"(Woman and child) ♪ So, la-la la-la la-la, bye-bye" "♪ Do you want the stars to play with?" "♪ Or the moon to run away with?" "♪ They'll come if you don't cry" "♪ So, la-la la-la la-la, bye-bye" "♪ When your mother's eyes are weeping..." "MAN:" "You let anyone jump on your brother again and you just stand and watch?" "Boy, I'll beat you to death!" "I don't care who started what." "Or whether he was winning or losing." "You get a stick or... or... or..." "or a goddamn brick, get anything and you knock the shit out of whoever is fighting your brother!" "If anything was to happen to me or your mother, you ain't got nobody except your brother." "This goes for him, too." "But he knows." "You're the one that keep coming up with this off-the-wall bullshit about 'Henry started it.'" "(Coughs)" "If the son of a bitch is too big for you, you come and get me." "(Coughs)" "(Sniffs)" "You are not a child any more." "You soon will be a goddamn man." "Now, start learning what life is about now, son." "PAUL ROBESON:" "♪ So, la-la la-la la-la, bye-bye" "♪ Do you want the stars to play with?" "♪ Or the moon to run away with?" "♪ They'll come if you don't cry" "♪ So, la-la la-la... (Whistling)" "Up." "Stop right there." "(Laughter)" "Hey, man, quit bullshitting." "Damn!" "Hey, stop." "Can't you see the man is hurt?" "Yo, poo butt." "Are you all right?" " Who hit him with that rock, man?" " I didn't, man." "Let's see, man." "Oh, that don't hurt." "Hey, man, who are you calling a poo butt?" "(Metallic clang)" "Hey, man, why don't we go over to the club?" "Why don't we go over to the club and watch the hos go in and out?" "No, man." "If anyone told Ma that they even saw me on the same block as the club, my ass is hers." "They'd have to call the police to drag her off me." "Push!" "Hurry UP!" "Come on, man!" "Where are you going?" "I'm going to get my BB gun." "Push, you guys." "You ain't doing it." "Push!" "Hey, man, what are you doing?" "(Laughs)" "Hey, man, what are you doing to my shoes?" "(Giggles)" " You broke the motherfuckin' antenna, man." " Don't worry about it." "What you looking at, punk?" " I'll kick your heart out." " Let's get on, man." "(Hoses garden)" "You ain't seen nothing." "He's gone to call the police, man." " Say, man, I didn't..." " Come back here." "Man, no, man!" "No, man, I got something for him!" "No, man, no." "No." "That pup?" "I'm gonna fuck him up, man!" "(Dog barks)" "CECIL GANT:" "♪ I wonder" "♪ My little darling" "♪ Where can you be" "♪ Again tonight?" "♪ While the moon is shining bright" "♪ I wonder" "(Piano interlude)" "♪ My heart is..." "I'm working myself into my own hell." "When I close my eyes, I can't get no sleep at night." "No peace of mind." "Why don't you kill yourself?" "You'd be a lot happier." "Go out like Johnny Ace." "No." "I'm not gonna kill myself." "I got a feeling I might do somebody else some harm, though." "When was the last time you been in church?" "Back home." "Since then, I've done a lot of things." "Haven't done nothing yet that'd make the devil blush." "I don't have any trouble sleeping." "I ain't ashamed of nothing I can't help." "Hey, what's going on, Killer?" " Where's my BB gun?" " Put away." "(Muffled scream)" "Hey, boy, stop acting like you ain't got no sense." "(Muffled cries)" " Young man..." " I gotta go, man." "What's going on?" "Oh, man, that cat is something else." "Here come Bracy and Ernie Cox." "I don't want them asking me for any money." "I'm going out the front." "I see the wife's got you towing the cart." "Oscar must have been here." "How do you know that?" "He's the only one I know that wears that Old Spice aftershave." "Man, if you want to catch Oscar, he just left." "You want some coffee, man?" "Yeah, black." "(Whistles)" "Andy!" "Andy!" "What does it remind you of when you hold it next to your cheek?" "Not a damn thing but hot air." "Didn't it remind you of when you're making love?" "The warm before it gets to the time." " Just like this." " Huh!" "Myself, I don't go for women who've got malaria." "(Dog barks)" "How y'all been doing, man?" "Walking the streets all night" "We passed here about three o'clock last night, and saw the lights on." "We decided to keep on stepping." " Why didn't you stop?" "I'm always awake." " Yeah." "Counting sheep." "(Cricket chirps)" "(Barking and