Gone Are The Days! aka Purlie Victorious (1963) | Ruby Dee Ossie Davis

[Music] [Applause] [Music] hold the veil big vessels hold the bill dearly beloved recently bereaved and friends we welcome you to fake Bethel Church to the new freedom hold mankind Baptist pop methods hot Kathy with the Mariners of Christmas and the happiness of Hanukkah integrated funeral and the sovereign segregated state of Georgia own wall Jackson Koch EP is dead let there be no merriment and bees bear in it he was a man despite his own example the black man black in his backless oh the white man white in his whiteness and even the dead man dead in his love for the Lord take up his bones oh he who was my skin's enemy was brave enough to die standing for what he believed in it is the wish of his family and of his friends that he be buried likewise [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] is this big battle on our best behavior must all our sadness sound so soon on solemn is there even here in big Bethel brotherly unloved against the unliving bears therefore put on our Sunday go to meeting self and invite all you people in here right down front come on in make yourselves at home hey get near we're preaching love and laughter ever after therefore let us control the latitude and the gratitude of our attitude tan by when I give our friends some up-to-date nests on the circumstance yeah I want you now to be home old captain cat repeat our late lamented past and patron saint believe me Manny was a loud proud man he was a tight would fight but not quite right until we made him see the light man wait a minute now we got to share the glory of our story with everybody right now we got the tools to render justice to our fellow man hey that right we got the tenant like it whoa [Applause] back to you Evan pay good a bailer you ready yes Judah bail let's go [Music] [Music] you [Music] Oh Missy yeah it's me pearly victories nobody home nobody home will it's a cotton-pickin chime in Georgia it's again the law to be home come in unload yourself a set your suitcase down what it's making you lopsided - ham hock sandwiches in one day is about my limit I'm sorry I had to walk it so far so fast oh I didn't mind sir walking's good for you miss em you lose day miss em you looking a fool to say that Miss Emmylou has got a car well all the transportation mean you've got in this world is tied up in second hand shoe Miller but never you mind my sister just never you mind and told the bail big better so that big bad black and sassy Liberty Bell tell freedom the bridegroom coming the day of deliverance is now a thing Oh Oh Missy Missy my sister-in-law I was telling you about so this is the house where you ball brick yeah enemy bone that door what a lovely background for your home life I wouldn't give it to my dog the race pleasing it's so clean and nice whoa hi the first chance I get I'm gonna burn the damn thing down well apparently is yours and that's what counts like Miss Amy loser oh wait wait Amy you see that big White House pushed way up on top of that hill with them two windows looking right down at us like two eyeballs mm-hmm that's where old captain lives Oh Cass don't wall Jackson ketchupy he owns this dumb not me and then you know Hillandale feel and farm truck and track the horse and mule bird and beat and bush and tree and bowling bobby'll every bit of cotton you see and country Pete counted he owns everything everybody heal everybody you mean a young people well that ain't a man woman a child working in Kotzebue Valley ain't in depth at all Buzzard and that includes missing get low everybody but me but folks can own people no more m30 missing me loose a you ain't working for Miss Emily Romo you're working for me fairly victorious and freedom is my business [Laughter] oh god sake mister don't choke the girl to death all my life all my life I've been praying for me a daughter just like you my prayers have been answered welcome to our home whoever you is thank you ma'am ma'am listen to the child pearly pretty as a pair of buttermilk biscuits where on earth did you find a pearly well just let me take your things you come on over here and make yourself oh are you hungry no man cheapest water is ash you ain't got no business being less thirsty okay no wait that's the dipper and ran out Shawn there's the wheel the sweetest water and catch it P County Thank You Evan very very much ready home perfection absolute Ethiopian perfection how missing oh I don't think so what do you mean you don't think so that girl looks more like cousin beating cousin Bea ever did no resemblance to me no resemblance whatsoever oh I don't have my own cousin des but I was the last one to see her alive twins it's not closer are you crazy he was more lean and loose and leggy yeah but this girl makes it up in the bank the cheese with no chin to speak of and I eyes sort of fickle one to another maybe so but now Missy what are we talking about and look at her head it ain't nearly as built as a Turner as b-zone was so what's the difference why folks can't tell one of us from another 20 years ago it was purely old captain lay both up to your knife through behind 20 years ago I swore I was gonna see his soul in hell and I don't think you come full back to your senses yet freedom missing that's what big metal means for you me and get low and we can have it back for $500 freedom you want it adult yeah of course I wanted but after all pearly that rich old lady did not exactly leave the $500 to us oh she laughs at an inner ear and Henrietta is dead exactly add aunt Henrietta's daughter cousin Bea is dead too which makes us Nick's in line to inherit the money buy no but then there's the question of get know what about good enough get low has changed his mind then you gonna have to change it back well it is our money and it was our church can you think of a better way in all this world to get it back and that girl right out there [Music] well well what what what you think no she'll never do what you mean Noakes you'll never do just the girl to get us all in jail the answer is no Missy you want me to take my paper you again now control yourself Missy it's just that every second old get those off the firing line up 7,000 captain's captain don't get got away away turn away Missy stop him it ain't as easy to stop him as it used to be especially now Oh captain's made him deputy for the colored the deputy for the colonel what the devil is that who knows all I know is get low changed his mind Missy you gonna have to make him go up that hill he got that identified as good because Oh captain won't believe nobody else I know he's got to swear before all captain that this girl is the real cousin beef I know and it's for freedom is a freedom and big bethel for you me and get low freedom and a little something left over that's all I ever wanted all my life she do look a little like cuz it'd be about two feet of course she do I will guarantee nothing really but I'll try Missy every time I see you you're pretty about a pound how wondrous are the daughters of my people yet knoweth not the glories of themselves where do you suppose I found her Missy this evil prize this Zulu pearl this long-lost lily of the black mandingo dick who you made beneath whose brown embrace hot sons of Africa a burning still where where where a serve in which a feudal fetch pot a common Scullion in the white man's kitchen I know