American Pop (1981)

1. I don't care

2. If he's a clerk or just a millionaire There's no doubt about it

3. I'll sing, and I'll shout it 'Cause I don't care

4. When it comes to happiness I want my share

5. Don't try to rearrange me

6. There's nothing can change me 'Cause

7. It looks very bad.

8. Leo, I ain't no stage singer.

9. So I'm not loud enough for you.

10. All right, so I get up on the stage occasionally...

11. Get out of here...

12. towards the end of the evening.

13. Granted the old box ain't what it used to be...

14. but no dancing horses!

15. And now you expect me to hobble into 60 joints tonight?

16. I can't even get the chorus slips out.

17. I wonder how they'd like it if I...

18. Kid, come here. Wanna make a penny? Any more kids standing around out there?

19. Hey. He can't come in here without payin'.

20. - He's goin' right away, Charlie. - I got my orders. He has to pay.

21. He'll keep his eyes closed. He won't see nothin'. His ears closed.

22. He won't hear nothin', won't breathe nothin', won't do nothin'.

23. He'll get nothin' of value. He'll pay nothin'!

24. Here. Give these out to the clientele. Come on.

25. Give those to the people, son.

26. And speedy. These folks gotta sing along with me.

27. It's rough when they start with 'Daisy" in the midst of "Marie of Sunny Italy."

28. Come on. Like this. Come. Pardon me, folks.

29. Chorus slips for the wonderful song the lovely Lily Montgomery...

30. is gonna be introducing in just a few moments.

31. So as not to be left behind at the bridge...

32. I'm sure you'll want to peruse these in advance.

33. Waiter! A light here.

34. No need to worry about the number currently onstage.

35. Ours is far superior in every way...

36. as I'm sure you'll agree when you hear it, huh?

37. You'll find yourself just bursting into song as well.

38. It don't hurt to swipe the other slips some other bozo might have left behind.

39. Out of sight, out of mind, right? Here. Go.

40. Come on. Go.

41. Beggin' your pardon, folks, chorus slips for a wonderful song...

42. the lovely Lily Montgomery's gonna be introducin' in just a few minutes.

43. The kid's a genius.

44. Louie?

45. Yeah?

46. You promised the boy a penny.

47. A penny? You ought to be grateful.

48. Got a ride in a brand-new car, apple cider...

49. a trip into almost every joint in town.

50. Nonetheless, you promised.

51. Promised, huh?

52. Here.

53. What's he want with those other chorus slips?

54. He must be studying the competition. It wouldn't hurt you.

55. "'It wouldn't hurt," he says. So why am I crying?

56. Good night, zunelech. Maybe we'll see you tomorrow.

57. Not if I see you first.

58. - Get outta here. - Hey.

59. Oh, no. You got your G's all backwards.

60. Look at that. A whole row of G's backwards. Look.

61. Little tails go like this and like that.

62. What are you talkin'? He's writing Q's.

63. Perfectly right. Perfectly okay Q's.

64. You're writing Q's. Am I right?

65. - What are you writing here? - P's.

66. - Who taught you to write P's like that? - The dancing horse.

67. Who told you to go near the dancing horse? Stay away from the dancing horse.

68. Good-bye, Mama.

69. There are smiles

70. That make us happy

71. There are smiles

72. That make us blue

73. That kid is too old to be playin' juveniles.

74. Old but little. He had a stunted youth.

75. What is this kid to you anyway, Louie? He comes in and takes your job away.

76. And he took Louie everyplace he went.

77. The kid's nothin' to me. I'm nothin' to him.

78. It's more than I got elsewhere.

79. His voice is changin' anyway.

80. So let it change.

81. Who says it's gotta change bad? Maybe it'll change good.

82. And the smiles that fill my life with sunshine

83. Are the smiles that you give

84. To me

85. - Louie? - Yeah?

86. I'm 17 years old. When's my voice gonna change already?

87. It's changin'.

88. I know it's changin'. When's it gonna change for good?

89. - What's your rush? - I don't wanna be a horse's ass forever.

