The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Page #2
But she was pretty.
She had yellow hair like a...
Oh, like something.
Like hair bobbed from a ray of sunlight?
Yeah. Yeah, like that.
Boy, you... You talk good.
You can hide things in vocabulary.
Maybe you and me could write her a note,
send it by post?
See, all you gotta do, Ed...
...is predict her needs
and beat her to the punch.
Well, this girl, she has a real specific job.
- Specific?
- We was only together once.
She...
She was afraid of lightning,
and she came up under the wagon and...
...just cuddled right up to me.
She give me a kind price too.
Well, I'll be. That is specific.
Yeah, sure,
she'd been with other people...
...but the kind of things she said to me...
...people just don't say
unless they really mean it.
My love said she would marry only me
And Jove himself could not make her care.
For what women say to lovers, you'll agree
One writes on running water or on air.
My God, that's good.
Let's write her that.
No.
Poetry don't work on whores.
How do you do?
Am I too late
to wish you a happy birthday?
How'd you know?
You'd be surprised
at what I got stored away.
I'm an authority on the James boys.
Is you?
Well... Well, your brother Frank and I,
we just had a real nice visit.
Just chit-chatting about this and that,
right over there.
And must've been a hundred subjects
entertained...
Good Lord, you know
what this stew needs?
Dumplings?
Noodles.
You eat yourself some noodle stew
and your clock'll tick all night.
You ever see that woman up in Fayette?
Suck noodles up her nose.
- In Fayette?
- I don't believe I have.
You got canals up there
I don't like to harp on a subject...
I don't care who comes with me.
Never have.
That's why they call me gregarious.
I hear you and young Stovepipe here
had a real nice visit.
Your boys have got about a acre
of lumber to haul, dingus.
You better goose them down yonder.
The James Gang committed over 25 bank,
train and stagecoach robberies...
...from 1867 to 1881.
But except for Frank and Jesse James...
...all the original members
were now either dead or in prison.
- mine eye
All my soul and all my every part
And for this sin, there is no remedy
It is so grounded inward in my heart.
So for their last robbery at Blue Cut...
...the brothers recruited a gang
of petty thieves and country rubes...
...culled from the local hillsides.
Right on schedule, Buck!
Snuff those lanterns!
Look at those fools. They're gonna trip
and shoot each other into females.
I bet you I could find them husbands
if they do.
Fan out!
Hold your fire!
- Watch him!
- Going down.
Hold your fire, you idiots!
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