The Night They Raided Minsky's Page #4

Up on that movie screen

kissing that movie queen

Who's gonna know you're a bum?

Hey!

False.

False?

False.

False?

From head to toe I'm a gentleman

Where's my top hat and cane?

Women go crazy 'cause I'm hard to get

If they don't love me

they ain't met me yet

When I walk by like a gentleman

Everyone says, "Who's he?

"Look at that cane and hat

What an aristocrat

"Breeding and quality,

touch of frivolity"

I look around and it's me

Yes, sir, a real gentleman.

I can see you now, getting up in

the morning in your magnificent mansion.

- Magnificent mansion?

- Yes, and then you open your closet door

and get out your beautiful

white silk shirt.

- Beautiful white silk shirt?

- And then you open your closet door

and get out your beautiful

pearl-gray morning coat.

Pearl-gray morning coat!

And then you open your closet door

and get your ascot.

- I get my ascot?

- Yes, and then you tie it in a knot.

In a knot?

And then you stick it

with a diamond stick-pin.

I stick it?

Absolutely, and do you know why?

Because you are a gentleman.

Oh, it ain't worth it!

From head to toe I'm a masterpiece

You should hang in the Louvre

When I drink tea, now

I don't lick the spoon

And I always stick my pinky up

when I dunk my Lorna Doone

Well, it's plain to see

you're a gentleman

If I say it, it's true

Look in that looking glass

All you will see is class

I've got that certain style

Boy, it sticks out a mile

Man of propriety

Toast of society

- Regular gent through and through

- Regular gent through and through

Hey, tell me about the girl.

Oh, forget it. There was no girl.

What were you saying about Billy?

Billy's gonna lose the theater.

Vance Fowler's got him stopped.

We've gotta do something

about it, haven't we?

We'll all be out of work.

Places, everybody. First Act finale!

- Oh, he'll think of something.

- Oh, sure.

Hey, wait a minute.

- I think I got it.

- Got what?

The Fowler solution.

Fowler says he's gonna call a raid

if the show gets more suggestive.

So what if he thinks we got the hottest

little cooch artist in the world,

and he calls out the cops?

Well, think of it!

Vance Fowler all set to protect

the public from flagrant indecency

and out comes a kid

who dances stories from the Bible!

- They'd strangle the poor creep!

- Yeah!

- Another comic, maybe?

- Spats! Not that again!

Hey, Billy, don't go away.

I got a great idea! Hey, you, wait.

- That Bible dance you do, how does it go?

- Oh, very well, thank you.

No, I mean, what do you do?

- I do Eve in the Garden of Eden.

- No belly work in it, is there?

- Belly work?

- I didn't think so.

- Props?

- An apple and a snake.

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