Stompin' at the Savoy (1992) | Lynn Whitfield Jasmine Guy | dir. Debbie Allen

1939 the Great Depression we came up to New York from North Carolina we didn't know we were part of a big migration of black folks from south to north all we knew was there was nothing back home no jobs no money no hope hope and dreams they were never in short supply for Dorothy L is Pauline and me all those nights we used to trip up to the Savoy I guess we all had our hopes and our dreams and I always knew I'd make mine come true yesterday no man [Music] [Applause] now it's everybody [Music] your lips Pauline are you coming back this evening [Music] my heart is singing [Music] [Music] [Music] every Thursday this woman asked me are you coming back to see [Applause] [Music] [Applause] what's you know good Alice hey Pauline when I asked you what you know good don't come give me mail countrified hey you picking on Ally keep it up she had me talking on dick be like huh nobody could ever call me dick dick I just don't want you to sound like you called the last train out the cotton field well everybody went lucky enough to be born in the Big Apple like you Pauline um do you hear yet she's in the bathroom oh damn I just wished one time I could get in there first I wish I had new stockings Esther you want to go down to the NS with me no I don't have no money to spare I got it save all my money to play the number this week wish I could well don't cost nothing to wish [Music] okay 7:39 right I played that number so many times I know it by heart yeah I'll pay you back next week mm-hmm Odie I've got a letter for my mom says your dad was feeling much better yeah I got a letter for my sister card said Papa might be going back to work soon if there's any work to get back to slow down girl where you headed world's fair again do you have any idea how many numbers you could combinate with that 50 cents you spend every time you go out there I haven't even seen half of it yet don't you want to learn about the future Lafayette with me tonight oh come on the talent contest I think I got a chance Pauline we only get one night a week off I'm sorry but I'm going to the Savoy Chicken Ella tonight and I promise to me Ernest yeah I thought I'm each other after I see the Futurama exhibit you mean to tell me all y'all my so-called friends would rather go dance and then cheer me on at the Lafayette yeah so would I [Laughter] [Music] big food that I might put the hallway from Brooklyn the heart I don't even think I would be able to ding oh you will as soon as you hear the music and see and tell you they have these things I'm going to show movies right in your own home televisions or visuals and every home go have one really really that's one whole scope I'm gonna get sick Saturday and a few thousand about [Music] well then I guess is good enough for me yeah but are you good enough for the opera hat could you drop dead please I'm going too late oh [ __ ] well I wonder if - begin yeah I came here to dance [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] hey beautiful I've been looking for you between beds you look so so good did you get it [Music] you get it soon I thought this damn depression was ending and I haven't worked in three weeks I should be hearing from the WPA any day now [Music] come on cannabis your musical waste [Music] [Applause] next week I will be on that Bandstand know why I'm gonna be the new MC Oh who knew his name I'll be over there making use of it right baby you mean to tell me you don't know Walter what'd he do my man man owns a cafe right down here linens well I sure would like to meet him Sally [Music] Oh Pauline Pauline Dorothy Esther I want you to meet Walter turn I'm very mad to meet you you ladies coming off ready seen you before every Thursday every other Sunday baby you want struggle sure [Music] yeah we're here at your kitchen mechanics night tonight dance [Music] look at the mines crap didn't get over with him when we got over with you Raja's mutational father wanted chicks just like it I wanted to dance with you [Music] that's how long you been up in New York flag man : like him I like you he's big and you drop there nobody would care to feel that all these different people doing different things we think maybe I do something different too yeah like what not housework though at home love if you got any job with you maybe I got more than joy see all these women here they all work in some old phase kitchen a lot of the fellas he ain't got no job at all you never heard of the depression you never heard of if you're white you are right and if you're black get back you don't want to know myself [Music] girl like it just is he may be driving some white man's car with some for yourself but just wanting it don't make it so [Music] she won't ban [Music] beep aah aah forget that see you next week if it's a boy come on ask them goodnight what am I gonna see you again you are you off Sunday yeah well do you have any plans [Music] well we going to the support earlier around back what if I meet you there okay see you Sunday back Esther you slay me [Music] [Laughter] you can hear in 20 minutes like the Wyss Indians say I gone hey you looking for somebody hi it's got a dead here what you let me feed you come on no I brought dogs in Pauline with me how