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(gentle music)

(steam hissing) (bells clanging)

(train chugging)

(playful jazz music)

- [David] People came to see us that Christmas.

They were nice, those people.

They brought me things.

A wooden train, some candy,

a book of Bible stories from Reverend Watkins.

♪ To you ♪

- [David] But there was no snow.

No, not that year.

- David!

Honey!

Oh!

- [David] Then that spring, Aunt Mae came to live with us.

Next to the train, I remember Aunt Mae most.

I don't remember any children of my own age

coming around that Christmas.

As a matter of fact, I don't remember

seeing any other children at all.

- Night-night. - Thanks again.

- [Sarah] Mae!

You had no right to dress that way.

You deliberately hurt me, and all of Frank's friends.

If I knew you were gonna act this way,

I would've never let you come live with us.

- But Sarah, honey, I didn't know

they were gonna take on like that.

I mean, I've worn this gown in front of audiences

from Charleston to New Orleans.

I forgot to show you my clippings, didn't I?

Just look at those notices.

Those notices are superb.

Particularly about this gown.

(crickets chirping)

- Look, Aunt Mae.

On the stage, that gown may have been quite successful,

but you don't know what it's like

to live in a small town like this,

and if Frank heard about things like this,

he wouldn't let you stay here.

So don't ever do that to me again.

- Mae Morgan, popular singer at the Rivoli Theater.

You know David, once a duke kissed my hand,

and he asked me to marry him,

and live with him in Europe.

Then he drank wine right out of my slipper.

- Must've been drunk, huh?

- What's he know about a duke, anyway?

Yeah, Memphis, Biloxi, oh honey,

I've played 'em all, believe me.

- [Frank] I don't want her here.

- [Sarah] Frank, she's got no place else to go!

- You better run on in, honey,

before Papa blows my brains out.

- Goodnight, Aunt Mae.

- Goodnight, honey.

(crickets chirping)

(jazz music)

♪ Well, I could cry salty tears ♪

♪ Where have you been all these years ♪

♪ Little wow, please tell me now ♪

♪ How long has this been going on ♪

♪ Hey kiss me twice ♪

♪ Then once more ♪

♪ That makes thrice ♪

♪ Let's go for four ♪

♪ What a brick ♪

♪ For heaven's sake ♪

♪ How long has this been goin' on ♪

(men whistling)

(glass tinkling)

(crickets chirping)

David honey, will you bring me the shampoo bottle

from the closet, that little green one?

Mm.

Mm.

Oh.

- Mae?

- This is little David.

- Hello, little David.

- Why, George.

- Do you think they'll get serious?

- Not if he has to drink the wine outta her slipper.

He'll never live long enough to marry her.

- Frank.

- Nah, I think he'll be good for her.

(scissors snipping)

- Come on, Franchot.

- Okay, Aunt Mae.

- Miss Gina Hollow, if you please.

(David giggles)

- [David] She was my only playmate,

and Mother was glad we were such good friends.

(Mae laughing)

- [Mae] Georgie!

(Mae laughing)

Oh George, oh Georgie.

- [George] Come on out here with us tonight.

- [Mae] Oh right back, I got your arm.

- [George] You mean those little holes there?

(engine rumbling)

(people chattering)

- [David] He carried on with Aunt Mae

all through that summer,

and into part of the fall.

Then, one day, George didn't come around anymore.

(David making engine noises)

It's your turn, Aunt Mae.

- I'm sorry, honey.

You bastard, George.

- Mother, Mother, Mother!

Mother, Mother!

- You've been crying. - No I haven't.

- Can you fight?

Can you jump?

- No.

- Can't you do anything? - No.

- Aw, you're just a sissy.

- You shouldn't have taken him, Frank!

- He's gotta play with other kids.

Staying with her ain't healthy, it ain't healthy!

- Oh, you louse!

- Bruce's mom made me stay on the porch 'til Father came.

- All right, David, all right.

- Never you mind, honey, just never mind.

- I'll sleep with you tonight, David.

Would you like that?

I couldn't sleep with Frank, not tonight.

- There, hey.

Just like Franchot Tone.

- [Sarah] Frank?

Come on in, Frank.

(crowd cheering)

(crowd whistling)

- [Man] Come on, burn that nigger, burn him!

(crowd cheering)

- [Frank] I ain't goin' in there, it's hotter than hell!

- Papa?

Mother, Papa's here!

- Oh good, does he have the money?

