody for anyway?

- Ah, well.

Listen kid, I mean in seven months from now.

I mean every, everybody's going to know about it anyway.

I mean now it's, it's right out in the air,

and everything's in the open.

Listen, I got to go see Pete for a minute,

Okay? I'll be right back.

So you stay there and you just look as pretty as you are.

- Okay.

- Be right back.

- Well, tonight is the big night.

- Yup.

- You got to do anything you want with it.

- Hey listen, do have any money?

- Yeah I've got about 20 bucks.

- Shh. I don't want to worry Bets, or nothing...

running a little short. Bought too much booze.

I could really use it.

- Sure, sure.

There you go.

- Hey, thanks buddy. Really.

Hey listen man.

No hard feelings, eh?

- Ah, go on you hamburger. Hmm?

- Hey Pete?

- Hi!

- Hi!

- Alright.

- How's the bride?

- She's Alright.

Come on in.

- It's about time. I told Joey to have you

over for dinner two weeks ago.

- Oh yeah he mentioned it to me

but I figured you'd still be getting settled

in and everything.

- No, not really.

Come on in and see the place.

What do you think?

- Oh it's nice, real nice.

- You like it?

Well you know there's still a few things to move around.

We got some things to come yet, but we're getting there.

Come on, sit down.

So, how you been?

- Where's Joey?

- Oh, he's out getting beer.

Be back in a minute.

Seli says she ain't seen you since the wedding.

- Oh yeah well, you know I've been kind of busy.

I've been thinking about calling one of these days though.

- That'd be nice.

Anyways, you just sit there and make yourself comfortable

because I've got to make some supper.

Hope you like Kraft dinner.

- Yeah, yeah, I make all the time.

- Hey, hey! How's it going Petey boy?

Didn't you get a beer yet?

Hey, Bets how come you didn't give Pete a beer?

- How the hell can I give him one,

when you ain't brought them home yet?

- There's still a couple of left in the fridge!

Well what do you think?

- Terrific! But, where did you get all this stuff?

- I got it in the back of the TV guide.

Three rooms of furniture.

479 bucks and change.

- 479!?

- Ah, it's worth twice that.

Take a look at this.

It never stops!

I can get up at 5 o'clock in the morning

Music just like that.

You know I don't even have to take out the garbage?

I walk 10 feet down that hall, throw it in some shoot

where she goes, I don't know.

You're not going to believe it, Pete.

Are you ready?

Here she comes... tah-dah!

- Holy Christ! Colour!

Hey if only the folks back home could see you now, huh?

- Ain't she a beaut?

The balcony. Have you seen the balcony yet?

- No.

- You haven't? Bet's what's the matter?

Didn't you show him nothing?

So what do you think? Quite a view, eh?

- Christ Joey, it's terrific. Everything.

- Yeah, me and Bets are doing pretty good.

We talked it over last night, probably buy us a new car

in the Spring. Charger. Something like that.

- I don't get it though. I mean, how'd you do it?

Where you get all the money?

- Money, who needs money?

Heck all this stuff's on time, Pete.

I don't have to make my first payment until October, sometime.

- Look, personally I don't like letting nobody go.

But I don't have much to say.

Summer's over, so we ain't selling so much.

Maybe in a couple of months things will be picking up again.

So if you want to check with us then.

I'm sorry, but that's how it is.

Jesus now what?

- Come on.

- Oh yeah it's okay for you, but what about me?

I've got a wife and kid coming on.

What am I going to tell Betty, Pete?

You shouldn't have told him off.

- Now the hell with it.

Come on.

- Oh yeah that's okay for you to say,

but I got to face her you know.

- Bastards.

- Oh Joey not your job!

- But now listen now, we didn't get fired.

I mean they'll probably call us back in a couple of weeks.

- Joey we can't afford to have you off work

for a couple of weeks.

Honey, what are we going to do?

- Now listen, don't worry babe.

I'll get something.

You're going to have to Joey. Because I can't go on

working much longer you know? I mean it!

- I know, I know.

Now don't you worry.

Ah, me and Pete, we was thinking today.

We might even go into business by ourselves.

- What kind of business could you guys go into?

- What kind of business?

Hell there's lots.

I was just looking here at this one here.

Plastic laminate, $12 an hour.

Earn up to $100 a week selling shoes in your neighborhood.

I can do that and you can help, hon.

You could be a secretary.

- I, I better blow.

- No, no wait for minute.

Take it easy.

She'll be okay.

Let's have couple more beers. It'll be all right.

I'll tell you what Pete,

first thing tomorrow morning we will get up and we will go down

and get us a couple of jobs.

Alright?

- Sure, I'm easy.

Maybe you can find us another one like you did before.

- I got us that one pretty quick didn't I?

Eh? Of course it wasn't too good.

I still got them fast enough.