come girls always traveled in packs like rats cuz I was afraid you wouldn't go show up besides it wouldn't be nice to me hey did you really think I wasn't gonna show up I believe in being prepared for the word Oh I'm the girl who has come in New York and all these different things oh you think that's funny yeah I think any time you want something and you go after it that's great so what you're gonna do stupid try me yeah okay CJ the number every day every week and I forever hit I'm gonna be something just like you said I'm a beauty shop because I used to everybody's hair at home with her a real flair for it maybe I could help you Wow see I know a lady who owns a beauty shop I could call her up tell her to give you a job you know shampoo girl teach you how to do those heads I mean you just called lady how could you give me a job just like that and you're not afraid this lady I'll get jealous all the rains not like that science she's my sister she got married she sandwich it did playing ease with can't fake the way she looks more like Count Dracula to me she's not doing so hot huh oh my gosh it looks so fake well should have disclosed that she'd be good you won't faithful I meant anything else I want to compliment on 1 6 8 / 10 10 1 6 8 that sounds familiar ah - last few numbers of Walter's cafe address then I want to place Tintin straight from seven three nine no make that 40 cent what you're doing here I couldn't take that woman and her uniform no more you lose your job mm-hmm what you gonna do I don't know find another one maybe retire to Florida you know of anything along the way shopping and once were you walking that subscribe there Alice I'm like I really like you what would you do if your mom was on the other side that done listening to you right now probably I don't know why you keep bothering me because I like you and it doesn't matter that you're colored no once you're done I'm night so do you that makes me better still color look better a lot of color people think that way to Paul but I don't all sorts I got a man he's black is your shoe he's cool and handsome and I love him if I had to choose between him or anybody else anybody I choose him now I got a flow to scrub before your mama gets her that's it do the same thing underneath that curl do both sides that where to last longer and it's gotta last me don't know when I'm gonna get back here getting ready for the season opener at Saratoga you're going up there again yeah are you sure - there's no coming beauty shop anywhere near there what am I supposed to do with this place while I go traipsing up there Oh metro operators taking out a shop you're only gonna be gone a couple of months and you can make lots of money careful how much you gonna pay me to let this woman practice in my hey she could pay better attention to what she's doing if you keep still about your big money dreams last season I made one thousand five hundred forty dollars and that ain't no green and this season I'm going to do even better when that racetrack opens there is a flood of tourists and gamblers and with the prostitutes and the maze and no felon beauty shop you can just watch that money roll in the air I'm doing all right here alright but you can make one maybe two thousand dollars in a few months at the racetrack it's open how you doing real good Esther but you gotta pay attention I'm real sorry last night you played that know what other day women for father said that's the right now you got so civil $200 comin ain't nothing Beach other Rizzoli subpoenas having a rich young ah we're gonna go out celebrate tonight and I mean really celebrate [Music] so wonder what mints are like how much you think it would cost to get a place I thought I can't smell the cooking grease turn I'll be your top lip a man is here as Calvin and we have been going at each other since since forever you gotta be Esther I'm sure I heard a lot about you coming home this spotter so he claimed oh how is everything anything I can get you go ahead and get lost Walter I'm not trying to cut in not that you could love me it's a pleasure to meet you and this night just nice to meet you Calvin's all right you just gotta count your fingers up you shake that man's hand Waldo come on tell me how I get fixtures for a shot I wouldn't have to fire them what I could rent them huh you've been working at Lorraine's for three months you ready to just get up and go what do you know about Saratoga what are the rents like tell them about leasing fixtures you know how many you analyse for how long you at least them how many customers you're planning on having do you know what the hell you're talking about at all no I don't know you know I don't know Walter that's why I'm asking you all I know is I have to try [Music] I [Music] we take the day off tomorrow and we'll go up there and we'll look around okay now this hearings supposed to be a party you having a bit turn that you like this place yeah I do but boy [Music] [Applause] what is back enough that this is wrong but you know what [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] either way they're cold I long want me to help you with I can do it [Music] you know to tell you the truth I was kind of planning on tonight figured um nightclub some celebrating maybe maybe I'd get you up here