snarling)" "(Whistles)" "(Car engine fails to start)" "I guess it's time for me to get ready and go to work." "(Engine starts)" "Hey, man." "Maybe me and Ernest can look up on the slave if we're lucky." "♪ Slow jazz" "(Children singing) ♪ This old man, he played one" "♪ He played knick-knack on my thumb" "♪ With a knick-knack paddy whack" "♪ Give a dog a bone" "♪ This old man came rolling home" "♪ This old man, he played two" "♪ He played knick-knack on my shoe" "♪ With a knick-knack paddy whack" "♪ Give a dog a bone" "♪ This old man came rolling home..." "♪ (LP plays) EARTH, WIND AND FIRE:" "Reasons" "(Sings along)" "♪ I don't want to feel I'm in the wrong place to be real" "♪ Longing to love you, just for a night" "♪ Kissing and hugging and holding you tight" "♪ Please let me love you with all my might" "♪ Reasons" "♪ The reasons that we hear" "♪ The reasons that we fear" "♪ Our feelings won't disappear" "♪ After the love game has been played" "♪ All our illusions were just a parade" "♪ And all our reasons start to fade" "(Hums along)" "You never smile any more." "I used to think you was just tired." "But I think deep down inside you're very unhappy." "Don't nothing ever make you want to smile?" "Why don't you try to get some sleep?" "I can do the dishes tomorrow." "(Whistling)" "Hey, y'all, stop whistling." "Come on." "Hey, y'all!" "Look out!" "Hey, boy, you better move before you get hit." "PAUL ROBESON ♪ What is America to me?" "♪ A name, a map, or a flag I see" "♪ A certain word, democracy" "♪ What is America to me?" "♪ The house I live in" "♪ A plot of earth, a street" "♪ The grocer and the butcher" "♪ And the people that I meet" "♪ The children in the playground" "♪ The faces that I see" "♪ All races, all religions" "♪ That's America to me... (Drone of machinery)" "♪ Mother's there expecting me" "♪ Father's waiting too" "♪ Lots of folks gathered there" "♪ All the friends I knew" "♪ All the friends I knew" "Hey, Stan, can you come out and play, man?" "It's my 'hope to die' brother." "Come on out of there, man." " Do I know you?" " Hey, man." "Can I have a buck, man?" "Hey, Stan, open the door, man." "Come on out of there." "We want to rub with you a minute, man." "Go on, tell him the plan." "Jive turkey." "See, look here, you understand, we need a third man." "Somebody recommended you." "Let me tell you, man, it's a one to five proposition offhand." "Me and him face a dark day if we go before the magistrate." "I don't want to hear this." "I don't want to hear it!" "Let the man tell you the tale." "Mm-hm." "Look, man, you know somebody who can keep their mouth shut, and won't blush to murder?" "You know more kind of people like that than I do." "Who the hell told you I'd help you do away somebody?" " A friend of yours." " Who?" "That don't make no difference, man." "We're gonna do the actual killing." "All we want you for is unnecessary details." " Just be in the background." " I don't want to hear it." "Why don't you let me borrow your roscoe?" "I don't keep no gun." "Why you always want to hurt somebody?" "Who, me?" "That's the way nature is." "An animal has its teeth and a man has his fists." " That's the way I was brought up, damn me." " Right on." "When a man's got scars on his mug from dealing with sons of bitches every day ain't nobody going over this nigger." "Just dry long so." "Me and Smoke here, we've taken our issue." "You be a man if you can, Stan." "Wait, you wait just one minute." "You talk about "Be a man." There's more to it than just your fists." "You talking about scars and animals." "You think you're still in the bush somewhere?" "You here." "You use your brain, that's what you use." "Both of you nothing-ass niggers got nerve coming here." " Wait a minute." " What do you mean?" "If you was to wait a minute you wouldn't never come here in the first place." " You gonna let them do this?" " Wait a minute." "Look at Stan." "What have you got?" "He worked all his life." "You don't even have a decent frying pan." "All we trying to do is help a nigger." "You can't live with friends dying." "Is that right?" " Is that right?" " Forget it, man." "Forget it." "Let's go." "(Car starts up)" "Girl, put on your shoes." "If you get sick I ain't gonna take you to the doctor." "M'dear, can I have a dollar?" "Long-headed boy, how many times