90. Zalmie, what's wrong?

91. So your voice finally changed, huh?

92. This is a funny story.

93. Yeah, we're both laughin', huh?

94. That's a nice little cough you have there, Zalmie.

95. A little cough, says Louie.

96. Consumption he's got.

97. You ain't laughin'. Well, you ain't laughin' 'cause I ain't finished yet.

98. You'll know when I'm finished. Then you'll be laughin'.

99. If ya ain't, then I'll be cryin'.

100. That ought to be good for a few laughs. Either way, you win!

101. - Come on. Move. - Shove it, Charlie.

102. Hey, hurry up.

103. Come on. Out on stage. Move it. Let's go, girls.

104. I just seen the most beautiful thing I ever seen in the whole world.

105. Some pre-Prohibition booze, huh?

106. No. I seen the stripper gettin' dressed.

107. A stripper gettin' dressed ain't pretty unless she's ugly to begin with.

108. She was not ugly to begin with!

109. She was like a rose.

110. A rose?

111. - How old are you anyhow, kid? - Almost 20. How old are you?

112. Not so old.

113. I know. When we first met, I thought you were an old man.

114. Now, older I get, younger you get.

115. Amazing, ain't it?

116. Pretty soon we'll be just the same.

117. Yeah? Then what?

118. Then we start callin' me "kid."

119. You want this girl, kid?

120. So go get her.

121. - Right now? - Right now.

122. In this business, you wait five minutes, she'll be older than both of us. Go on.

123. Somebody loves me

124. I wonder who

125. I wonder who it can be

126. - Hey, you can sing. - No, I can't.

127. Sure you can.

128. I know voices. I used to be a singer myself.

129. - With that voice? - No, not with this voice.

130. I used to have another voice. I sent it to the laundry. It come back shrunk.

131. - So you wanna be a singer, huh? - No.

132. Sure you do. Singers get to sit on piano and things.

133. Strippers is always on their feet.

134. Ain't you always tellin' me how your tootsies is achin'?

135. That's because you're always steppin' on 'em.

136. Hey, kid, I'm gonna make you a star.

137. So what was Bella before it was Bella?

138. Annabella.

139. Here.

140. I wanna make the kid a star. All right?

141. To make the kid a star, I gotta get to know the clubs and the bands.

142. If I can get paid for it at the same time, where's the heartache, huh?

143. The heartache is, you could have been a star yourself.

144. You could have been a great comic.

145. Who wants to laugh sittin' in some speak?

146. You got one ear cocked for the cops.

147. They want a slow, sexy woman...

148. helpin' them to feel sorry for themselves.

149. Comics are for kids.

150. And besides, Louie, it's the music I love.

151. It's the music.

152. I can't even remember the words.

153. It's gonna be a big song. I think you should try it again.

154. You think I'm gonna be a hit?

155. Did the booze arrive?

156. Ah, Mr. Palumbo. How ya doin', Boss?

157. Hey, baggy pants. Where's your partner, Zalmie?

158. He's in the back where he always is.

159. Yeah, I see him.

160. Your girl's getting fat.

161. Pregnant.

162. Don't you think it's time for a wedding?

163. How can I ask her? I don't have a cent.

164. You should have thought of that before you got her pregnant.

165. Who thinks at a time like that?

166. So what do you think? Customers will pay to see some puffed-out singer?

167. Hey, she ain't any fatter than Sophie Tucker.

168. Yeah, but she's fat all in one place.

169. You want the kid, or you want the girl fixed?

170. We want the kid!

171. Well, then, go get married.

172. This is a wholesome place.

173. Come on, doll! We got a down payment on rice!

174. So the booze I understand.

175. Izzy needs the booze for the nightclubs.

176. But why's he cuttin' out the middleman?

177. He cuttin' the middle out of the middleman.

178. I never seen so much blood in my whole life.

179. I don't like this business. I loved show business.

180. You always told me it was just the music.

181. And it still is.

182. And along came Bill

183. Who's not the kind at all

184. You meet him on the street

185. And never notice him

186. His warm embrace

187. His manly grace

188. Is not the kind

189. I got to admit it, Zalmie. She's really good.

190. What do you say, Nicky?

191. She ain't bad.

192. - Sometimes it's all worth it, huh? - Yeah.