with me I never figured you'd say what you said tonight at the Savoy I think of it every time I would I can't stop myself thinking about to compare I hope so [Music] and baby is something else [Music] truly revolutionary our demands to the masses be the heroes and capitalism really Marvin your argument collapses when you remember that your corrupt capitalist so the only people can afford to buy tickets laundry shows your mind you opt enough to go and see it thank you everything's going to blend would you please see if you can help me yes ma'am I think this play is gonna make you yeah I've heard that before I mean is exactly the kind of talk that taught us a lot of attention I hope so hi um what are you looking for maybe I can help you I found it but I don't understand what it means what were you looking at me capitalism capital isn't a form of economic industrial and social organization of society involving ownership control and direction of production by privately owned business organizations that means the big guys who own the businesses are rich and the working people stay poor thank you yeah I was a communist last year I thought it would help me with these big-time left-wing producers but uh it didn't I'm bill Jeremy oh wait don't go I mean this party's had it I can tell you the place thinks I know because I'm in it Jeff what tonight's all about when a play opens its it's tradition to have a devil party and that wait for the reviews in the morning papers I know that so what I was thinking was that maybe you and I could ditch this funeral and go have a cup of coffee somewhere what did you say your name was bill Jeremy mr. jeremy in this house my name is Dorothy I don't have the last name when I'm here I am NOT some guest who can come and go as I please I work here you acting like I'm asking you to commit murder naked under not Coney Island boardwalk sweetie I got feelings for God's sake I was summer man Baroness don't you think I want you to hold me I love for you to touch me maybe if we take it easy Mack is so excited hey you got no decency over there this is a public place oh man drop dead jack harness let's get outta here let's get married can't we just do it come on sleepy the world is full of poor colored folk and most of them are married and look I know I might be hearing from Jacob you soon I know it let's bless wait you do get the job mister we can afford it well if we wait till we can afford it we never will besides you two can starve marry me please please marry me [Music] I don't come as rusty but why look for you jack - Ernest I'm not gonna be living in when we get married you spending my nights at home [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] long time no see well you've been the last two days and nights oh nothing like the cheery spirit of home after a hard day's work you've got a job sing it no but I ain't living in cocaine good girl no kid she just talks on the telephone all day or plays mahjong with their friends so tell me about you and Walter Wow we went to nightclub took the day off went to Saratoga why talking about that girl come on I know you were Pauline I'm so excited I just gotta tell you you know what that money I won I'm the money you won my seven three nine hit that is Alice's number well Alice don't own that number well she don't know it but she always plays you know I always plant and she never pays me back well she what if she could I mean she was out of work all that time cuz she was snake now wait a minute I play the number and when it doesn't hit I take the loss and now I'm supposed to give her all the money back oh yes you could at least split the money with Alice I'm going to Saratoga for the season and uncle open a beauty shop now that's gonna take every penny I got in lo besides Walter Scott's take me to the rest does Walter know what you're doing do you know what you're doing I know there's money to be made and I'm gonna get mine that's you better take it slow you want way too much and it's gonna hurt when you don't get it you know this what's wrong with people they always tell themselves no before they get started don't they deserve nothing well ain't nobody gonna tell me no and I show us how I gonna tell myself [Music] at Saratoga we were expecting rain but it looks like things are gonna be dry they should run fast now just to let you know Marseillaise is fine a pataga work watch press Carl French Carol manicure you do man you don't you will get to move and time well uh wash and presses $5 French girl is 250 extra what math girl in New York don't charge me but a dollar what you gonna do guarantee my hair stay straight for life well if you want to waste 4 hours going and 4 hours coming back you ought to go back to New York and get your hair done but like you said time is money you are thief girl come up here trying to rob us cuz you got us at your mercy come on Darcy it'll knock you hey you charged the same up here for your work as you do in New York you did it now you ain't a new business but you got a heart like a whole will be all day because her hair's never an admirer oh nice Thank You chair oh hi what wait a minute Dorothy doing out of the Bennett's ass right now wait wait a minute what is your last name fan Roy miss fan Roy I always wanted to see Greenwich