all that Pearlie but what's her name I don't think he likes my name so much it's Luna Bay oh man Lutie Belle Gussie May Jenkins nudie Belle Gussie maid Jenkins why that's nice tonight it's an insult to the Negro people Pearlie behave yourself the previous condition of servitude a badge of inferiority and I refuse to have it in my organization now you change it you want me to box your mouth Ludi Belle cussing maid Jenkins what does it mean in Swahili cheap labor well Haley Swahili one of the 13 silver tons of Africa Swahili boo shingo a shot they began to hurry remember Swahili language of moons and velvet drums hot days of rivers red splashed and birdsong bright black fingers and rice white at sunset red tim and queens of sheba honey where did he find you it was in Dothan Alabama last Sunday a mess right in the Junior Choir the Junior Choir my my my behold I said this dark and holy vessel and whom should burn that golden nut-brown joy which Negro womanhood was meant to be ten thousand Queen Great God Almighty I can't hear myself think that's just what I said light sunny a mess already Pearlie started preaching her thing in the pulpit preaching it but the last time you was a professor of Negro philosophy well I told you Missy my intention is to buy big Bethel back to reclaim the ancient pulpit of grandpa Kincaid and preach freedom in the cotton patch Pearlie victorious Judson self-made minister of the gospel clawhammer coattails shoot a string and all how else can you lead the Negro people is that what you got my leading the Negro people who else has they got it was a sermon I mean I'm missing the likes of which has never been heard before Missy it's 2:15 get low and big Bethel is waiting Missy get a move on I already had to move on had it since four o'clock this morning hi Missy the one thing the colored man in this country ain't got and you are wasting it Pearlie would you mind stepping out into the cotton patch and telling your brother get low I'd like to have a few words now go on [Music] [Applause] [Music] you know ever since that old man took after paradiso unmerciful with that bull fit 20 years ago he fidgets it oh say always on the gold rattle around from place to place all over the country one step ahead of the white folks nothing about Prairie always did ever take root is that the truth oh my yes finally wound up being locked up a time or two for safekeeping oh that right after that he put it round first with one thing and then another remember that big bus boycott they had Montgomery uh-huh well we don't travel by bus here in the cotton patch so pearly boycotted news you don't say so you know we invented our secret language that Negroes could understand by foot we couldn't oh my goodness gracious and he sent it cod2 the n-double-a-cp but they never did answer whose venom oh they will I miss it you can just bet your life they will well I don't mind about it so much great leaders are bound to pop up from time to time amongst our people back we saw to look forward to him but Pearlie is in such a hurry up I'm afraid to he'll lose his mind whose is mine Oh No Oh that is if you and me can't do something about it you and me will do what ain't missing you tell me I'll do anything oh well now it ain't nothing never so peculiar about a man that a good vibe and and a family and and some home cooking won't cure huh but don't you think so you'd be surprised how many tall good-looking gripping Oh handsome men just not really walking right starving themselves to death I just wish I had one I ain't my party well pearly Judson is the uncrowned appetite of the aim yeah well what's-his-face anything anything that a fine-looking strong and healthy girl like you can put on the table like me like me Oh Amy honey I mind once at a sunday-school picnic Pearlie at a whole sack of pullets oh I just know there was something something just reeks about that man he puts me in the mind of all the good things I ever had in my life picnic gods yeah thinking Huckabay roasting ground peas quilting bee party gospel sale of bees and barbecue that certain Cana welcome but you just can't get no way ants and all this work oh I listen life is so good sometimes Oh child being Cully can be a lot of fun but ain't nobody looking ain't it did you you know I'm always saying I'd never pass for white no matter how much they offered me mister things our love could pay still painted the beautiful truth get low said if you want him to come out there and give my lord that man do take his cotton pickin seriously did you have enough to eat honey indeed I did and I miss it I haven't had potato pie like that come on from by-street told by you for my beautiful garments and hurry Oh Missy Missy get low and big Bethel is waiting Rand Paul Kincaid give his life Missy it is a far greater thing you're gonna do now than you have ever done before and get low ain't never got his head knocked off in a better cause what do you think you going you see that ramp early you see all them beautiful clothes I mean slick hat you stalk him I mean nylon stockings like Missy me little way and address I gave miss Amy Lou don'twe did you see what was in that big box of course I think what was in that big box I bought it all of it for you know May cool I told you and as soon as we finish you can have early I'm a good girl I never done nothing in all this world wide covered otherwise hurt nobody I know that I work hard I wash iron i scrub I'm cleaning for life and I know how to get along with white folks children better than they do I pay my church dues every second and for Sunday Lord sand and I can cook catfish and hushpuppies I mean you you like house puppies don't you having pain and no push purpose first puppies and cold eyes it I can cook you a condi to give you a swimmin ma oh I'm sure you can but I never been in a mess like this oh my me what Liz you may go up and all them pretty clothes and pretend in front of white folks that I'm your cousin be somebody I never even seen or heard of in my whole life why not some of the best pretending in the world has done in front of white folks om paired I didn't know cousin was a student at the college I thought she worked there I told you on the train that no no good to tell me nothing reven birdie I never listen I can't even do a name they'll tell you I never listen I didn't know it was a college lady you wanted me to make like I thought it was for sleeping like me I thought all that stuff you bought in them boxes what stuff amazing cooks why many Menaka so what I call it ain't so much way you've been is how you talk when you get back anybody can do it look at me no I think you better look at me like Missy me lose weight just take it easy come on calm yourself down and take it easy now don't tell me after all that big talk you've done on that train about white folks that you scared okay big is easy I'm the proper distance well don't you believe in yourself son don't you believe in your own race of people oh yes a little don't you believe the black man is coming to power some of these days oh wow 10,000 queens of sheba what kind of a negro are you where is your race pride oh I'm a great one full race pride so believe me just that I don't need it much in my line of work missing me loose sale damn you miss Emmylou there's a blond hair and blue eyes make her any more of a woman in the side of her man folks and your black hair and brown eyes in