193. That makes me thrill

194. I love him

195. Because he's wonderful

196. What do you think, Benny? Your mama's gonna make a record.

197. The kid never talks, Zalmie.

198. He will when he's got somethin' to say.

199. How do you know there ain't somethin' wrong with him?

200. Maybe he's deaf?

201. How can he be deaf? He plays the piano.

202. Beethoven was deaf.

203. See that? Garbo talks, huh?

204. What?

205. They won't listen to reason.

206. Nicky, you get the deuce. Izzy, you pull a trick. The whistler with a jig.

207. Little Zalmie is flushin' out. All right.

208. Hey, that kid's got piano player's hands.

209. Surgeon's hands. He's going to be a doctor.

210. Doctor, piano player. He can be both. He's smart enough.

211. Here we go. Everyone in?

212. Zalmie, you ordered pretzels?

213. Pretzels?

214. Yeah. Thought maybe you sent me a present.

215. But it's a box of pretzels.

216. Bella, don't touch the box!

217. So, Benny, I can get you Reisenweber's.

218. I can get you Jack's. I can get you Shanley's. So what are you doin' here?

219. I'm happy, Pops.

220. It's not like anybody's doin' you a favor. Everybody knows you're good.

221. That guy from RCA Victor is dyin' for you to make a record for him.

222. Dyin'?

223. It's not that important.

224. Yeah, Benny, it is important!

225. You could be somethin', Benny. You could be a star.

226. I want you to do me a favor, Benny.

227. I want you to marry a girl for me.

228. - Marry a girl? - Yeah.

229. - And live happily ever after? - Yeah.

230. Hey, Benny, it's Nicky Palumbo's daughter, all right?

231. Her father's an important man, mister.

232. And your father's an important man, too!

233. Benny, if you won't live my dreams, then live my life, all right?

234. Sure, Pops.

235. Now what are you doing?

236. Playin' her a love song.

237. Forget the love songs, Benny. The girl's agreed.

238. A love song's nice to give the girl you're gonna marry.

239. It's very clear

240. Our love is here to stay

241. Nicky, look at it this way.

242. You're not losing a daughter. You're gaining a son.

243. Right.

244. Sons I don't need. I got sons. What I'm gaining is a brother.

245. The radio

246. And the telephone

247. And the movies

248. That we know

249. May be just passing fancies

250. And in time they'll go

251. Yet it may be

252. Our love is here to stay

253. Together

254. We're

255. Going the long, long way

256. It's a big house.

257. Big.

258. What are the two of us supposed to do in this big house?

259. Make three, four or five.

260. Is that what you want?

261. If you do.

262. But what do you want?

263. I want you to smile.

264. Enlisted? What do ya mean, ya enlisted?

265. - I like the hat, Pops. - You got a wife now.

266. You got a kid comin'!

267. So I need a steady job.

268. What are you talking? You got a steady job here!

269. Oh, Pops.

270. This isn't work. This is play.

271. Hey, so play, Benny. You're just a kid.

272. No, Pops. No, I'm not.

273. Look, I gave, all right? I gave at the office.

274. But you took too.

275. What am I gonna do if anything should happen to you, huh?

276. You'll manage, Pops.

277. Boy, who told you you could play that thing?

278. Nobody.

279. Boy, are you lousy.

280. Yeah.

281. I know, but it's hard to fit a piano in a foxhole.

282. You've been carrying a torch for that bastard's son long enough, ya hear?

283. You married a good man now, you understand?

284. You don't want to marry in the business, all right, so I let ya.

285. You wanna marry a guy that sells refrigerators, I let ya.

286. Could I be proud of that? No. But I let ya.

287. So at least be worthy of the man.

288. You own him now, Papa!

289. I own everybody.

290. - What is your name? - Zalmie Belinsky.

291. - Where do you live? - Live?

292. What is your place of residence?

293. The Jacksonville State Prison.

294. Very nice place.

295. Tony, come here.

296. I want him to see this. I want him to see how a man acts.

297. What was your relationship with Mr. Palumbo?

298. My relationship?

299. - He was my friend. - Was?