Frank, what's that?

- Seed, Sarah, seeds.

- Seeds, what are they for?

- I'm gonna grow things, on the hill.

- Well, that's crazy.

Nothin' will grow there.

Anyway, what'd you buy them with?

- The money from the gas station.

- All of it?

- All of it.

- You take those seeds back tonight, Frank.

You get that money back tonight.

There is no food.

We've gotta eat.

You've got a son to feed!

- There's plenty of money to be made

up in them hills, plenty of money!

- [Sarah] We got no money.

- Well damn it, I can spend my own money like I want.

You want money, huh, you want some money?

Then go down to that ballroom

and sell some of Mae's jewelry.

Plenty of women down there like that cheap kinda stuff.

- You call Aunt Mae what you want to,

I know what you think of her!

We've got a son to feed!

We gotta eat, we need money!

(Sarah groans)

- Aunt Mae!

Aunt Mae!

- [Frank] I'm gonna plant those seeds, you hear me?

I'm gonna plant 'em!

(door slams)

- Is she gonna die, Aunt Mae?

- No, honey.

No, she just lost a tooth.

And her dignity, that's all.

Where's Papa?

- I'll go find him.

(wind whistling)

(bells clanging) (train chugging)

(train whistle blows)

How is she?

- She'll be all right, David.

- But what about Papa, Aunt Mae?

- Oh, don't worry about him.

No place else for him to go.

He'll show up.

- Tell me about the stage, Aunt Mae.

Tell me about Biloxi.

- Oh, honey I felt lucky if I got a job

in some little dance hall from Mobile or Baton Rouge.

But I just loved the stage, David.

I just loved the spotlight,

and the costumes, feeling the beat

of the band underneath me.

I never sang good, honey, I knew that.

But, when I was younger,

I looked good in clothes,

and I could always carry a tune.

But you get older, honey.

You get old.

But you keep on going.

You keep on thinking, one day they'll see me.

I'll cut a record.

One day they'll say hey, there goes Mae Morgan.

It's just like a drug is what it is.

And when it doesn't happen,

you hurt.

You hurt right in there.

Then some guy thinks you're awful nice,

so does the next guy,

and the next, and the next.

And you get to be just kind of

a used up piece of goods, you know?

No honest man wants anything to do with you.

Oh, but that last job.

Oh, it was just the crummiest.

You know someone threw a bottle at me?

Watch out, Mae, then wham.

Can you imagine that?

Oh yeah, the girls, the dancers you know?

They all got together, they bought me my ticket down here.

Down here.

Just a big old sore thumb.

You know that, David.

I just went on the stage to show off

'cause nobody ever paid any attention to me otherwise.

It does hurt, though.

I just wanted to be happy, with you all here.

Oh, honey.

We all have our hurts, don't we?

Big and small.

Don't pay me no mind.

Your old Aunt Mae just ain't feelin' too good tonight.

Come sleep with me honey, will you?

I'm feelin' kinda lonesome tonight.

(crickets chirping)

Do you ever pray before you go to sleep, David?

- Sometimes.

- Well, we'll pray tonight.

We'll pray that your mother feels well tomorrow.

And that nothing happens to your papa.

And that you and I won't hurt too bad tomorrow.

Or ever again.

- [David] Amen.

(pleasant music)

♪ On a hill far away ♪

♪ Stood an old rugged cross ♪

♪ The emblem of suffering and shame ♪

♪ And I love that old cross ♪

♪ Where the dearest and best ♪

♪ For a world of lost sinners was slain ♪

♪ So I'll cherish the old rugged cross ♪

♪ 'Til my trophies at last I lay down ♪

♪ I will cling to the old rugged cross ♪

♪ And exchange it someday for a crown ♪

♪ Oh that old rugged cross ♪

♪ So despised by the world ♪

♪ Has a wondrous attraction for me ♪

♪ For the dear lamb of God ♪

♪ Left his glory above ♪

♪ To bear it to dark Calvary ♪

♪ And the old rugged cross ♪

♪ Stained with blood so divine ♪

♪ A wondrous beauty I see ♪

♪ For I love that old cross ♪

♪ Jesus suffered and died ♪

♪ To pardon and sanctify me ♪

♪ To that old rugged cross ♪

♪ I will ever be true ♪

♪ Its shame and reproach gladly bear ♪

♪ Then he'll call me someday ♪

♪ To my home far away ♪

♪ Where his glory forever I'll share ♪

♪ So I'll cherish the old rugged cross ♪

♪ 'Til my trophies at last I lay down ♪

♪ I will cling to the old rugged cross ♪

♪ And exchange it someday for a crown ♪

- [Announcer] It has been wonderful to be in this town

with Bobbie Lee, my friends.