mind is her lily-white skin any more money under the mattress been yo I'm Pam brown and if so how come she's been half a life down at the beach trying to get a suntan I never thought of a there's a whole lot of things about the Negro question that you ain't never thought about the South is split like a fat man's underwear and somebody beside the Supreme Court there's got to take a stand but they everlasting glory of our people yes snatch freedom from the jaws of forth and filibuster under in the Senate yes and righteous indignation back in the halls of Congress make civil rights from civil wrongs and bring that old Civil War to fantage s conclusion remind this fight in wicked world they've been lured are dying but the difference betwixt one man and another irregardless of raised in the creed of color that's got himself Almighty that the first batch out to dry before the chimneys of Zion got high the eyes and ears of the world is hung big Bethel hey whose side you fightin on deceiving sister Great God Almighty Reverend pearly on the lawn stop but missing me Lucy this is an outrage this is a catastrophe you are a disgrace to the Negro profession that's just what she said alright who exactly words who's responsible for this where is your Martin Pawley I reckon I ain't rightly got no Mon Paul over there huh nobody else that I know uh you see Sir I've been on a go from one white folks kitchen to another since before I can remember uh I got there in the first place whatever become over a mile and a paw and my kinfolk even what my real name is nobody's even ever rightly said Oh a motherless child that's what makes me a little always there but who took care of you like a mother who brung you up who raised you nobody protect these who ever happen to be in charge of the kitchen that day oh oh well that explains the whole thing you missed the most important part of being somebody uh-huh well what part is a know being appreciated and sought out and looked after being all to the bitter end over Eva oh I have missed that Reverend Purdy I really have now you take me all my life they never looked at me the way all the girls get looked at that is not so the very first time I seen you right up there in the Junior Choir I give you that look you did oh right I praise all through your sermon I thought I would faint from hope and so hard so all red and pearly I think that's the finest look how person could have givers Oh Evan Perry bill yes Evan berry there's something I got to ask you some I never thought in all this world I'd be asking a woman would you I don't know exactly how to say this would you yes remember would you be my disciple Oh [Music] [Music] what happened get low have changed his mind told of Belle big metal to let big fat black and satin liberty bill tell free don't want you know Jefferson tell Lake until everybody what's going seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in Liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created Charlie chacha P if you don't hold still and let me put this hot poultice on your eyes you better first the milk then the breakfast then the dishes then they're washing in the scrub it next to lunch then the dishes then the ironing and now right we're picking and plucking for supper Oh to be oh you didn't tell Paul did you didn't but the sheriff did listen but when I do want to tell her what would I say he that keepeth his mouth keep it in play well I'm sorry I della but it but he that opened it wide his lips shall have destruction but it was you said it was the law of the land I know idea it would you said it's got to be obeying I know it was me wait it was you said everybody's got to stand up and take a stand against this I know it was me damn it but I didn't say take know span and no barroom well Bane started it nothing and you always said never to take a loaf in the like thing now they might be out there in the commissary now you look for everybody down here don't feel is friendly to the Supreme Court as you and me do you big enough to know that and don't you ever go out of here and pull a fool trick like you done last night without letting me know about it in advance you hear me I'm sorry when you didn't come down to breakfast this morning I went upstairs to look for you you just sudden they're looking at me with your big eyes and I see how they don't hurt you what happens to you happens to me you big enough to know that I don't what is it son you know sometimes I think I ought to run away from home I know but you already tried that honey well sometimes I think I ought to run away from home again I don't you don't know what a strong stomach it takes to stomach you don't you dare talk like that to this child oh god this Confederate hero get out of my sight dad you you oh wait a minute I've been closer to this boy than I have I don't landy him before is more than he thought they were in in his head you didn't know about it first so I'm asking you if you got anything to do with what my boys been thinking lately I didn't know he had been thinking lately you play with me you know what I mean who's been puttin these integration areas here did my boys here where did you I'm asking you a question damn it or did you why don't you ask you hey see amazing he ain't gonna say a word unless you tell them to and you know it how I'm asking you again Nigella land it have you been talking into Greece's to my boy I can find the answer you bout that any more than he did thank God you willing I'll make you stand right there right yeah Oh Daniel all night long till you do answer me that's just fine what's that what that you see I mean I ain't got nothing else to do my stuff is on the stove rice is ready okras five turnips in a biscuit thanks to his dude in fact them lemon pies you wanted special for supper is in the oven right now just getting ready to burn both yeah that little lick under the eye is a small skin ssin compatible I'm gorgeous I won't stop till I get to the bottom of this a mish buttermilk so those lamp I hear me [Music] the sheriff is here this morning yes sir is that all you can say to me yes sir yes you are a disgrace to the Southland yeah oh I could kill you you understand that I could kill you with my own two hands yes I can't beat you to death but that bullwhip I could put my pistol to you good for nothing here my own flesh and blood and brew your blasted brains all over this valley you wasn't the last livin dry focaccia Pete blood and catch a peek out at I guess you're sure you trying to get nonviolent with me boy I'm ready with the book sir oh yes anytime you are well thank you okay what with your Yankee propaganda your barroom brawls no your other non Confederate activity I didn't know your ads is that cotton or for15 bales picking at today and sent up to the cotton gin bring our total up to 350 Seven Veils today 350 sir oh that's I'm thinking there's a head get low Judson 117 baby did you ever see a captain pick of the dock he and your whole a commissary you're all up down into the valley and watch old get up forgot his way through sweet Mother's Day I'll commissary power I got a sir yeah oh boy sir there's been some complaints the flowers spoiled the beans are rotten and the meat is tainted cut the press well sir it's also a little warning there sell it to the something wrong no sir no I just mean sir we can't go on doing that why not it's traditional well yes I know