I tell you?" "Don't call your mother 'M'dear'." "You ain't in the country or something." "(Both sing)" "♪ Don't stand in my way" "♪ Gotta keep on rockin' till another day" "I got you." "I got you again, Janet." "You can't run fast." "Get out of my way, you skank." " Who you talking to?" " I know you not talking to me." " Kick his butt." " I sure am, you ugly thang." "I'm-a tell your mother on you." "I'll go to my big brother." " It'll be fine." " Come and get your raggedy bike." "You dog." "Go get this raggedy thing." "You better take it home." "Yeah, like I said, man, the apartment looks beautiful." "But goddamn, how are you gonna live in an apartment building with all them fucking kids?" "And all them fucking people bugging you when you want to go out in the back yard..." "Girl, come on in this house." "You know what I told you about listening to grown folks talk." "What do you want another raggedy-ass car for, huh?" "Trying to get ahead, man." "You niggers are sick." "Now you think you're middle class." "Man, I ain't poor." "I give away things to the Salvation Army." "You can't give away nothing if you're poor." "We may not have a damn thing sometimes..." "You want to see somebody that's poor?" "You go round look at Walter's." "He'd be sitting over an oven with nothing but a coat on, and sitting rubbing their knees all day eating nothing but wild greens picked out of a vacant lot." "That ain't me." "And it damn sure won't be." "Tomorrow, after I cash my cheque, let's go to Sybil's, buy that motor and put it in." "Right on." "How come you're not on the streets?" " I need some money." " What?" "I need some money." "Get yourself together and get out of here because you are a no-good woman." "You get yourself in line!" "♪ It brings sorrow to my heart" "♪ Tears fall from my eyes" "♪ It brings sorrow to my heart" "♪ Tears fall from my eyes" "Get out this damn car and go back to the guy that gave you that damn shit." "Get your ass up and don't roll your eyes at me." "♪ I knew you'd have to go..." " You want to watch that car door." " Don't get mad." "I'm sorry." "♪ ARTHUR CRUDUP:" "Mean Old Frisco Blues" "♪ That mean old, mean old Frisco" "♪ That low down Sante Fe" "♪ That mean old Frisco..." "May I help you?" "I need a cheque cashed, please." " This is yours?" "It's your cheque?" " Yes." "Cherry?" "Cash a cheque." "♪ ..she done told me" "♪ And my papa told me too" "♪ Yes, my mama told me..." "Hell, no." "Hi, Stan." "What can I do for you?" "Er..." "Er..." "I wondered if I can cash a cheque." "Maybe." "How come you don't come and work for me?" "I don't know." "Liquor stores get robbed too much." "I'd hate to get shot in a hold-up." "Oh, I'd protect you." "You could work in the back with me." "He takes care of the register." "You think about it." "It's a warm proposition." "Maybe." "What's the matter?" "(Ice cream van jingle)" "Come on." "Get down." "Why don't you separate the money?" "You don't have to pull it all out." "Take it in there." "(Ice cream van jingle continues)" "(Knocking)" " Who beat you up?" " None of your damn business." "Ado from Boulevard jumped on him." "(Footsteps)" " Hey, what's happening?" " What's happening, dude?" "Who's been working on you?" "Ado from Boulevard kicked his ass." "Who kicked him in the face?" "Ado." "What did he do that for?" "He had nothing else to do with his hands and his feet, nigger." "He kicked your ass for being so smart, huh?" "Wait till I get on my feet." " Just going outside." " OK, baby." "Boo." "How come you're not going to school?" "I've been sick." "You're gonna fall behind." "Can you play cards?" "Sure, I can." "Suit yourself." "All I got is ten dollars." "I told you." "What is this?" "A downriver sideshow?" "How did my sister marry into such a silly-ass family as this?" "(Pops gum)" "How come you and me ain't never got together?" "What would you do?" "I wouldn't know what position to take, mama." "You dirty dog." "You ought to find a place to stay instead of sponging off my sister." " This is my uncle's house too." " Please!" "Tell this nigger to shut up, then." "Do you have any money?" " I ain't got nothing but five dollars." " Five dollars?" "That's all." "Tell him you'll give him 15." "All I got is 15." "Don't sell him nothing, Uncle, you hear?" "Nothing." "Why don't you be cool?" "You