God bless all of you.

May the heavens shine down upon you,

Christian and sinner alike.

You are all our brothers and sisters in Christ.

By now, there is no need for me

to introduce Bobbie Lee to y'all.

You have come to love him.

- Good crowd.

Good money.

- [Announcer] Everybody loves

a dedicated Christian, sinners fear one.

You have shown that you love this chosen man.

Here is your Bobbie Lee.

(crowd cheering)

- Here we are, gathered together again

for another glorious night of conversion and salvation.

I was praying, right before I came up here,

that the testimonies would be many.

I was praying that more lost souls

would give themselves up to the glory of Jesus Christ.

I feel in my soul that these prayers will be answered.

That sinners will surrender to him by the hundred fold.

He don't care who you are.

He don't care if you are rich, or if you are poor.

- [Crowd] Amen!

- [Bobbie] He don't care if you're a little baby,

or a grandfather.

All he cares about is if you got a soul to give him.

That's what Jesus cares about!

- [Crowd] Amen!

- [Bobbie] That is all.

What more could he want?

Oh, he don't want earthly riches.

They lead to lust, they lead to sin.

- [Man] Say it, Bobbie Lee.

- He owns the universe! - Amen!

- [Bobbie] He wants for nothing.

Except, your souls.

- [Crowd] Amen.

- I feel Jesus in this tent.

I feel him today.

Do you feel him?

(crowd shouts)

Do you feel Jesus?

Raise your arms to heaven!

Do you feel Jesus?

Do you feel Jesus?

If you feel him, raise your arms to Jesus!

- [Man] Praise the lord!

- Today, our nation is having

a mortal struggle with the devil.

In our cities, our girls are giving themselves up

to the oldest profession.

They go where they want.

To dances, and honky tonk at army bases

without a restraining hand.

The devil is tempting these women,

throwing them into his will.

When they're dancing,

do you think they're thinkin' about Jesus?

You can bet your life they're not.

Jesus has no place on a dance floor, no sir.

That is the playground of the devil!

- [Woman] Amen.

- Now, you're fighting with the devil.

Are you falling under his influence?

How many of you are heaving

those silent tears of admittance?

- Oh sweet Lord Jesus.

- [Bobbie] Let Jesus know your soul.

Try to heal the heartsick.

- I'm Mrs. Ollie Wingate, and for a long time,

oh for a long time I've felt

like I've needed the help of Jesus!

(crowd shouting)

- Most of y'all know who I am.

I own the grocery on Main.

- [Woman] Amen.

- But I am resigned to the Lord.

I wanna repent!

(crowd cheering)

- Work those words of inspiration, there they are!

They wanna dedicate their lives to Jesus!

What a wonderful turn their lives have taken tonight!

Oh, let's hear from this boy.

- [Billy] My name is Billy Sunday Thompson and,

I'd like to dedicate myself to Jesus!

(crowd cheering)

- Those are the words of a babe!

Testify, testify!

Come to Jesus!

Finally come to Jesus!

Open up your hearts, let the light come pouring in!

Walk with him into the garden of Eden,

and feel the strength of Jesus comin' into your souls.

♪ It's not far, just close by ♪

♪ Through an open door ♪

♪ Work's all done, cares laid by ♪

♪ Joy to feel no more ♪

♪ Mother's expecting me ♪

♪ Father's waiting, too ♪

♪ Lots of folks gathered there ♪

♪ All the friends I knew ♪

♪ Morning star lights the way ♪

- [Roosevelt] Yesterday, December 7, 1941,

a date which will live in infamy,

the United States of America

was suddenly and deliberately attacked

by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

Last night, Japanese forces attacked Hong Kong.

Last night, Japanese forces attacked Guam.

Last night, Japanese forces attacked the Philippine Islands.

Last night, the Japanese attacked Wake Island.

And this morning, the Japanese attacked Midway Island.

And our interests are in grave danger.

