Their Eyes Were Watching God Page #4

Thinkin', plannin' our future,

And I was right there with him,

ready to help,

Some folks need thrones and

ruling chairs to make their influence felt,

But not Joe,

He had a throne in the seat of his pants,

When the new families came,

the land we bought made us a good profit,

And we invested the money

back into Eatonville,

- In the kitchen, Thank you,

- Which way, Mrs, Starks?

- That goes upstairs,

- (notes on piano)

Can't neither one of us play it,

This ain't for playin',

This is just for Iookin' at,

Shoot, Jody!

This is the Iife

Nanny always dreamed of me havin',

We did it,

She'd be so happy,

Are you happy?

Yeah,

(man) Mr, Starks, Ma'am,

- I got it,

- Steady, steady,

Come on!

- I hope they got my ribbon,

- Y'all comin'?

Since I had my three children,

I just ain't got the figure I used to,

You know you Iook Iike

a young gal in that dress,

Sam says the mayor of Orlando's comin',

And someone

from the governor's office, too,

- Well, you know what that means, Iadies,

- What?

- We in the big house now!

- Isn't it gorgeous?

We should go, See you Iater!

It's pretty,

You think Joe gonna Iike it?

Course he'II Iike it,

Janie?

You and Joe changed everythin',

Just feels Iike anything's possible now,

Lord, I done,,, I done run over the mayor!

Almost, Phoebe.Almost.

OK,

(Joe laughs)

I ordered it from

the finest Iadies' store in Orlando,

Oh!

Must have cost a Iot,

Look at this one, This is the one

the Iadies made me, Ain't it pretty?

Yeah, but it ain't befittin' of a mayor's wife,

You're the bell cow,

Those other women, they're your gang,

No other wife,

I'm gonna show you the world,

Remember?

(band plays ragtime)

Try as he might, Frank Taylor

can't seem to control that wife of his,

Hell, if she was my wife,

I'd kill her cemetery dead,

(woman) Oh, come here!

Where you goin' with them cookies?

Come on, now,

Oh, shoot! Gimme those cookies,

Come here, boy,

I'm tellin' you, in five years' time,

Eatonville is gonna be the county seat,

- Well, all right, I hear what you say,

- Five years' time,

This is gonna be

the county seat right here,

You hear what I say, you mark my words,

- Hard work, Determination,

- (man) A Iot of that,

(Joe) If we expect to move on, we got to

stand up and do things right around here,

- (man) You're right about that,

- We got to organize,,,

- You see her paradin' round up there?

- Mm-hm,

I reckon the dress we done made

ain't good enough for Mrs, Mayor Starks,

She up there with the men,

Too good to help us out,

(Joe) I plan to make Eatonville become

the colored capital of the state of FIorida,

'Cause this town,,,

is full of union and Iove,

I plans to put my hands to the plow,

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