but time to change it I mean all this debt here that car to this book every family in this valley owes money they'll never be able to pay back of course that's the only way to keep them work then they teach you another at school no I mean we're cheating land and they know we're cheating now how long you expect them to stand for as long as they're anything no I mean how long before they start rearing up on their hind legs and saying enough white folks now that's enough I mean either you start treating me like I'm somebody in this world or I'll blow your brains out you're tampering with the economic foundation of the Southland one more word like that and I'll kill I'll shoot you're trying to ruin me shut up one more word like this and I'll throw myself over your mama's grave and die of apoplexy let's shut up you hear me the hell do you want nothing sir nothing well that is a Missy my old woman it will set it to get to the truth of the matter I got a little Disney resent got no business and if you don't get the hell back into that cotton pad you better get I think wait don't go now don't go good Old Faithful or local get low don't you go will you divorce balls yes the other day I was talking to the senator about you hey where'd you get that great big knocked on your head or missing I mean a mosquito must have been wearing brass nut and he's saying to me the senator was how hard it was impossible to find the old-fashioned solid I've earned Uncle Tom type nowadays well yes sir by the grace of God there's still a few of us ladies yeah I don't hear my you and me growed up together well we had to say mammy my mammy is your mother yes sir bosom buddy here and then I told him how you used to sing that favorite old spiritual of my black Joe well I thought they might need me up in the front of the stove no come back here come on Joe get low that hog great goddamn - somebody done coldcock mister who hit mr. Charlie you tell her go get low hitch you mr. Charlie well would you believe it all of a sudden he can't say a word and just last night the boys are telling me this son of mine made itself a full-fledged speech you don't see all about Negroes he called him oh four years in college and still can't say the word right things he's quite a specialist on me well my hard luck old man yes siree Bob but he told the boys over to Ben's bar in town he's all for mixing the races ticket oh you get on way from here he said that white children and back it's a lot of Doras same schoolhouse together till the truth got itself so worked up some of them had to cool him down with a coca-cola tell me again now that in what I say you're calling me a liar boy no sir no I just said it since it was the law of the land no such a thing I don't see any harm they're going to school together that's all right oh that's enough well they do it up no verses down south down here they go to school together over me and get lost dead body write it you the boss born now this is the law of the light never mind the low boy look look boy now you like it you trust him you're always there don't you yes sir and get low here I he'd cut off his right arm for you if you just I asked him to once again you do boss boss Allen get low ain't nothing if he ain't an Egret thank you get o to 300% I calculate so if you really want to know what the thinks about this here integration and all like that don't ask the Supreme Court ask it'll go ahead I don't need a spell of work raise your right hanging do you solemnly swear to tell the truth the whole truth nothing else but I'll help you God I do get well just as God is your judge with me do you believe in your heart that God intended white folks and chill and go school together no sir do not do you so help you God think that white folks and blacks you're mixing so she 18 speaker vs. railway station in any way shape form effects absolutely none and is it not your considered opinion God strike you dead if you lie that all my Negroes are happy with things in the Southland just Siviglia indeed I do you think that in the single document please whatever think attention and the single thing about the south and hell with a soup bean talk as God is your judge can make up as God is my judge in making you are my boss I do not the voice of the Negro himself Bobby what more proof do you want I don't care whose voice it is it's still the law of the land I intend oh boy huh it's my heart it'll quick quick a few parcels if you please that old spiritual I can't tell you Goodloe how much that eases the pain why can't he see what they're doing to the Southland why can't he see it like you and me if there's one responsibility you've got boy above all of us I said to its these need your Negros boy good honest hard work and cotton choppers if you keep after them they belong to you boy there's something between and them that no Supreme Court in the world can understand and listen for me it stopped today what's gonna become a bum boy after I'm gone that's a good question Lord you answered they belong to you do you every one of them my own Confederate father told me on his deathbed be the Negro's faith after the horses cattle and I've done every time [Music] whatever you do don't panic whatever you do don't play just walk like I taught you to walk and talk like I taught you to talk like that well Judy Bell yes champagne wake up oh my goodness it was us alert hello why don't we why are we up on your toes up on your toes that's just a figure of speech [Music] one more time and what might be your name little girl Beatrice Johnson's uh what might be your daddy's name little girl Horace Judson sir and what they teach you up there and that their colleagues little gay it was my major educational Kevin you mean you majored in education well now ain't nothing wrong with me was getting education I always hate but then again ain't nothing exactly right would it even cuz me now you wouldn't mind if ol Kathy was to call you cousin oh I bet not don't be delighted till he puts the money in your hand now where did you say your mom worked there in North Carolina and where is your mom Edna she's at the cemetery she died how much is the inheritance five hundred dollars for the next of king one little say maybe you could teach an old dog like me two new tricks Bostwick tell like you the dogs wrong we'll change a joke look if she was a mind to see what I mean [Applause] allow me sir to present if you please my ain't Henrietta's donut um you remember so well hey Beatrice Jetson sir Oh as we call her cousin be golden baby oh well I'll be sweet come cousin Bea say how do tell me I do too MA I mean delighted to remake your acquaintance I'm sure right there was that you saying College calling that's all she ever told you made Henrietta's little old but not picking anything and crying you remember me honey I'm still old captain Brown yeah Oh sir it would not be the same without you being old Kevin Brown yes you don't say you don't remember Oh when I wasn't with knee high to a hop of grass and you took me by the hand and led me on my very first trip to the cotton bag me you remember that alert wide awake enough on my toes hey I remember that cute little old dog yours spicy wasn't it oh he wasn't much for eating dogs now spice it was a name Monday oh you really think we really call them spicy not him huh huh Oh almost having to recollect that I do you do you don't say you do I do it as I