With confidence in our armed forces,

with the unbounding determination of our people,

we will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

(train chugging)

♪ Hop aboard that Chattanooga choo-choo ♪

♪ Track 29 yeah ♪

♪ Boy you can give me a shine ♪

♪ Hoppin' aboard, aboard the Chattanooga choo-choo ♪

♪ I've got my fare ♪

♪ And just a trifle to spare ♪

♪ You leave the Pennsylvania station ♪

♪ At a quarter to four ♪

♪ Read a magazine and you're in Baltimore ♪

♪ Dinner in the diner ♪

♪ Nothing could be finer ♪

♪ Than to have your ham and eggs in Carolina ♪

♪ When you hear the whistle blowin' eight to the bar ♪

♪ Then you know that Tennessee is not very far ♪

♪ Shovel all the coal in ♪

♪ Gotta keep it rollin' ♪

♪ Woo woo Chattanooga there you are ♪

♪ There's gonna be a certain party at the station ♪

♪ Satin and lace ♪

♪ I used to call funny face ♪

♪ She's gonna cry until I tell her that I'll never roam ♪

♪ So the Chattanooga choo-choo ♪

♪ Won't you choo-choo me home ♪

- Look at those two go.

- Swing her, Aunt Mae!

♪ The Chattanooga, the Chattanooga ♪

♪ So Chattanooga choo-choo ♪

♪ Won't you choo-choo me home ♪

(crowd cheering)

- You've seen how Ms. Morgan can dance.

(all cheering)

Well, she can sing too.

(all cheering)

- I haven't sung in 100 years now.

- So, she's gonna sing for us right now, Ms. Mae Morgan!

(all cheering)

- You guys know "My Romance?"

- Sure.

- Okay, oh thank you.

Thank you.

Well, I'll tell you one thing,

it ain't gonna be "God Bless America."

Okay, let's do it.

(pleasant music)

♪ My romance ♪

♪ Doesn't have to have a moon ♪

♪ In the sky ♪

♪ My romance ♪

♪ Doesn't need a blue lagoon standing by ♪

♪ No month of May ♪

♪ No twinklin' stars ♪

♪ No hideaway ♪

♪ No soft guitars ♪

♪ My romance ♪

♪ Doesn't need a castle ♪

♪ Rising in Spain ♪

♪ Or a dance ♪

♪ To a constantly ♪

♪ Surprising refrain ♪

♪ Wide awake ♪

♪ I can make my most ♪

♪ Fantastic dreams come true ♪

♪ My romance ♪

♪ Doesn't need a thing ♪

♪ But you ♪

(all cheering)

Thank you, thank you.

- You're good.

We should talk.

- Oh, thank you.

(people chattering)

(crickets chirping)

You know, I never thought I'd be happy here.

- [Frank] The sun isn't prettier anywhere else

than it is here in Italy.

It's the brightest and yellowest I ever saw.

I'm staying in a farmhouse 1.000 years old.

They've got olives, too.

There's been some pretty heavy fighting.

I marched along the Appian Way.

That's a very famous road in history,

so tell your teacher.

And oh, I saw where the Pope lives, too.

I miss every one of you,

more than I ever thought I would.

(Sarah sobbing)

But most of the fighting's over now.

(Sarah sobbing)

- Frank.

No.

Oh no.

- [David] Then the war was over.

And all the soldiers came home.

(bells ringing)

(dramatic music)

- [Class] I pledge allegiance to the flag

of the United States of America,

and to the Republic, for which it stands,

one nation, indivisible--

(dramatic music)

- I thank the Lord that I have a struggle coming up.

I wouldn't want it any other way.

I think, I think I can appreciate another man's position,

but I think I can do more for my fellow man

having experienced the Christian power of God's love.

His love is not like human love.

His love is straight, and true.

All God fearing people know his way.

And live by his will.

(dramatic music)

- [David] If you were different from anybody in town,

you had to get out.

That's why everybody was so much alike.

They used to tell us in school

to think for yourselves, but you couldn't do that in town.

You had to think what your father thought all his life,

and that was the way everybody thought.

- [Frank] They're the ones.

Then there are those damn politicians.

- [Sarah] Don't go to the union meeting, Frank.

You can't lose this job, too.

- [Frank] Sarah, we're fighting for our lives.

I'm fighting for you.

They're the people that are keeping us poor,

those damn, rich bastards.

- [Sarah] Oh David, just look.

Big cabbages, big, big cabbages your papa grew!

Say it again, David.

It's so beautiful.

- [David] Read from some humbler poet,

whose songs gushed from his heart,

as showers from the clouds of summer,

or tears from the eyelids start.