would be a good-looking fella if you didn't frown so much." "Who, me?" "Some sister told me I looked just like Clark Gable." "You about as tasteless as a carrot." "You always in a nasty frame of mind." "You're a regular hardship case." "Someone always trying to revive your poor ass or give you first aid." "Always feeling sorry for yourself." "If I don't, nobody else will." "You just an all-day sucker bitch." "(Cries out)" "She kicked your nephew over here, man." "Say, man." "Come over here and sit by him." "I've got more important things to do." "My hair's falling out." "Say, man, he's bleeding!" "Why d'you have to kick the son of a bitch in his damn head?" "You'd better come over here and see about your nephew." "Can't you see I don't give a damn?" "He shouldn't have run his damn mouth so much." "Give me $15 for the motor and his shin for collateral and it'll be slick." "How are you doing with this?" " You got one more step." " One more?" "Ah!" "Got it?" "Get it up." "It's on my fingers!" "You got it?" "Can you get out?" "Just leave it there, it'll stay there." "No, it won't." "Let's push it back up in there." "It'll stay up there." "You all right?" "Huh?" "Just mashed it a little bit." "I think it'll be all right." "Shall we put this all the way back up there?" "It'll stay there." "Just leave it there." "Let's go." "It'll stay on there." "Looks like it's busted now." "It ain't no good." "Never work again." "♪ Piano jazz" "It ain't no good." "It's busted." "All that work for nothing." "(Girl screams)" "♪ Just leave it to me" "♪ Don't ever be ashamed" "♪ Just give me a chance" "♪ I'll take care of everything" "♪ Your troubles I'll share" "♪ Let me know if I can" "♪ I'll take care of you" "♪ Anyplace and anywhere" "♪ Shake a hand, shake a hand" "♪ Shake a hand, shake a hand" "♪ Shake a hand, shake a hand" "♪ Shake a hand if you can" "♪ Be truthful to me" "♪ I'll be truthful to you" "♪ I'm in love with you so" "♪ And I don't know what to do" "♪ So let's call it a day" "♪ I've said all I have to say" "♪ Except don't forget to pray" "♪ And shake a hand every day" "Throw my goddamn shades down." "Throw my goddamn shades." "You can forget about living when I catch you." "The only thing that looks good dying is a rose." "Hey, Truman!" "Wait a minute." " Truman, is that you man?" " Who the shit does it look like?" "It look like somebody that owes me some money." "I ain't got nothing but my good looks." "You know where we can get a few bucks at?" "Yeah, go rob a damn liquor store." "You look better going than you did coming, so get on, nigger." "Come on, Gene." "Why don't you go in and put some shoes on?" "Shit on you." "♪ Romantic violin intro" "DINAH WASHINGTON:" "♪ This bitter earth" "♪ Well, what a fruit it bears" "♪ What good is love" "♪ Mm, that no-one shares?" "♪ And if my life" "♪ Is like the dust" "♪ Ooh, that hides the glow of a rose" "♪ What good am I?" "♪ Heaven only knows" "♪ Lord, this bitter earth" "♪ Yes, can be so cold" "♪ Today you are young" "♪ Too soon you're old" "♪ But while a voice" "♪ Within me cries" "♪ I'm sure someone may answer my call" "♪ And this bitter earth" "♪ May not be so bitter after all" "(Record clicks off)" "(Whimpers)" "That mister just don't seem mine." "Like half-eaten cake, rabbit skin stretched on the back-yard fences." "My grandma, m'dear." "M'dear." "M'dear dragging her shadow across the porch, standing bare-headed under the sun, cleaning red catfish with white gloves." "♪ RACHMANINOFF:" "Piano Concerto No.4" "(Laughter)" "Don't do that." " There's a dog there." " That mothersucking fucker!" "(Growls) Come on, dog." "Keep running." "♪ LITTLE WALTER:" "Mean Old World" "♪ This is a mean old world" "♪ Try and live it by yourself" "♪ This is a mean old world" "♪ Try and live it by yourself" "♪ Can't get the one you love" "♪ Have to use somebody else" "♪ I've got the blues" "♪ Gonna pack my things and go" "♪ Yes, I've got the blues" "♪ Gonna pack my things and go" "♪ Well, I guess you don't love me... (Bleating)" "450." "451." "452, 453, 453, 454, 455, 456," "451... 450... 452," "453, 454," "455, 456, 45... 