Village a lot of extraordinary people live here I'll say you know I don't live too far from here myself people like to come over and see my place oh no I could I wasn't I was trying to uh yes I was one day I'm gonna have a place a mount a shared apartment someone there to read other girls and it's not an apartment it's a room no kitchen and the bathrooms down the hall but of course I'm only there on Thursdays and every other Sunday it sounds a little crowded well at least I have a place some girls live at the beach or in the park on the date is off company's warming drummer bandleader chip Webb died yesterday in Maryland off tuberculosis of the spine yeah great loss David whose [ __ ] hey he was someone you girl he is colored and crippled got me a word thing doing my own uncle dad how did he know he was sick he didn't look nothing stopping from what he wanted to do yeah I'm here so how you doing up there well I'm doing real good I gotta go alright then will you tell everybody I said hi Thanks miss Bennett she gave me this coat pretty nice she hardly up well of this at all I want my own place stop it [Music] Pauline would you mind you're not leaving the seventh love I know what time it is but you're supposed to do the wash today you have me working here all day I scrub the floors I wash the walls it's not like I was sitting around waiting for the hot water heater to be fixed I am NOT going to argue with you if you leave here now don't bother to come back tomorrow [Music] well if you let me go pay me what you owe me he's using her face when I stuck my hair that I said pay me it was two girls so this new jobs gonna be a killer huh you don't have the job yet and each other takes me out of the kitchen and into a nightclub is mine should I fight Joe Lewis for all right there [Music] [Music] only as for the chains [Music] [Applause] I wanna be you do I wanna be [Music] I it's dream of mine [Music] Ebru Diaz today [Music] as for the chance to [Music] Oh [Music] Oh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right thanks guys solid real gasser so you a Walters cousin huh yeah I don't have a spot for a singer I need a hatcheck girl you'd be here in the club next opening be right in line to get it beats domestic work well they don't kill yourself thanking me woman I will when I have something to thank you for little girl stop playing with me I'm not a little girl and when I start playing with you you never gonna want me to stop so when do I start boss see you tonight I hate o'clock cuz [Applause] [Music] it's great apart and only 20 a month it's all yours mine how why landlord's a friend of money he owed me a favor I introduced him to an actress I worked with last year and he was very appreciative was I in a place for nothing how do you like it I don't know what to say the landlord he's willing to rent to me he knows I'm colored this is the village this is your place if you want coffee I'll get it since this is my plate I guess I can find it basement [Music] you know how many times I got over that kissing I might miss rehearsal what I was gonna say this is something I didn't figure on I can't stop thinking about you that day I took you to MacDougal Street the cafe I waited outside for two hours it was cold Dorothy you have to know how I feel I guess I do but but I gotta think about this but I just can't take up with a white man without thinking about it it's chaos I know you gotta be real nervous I want to tell you something I don't give a damn about what anybody thinks I don't care god dude no decent colored man would have anything to do with me if I mess with you bet shot you doesn't it well look at this me teaching the teachers something I'm gonna hand you every time you turn around every time you go to the market or take a walk I'll be there I'll just make myself part of your life I'll win you over because I'm a very winning fellow I don't take you no please stop talking [Music] this is not the time to talk [Music] [Music] dig this four rooms all to yourself and the village girl that takes know this is a high place time a mimosa hmm it's a hard place Hunter x gonna have a toast of the bride and groom wow you do it you have all you want maybe want all you have and if not me ARDS have each other hey hey I thought there's supposed to be a party I wanna dance look anything here most the time to enjoy this place I know well you're working yourself to death for something you can't even lose your way I bet it's worth it for the time you do spend here hon Dora well you still gonna be living in a Virgin Mary well no won't be no point being married at fairly sighs well that's what I'm saying about this setup just don't seem to be much point in it the point is it's what I want and the point is you're jealous [Music] you need some help I'm sorry okay I am a little jealous everybody's moving on and I'm a hatcheck girl sit in the closet thank ya it seems like a really nice guy well he ain't no dog table music know what Hotel sorry says but sure is the nicest colored hotel in Holland and let's see the inside of it though thanks man I might get married soon myself you can tighten Mia Thanks yeah [Music] are you making out in that greasy spoon I can't complain y'all get a liquor license man people always drink even say kids you stop this