Who through long days of labor,

and nights devoid of ease,

still heard in his soul the music--

- [Teacher] Of wonderful melodies.

Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice,

and lend to the rhyme of the poet

the beauty of thy voice.

And the night shall be filled with music,

and the cares that infest the day

shall fold their tents like the arrows,

and as silently steal away.

(jaunty piano music)

♪ I wish I was in the land of cotton ♪

♪ Old times dar am not forgotten ♪

♪ Look away, look away, look away Dixie Land ♪

♪ In Dixie Land where I was born in ♪

♪ Early on a frosty morning ♪

♪ Look away, look away, look away Dixie Land ♪

♪ Then I wish I was in Dixie ♪

♪ Hooray, hooray ♪

♪ In Dixie Land I'll make my stand ♪

♪ To live and die in Dixie ♪

♪ Away, away, away down south in Dixie ♪

♪ Away, away, away down south in Dixie ♪

(audience applauds)

- You going to high school, boy?

- No, I got a job in Mr. Williams' drugstore.

- Well, you're the first person in our family

to finish grade school, anyway.

I'm real proud of you, David.

- Aunt Mae, it's a watch!

That must've cost at least $30.

- Oh much, much more.

(Mae laughs)

You can ride up here with us if you want, David.

- No, Mae, there ain't enough room for him up here.

I'd bet he'd rather ride in the back than up here with us.

(engine roaring)

(crickets chirping)

- Look, honey, go wait there by the path for me.

I'm gonna stay here with Clyde a little while.

Now don't you go off, you hear?

I don't wanna go up that path alone.

I won't be long!

What are you doing?

Cut it out, Clyde!

(Mae laughing)

You are so bad.

(crickets chirping)

(engine rumbling)

Night, Clyde.

♪ Many years ago ♪

♪ Me mother sang a song to me ♪

♪ In tones so sweet and low ♪

♪ It's a simple little ditty ♪

♪ In her good old Irish way ♪

♪ And I'd give the world ♪

♪ If she could sing ♪

♪ That song to me this day ♪

(singing in foreign language)

♪ Hush now don't you cry ♪

(singing in foreign language)

♪ That's an Irish lullaby ♪

(crickets chirping)

- Where's Flora, Sarah?

Sarah, where's Flora?

- Flora?

Oh, yes.

She told me I was crazy, Mae.

I mean, right to my face.

She wasn't here 30 minutes.

And I've been sitting here,

waiting for you two to come home.

Yes, Flora wasn't here 30 minutes.

(Sarah laughs)

(singing in foreign language)

♪ That's an Irish lullaby ♪

(birds chirping)

Maybe it's this one.

It could be this grave, Mae.

- [Clyde] Mae, hey Mae!

- I'm comin', Clyde honey.

Look, David honey, I gotta go.

We're playing a wedding at the county seat.

(horn blares)

It's real good money.

(engine rumbling)

(birds chirping)

- Get out!

(whistle trills)

- [Announcer] Now Gangbusters presented in corporation

with police and federal law enforcement departments

throughout the United States.

The only national program that brings you

authentic police case histories.

(sirens wailing)

(gunfire rattling)

- [Narrator] Tonight, Gangbusters presents

"The Case of the Appointment with Death."

A courageous policewoman waited for a deadly killer

whom police didn't even know.

(whistle trills)

- [Announcer] Gangbusters has asked the honorable

Frederick H. Block, assistant United States attorney

for the southern district of New York

to narrate tonight's case.

- [Frederick] Thank you, and good evening.

- [David] What are they doing, Aunt Mae?

- [Mae] They're burning books, David.

They're burning "Gone with the Wind."

- The sly and the tricky in this community

want you to read these licentious books.

These dirty books!

All the dirtier 'cause they're gonna make movies out of 'em.

And anyone who doesn't know it

is defying God, and is an agent of the devil!

(jazz music)

♪ To you ♪

♪ My heart cries out Perfidia ♪

(Mae scat singing)

♪ For I found you, the love of my life ♪

♪ In somebody else's eyes ♪

- David, it's just so wonderful!

You can just feel the light going through ya,

just going through your whole body.

♪ Perfidia ♪

♪ Forgetful of the promise of love ♪

♪ You're sharing another's charms ♪

♪ With a sad lament my dreams have faded ♪

♪ Like a broken melody ♪

♪ While the gods of love look down and laugh ♪

♪ At what romantic fools we mortals be ♪

- [Announcer] Soldiers coming home married to foreign women.