300. First he told me they'd get me out right away.

301. Then they told me they'd get me out soon.

302. Then they told me nothin'.

303. Eight years is a long time.

304. I told you we should have gotten rid of him!

305. His son gets killed. He gets totally useless.

306. But, no, you get mushed for him.

307. Let him take a fall, you say, huh? He'll stay quiet.

308. Quiet? He would have been a lot quieter dead.

309. And so now you agreed to talk to us.

310. This country's been good to me in its way.

311. '"I took," my son said. So, now it's time to give back.

312. I can't believe it. That schmuck is gonna sing!

313. Sing?

314. Sure. That's all he ever wanted.

315. Last night I discussed the Communists in the State Department.

316. Dean hunched his muscular neck, T-shirted in the winter night.

317. We're fighting for time.

318. The young men in Korea and Japan are fighting for time for us.

319. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg have paid their debt to society with their lives.

320. Pat doesn't have a mink coat...

321. but she does have a respectable Republican cloth coat.

322. Ethel, how could you ever think up a sneaky scheme like that?

323. I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness.

324. Starving, hysterical, naked, dragging themselves...

325. through the negro streets at dawn lookin' for an angry fix.

326. Angel-headed hipsters...

327. burning for the ancient heavenly connection...

328. to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night.

329. Tony, so what's he talkin' about? Do you have any idea?

330. Shut up.

331. Geez, we're underage. This place could get busted any minute.

332. And I happen to know some of these people are smokin' drugs.

333. Shut up!

334. Instead of smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats...

335. floating across the tops of cities...

336. contemplating jazz.

337. - I'm goin', Tony. - Go.

338. So how you gonna get home?

339. Home?

340. Who passed through university, saw great life's tragedy among scholars of war.

341. Number 34 now departing from gate 3 for Levittown and Long Island.

342. Number 89 will be leaving gate 6...

343. for Baltimore and Washington D.C. at 11:48.

344. Number 74 now departing for Philadelphia at gate 9.

345. Attention, passengers, for number 12 to New Haven, Providence and Boston.

346. Your bus has been delayed and is expected to arrive 30 minutes late.

347. Last call for number 47 to San Francisco.

348. So what ya watchin'?

349. TV.

350. Wonderful.

351. You're watchin' TV. TV you can watch if it's on or off!

352. I shut it off, you're still watchin' TV!

353. - Turn it on. - So what are you watchin'?

354. We're watching a show.

355. A show? Their brains is fallin' out like teeth.

356. Did ya get your quarter? Did the brain fairy leave ya a quarter last night?

357. I'm talkin' to you!

358. We're ignoring you, Tony.

359. Mom said to ignore you. She said you're going through a phase.

360. A phase? Now I'm a goddamn moon.

361. That's right! You catch 'em!

362. Your brains is fallin' out! Your ears are fallin' off!

363. How's your eyes? Your eyes workin' okay?

364. Go away, Tony, or we'll call Mom.

365. You call Mom!

366. You think Mama's gonna hear me shut up in that room listening to them records?

367. That's a secret, Tony. You're not supposed to talk about that.

368. What do you care?

369. He wasn't your father!

370. Turn me loose

371. Turn me loose, I say

372. This is the first time I have felt this way

373. Gonna get a thousand kicks

374. Or kiss a thousand chicks

375. So turn me loose

376. Gonna rock and roll long as the band's gonna play

377. Gonna holler, gonna shout

378. Gonna knock myself right out

379. I've got some change in my pocket

380. And I'm rarin' to go

381. Takin' some chick to the picture show

382. And when I see her home

383. And we kiss good night

384. - How far you goin'? - I don't care.

385. Well, get in.

386. - How long you been drivin'? - Hey, pass the joint.

387. I've been on the road six months.

388. I've only been on it for four weeks, but I love it.

389. - Where are we? - Kansas!

390. - We're in Kansas! - Don't stop in Kansas. I got alimony.

391. - I never been in Kansas. - Let's have a party.

392. It's my first time.

393. - Let's get outta here. - Wait a minute!

394. This is Kansas! The land of Dorothy and Toto!

395. - And I'm the Good Witch of the West. - You should know about all of that!

396. We're in the land of Charlie "Bird" Parker.

397. Blow, man! We are in Kansas! We are west of the Mississippi!

398. I want a moment's silence here!

399. And I think it's time I go alone.

400. - Wait! - What about the car?