nightclub diseases racket overhand it's illegal that's killer okay so I had to spread a little Jack around they get the license that's the way it goes show Beach frying of neck bones or a bunch of squares [Music] and I'm Megan I'm pretty good with that cousin of yours too yeah you know you went her would make a nice couple I ain't coming on that tab man she's fine I don't know man your nose looks a little open the moon brother well I think I might be looking at my ticket out of Franklin Avenue man oh man I walked with some guy huh I wonder what made him do it you know hardly know us just a nice guy I guess hmm is I'm crazy for that Esther Dewayne uh-huh I bet they'll be getting married soon Alice some things I'm not real good at saying she ain't had a lot of girlfriends before you about the nicest person I ever met the prettiest so it's gonna be scared ain't scared cuz nothing might get a little carried away and I want to tell you mm-hmm I love you so much I know women feel a little different about these things how you think women feel well they don't well I think that maybe they may gotta get used to it don't you hell no I ain't scared though maybe a little nervous but that can never be scared of you [Music] well I guess what I'm trying to say sweet Pete's got a hole all the time in the world [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] busy [Music] Oh [Music] when she callin could you choose [Music] the racetrack closest ananda gandha this afternoon maybe I've been looking for place because I'm not going back to Brooklyn I'm not going back to Lorraine's I'm gonna open my own shop maybe right here huh what did you say missed you or hello oh I missed you baby you know that I think I know you I was looking for you at the cafe you being here is parking [Music] David two people I wanted to see you [Music] and just down [Music] [Music] Oh [Music] even without gypsies can you keep the band together she's gonna make it [Music] [Music] [Music] now that I got my own place we all get together more Ernest is working again again I need I'm working all this time well he lost that job a little bit after we got married but now he's on WPA so him work is steady and me getting some day work maybe y'all can come over for dinner something but where is Dorothy how can we never see you no more you just want to throw it up to it that you get an apartment - that's right ain't killing myself in the time-payment snow lay ways neither it sounds like you got your mojo workin on Calvin s when you gonna open up your shop next week and two other operators except they read shop that's mine well let's go to my place come on now my apartment ain't as nice as Dorothy's but then again I ain't paying for it ain't funny hunter I'm supposed to be funny it's supposed to teach you to behave yourself when I'm footing the tab I don't never want to see you beating up your chops enough but me well obviously you ain't put tab no more maybe as quick as the man took that mess out he can bring it right back I am NOT a [ __ ] I've been living on my own since I was 16 years old I could have been living off men all along instead of doing housework sharing a tiny room with three roommates three girl roommates all right I'll call the store first thing tomorrow and I'll bring the stuff back okay it don't mean nothing if you got such a low opinion of me want to suit yourself come on cuz and I got a singing spot for you to start next week you know I'm crazy about you huh yeah show me hi baby out of where you're binding which are you crazy send these things out the Lorraine's customers and you ask me what's wrong with me no Lorraine one of strongest people I know I can't remember the last time I seen a lady cry but he sent out these damn thing I just sent out card saying I was opening my shot to raise customers you're stealing the rave customers after everything she's done for you how could you do that the Rance customers are the only people I know who else won't send them to this is just business well for God's sake Walt if it ain't enough nappy hanson home for both of us I just don't know what to tell you I'm sorry I'm sorry you know I didn't mean it what I love the ring I would never do anything to hurt you know that Oh Walter please don't be mad at me okay I'm gonna get dressed right now and I'm gonna go talk to him mm-hmm I'll do it it's better coming from me I know how to talk to her you better not do anything like this again I got it they ain't fine am ia meeting this I'm so tired of you I need no white folks leftovers earnest meals i occluded with my pain bringing homes that will share with you dig in the garbage Floyd I hate big boys don't wait man scraps but what you gonna eat then ain't nothing else here Paulina by this to New Year's Eve at Hunter's Lodge I want to go she had me Wow you kill me you said here about to eat with the old things throw out you're talking about going on night clubbing somewhere you think oh gosh you nothing earnest if that's what you weren't about that that cavern hunter he's gonna pay for don't sit here and tell me I can't go somewhere this free so you want to go sponge off your friend I don't care I want to go if I wait for you to take me someplace I'd be as long getting there as I was getting wrong don't you think I would like to