- Hey Petey boy.

- How did we do last week?

- Ah about 50 bucks I guess.

- We'll have to do better than that.

- Yeah I know.

Old Betty's going to have to stop work pretty soon you know.

- You send that letter to the employment yet?

- Hey what?

I said, you send that letter to the employment yet?

- Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

This is it here. The grey one.

- 115?

- Yeah.

She wanted 25 but I got her down.

Don't tell her that you're going to live here or anything, Pete.

You know, like you're my cousin or something.

- What?

- You alright babe? It's better on the inside.

- Yeah.

- This is it!

Not bad, eh?

See Pete, you can sleep in here.

The way I figured is, is maybe we could get a blanket or,

or a sheet or something and put that down

and then you could have some privacy, huh?

It will be a real gas, no kidding.

Three of us together.

- Sure I don't need much room.

Just clean the place up a bit, it'll be fine.

- Right, look at all the money

that we're going to save, huh?

Bets? Ah what's the matter honey?

Now listen, this isn't going to be for very long.

I know this isn't much, but it'll just have to do right now,

until, until we get on our feet.

I mean, hell, we were going to move anyway

into that nice apartment next year.

And with a swimming pool and everything.

You remember all that babe? Huh?

It stinks in here.

- Oh, great.

- Joey, why doesn't she shut up?

- Go back to sleep Bets.

♪ Things are going to be the way they were before ♪

♪ loves going to live here again. ♪

♪ I hear bells a ringing, I hear, birds a singing ♪

♪ loves going to live here again. ♪

♪ And I know that those days are coming ♪

♪ loves going to live here again. ♪

♪ Love's going to live here, love's going to live here, ♪

♪ Love's going to live here again. ♪

♪ No more loneliness. Only happiness. ♪

♪ Love's going to live here again. ♪

♪ Love's going to live here again. ♪

- Oh, yeah.

Oh yes, I certainly did like that one.

- Hey, I'm going to get some of that wine.

- Hey, yeah, good idea.

- Hey, Chief? Can I have little snort of that?

Just a little one, huh?

- Hey buddy, you dropped some of your money.

- I guess we all are.

- Give him a drink!

♪ And I heard him tell the warden, just before he ♪

♪ reached my cell ♪

♪ "Let my guitar playing friend do my request." ♪

♪ Let him sing me back home there's a song I used to hear ♪

♪ Make my old memories come alive ♪

♪ Take me away, and turn back the years ♪

♪ Sing me back home, before I die. ♪

♪ Sing me back home, before I die. ♪

- Hi.

- Hi.

- Did you go to that job today?

- No, the car wouldn't start, battery or something.

- Why didn't you take a bus?

- You didn't leave me any money, remember?

How come you're home?

- I was sick again today.

I don't think I'm going to be there much longer.

- Hey Pete, how is it going?

- Okay, I guess.

- This all we got here?

- Yeah, she's getting pretty low.

You going to have yourself a brew?

- Maybe later.

- Hey Pete, you got any money?

- Couple of bucks.

- Because we haven't got anything to eat you know.

- I gave you three bucks yesterday.

- Yeah, I know, but you can't do much with three dollars.

- That's the last of it, there ain't no more.

- Great.

- How about you Joey?

Have any luck?

- No, not right away.

Couple of places told me to come back in a few weeks.

Said things will start to pick up then.

- Ah, you have to get something pretty damn soon,

these crummy jobs can't keep the three of us going.

- I've been looking.

Letter came from the unemployment today.

Said we ain't been working long enough to get benefits.

- That's really great.

- Can't you knock?

- Look, I'm sorry.

How am I supposed to know?

- Well, you can knock, that's how you can know.

- Okay, now I'm not going

to start knocking every time I walk in here.

You know if you got a little business to take care

of pick a better time.

- Oh, ho, that's a bloody lie.

Every time I turn around I see you.

- Fine, so next time you want

to tear off a little piece let me know

and I'll take a walk okay?

- Jesus Christ, Peter!

Who the hell do you think you are?

- I'm the other guy who lives here, remember?

The one who works?

- What's that supposed to mean?

- Just what I said.

You know, you haven't brought any money in here

in the last three weeks since we left the car wash.

So don't even give me a lot of crap about walking in here.

- Well anytime you don't like it you can leave, you know.

- Oh!

- Yeah.

- And what are you going to live on?

You're going to eat that fancy colour TV set?

You two are a real laugh.

Five hundred buck TV and not a pot to piss in.

- Listen I've been looking for work.

- Well, sure you have.

All you do anymore is sit in that chair

drink beer, and watch TV.

- That's a god damn lie, and you know it.

- Is it?

What have you done?

Come on tell me.

Lots of stuff.

- Come on tell me!

- Alright, done a lot of things...

downtown.

- You just going to stand there

and take that from him?