401. - It's yours! - Thank you, son!

402. It's stolen!

403. Let me out!

404. Oh, my God!

405. For sale.

406. You want a job?

407. I want you.

408. We got a job washing dishes. You want it?

409. Sure.

410. Darling, you send me

411. I know you

412. Send me

413. Honest you do

414. You thrill me

415. I know you thrill me

416. Will you be back tomorrow?

417. Where will you be?

418. Is this really Kansas?

419. Is everything up to date here?

420. Is Wilbert Harrison gonna come here?

421. Is it corny? Is Kansas corny?

422. Are you corny? Do you believe in love?

423. Yes.

424. Yeah? Which? Corny? Harrison? Love?

425. Yes.

426. Show me.

427. What is this?

428. Corn.

429. Corn comes in a little white box from Birdseye.

430. Kansas is corny!

431. - Can ya eat it? - Yeah.

432. Can ya smoke it? Can ya drink it? Can ya lie in it?

433. Sure.

434. Then lie in it with me.

435. - Are you crazy? - Yeah, I'm crazy.

436. I'm crazy in love with your blue eyes...

437. and your corn-silked hair.

438. I'll never eat corn again without thinkin' about you.

439. Canned corn, candy corn...

440. popcorn, Crackerjacks!

441. You're the prize in my box!

442. And my box is this country.

443. It's all tinfoil on the outside.

444. Corn and sweetness on the inside.

445. Come wander the country with me.

446. I can't.

447. Can't?

448. Night after night under the stars.

449. Did you know them stars travel all the way from here to California?

450. Clear blue water, white sand.

451. Are you going to California?

452. Yeah.

453. Will you be here tomorrow?

454. Then this is your night for Kansas.

455. Yeah.

456. This train done carried my mother

457. Well, this train

458. This train She's bound for glory

459. If you want to get to heaven Well, you got to be holy

460. Hey, Di Noble, what are you doin'?

461. - Thinkin'. - Thinkin' of what?

462. Clean thoughts.

463. Then how come my dishes are dirty?

464. Dirty?

465. Well, them poor dumb little bastards.

466. They never learned the power of positive thought.

467. I thought you said you was a dishwasher.

468. I'm a dishwasher.

469. My hands is permanently puckered!

470. But you know what?

471. The thrill is gone.

472. That's what happens when you turn pro.

473. Even that first batch of suds...

474. that first spraying of Palmolive over troubled waters...

475. that first plunge through the foam...

476. that first hopeful fish for a dish...

477. It is gone, Charley.

478. And I think it's time...

479. that I'm movin' on.

480. Where ya gonna go, Tony?

481. West!

482. Where else can a man go that needs elbow room?

483. And what the hell you need elbow room for?

484. I'm thinkin' of takin' up the accordion.

485. Hey, you're not gonna make it in this business, Tony.

486. Ya can't sing. You play guitar like a duck.

487. That's 'cause my hands is permanently puckered!

488. And, anyway, this is California.

489. There ain't no further west to go.

490. All the leaves are brown

491. And the sky is gray

492. I've been for a walk

493. On a winter's day

494. I'd be safe and warm

495. If I was in L.A.

496. California dreamin'

497. Hey, man!

498. Where'd you get that stuff?

499. From a hobo on a train.

500. You got some more of it?

501. That's all he taught me.

502. Well, come on up anyway.

503. Hey, come on over and sit down.

504. Yeah. How ya doin'?

505. Hey, try some of this. Did ya ever get high before?

506. Only when I can afford it.

507. How often is that?

508. Never.

509. Hey, you think you can find that hobo?

510. You sing?

511. You play guitar?

512. Everybody plays guitar, man.

513. Everybody plays the guitar.

514. Hey, man, well, what do you do?

515. - I write songs. - All right!

516. Words or music?

517. Words. I don't know nothin' about no music.

518. We can see that.

519. Why don't you bring some over?

520. All right! I got 'em at home.

521. - Where's that? - North Beach.