be able to take you out hello baby I would like to be able to feed you me well what's wrong with you how come you can't hold a job no time oh it took you long enough but you finally said of danger [Music] [Music] [Music] he's walking downtown I went in this place some coffee and it turns out the ninth ish watch and then he showed up [Music] giving a goodbye song in a dress or something pull let me go out a pony Oh try I swear to god I'm trying I don't think you I just been so worried about you I'm not feeling well you shouldn't be working I'm gonna take care of you I wanna be a real husband to you be as important to you as you are to me else matters if you stop it's going to get better you know why cuz I've got some plans for 1940s - where's Dorothy chicken anyone would hear about my big plans for 1940 how do when is Dorothy don't get here first I'm gonna get myself a liquor license from a friend from an acquaintance who alone name she said something been late she's paying attention yeah baby I'm paying attention super now you're trying to get a license from Calvin who doesn't want to be called by name come you wanna call me name Calvin man will you shut up Louis caller your name's that one will do this I'm gonna turn the cafe into a nightclub when I make enough money all right - this chick I know - marry me anybody I know no just some old [ __ ] guy stuff but money money money [Laughter] I'm sorry Willie I want you all to meet bill Jeremy that's after Walter over there the best Pauline and Calvin Calvin own this club and that Alice and Ernie [Music] well you just missed the picture we just got a picture taken oh we can just take another let's train yourself now Calvin listen man what my liquor license man I have given you enough craft paper all the offices and in City Hall there grab I thought you just applied for a license white my hands is pays for license and you got a fake teeth nose and he just pays and pays yeah well funny cuz I've had to deal with this trouble myself because I'm colored just like humans you telling me you were spayed [Music] well he's like Adam Powell baby you know Walter why from the NACP he's very light yes quite fair okay [Music] [Music] and make small difference if it's weight [Music] John [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] it makes no difference between maybe [Music] [Applause] [Music] I mean a lot of people would t be get better mi look my little brother had him when he was a kid you gotta stop working at laundry well it's supposed to do for money Alice I'm gonna join the CCC I don't know what else I can do sleepiness and listen Lisa to be steady that's just like the army long as I stay in they'll be sending a little money to you maybe it's not like I'm leaving a sweep behind you really I can't do nothing for you while I'm here me I'm more good for your thumb away how come you always nah do I look any different no same hearty physique same classic profile same boyish grin same old build Jeremy okay okay I gave what's new oh nothing it's just that these magnificent features are being screen tested in Hollywood next week you're gonna be in movies yeah if they like me talent scout from warner saw me and forest and next week I'm on my way a lot of actors wouldn't go dedicated to the theater the SAPS this is the greatest opportunity it's the best break I've had you don't seem too happy with our good fortune yoga fortune and I'm very happy for you hey our good fortune be coming with me Dorothy you're coming with me No ha we'll get married I never heard you talk about marrying me before look you taught me a lot of things now I'm gonna teach you or saying keep in please this is my place right here I can't let is a nothing's to stop us from being just the way we are right now we'll be in California instead of New York what's the difference you'll have one of those big fancy Hollywood parties and I'll dress up like the maid oh nobody ever know the difference oh wait yes you come here and you pretend Thursdays and every other Sunday I love you I wasn't pretending yes you were you were pretending there's nothing wrong about loving me and that's okay but don't you dare try to take it outside this room but you canopy is realistic pet the only place you don't have to be realistic is right here that's a lot of crap we can do anything we want and I want you look I'm still gonna call you I'm gonna write you I'm gonna bad you just like I always used [Music] I never once slept ahead to a time when you and I wouldn't be together [Music] don't attest forever it's finicky not Michaels even a new thing [Music] [Music] why didn't contact us we could have done something we could have taken care while I'm here and I'll take care of it now [Music] Alice Johnson was here died two weeks ago buried by the city of New York and why wouldn't contact it well why didn't anybody know about this there's no record of relatives here well she has a husband he needs away in the CCC all right then do you know where his camp is no where his company is look I got this letter from her now you must have known that you she wasn't alone she she must have sent a letter to her husband too how are we supposed to know who she rides to we got hundreds of cases a week we see it all the time no next to Ken Bell correct address no