Honeydripper Page #6

Whoa, whoa. What's your hurry?

Nobody in their right mind

sell liquor on credit,

especially not to no

dark town road house.

Listen, I got a special case, see.

We've got the harvest coming up.

Soldiers at the base gonna be let

off on leave Saturday night.

Ain't enough hooch in this truck

to satisfy what we gonna sell!

You pay as you go, that's business.

Look, you come back Monday,

get paid and take back

every damn drop that I don't sell.

OK, we got Guitar Sam

lined up here...

What... What if I throw in 5

up front for you fellas?

ENGINE STARTS:

Hey! Wait.

Come on, man!

Everybody gives credit!

It's the American way!

Maybe we could buy some Bushead

from Willie Pettigrew.

With that sheriff sniffing

'round me every night,

lay my black ass in jail for good.

Then what we gonna do?

# Move it on over,

move it on over... #

Got a load of liquor

for a Mr Lucien Toussaint.

That would be me.

I trust he got my cheque all right.

Don't suppose I'd be here

if they didn't.

Pull round to the back,

we'll help you unload.

This better be some Saturday night.

Arkansas. How about you?

We come here just after mama

met my stepdaddy.

Not much going on

in a little town like this.

They started up the training base

again. Is that right?

You been in the army?

Uh-huh.

You shoot people?

Fixed radios.

They say this new war

gonna be a short one.

Might be, might not.

I was in Japan.

Yeah?

What's the people like there?

Small. Yeah?

About...

that high.

Speak Japanese.

You been to California?

Los Angeles.

Where they make the movies?

You go to movies? I've been once.

A fine looking girl like you ought

to have been all kinds of places.

I'm going to 'em, I just...

First I'm going to beauty school.

When mama saves up the money.

Then I'll have a portable skill.

Like playing music?

My stepdaddy says that ain't a skill.

It's an affliction.

Come on, China Doll.

Business in town.

You gonna help wi' it.

And you young man, you wanna point

yourself west down that highway

about three miles

to the people working in the field.

It's harvest time.

If you can stoop and pull,

they got a job for you.

Wash up the dishes before you go.

What I need is for you

to go get friendly with Luther,

then I just happen in.

We can't just ask Mr Skinner?

Mr Skinner don't want nothing

from coloured folk,

but they buy his goods

and shine his shoes.

You go on ahead now.

GUITAR STRUMMING

# It was early

# Friday evening

# And the hound began to bark

# Staggolee and Billy Lyons

# Squabbling in the dark

# Staggolee told Billy Lyons

# "What do you think about that?

# "First you take all my money

# "Then you spits

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