Coal Miner's Daughter Page #4

My shining pride.

I just can't help it.

I can't.

(BOYS CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY)

BROTHER 1:
Okay.

BROTHER 2:
Okay.

(TURNS RADIO ON)

(STATIC)

ANNOUNCER:
Presenting

the Grand Ole Opry.

Let her go, boys.

(BLUEGRASS MUSIC PLAYING)

Get up, Mommy.

Do your squaw dance.

See if we can't get a smile

out of old sourpuss here.

Yeah, come on, Mama.

CHILDREN:
Come on, dance.

Come on, Clary.

MAN ON RADIO:
(SINGING)

Blue moon of Kentucky keep on shinin'

Shine on the one that's

gone and left me blue

Blue moon of Kentucky

keep on shinin'

Shine on the one that's

gone and left me blue

It was on a moonlit night

The stars shining bright

(INAUDIBLE)

They whispered from high

Your love said goodbye

Blue moon of Kentucky

keep on shinin'

Shine on the one that's gone...

(TURNS RADIO OFF)

DOOLITTLE:
I knocked, but I reckon

y'all couldn't hear me outside.

(WHISPERING)

Guess I broke up the party.

Oh, it don't matter.

Come on and sit down.

Okay, come on, Donald Ray.

BROTHER:
Mmm. Why don't

you try that one?

Y'all get out of

here or I'm gonna

knock the tar out

of every one of you.

Why? We're

playing checkers.

LORETTA:
Jack, go on.

Say, "Please. "

Herman?

Junior, come on,

take 'em out. Please?

Come on, fellas, let's go.

Pretty please.

Look here at this, Loretty.

My gosh, Doo.

Where'd you get all that?

Mess of paychecks.

I've been saving 'em.

You know what tomorrow is?

It's our anniversary.

Get a little closer.

(IMITATES KISSING)

Herman, I'm gonna kill you!

What were you saying, Doo?

I was saying that tomorrow

is our anniversary.

I figured that'd be a good day

for you and me to get married,

especially since

I got all that money.

(SIGHS)

Go ask Daddy.

(DOOR CLOSES)

Mr. Webb,

me and Loretta

is fixing to get married

if it's all right with you.

Tomorrow.

Go ask Clary.

Mrs. Webb, uh, me...

Me and Loretty was thinking

about getting married.

Tomorrow.

Go ask Ted.

HERMAN:
(IMITATES KISSING)

Where's lover boy?

Doolittle, what are you doing?

Hell, Ted said to ask Clary and Clary

said to ask Ted and... I don't know.

Come on and sit down.

Wait'll they go to bed, then

you can catch them together,

else they'll keep you running

back and forth all night long.

Mr. And Mrs. Webb?

I know everything's

happened real fast.

I know she's young, I know

how much y'all love her,

but the deal is

I love her, too.

Just as much as you do.

I growed up real fast,

I seen a lot of the world.

I want you to know

first time I seen that girl

I said, "That's all I'm ever

gonna want out of life. "

And I promise you

I'm gonna break my back

working to make her happy.

I reckon y'all set on it

no matter what we say.

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