family doctor no money dear Esther the Board of Health come and got me I don't know where Ernest is how come I haven't heard from you I get money but no word tell everybody where I am this is why I do not call them come and see me if you can I can't stand thinking about her being all alone at a house how that lousy charity water bikers she got sick can't blame nobody for that yeah I can you definitely can't blame Ernest a man loved her it wasn't her fault it was the life she led on account of being with him on account of being poor naked I guess [Music] [Music] hey girl big sister looks like your poor relatives have come to stay yourself where's Clifton chow he's long gone I came to seek my fortune in a big city we know cause you know problems take up hardly no room at all but I don't know how to get to your place you gonna have to give me a key [Applause] [Music] well it's gonna be a little while it's already been an awful long time Walter don't even trust him it took him five years to get his license and yet all those connections from being a numbers runner why is it so hard to get a liquor license why is it so hard been colored you tell me 90% of the joints up in Harlem is some Spade front for white man they don't let us have nothing that's what I'm gonna fool you could see this license is gonna be mine and their bread crumb is gonna be all mine too Kevin got one thing right folks will buy booze when they can't buy nothing else [Music] [Applause] [Music] Oh Dorothy [Music] you have to know how I feel this is your place to be one you're working yourself to death for something you can't even enjoy [Music] you know Nelson and this is Neil [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] now let me fix that for you Nana's Lina [Music] apartment I can't afford it and not things she has some she has a really nice things [Music] [Music] it's just already about your friends don't they Pauline tells me you to come to New York together [Music] yeah that's the way it goes I want the license the legalized Taiwan you're gonna start in between Walter knows I'm good boy I'm say nothing about what I want the nice and I'll do anything I have to together [Music] I had a feeling about you Walters always big time talking about you but I kind of stopped [Music] maybe I don't want money I'll add a feeling about you two [Music] just waft I have to know about this part of the deal when they must point to it if you'd if you got it all huh you had to have him - you want to talk about this some other no I don't want to talk about a time you couldn't care nothing about him so why I don't think you want to talk about think you better answer me now you want an answer yes well just look up and down every street and hard look at what winos [ __ ] old people shouting to God and talking to themselves raggedy and poor asking for a handout it's not gonna happen to me money that's all you see that is all you care about I'm not gonna end up like Alice and Dorothy waiting for some man to take care of what you did with that number I didn't do nothing wrong the money was mine I played the numpy would have made such a difference if you give him part of the money well I didn't Ted you're just like my grandmother there was nothing she wouldn't do for a dollar and when she got old and played out she's old Licking that's why she kept me around so man will come up and buy liquor my own grandmother tried to pin me she was low and she was rotten and I thought she was a lousy if I ever meant till I come up against you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] yeah they said they're gonna show me [Music] I'll never forgive the glory for shining down the support but I read worse can open it research you know you were right about hauling light cause they've had it I'm doing ok with liquor store you heard from Polly she was doing domestic work again she's singing out for Jersey USO you know when you first started changing I used to think it was cute maybe I could have stopped it help you I wouldn't change I've always been this way you just never could say [Music] Walt yeah I used to love you so much I couldn't get enough [Music] and silver now Esther [Music] [Music] do you agree do you not like money I'm doing okay I talked to Dean she asked about house she done okay well not so hot she's still not our self but at least she's at home where mother can take care of instead of that hospital had to get out of that it was really nice to me to do that I meant to keep up with fairness but I just can't hear from Calvin I don't see Calvin or me I stopped seeing him after that's what you got what you won see Walter no way we're not getting that Pauline Calvin didn't mean nothing to me and I didn't mean nothing to him I just had to talk to Walter explain it to you so crazy about me I just have to make it up to him I'll give him an order though I just need one more chance [Music] [Music] maybe I'll see you sometime maybe [Applause] [Music] let's build a stairway to the snow in climb that stairway to the stars with love beside us to feel with a song the sound my Oh [Music] [Music] can't [Music] you said on [Music] [Applause] [Music] yeah [Music] [Applause] [Music] with you [Music] [Music]

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Published: Fri Dec 06 2019