recall it have a fun difference of you and spicy since since y'all went so well together at the same time we did well bust my bust your eyes wide open indeed just what they teach you up there thank God wait mostly they taught me in education but in between I learned a lot to lose that effect read right rithmetic oh my love just setting out on the rectangular every evening after the 4 o'clock homework and you get your regular headache you know sure I've been after these Negroes down here for years go to school I say face tan she did take a couple of courses and advance cotton-picking do you think that any one of them listen to me no sure Reba a girl like you can doggone well change the Joker's look she's a bad - see what I mean most into our day okay yeah and you asked me it whatever you want you name it and it's your you mean really really read in a man who can't repeat girl he can beat my time when I see some right now your name it supposed to peanuts viola soda water peppermint candy thank you sir but if it's all the same to you I'd rather have my money your what and I'm gonna tell you just like a well you see whatever Burdine I could get low had one ante between her name a Harriet Henrietta Henrietta well used to cook for this rich old white lady up and off Kitana years ago well last year this old lady died brain tumor rights disease rats leaving five hundred dollars to ever servanthood ever worked on her place including Henrietta but Henrietta had already died herself largely from smallpox no smaller from large parks influenza influenza and since Henry had his husband half Horace high was already dead from heart trouble gunshot wound well his heart stopped beating yeah since their fallen wearing I am cousin Bea hi daughter was first mouth next of kin folks the $500 left in your okay and keep by any and read and which you I've been saving just beneath all these loans I mean I've been Savin no come out from behind your modesty sir yeah well your thoughtfulness sir your kindness sir your unflagging consideration for the welfare of your darkest er have rung like a clean clear call of the Clarion from Maine to Mexico your constant love for them is both Oh mocking high water of the true gentility of the dear old South kiddo go get Charlie I want him to hear this you go on boy come on well as for your doc it's a down in the corner say your name stands second only to God himself Almighty and therefore as a small token of their high esteem and deep and abiding affection especially for saving that $500 for cousin be well they have asked me to present to you this plaque it was spelled the following citation to it and I quote whereas old captain has kindly allowed us to remain on his land and pick his cotton and tend his cattle and drive his muse and whereas Oh captain still lets us have our hominy grits and fatback and vote a melon on credit and whereas old cap never resolves to bullwhip except as a bliss and a benediction therefore be it resolved that old captain ketchupy be cited as the best friend the Negro has ever had and officially proclaimed great white father of the year Charlie boy do you hear that oh yeah yeah Oh Cap'n sir I am moved beyond my jurisdiction as for example I have a gun my prisoner certificate of legal tender the Dhulia fiction so notarized to set out a mind to take writ of habeus course habeas the habeas corpus it means I can have the body badly what body the body of the cache the five hundred they sent you to hold in trust because more unified dalla boy yes get me the five all the dollars for you master oh just in time for the greatest day of my life gentlemen something's happen here today between me and my Negras makes me proud to call myself a confetti I've just been named great white out early true there are some places in this world where the is rebellious eyes and off been sitting down I ain't wanted at Massassi in jail forgetting this place and his manners they're not hearing God speak out it right right back to the business at hand let's say the $500 oh yeah Oh an 11 it's just one small formality a receipt receipt sir I'll be glad to sign a receipt oh no no no no no not you you just for the record now then your sign here you're full and legally yeah right yeah oh my god is that a sign I have a pony I can write Thank You cousin B hey yes Oh Kevin I want this woman arrested arrested for what she came into my presence together with him anything and they both swore to me that she is Beatrice just she is Beatrice Justin then how come she to sign her name Lutie Belle just it may come out that door when they share a pitch out and that goes for all yeah all right just a minute Sheriff if all you're taking away that's something I gotta do I'll make it up to you cat no cab Jared look something I started 20 years ago something I intended all the due date boy I'm gonna teach you to make a fool out of that boy now then drop your britches the hell you freeze now all right I'm gonna teach you to mind when I say oh I distinctly heard that gentlemen till you drop your bridges Oh no damage you Oh [Music] [Music] [Music] whereas I get no get me the ass Finnegan yes captain rubbers Hank Robby pain Tommy honey wake up we got it's me Sally boy it's your daddy talk to me speak to me say something to me or score in seven years my god they was just braids in the Gettysburg Address [Music] the sheriff is after us excuse me did you see - they went thattaway [Music] misuk take care of Bluebell till I get back with you I'm sure bill Pearlie let me go with you 10,000 queens of sheba ludovic hidin is no place for lady like you curly you better go a dog ain't been invented to bring old Pearlie down Oh forgive my mistaken nothing between us could ever be a mistake Luda bill and if I leave I leave because I love [Music] lissa I do if anybody gets in trying to cut repeat this mom no man wiii sureiy come on in I went upstairs after breakfast to get him ready for Sunday school he wasn't fed he's bad ain't even been slept in and I ain't seen now ain't that funny it's been two days since pearly had that fake assault with the commissary and we ain't seen him since okay fine child first time in 45 years since I've been working in that house up on the hill I ever misplaced an attack first pearly then Charlie up to some kind of devilment I bet you the both of them just like old times I need to live in truth remember when they hid themselves in the cotton bale just to keep from taking sulfur and molasses you don't suppose he would run away from home and not take me oh no miss Idell not little Charlie Carter P well if you see him holding Oh miss Adella me and Luther Bell sure would like to thank you but keep him Pearlie out of jail so kindly oh that was nothing I just told that old man if he didn't stop all that foolishness bout chain gangs and stuff I was gonna resign from his kitchen and take Charlie right along with I've lost charlie [Music] shave and a haircut [Music] did you see your man fella look what I sneakers from the commissary a picnic the crackers cheese sardines soda water just like old times when did you see old man Pelham and look what I found in that Missy's window a sweet potato pie yeah yeah yeah the Charlie would you quit yelling and answer me did you see oh man Pelham I saw him all right what do you see he wouldn't do it pretty wouldn't do it I begged that man what did you offer my personal IOU on a percentage of