- Honey, Pete don't really mean it anyway.

♪ So this is it. Now look around. ♪

♪ Tell me, what is there to be found? ♪

♪ You're rolling in gold, I know. ♪

♪ Another victim of the rainbow. ♪

♪ Your highway hopes have dragged you here. ♪

♪ But this mirage, will cost you dear. ♪

♪ Your kindness for treasure grows ♪

♪ another victim of the rainbow. ♪

♪ Just where do you belong, I'd like to know? ♪

♪ Another victim of the rainbow. ♪

♪ Another victim of the rainbow. ♪

- Oh, boy.

Caviar, shrimp, pickled eggs, and artichokes.

Pete, I'm telling you,

we're going to have one fine time tonight.

- Damn right.

I always wanted to try some of this stuff.

Might as well hang for caviar as hot dogs.

- Right, right.

Listen, listen.

Let's go over there and get a couple of bags

of those potato chips for Bets.

- Hey okay, I'll tell you what, both wagons are full.

While he is adding up the second one you got out with the first,

and I'll just tell him I'm going out to give you a hand

and we'll just take off, okay?

- Right, got you.

- That'll be forty-eight- oh-seven, sir.

- Oh, you shouldn't have rung right up,

you know, we're together.

- Oh, I'm sorry sir...

- I'll start taking these things out to the car.

Okay, Ralph and you settle up with him.

- Oh, I'll just take this out and I'll come back in.

- Here, let me give you a hand.

- No, no, no, it's alright.

It's no trouble, it's fine.

No trouble.

- Come on, come on.

Look he's getting suspicious.

Come on, come on!

- I'm trying! I'm trying!

- Hey, you guys going to pay for this or what?

- Yeah, yeah, I'll be there in a minute okay.

- Hey, come back here.

Hey! Hey, come back here!

Get out of there you clowns, try to pull a fast one on me!

- Joey! Ah!

- Hey!

- Joey!

Get the tire iron!

- Take 'em, take 'em, take 'em...

- You stupid dumb kid.

Why couldn't you give up some lousy groceries?

Come on, come on kiddo.

Get in there.

Go, go... come on.

Come on.

- What did you have to go and hit him with that iron for?

Did you see what you did to him?

- Jeez, he was clobbering us.

Besides, I didn't mean to hit him that hard.

- Stop at the first phone you come to.

- What for?

- So we can call somebody.

We just can't leave him lying there.

He could die you know.

- Yeah, yeah, he's just laying there in the parking lot.

He's hurt pretty bad.

- We won't be able to go home tonight

in case someone got the license number.

So we just hide out for tonight

and we'll go back in the morning.

Yeah, let's go, let's go, come on.

I know a good place down by the lake.

- Hey, that's my stuff out there.

What the hell's going on?

- Joey, take it easy, be careful.

- You can't just do anything you damn well please!

You can't throw peoples stuff out on the street like that!

Yeah well the cops were here looking for you guys

and if you don't beat it, I'll call them, so shove it!

- You shove it!

We've been kicked out.

They just plunked us right here in the middle of the street.

- The cops were here.

- Ah, so what?

Look at all this stuff. What am I going to do, Pete?

- Are you forgetting what the hell happened last night?

Come on pull yourself together. Come on. Where's Betty?

- I don't know, she said something about she went

over to her aunt and uncle's or something.

- Come on, come on, we've got to get out of here now...

- I can't. All this stuff is going to get ruined!

And warped, and everything.

- Well, you want to go to jail over some crummy furniture?

- Okay, let's, let's go get Bets.

- You can't take Betty.

- Why?

- She's pregnant we got to move, fast!

- I can't leave her Pete, I can't.

- Look, she'll be okay.

You ain't no good to anybody like this.

Come on, her aunt and uncle will take care of her.

Won't they?

- Yeah, I guess

- Sure they will, eh?

Besides, it's not like you're leaving her,

It's just so you can get something behind you.

Joey, this is a tough town.

There's other towns, we just got to find them, you and me.

Look we'll hock the television set.

It'll stake us to the coast.

Together we can make it.

Look it's just as easy as getting in the car, eh?

Joey, there's nothing else we can do,

there's no place else we can go.

Come on. We got to go...

- Okay

- We got to go!

♪ I came to the city, with the sun in my eyes ♪

♪ my mouth full of laughter and dreams ♪

♪ but all that I found, was concrete and dust ♪

♪ and hard times sold in vending machines. ♪

♪ So I'm going down the road, boys. ♪

♪ Seeking what I'm owed, boys. ♪

♪ And I know it must get better ♪

♪ if far enough, I go. ♪

♪ Cause I'm going down the road, boys. ♪

♪ Seeking what I'm owed, boys ♪

♪ And I know it must get better ♪

♪ If far enough, I go. ♪

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