522. North Beach? Nobody lives in North Beach anymore.

523. Nobody lives in North Beach.

524. Run on out and get 'em. Bring 'em over.

525. Yeah, okay. It'll take me a while 'cause I gotta walk.

526. Walk? You gotta walk?

527. Take the bus.

528. All right.

529. Well, it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe

530. If you don't know by now

531. And it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe

532. It'll never do somehow

533. When the rooster crows at the break of dawn

534. Look out your window and I'll be gone

535. You're the reason I'm travelin' on

536. Don't think twice It's all right

537. Oh, where have you been my blue-eyed son

538. Where have you been my darling young one

539. I've stumbled and I've crawled on six crooked highways

540. Walked in a...

541. Oh, come on!

542. Come on, you guys!

543. Everything in the world is possible.

544. And we're just sittin' here doin' nothing.

545. Frankie, we're doin' fine, honey. Just fine.

546. Fine? I don't wanna hear fine.

547. You don't make it on fine!

548. Nobody cares about fine.

549. Everything's gotta be perfect, and this is our shot.

550. - It's just one more gig, lady. - It's not just a gig!

551. This is our time!

552. This is our time, guys.

553. And it's slippin' right through our fingers.

554. We got any more of this?

555. Hey, he's working on a song.

556. I'd like to get this one right first!

557. You got any more of this?

558. Sure.

559. Thanks.

560. You like to try it again?

561. Oh, where have you been my blue-eyed son

562. Where have you been my darling young one

563. Words don't fit now.

564. Fuck the words. The words don't matter.

565. Let's do it a little faster.

566. Where have you been my blue-eyed son

567. Where have you been my darling young one

568. When the truth is found

569. When the truth is found

570. To be lies

571. You know the joy

572. Within you dies

573. Don't you want somebody to love

574. Don't you need somebody to love

575. Wouldn't you love somebody to love

576. You better find somebody to love

577. Love

578. When the garden flows

579. Baby, you're dead

580. Yes, and your mind

581. Is so full of red

582. Don't you want somebody to love

583. Don't you need somebody to love

584. Wouldn't you love somebody to love

585. You better find somebody to love

586. Your eyes I say your eyes

587. May look like his

588. Well, now in your head, baby

589. I'm afraid you don't know where it is

590. Love

591. What's in this punch, man?

592. A little water, a little sugar...

593. and Red Dye Number Two.

594. Oh, no, man.

595. There's somethin' in here.

596. - Try it. - Man.

597. Frankie!

598. - Come on! You gotta be up there! - Encore!

599. That's where you belong. That's where you should be.

600. Not out of it!

601. Encore!

602. Hey, man. How do you feel?

603. - Like a fuckin' M&M. - An M&M?

604. Yeah. Dig my thin candy shell.

605. - They got good stuff in this place, man? - Yeah, it's the greatest.

606. Hey, guys!

607. Did you see Cashbox? Have you seen Billboard?

608. - Our album is number one! - All right!

609. - We're gonna be rich and famous! - We're rich already!

610. That's right! We are!

611. And we got a $5,000 advance on our next album.

612. So guess what? We bought you a present.

613. What is it? A suitcase? You want me to split?

614. It's an electric typewriter.

615. Look.

616. Look. See?

617. You can write your songs.

618. It's nice.

619. Was there somethin' you wanted more?

620. Nicky. Hey, it's Tony.

621. Yeah. I just got out, man.

622. Yeah, well, they left me behind.

623. I don't know. What the hell difference does it make?

624. Yeah, I know they're doing great.

625. Yeah. The album too.

626. Yeah. Gold, huh?

627. The thing is, man...

628. you got any dope?

629. Just anything at all, man.

630. You got any smack?

631. Yeah?

632. Yeah, it's pretty bad...

633. pain.