the gross from the Sunda collection like I told you sure I even offered a my IOU he says he's got to have cash $500 in cash but I haven't got $500 especially in cash have you I you remember that time at Missy wasn't looking and we borrowed that hand a hall hain and brought it all the way up here baby was it hot I'd tell Missy I'll bet you I know where them two Scouts inside come on really after all these years ago never tell you how sorry I am no you never do I mean about Paul find miss up here like damn well he did you that bullwhip but everything i'ma tell you how sorry I was no come to think of it he never did and you know I hope I me about that inheritance from cousin Bea no no I mean if I had to commit to you Jenna Charlie somebody's got an inventor way for a black man to make $500 into country now you take Amos and Andy and him Joker's put black on their faces 15 minutes a day and made millions Here I am born with the stuff can't make a dime I'm up here you can see the whole valley wouldn't it be nice if all the problems in the world could be solved by who makes the best pint and you mean with the judges Charlie pie-in-the-sky told of lb Bethel nothing between me and thee but love and long distance this is supposed to be my rendezvous with destiny and where am I caught in a bind up a tree out on a limb bogged down in midair now somebody's got to give me a hand you have my hand for Oh what good is a hand full of free potato pie charlie Hurley [Music] I see you Charlie Carter P it's had Ella she's found it come down from there come straight home come on down Pearlie it's all right old Kathleen has declared a truce you want to wake up the mule that always day all day history in a world between two states will be continued next week oh that sure is a good story I wonder how that's gonna come up grown man Deacon of the church reading the funny papers and your shirt you sneaked out of here this morning in your clean shirt after I told you time and time again I'm saving it saving it for what it's the only decent thing you got to get buried in don't you know that arrangements for my fuher have been taken over by the white folks got the money money what kind of money older uh $500 kind of money $500 you mean old captain give you the money you know he's bold tale of a man of this Bowery black white or otherwise that I would trust to defend and protect me from the end of lay CP but you is that effect who's the fool I'm the fool [Music] and say I'm the fool get load nice and loud so everybody in this whole damn bout of hey go on go on man I got all day on the phone get low nice now uh beg me what yeah yes sir beg me do it like you do white folks I rather die and go to hell on a pair of gasoline drawers holy mackerel now muscle get low ha ha ha hey boss can I possible have a look at the five dollars you got a bun yo fussing back man you sure got stopped you know together you and me could make the big time get low you give me that money come in and see me during office hours I get low if slavery ever comes back I want to be your agent y'all wash your hands and get ready get no where's Luther Bell GE get back we know she didn't get back yet where's little bear laughs get low what I mean is on the way home from church we stopped off with old cameras around he asked me to leave her there to help with the Sunday dinner and you left her with that frisky old man we're gonna say she's only waiting on table the woman I love don't wait on tables for nobody especially ho kept mine no let's go I'm going to get new bed no wait a minute you can't get it right now what you mean I can't get it right now we're not right this minute would spoil everything old captain wouldn't like it how long can you get get low I'm Nisha's got to stay there and bring us the $500 what $500 I thought you already had that money not exactly but Oh cam promised me faithful and sent it down by Luna Bell well I'm gonna and get looted bill wait a minute wait a minute you wanna buy big Bethel back oh don't I hope I misunderstand you when you said it yourself it is meat that the daughters of Zion should sacrifice themselves for the call Oh bell bell honey I think I'm gonna fight no I 80 I'm too may I've never been so insulted in all my life Lutie Bell excuse me Reverend pearly I know I look a mess but what happened up there i'ma make first place a Miss and I'm proud of it of course you are I had no complaints to speak up since I first stepped into the white folks kitchen I'm clean I'm honest and I work hard but one thing I don't stand for no stuff and then what of course you don't you don't have to I mean I know my job and I do my job and the next old sweaty old grimy old drunken a man puts his hands on me so my sister touch me like ain't got no business doing god bright me strength to kill excuse me remember well Oh captain do get playful at times but but did he send the money money well no he wouldn't do that to me not the good old faithful I'll go get low no sir the whole thing was a trick to get you out of the house not to me so he could sneak up behind me and thank you what'd I tell you what I tell I know the minute come grab no me red bird come grabbing his dirty old hands on me and twisting me right and me painting you well well I demand to know what did he paint you that's him all right I'd know them fingerprints anywhere right in the pan shake shake what are you tell me woman what'd he do he kissed no no he kissed me right yeah Oh for pete's sake Missy he kissed my woman get low he kissed the woman I love so uh so what do you mean so what no man kisses the woman I love and leave let's have one last look at your teeth before I knock him down your throat oh man get off mine I'm gonna be a heel good luck I'm gonna call that old Buzzard off and I wouldn't be surprised if I didn't beat him until he died now look here pearly don't you be no fool boy you still in Georgia and if you just got to defend the honor the woman you love you do it somewhere else kissing my woman man your arm out of the socket have you gone crazy look boy if you go up that hill a night they'll kill you let them kill me it won't be the first time stopping this is your deputy for the colored telling you you ain't go leave this house and that's an order you try and stop me good gracious alive male what's the matter what your only bid was kiss your woman yeah what you suppose you'd have done to me if either kissed his oh and that's exactly what I'm gonna do to him please I'm begging y'all bended knees for the glory and honor of the Negro national anthem for the glory and honor a brown-skinned Negro womanhood glory and honor [Music] oh I don't see what's wrong with pearly and then what the five big bezel thing nothing's wrong for sale but it is push sale I was talking old man pale him only last Monday come on don't mom tell him no more I bought it Oh why'd you have to do they so you and I could burn the damn thing down is it him I miss mr. Han that's a mighty tacky thing to do to purge you shut up lower and do like I take it I can't it wait till tomorrow because I said do it now now you take this cheque to old man pillow you pick up the deeds of that old bar and have it registered in my face [Music] no wait can it be oh good wind like this on his tail all to put him somewhere above making all about now if the shoes hold out you mean running what's wrong with money that emancipated mo people in