We should be looking out and seeing the good American blood

in the valley won't lose its purity.

Chinese women, pregnant women,

women who sing with bands

are corrupting American--

- [Mae] How can you listen to that trash, Sarah, how?

- Who do you think the murderer is, David?

Who?

(bell rings)

- [Man] Reverend Watkins is a good, Christian man.

- Yeah.

(engine rumbling)

- Do you have this month's Modern Romance?

I asked if you had this month's Modern Romance.

- Yes, I know.

I don't know if we have it, but I'll look.

- Thanks.

Do you work here all the time?

- Yes I do, all the times the store's open,

and from 30 minutes before it does.

- How old are you?

About 19?

- And a half.

You're from out of the valley, aren't you?

- Yes, we came here to take care of my grandpa.

He got sick.

If he gets better, we're gonna go home again.

Spring Hill.

- That's where you're from?

- Yeah, you ever been there?

- No, I've never been out of the valley.

- Well, if you ever do get out, don't go there.

This place is prettier.

Oh, I forgot to tell you, goodbye.

- Oh, goodbye.

- 19?

- And a half.

Aunt Mae?

I saw a girl in the store I really liked.

- [Mae] Why didn't you ask her out, David?

- [David] Suppose she won't go out with me.

- [Mae] Don't worry David, she will.

You're a nice lookin' boy.

Ask her.

(engine rumbling)

- [Man] Dish pan hands and a date with a girl scout.

- Goodnight, darling. - Goodnight, Mother.

- [Woman] Happy dreams.

- [Woman] Goodnight, Mr. Beragon.

Thank you for everything.

I trust that we may meet again very soon.

- [Man] Oh, I hope so.

- Thank you for a divine evening, Mrs. Pierce.

I trust that I might see you again

in the not too distant future?

Goodnight.

- Come on, small fry. - I'm coming.

- [Man] Come on, never mind.

Hurry up.

- [Woman] For heaven's sake.

- [Woman] Leave something on me, I might catch cold.

- [Man] Just thinking, not about you.

Come on.

That's a very cute youngster of yours.

- [Woman] Yes, isn't she?

- [Man] I thought you had two.

- [Woman] Personally, Veda's convinced me

that alligators have the right idea.

They eat their young.

- [Girl] Let's go for a walk.

Let's go up and see those houses

that they're building, David.

- [David] I thought your grandfather wanted you home.

- We won't be there long.

I just wanna see.

(birds chirping)

I liked the movie.

- So did I.

(bell dings)

- Where are they?

- Where's the old guy keep 'em?

Under the counter?

- Are they under the counter?

- What?

- You know, them. - Them.

- [Boy] God, you're dumb.

Rubbers!

- I don't know.

- Geez, he's so dumb.

- [Both] Dumb!

(bell dings)

(birds chirping)

- [Woman] We're going outside, baby.

Outside.

- I've brought your medicine

from the drugstore, Miss Gilbert.

- Come in, boy, while I get the money.

There, there you go, baby.

How old are you, boy?

- 15.

- Do you deliver at night?

- Tuesdays and Thursdays.

- Next time, come back Thursday.

(train chugging)

(birds chirping)

Come in, boy, while I get my purse.

- [David] No, I can't.

- Just for a little while.

It's damp out here.

- No.

(coins clatter)

(door slams)

Aunt Mae?

How do I look?

- Oh, you'll be a fine looking boy

in about a year or so.

Your body's getting some lines,

your face is getting to look like a man's, too.

(crickets chirping)

Sarah, come and eat.

Sarah!

Go eat.

How was work today?

- Just slow, but okay I guess.

- What's the matter? - Nothing.

- David, I have something to tell you.

I got a letter from Clyde today.

You wanna read it?

Well, Clyde says he thinks

he can get us a good job, a permanent one, in Nashville

on radio and records.

What do you think of that, hon?

- I don't know, Aunt Mae.

What does it mean?

What about me and Mother?

- Oh, but that's just it, hon.

If I get a job, I can send for you both.

Clyde says, he says we can make a lotta money.

- But what am I gonna do with Mother?

I work all day, I can't leave her here alone.

- Oh honey, she's no trouble.

Look, quit your job.

- If I quit my job, I'll lose

about the best I could get anywhere.

- No, you quit your job at the store,

and then you'll have time to stay home with Mother all day,

and in a week, no more than two,

you'll get those tickets to Nashville from me.