634. When you're strange

635. Faces come out of the rain

636. When you're strange

637. No one remembers your name

638. Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon

639. We can float among the stars together

640. You and I

641. All right. I want everybody out of this studio. I mean it.

642. Hey, what'd you stop for? I was doin' great.

643. And, Frankie, lay off that goddamn bottle.

644. Hey, shove it, man! You know what I mean?

645. This is not my song.

646. What did you expect? You promised us something two months ago.

647. What is this shit?

648. You're pullin' Houdini, she's pullin' freak-out city.

649. It's your wife!

650. Get off it. That only lasted two weeks.

651. That chick's crazy. Where the hell you been?

652. I was...

653. I was movin' on, and then I come back.

654. You look like hell.

655. Well, I been sick, man.

656. Hey, man! If you can't hold your stuff, don't use it.

657. Where the hell have you been?

658. I said where the hell have you been, goddamn you?

659. Jesus Christ! How could you do that to me?

660. How could you do this?

661. Don't you know I'm nothin' without you?

662. Purple haze all in my brain

663. Lately things don't seem the same

664. Actin' funny but I don't know why

665. Excuse me while I kiss the sky

666. Purple haze is all around

667. - Where are we anyway? - Dwayne, where are we?

668. - Kansas City. Why? - Because it's nice to know sometimes.

669. Jeffrey!

670. You remembered to bring your guitar tonight!

671. Why are we goin' on after Hendrix? We'll look like shit after him.

672. You're gonna look just great. You hear me, Johnny?

673. - Why is he going on before us? - Because you guys are the stars now.

674. Because you are the ones those people paid money to see!

675. Hey, kid, how'd you get in here?

676. Get out of here!

677. Let the kid stay.

678. Frankie, you all right or somethin'?

679. Have I ever let you down?

680. Then I'm okay, right?

681. I just want you to take care.

682. I take good care of my manager.

683. I take good care of the record companies.

684. I take good care of every connection...

685. from here to the coast.

686. I take good care.

687. Right?

688. I just want you to take good care of yourself.

689. Who?

690. Skip it.

691. I like little kids.

692. Little kids...

693. they bring me luck.

694. Remember when you were a little kid?

695. Get up.

696. Where are we?

697. We been through that already. We're in Kansas City.

698. This is Kansas?

699. Across the river.

700. - Kid, what's your name? - Little Pete.

701. - Well, who's Big Pete? - My dad.

702. What's your dad gonna say about you hangin' out with a bunch of freaks?

703. I never met my dad. He's some kind of mystery.

704. You the one who writes the songs?

705. You could teach me how to do that.

706. Hey, kid.

707. Come here.

708. You gotta sing in a half hour.

709. I'm gonna sing now.

710. Yeah. Sure.

711. I'm gonna sing to this little boy.

712. You ever hear about '"Summertime"?

713. You ever go fishin'?

714. You never been fishin'?

715. They jump. The fish... they jump.

716. Fish are jumpin' now

717. And the cotton, Lord Cotton's high

718. It's high

719. Your daddy's rich

720. And your ma's so good-lookin', baby

721. She's lookin' good now

722. Hush, baby

723. No, don't you cry

724. Don't you cry

725. One of these mornings

726. Honey

727. Nothin's going to harm you now

728. No, no

729. No, don't you cry

730. Corn flakes are gettin' soggy.

731. My corn flakes is gettin' soggy.

732. Your banana's turning brown too.

733. I didn't ask you to stay with me.

734. How come you bought corn flakes?

735. I thought you was runnin' away from corn flakes?

736. I thought you liked corn flakes.

737. I hate...

738. I hate corn flakes.

739. What do you want? A Tiger Milk cookie?

740. They're good for ya. They make you healthy.

741. Where you goin'?

742. Aren't you gonna finish the song?

743. You can't make any money if you don't finish the song.

744. Don't you know I don't need no money!

745. All I need is love.

746. I'm waitin' for my man

747. Got $20 in my hand

748. Up to Lexington 125

749. Feel sick and dirty

750. I'm waitin' for my man

751. Hey, white boy what you doin' uptown

752. Hey, white boy you chasin' my women around

753. Pardon me, sir it's furthest from my mind

754. I'm just waitin' for a dear friend of mine

755. I'm waitin' for my man

756. Come on

757. Here he comes

758. He's all dressed in black

759. New York shoes and a big straw hat

760. He's never early

761. He's always late

762. First thing you learn is that you always gotta wait

763. I'm waitin' for my man

764. I don't know, Tony.

765. I guess I just don't have it.

766. You had us livin' at the Chelsea.

767. I can't even get us the "Y."

768. Go back to Kansas.

769. Maybe you could listen to what I'm doin' sometimes.

770. See what I'm doin' wrong.

771. Go back to Kansas.

772. Maybe...

773. you could put some magic on it.