452..." "Can't you count?" "Count yourself, then." "Look at them old ugly girls." "Good day." "You want to come on and fight?" " I'll see you later." "(Car door slams)" "Hey!" "So what did you do today?" "I've got to find me a job." "Tomorrow's Saturday." "Let's go to bed." "♪ Piano Concerto No.4" "(Dog barks)" "(Yells)" "Gene, we need food in the house." "You shouldn't have spent your last dime to get this car fixed." "It ain't right." "Don't worry about it, babe." "If things come to the worst, we can always sell it." "(Whistles)" "Trouble is, what we gonna do about it now?" "What's up?" "How's it going, Diane?" "Eugene." " Look at this." " What you doing?" "Trying to get this old car together." "Let me give you a hand there." "Oh." "Here, take this." "Miss Ellie gave me five dollars for cleaning behind the garage." "She gave me some peaches too." "Thanks." "I'll pay you back." "You can have that." "No, thank you." "It's getting late." "Let's go in and have some coffee and see what my guest is doing." "♪ ELMORE JAMES:" "I believe" "♪ I'm gonna get up in the morning" "♪ I believe I should go back home" "♪ I'm gonna get up in the morning" "♪ I believe I should go back home" "♪ I'm gonna find my baby" "♪ Acknowledge that I done her wrong" "♪ I don't want no woman..." "Are you happy now?" "(Shouts of encouragement)" "♪ Well, you know she's a wild woman" "♪ 'Bout to drive me out of my mind" "Hey, brother, why don't you guys get a game, huh?" "♪ I believe" "♪ I believe I should go back home" "♪ I gotta lie to my baby" "♪ I know I treated her wrong" "Drop the last red." "Going over the street sign." "I said, all I could think of was the blood getting to my head." "Huh?" "Huh?" "Alma Jean, all I could see was her wearing that cascade on her head like a birdcage." "The whole boulevard actually caught it." " Bring the rest of the stuff." " Come on, Bou." "Man, what is your problem?" " We're gonna go get something to eat." " I don't have time." "When have I kept circling the ballroom thinking we can get music and some food?" "I said, I said..." "Eugene, tell this nigger, y'all, don't he know we can get 15 years for him acting felonious?" "Get out the way." "Get in the car." "Don't you know that nigger of yours can get 15 years for being felonious?" " We're ready to go." " We don't act like this no more." "Get in the car." "Jesus ride with me till I swim." "Don't go so damn fast." "We might miss where we're going." "The country." "Please!" "If I had a few bucks, I'd bet it on a night race at Los Alamitos." "How much you paying?" "Ten to one odds." "That ain't enough." "Catch one of them long shots." " Hell, this is a long shot!" " Ten to one?" "Yeah, ten to one." "30, 40, 50 to 1 - that's a long shot." "(Toots horn)" "♪ Blues" "Shit." "Look, man, I told you to have a spare tyre." "Don't be coming out here in the middle of nowhere." "I've got to get to this race out at Los Alamitos, man." "Look here, in the ninth race, I got me a nag, man, that I know is gonna come in." "I got me some money, man, and you ain't got no spare." "Look, look, look." "Oh, shit!" "Man, I'm out here singing the blues, got my money on a horse can't lose." "You out here on a flat." "Always told you to keep a spare, but you was a square." "That's why you can't keep no spare." "How we gonna get there?" "Huh?" "We'll have to ride back on the rim, that's all." "I ain't got no spare." "Get back in the car." "We'll ride back on the rim." "If Stan Junior done left this house open, I'm gonna kill that boy." "It's gonna rain." "The roof still needs fixing." "Daddy, what makes the rain?" "It's the devil beating his wife." "That how it is?" "Stan Junior?" "Stan Junior!" "You know you hear me calling you, boy!" "I know that boy heard me calling him." "(Whispers)" "Oh, girl!" "Well, well, look who's visiting." "Tell me why you're wearing that pretty smile." "She's gonna have a baby." "I thought her old man was shooting blanks." "But I think he's dropping bombs on occasions, I guess." "♪ This bitter earth" "♪ Well, what a fruit it bears" "♪ What good is love" "♪ Mm, that no-one shares?" "♪ And if my life" "♪ Is like the dust" "♪ That hides the glow of a rose" "♪ What good am I?" "♪ Heaven only knows" "♪ Lord, this bitter earth" "♪ Yes, can be so cold" "♪ Today you are young" "♪ Too soon you are old" "♪ But while a voice" "♪ Within me cries" "♪ I'm sure someone may answer my call" "♪ And this bitter earth" "♪ May not be so bitter after all" "♪ I'm just going home" "♪ I'm just going home" "♪ Going home"