Abe Lincoln ever did how dare you fine brave is may the father they come the brave they be the della DS my folks gonna kill him when they catch him what's a man really [Music] army the Navy the Marines the sheriff the judge the jury the police the FBI all on his side not to mention a pair of brass knucks and the hungriest dogs this side of hell now show y'all to expect that poor boy to go up against all that Caucasia astok power empty-handed oh ye of little faith didn't my lord deliver Daniel of course he did but Lions is one thing and white folks truth and mercy met together righteousness and peace have kissed each other behold the man knee-deep in shining glory great day the righteous Martin what happened to you my enemy have been destroyed what that's a little man mr. 20 years ago that over his dead body big bethel would rise again really you don't mean have I any pledges face the Lord that the wicked should die and not turn from his ways and live duty bail get your hat and coat and hurry yes Missy draw some breakfast into a paper sack and quick yes hello I'm calling on you and you'll fellow mu to write a new page in the annals of Negro History Week tell him clearly boy what you told us how you sashayed up that hill with falls and fits my illusion and fit old captain to a halt and a smile still told that time had left him laying a pool of his open fairy blood off for pete's sake Missy quit liars I don't you dare call fairly Judson a lie no man calls every penny alive and late what's the matter with Perley ain't been up that hill Pearlie ain't seen old captain Pearlie ain't done doodly-squat and all that gab about a bleep somebody laying in a pool of his own Confederate bloody $500 says it is in cool September cash and that ain't all I got [Music] of course that's it ain't nothin in the world but it people one way in all this world for nobody to get that bullwhip off okay that's over his dead body in that stay of a loving truth so ever get low take it and burn it in a public place Luda Bell yes this money belongs to the Negro people cash 500,000 cash no fool we're from old captain Cottam a himself boy I sure would give a pretty piece of put that know how you did it me to parity how'd you do it what happened when you first got thing wait a minute don't rush me that's what I say don't rush it let the man talk talk Missy I ain't got time well that's alright pearly we listened in a hurry what happened when you called him out and wept well I didn't call him out him whoopee I mean I did call him out oh you did call him ass yeah but he didn't come well well well here with me and there was him twisted and bent like a pretzel face twitchy fied like a pan of words eyes bugging out sweat draining down like rain tongue plumb clove to the roof of his mouth well this is thief this murderer is adulterer it's a presser of all my people yes certainly Stonewall Jackson cata peih-gee is sitting there go to rich man we and how well your sorrow shall come upon you and wherefore have hire yourself and repent ye and Sackhoff and ashes cause little pearly it's done come to get you fell down on bended knees and cried like a baby Oh captain caught you pee on his don't be angry white folks it's too late first man what do you know about mercy did you have mercy oh no local tub when they actually not to cheat him so hard out of his money and you're knocked him death in his letter field and did you have mercy on Lila's boy when he sassed your back and you tuck and you dipped his head in a bucket of syrup and twenty years ago when little pearly black and manly as he could be stood naked before you and your bullwhip pleading with tears in his little old eyes did you have mercy vent no you know I'm not having mercy now vengeance is mine sayeth the low howl ye serpents ye son escape the damnation of Hell and then that's my soul I looked up up from the righteous depth of my righteous indignation and I seen the tears spill over from his high bones and I heard the heartbeat clutching anguish of his outcry and his hands were boo or tremble and the slobber was dribbling down his lips any whined and whimpered like an old hound dog don't want you to kick him and I commenced to ponder the meaning of this evil thing that drebbel beneath my footstool there's no good lip of nobody not fit the dwell upon the earth beside the children of the Blessed this abomination in the sight of the Almighty and the stench in the nostrils of his people but still a man a weak man scared man beautiful man like all the south bogged down in sin and segregation crawling before my judgement seat but still a man he too like all the South was till one of God's children I he too could never be beyond the reach of love who and redemption somewhere for him even for him some Father's heart was broken some mother's tears on dry dry Lord I am my brother's keeper and picking on these things I found myself to pause and stumble in my grid resolve and sarra squeezed all fury from my heart and pity plucked all hatred from my soul and the racing feet of an avenging anger go down to a halt in a standstill and the big black and burly fists of my strong correction please don't high like a spoke of God's own lightning [Music] they'll useless by my side the books the books a comfort one another the books they forgive one another forgive all cabin laws slowly I turned away to leave this lump of human myths and misery for the infinite darkness of a hill for white folks on that day I put on my brakes parameter is Jensen stopped dead in his tracks and he stood Stockstill and he planted his feet and he read back and he asked himself and all the powers that be some mighty important question is he how come I ask myself it's always the colored folks got to do older forgiven man you're mighty right like I'm the only cheek gets turning this year country is the negro cheek thanks to me what was this man old captain Koch ap that in spite of all his sins and evils he still had dominion over me God made us all brothers yes and God made us all eat and no respecter of person who prove and the American Revolution that all men is created equal endowed with civil rights and first-class citizenship Ku Klux Klan white Citizens Council notwithstanding nothing well will will and will and when my mind and when my mind domestica memories and to reconsider all these things watching law and I thought of the black mother in bondage I and I thought of a black are in prison Rudy mama herself a Missy can tell you how pretty she was d-doc hair I see died outdoors on a dirty sheet cause the hospital dough said for white folks only and Papa God rest his soul who brung her tender loving body back home and later the sleep in the graveyard and cried himself to death amongst his children then did the wrath of our righteous God possess me and the strength of the hosting of ten thousand swept into my good right arm and I am I blow and the wind from my disk rip the curtains from the eastern walls and I felt the weight of his bullwhip nestling and my good right hand in the fury of a good God Almighty would within me and I beat him I last him I sold him I got him I got him I destroyed him [Applause] I tell you should have heard I did him all the way across the valley I thought it was calling homes anyway all hell's broken loose at the big house finally you better get out of here all cabbies on the phone to the sheriff Oh Calvin carciofi is