774. Go back to Kansas.

775. - I can't. - Why?

776. Too flat.

777. What the hell is this, the Himalayas?

778. Everest.

779. Everybody's gotta take a shot at it.

780. Gimme your guitar.

781. You're gonna play it?

782. No. I'm gonna pawn it.

783. I'm gonna pawn it, then I'm gonna un-pawn it.

784. You don't trust me?

785. Then why do you stay with me?

786. Why the hell do you think?

787. Here.

788. It belonged to my father.

789. Now I'm givin' it to you.

790. - Why? - Why the hell do you think?

791. His name was Benny Belinsky.

792. I never knew him.

793. Supposed to be some kind of genius or something.

794. Maybe you take after him.

795. Now give me the guitar.

796. Now you stay right there, you hear?

797. Till hell freezes over, Tony.

798. It already did.

799. Hey, you Little Pete?

800. Yeah.

801. Well, I got somethin' for you.

802. He said not to sell it all in one place.

803. And he said to give you this.

804. Did he tell you anything else?

805. No... Yeah! He said to say "Good-bye."

806. Hell

807. Hell is for children

808. And you know that their little lives can become such a mess

809. Hell

810. Hell is for children

811. And you shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh

812. Hell is for children

813. Hell is for hell

814. Hell is for children

815. There's no point in asking You'll get no reply

816. I'm just getting in but I barely try

817. I got no reason to know too much

818. You'll always find us

819. Out to lunch

820. We're so pretty Oh, so pretty

821. We're vacant

822. Don't ask us what we're doin' 'cause we're not aware

823. I don't pretend 'cause I don't care

824. I don't believe illusions I got too much for real

825. Stop your cheap comment

826. 'Cause we know what we feel

827. I know

828. And we don't care

829. There's no point in asking You'll get no reply

830. I just get in but I barely try

831. I got no reason to know too much

832. You'll always find me

833. Out to lunch

834. I know

835. And we don't care

836. Pizza Man! We deliver!

837. - Muco man! What do you got for us? - Do we need you!

838. If anybody has blow in this town, my man will.

839. - You got the coke, daddy-o? - What do I look like, a soda fountain?

840. What else you got?

841. - Songs. - You scorin' songs now too?

842. Givin' them away. A song an ounce.

843. - By who? - Me.

844. You can keep the songs.

845. I will keep the coke too!

846. - Wait! Don't go away! - Come back here!

847. What is it, Pete?

848. I have been runnin' and fetchin'...

849. for you bunch of punks for three years now!

850. I don't wanna be no candy man no more!

851. - You want more money? - It's not the money, man.

852. - Fine. We'll get someone else. - Do it.

853. Come on!

854. All right. What do you want?

855. I want you to play one of my songs.

856. - You mean record it? - Dig it.

857. No way, man.

858. Hey, look, man. We'll listen to one.

859. - One? - Just one.

860. Pass them out, turkey.

861. Hey, don't wanna hurt yourself.

862. I was a little too tall Could have used a few pounds

863. Tight pants, points Hardly renown

864. She was a black-haired beauty with big, dark eyes

865. And points all her own sittin' way up high

866. Way up firm and high

867. Out past the cornfields where the woods got heavy

868. Out in the backseat of my '60 Chevy

869. Workin' on mysteries without any clues

870. Workin' on the night moves

871. Tryin' to make some front-page drive-in news

872. Workin' on the night moves

873. One for the money Two for the show

874. Three to get ready Now go, cat, go

875. But don't you step on my blue suede shoes

876. You can do anything but lay off of my blue suede shoes

877. Well, you can knock me down step on my face

878. Slander my name all over the place

879. Do anything that you wanna do

880. But, uh-uh, honey lay off of my shoes

881. But don't you step on my blue suede shoes

882. Well, you can do anything but lay off of my blue suede shoes

883. All right!

884. Devil with the blue dress on

885. Crazy

886. Crazy on you

887. Let me get crazy on you

888. Crazy

889. On you

890. All right

891. Let me get crazy on you