The Fighting Temptations Page #5

- What was it?

- What was what?

Your job. She never mentioned

what it was.

I haven't seen you since you were

knee-high to a grasshopper.

Reverend, have you seen

this very pretty lady?

- Her name is Lilly?

- She ain't no lady.

Mother Cooley, sinners are welcome

in the house of the Lord.

- She's a sinner? What kind of sinner?

- Unrepentant.

- Really?

- I just come to offer my condolences

and let you know that to be absent from

the body is to be present with the Lord.

- She's in a far better place, OK?

- Yes, ma'am.

I gotta tell you, you and that choir,

you're pretty good.

Pretty good?

"To my neighbour and best friend, Faye,

I leave all my favourite recipes."

- Thank you, Sally.

- "Faye, dependin' on what I die from,

"you might wanna divide

the Crisco measurements by half."

Don't change that Chicken Supreme.

"And to Paulina Pritchett...

"I leave my collection of church hats

that she always complimented me on.

"She should really enjoy wearin' them,

unless she was lyin' to me,

"but criticisin' my taste behind my back."

I'll wear them every Sunday.

"And now for my only survivin' relative,

my great-nephew Darrin.

"To Darrin, I leave the box

containin' the letters his mother sent me

"after they left Montecarlo.

"Also the charge of returnin',

to continue the family tradition

"of directin'

the Beulah Baptist Church Choir."

No!

Lt... It's her dyin' wish.

I was next in line to get the choir.

I been waitin' years for Sally to die.

God rest her soul.

- I'm not leadin' some small-town choir.

- Good.

"On the condition that Darrin

"gets the choir accepted into the

annual Gospel Explosion in Columbus,

"I also leave him my entire stock

in Georgia Telecom,

"currently worth $150,000."

I was kiddin'

about that small-town stuff.

- "And the church bus."

- How much that worth?

No way. I don't care what Sally's dyin'

wish was, we all know she was losin' it.

Besides, Paul, you have final say over

who leads the choir. It's in the by-laws.

I guess that would seem kinda odd,

to have someone with no musical

experience leadin' the choir.

I have plenty of musical experience.

Now, you all don't know this

and I didn't tell anyone, but...

I'm a music producer.

That's what I do for a living.

Sally mighta been on to somethin'.

What kind of producin' have you done?

Well, I've worked with P Diddy.

Dre, Darkchild, all of 'em.

The gangster stuff that's pollutin'

my grandson's mind.

I put an end to that

East Coast versus West Coast thing.

- I just made 'em all watch Roots.

- I think I read about that.

What is this Gospel Explosion?

Choirs from all over the southeast

come to Columbus, Georgia,

to compete for the best gospel

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