dead the hell you preach whoa okay no more dead than I am Roberta just got through preaching about it how he marched up gotcha feet hail and took old captain about a bullwhip and beat that old buzzer to death that is the biggest lie since the devil learn to toll I am NOT leaving this room until somebody apologizes to Reverend Purdy be just the gentleman of my intended parley Judson you mean to stand there setting on your behind and priests ease people into believing you spent the night up at the big house bead no captain to death when all the while you was breaking into the commissary break it into the commissary Oh something is rotten in the cotton oh that's all right miss Adella I'll take it from here it's not alright well maybe I didn't exactly go up the hill word for word and call the old man I done beat him to death on the dotted line I'm gonna take back my lunch Missy wait a minute you know what I ain't missing yes honey sometimes I just wish I could drop dead for one lulubelle give me a chance to explain well here's your money and that goes wherever the handsome man in this hole what you expect me to do go up that hill by myself and get my brains beat in little enough for the woman you love why'd you have to go and preach all and wonderful things that wasn't so why'd you have to go and change your mind well I didn't mean for him not to be so it was a parable a prophecy believe me I never know my life told a lie I didn't intend to make come true someday Lutie bail Pearlie unless you want to give heartbreak a headache you better run hmm run for what you want old cabin the catcher here that blessed old camera the compound old cabin even dam dam has doubled ammo captain Murray I say somebody's calling my name cap you just intend a southern argument is Rudolph Valentino still dead sheriff yeah do you one thing I've not allowed on my cotton patch she's how am I born to die and that's Steven now somebody broke into my commissary tonight took two cans of sardines a boxer soda crackers my life blue bowl way and five hundred dollars in cash and boy I want that back stealin and all that black and white and we slower than the ones who started and who stole me from Africa in the first place and tonight just cuz I go up that hill and dis embezzle my own inheritance that you stole from me I've had a bellyful a your black African say yes all right everybody drop that gun drop what gun Oh Oh captain sir we done caught the culprit red-handed as ordered sir you were so the justice strikes again death bring in the prisoner what are they done dear boy hi pal idelle entirely I'll have y'all fix stupid necks for this but you the gave the order sir not my son you idiot it was him broke in the commissary he stole the $500 he confessed steal a contra P sure that is biologically impossible caliber boy you tell him the truth tell him who really stole that money it was Bernie wasn't it the way well as a matter of fact the pile was mostly me broken and took that money I'd say what I think it was me No oh that was the only thing I could do to save your life save my life well pearly come up that hill after you last night I seen him but lucky for you I did that look he had on his face against you was not a Christian thing to behold was terrible I had a break in that commissary right then there it open up that safe and papers inheritance but even then I had to beg him to spare your life yeah you spare my life boy how dare you Charlie my boy I know you're never recovered from the shock of losing your mother almost before you were born but don't you worry it was early who stole that money all right I'm gonna prove my friend now they you arrest that boy get it off as deputy for the colors i order you arrest that boy for stealing gone are the days stealing huh well old captain I'm really gonna give you something to arrest me for have a careful way I'm still a white man I congratulations I told you 20 years ago this bullwhip is gonna change hands one of these days Harley wait dad a my struggle for power you can do wrongs right never kick a man weighs down 7 self-defense and no matter what you are and always will be the hero got you baby am i 10,000 Queens you see I bow to the will of the Negro people one thing again I am released the view yeah the end time big grow people is released of you now no more shouting hallelujah every time you sneeze and no more jumping jackass because you happen to be whistling Dixie we gonna love you if you let us and laugh as we leave if you don't now we want our cut of the constitution and we vote it now and then with the TSP white folks with a show own lily-white anglish section semi consider it son don't you worry you shown the deed to that old bar that's what it is and now that I own it and here the deed registered in my name I fully intend to burn the damn thing down but o most of all son let me see the deed I wouldn't want to destroy nothing but didn't legally belong to me 20 years there being more than a mother to you now wait a dental away I did go to a cross like palisade and I did buy that barn like excuse me pearly that church like pal sale but I didn't have the day registered in pals names yes I registered the deed in the name of doors [Laughter] that was the only thing I could do to save your life apparently here it is Charlie you've done a good job in man am i much obliged no pearly I couldn't take your money oh don't be a fool boy business is business I feel I can't do that when I can I'll keep it for you well now will you let me be a member of your church I mean that isn't you get started no why man we already started the dough too big Bethel Church of the new freedom for all mankind is hereby declared open for business brother pastor I moved - we accept brother Charlie Koch because our first candidate to membership and big Bethel on an integrated basis I second that motion ready motion are you ready for the question chosen people would signify by saying aye those opposed those opposed will signify by saying first man in all this world I ever seen drop dead stand another [Music] [Music] what kind is a new things though you are there Oh cap and inhale I suspect this postmodern guest of honor at our expense it is not too late to repent now we still need togetherness we still need each other nurse with faith and the future needs of our coal let us therefore stifle the rival of conflict scatter the patter of this cold smuggle the struggle tickled of pickle and grapple the apple of Pete today my friends I find in being black a fan of beauty a joint a strength a secret cup of gladness on native land and neither time nor place on native land and every Negro face yeah me loyal to yourselves your skin your lips your hair your sudden speech your laughing illness on Negro kingdoms fast as any other except in full the sweetness of your blackness not wishing to be red or white or yellow or any other race or faith but this farewell my deep and Africana crows debrie keep freedom in the Pam do what you can for the white folk and they in turn must do indeed for you and now may the Constitution of the United States go with you the Declaration of Independence stand by you the Bill of Rights protecting the state commission against discrimination keep the envelope on your head forever man [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]

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Published: Sat Jul 18 2020