Oh honey, there's nothin' to worry about, really.

David, this is such a big chance for me.

I can sing on the radio, and records,

and I'll be making so much money

that you can quit your job and join me.

I'm taking a bus out of here day after tomorrow.

Don't worry, it won't be long

before you and Mother get a train ticket from me, ya hear?

Now you tell Mr. Williams tomorrow you wanna quit.

- There.

You see how they're growing?

From the tiny little seeds your papa planted,

they're growing up all over.

But I saw them in the clearing first.

I saw them first.

- [David] Everything was changing.

Mother, Aunt Mae, and then Jo Lynne left.

- What's the matter with you?

We only went out once!

- Wait, Jo--

- Let me go!

- Jo Lynne, we could get married.

The state will marry us.

- Let me go!

You're crazy, like your mother!

(bell dings)

- Well, goodnight David.

- I have to quit, Mr. Williams.

- [Williams] Are you making fun, David?

- No, Mr. Williams, I really mean it.

I have to leave, because Aunt Mae

is going to Nashville tomorrow,

and there's no one to look after Mother but me.

- You need to earn money, David.

You can't do it alone.

She could get help.

Reverend Watkins could help.

- No one is gonna take my mother

to the crazy house, or the poor folks asylum!

I won't let anyone touch her!

- All right, David.

All right.

(register dings)

- Thank you, Mr. Williams.

- It's the cold breeze, hon.

Always makes my eyes water.

(engine rumbling)

(emotional music)

♪ Let us pause in life's pleasures ♪

♪ And count its many tears ♪

♪ While we all sup sorrow with the poor ♪

♪ There's a song that will linger ♪

♪ Forever in our ears ♪

♪ Oh hard times come again no more ♪

♪ 'Tis the song, the sigh of the weary ♪

♪ Hard times, hard times come again no more ♪

♪ Many days you have lingered ♪

♪ Around my cabin door ♪

♪ Oh hard times come again no more ♪

♪ 'Tis a sigh that is wafted across the troubled wave ♪

♪ 'Tis a wail that is heard upon the shore ♪

♪ 'Tis a dirge that is murmured ♪

- Mother?

♪ Around the lowly grave ♪ - Mother?

♪ Oh hard times come again no more ♪

♪ 'Tis the song, the sigh of the weary ♪

♪ Hard times, hard times ♪

♪ Come again no more ♪

♪ Many days you have lingered ♪

- [David] 10, 11, 12.

♪ Oh hard times come again no more ♪

(Sarah crying)

- Mother?

Oh, Mother.

♪ While we seek mirth and beauty ♪

♪ And music bright and gay ♪

♪ There are frail forms fainting at the door ♪

(Sarah groaning)

♪ Oh their voices are silent ♪

♪ Their pleading looks will say ♪

♪ Oh hard times, come again no more ♪

♪ 'Tis the song, the sigh of the weary ♪

♪ Hard times, hard times ♪

♪ Come again no more ♪

♪ Many days you have lingered ♪

♪ Around my cabin door ♪

(Sarah rasping)

♪ Hard times, come again no more ♪

(Sarah groaning)

(Sarah groans)

(Sarah coughs)

- Frank.

(David sobbing)

(crickets chirping)

(brush rustling)

(water splashing)

(footsteps thudding)

- [Man] Hello, son.

- My name's David.

What do you want?

- I'm here on behalf of the state, son.

Now you know your mother needs a better place to stay.

You can't look after her by yourself.

With your aunt here, it was different.

- She isn't going with you.

She isn't here.

- Now son, you don't understand.

I'll get her myself.

- [David] She's not up there.

- I wanna see what's done is best for us all.

- You can't come in here like that.

Get the hell outta this house, you bastard!

- [Man] I won't listen to any more of your profanity, boy.

- Get out! (gun fires)

(body thudding)

(bells clanging) (train chugging)

(train whistle blowing)

I didn't ask the conductor where this train went.

I knew I should, but I just gave him Mr. Williams's money,

and told him to let me off

where it didn't pay for the ride anymore.

(train whistle blowing)

Maybe they're up at the house now, too,

but I'm not scared now with the train

getting this far away.

Maybe I'll get a job.

Maybe I'll save some money,

and go to Nashville to look for Aunt Mae.

I guess they think that's where I am.

I guess they think I went to look for her.

(train rattling) (bells clanging)

(train whistle blowing)

(birds chirping)

(gentle music)

(birds chirping)