Carmen Jones Page #4

Stand toe to toe

Trade blow for blow

Keep punchin'

till you make your punches tell

Show that crowd what you know

Until you hear that bell

That final bell

Stand up and fight like hell

Stand up and fight

Stand up and fight

And fight

Like hell?

Three cheers for Husky Miller,

the comin' champion of the worid!

Hooray!

Drinks for everybody in the house.

Inform the gentleman behind the bar.

Set 'em up drinks on Husky Miller!

Hello, Heat Wave. Introduce yourself.

You talk like you know me already.

I noticed you right off,

up on the balcony.

Did you notice me?

Why, no.

You was acting so bashful

I didn't hardly know you was there.

Hey, you talkin' to the champ.

He just looks at a chick

and she's down for...

- Shut your teeth!

- Excuse my dust, gentlemen.

The air's getting

mighty unconditioned around here.

What are you paid forTo manage me

or to KO me with the dames?

This chick needs a big investment

in time, and your train is waiting.

- It don't leave for an hour yet.

- It's at the station.

Remember, you promised the trainer

ten hours' shuteye.

OK. I ain't gonna break

no promise to him,

but you listen to this

and listen good.

When I wake up tomorrow

in Chicago and get off that train,

I wanna see Heat Wave

on the platform.

Suppose she don't want

to go to Chicago?

That's your toothache.

If you can't show up with her,

find yourself a new meal ticket.

- Good night, all!

- Good night, Husky!

What's he mean, "Go find yourself

a new meal ticket"?

He means I don't eat. And, brother,

if I don't eat, you starve.

Come on, Myrt,

let's go where the money is.

I believe we had this parking space

reserved, but don't get up, please.

Don't these gentlemen look like

they met us someplace before?

I could swear I met 'em

with Husky Miller.

- Where d'you know Husky from?

- Oh, maybe New York, New Orleans.

What you doin'

in this hamburger joint?

- Just passin' through.

- Then you don't know nobody here?

Who d'you want us to know?

Thought you might be

acquainted with her.

Carmen That's my best friend.

What d'you want with her?

Just asking. Won't you pull up

to the kerb and park?

- If you insist.

- I do. Indeed I do.

Uh, drinks for the ladies.

- What kind?

- Ask 'em.

- You made up your minds yet?

- Anything light.

- You mean with bubbles?

- ChampagneMy, that's too splurgy.

Frankie!

Not for Rum Daniels,

manager of Husky Miller.

You his manager, for real?

- And this is Dink Franklin...

- The manager's manager.

Large bottle of Champagne,

from the bottom cellar.

Sure, Mr Daniels.

Too bad we're leaving for Chicago

in an hour.

Hardly got time to trade punches.

Would you care to stop off

in the Windy City with us?

What's the proposition?

She mean, you talking to us like

we was a pair of you know what!

I had nothing like that in mind.

Just thinkin' it would be nice to

have your company in a drawing room,

showin' you around

the fancy stores in Chicago,

footin' the bill for some of

the things you might want to buy,

like a diamond ring and a mink coat.

Mink?!

Course, if that ain't good enough,

maybe there's another kind of fur.

No. We're old-fashioned.

Mink and diamonds suits us fine.

- Then it's settled.

- Let's get going.

Don't wanna miss that train.

Yeah, go pack. While you're at it,

pack up your friend there, too.

- Carmen?

- For Husky Miller.

And if she says no?

Then ain't none of us

gettin' on that train.

I get it.

Figured you would.

Well, come on.

But don't everybody

start talkin' at once.

Miss Jones, this is Rum, Husky's

manager. And Dink, his manager.

They're taking me and Frankie

to Chicago, in a drawing room.

That's nice.

Reserved the biggest suite on

the top floor of the biggest hotel.

- Gonna buy us fancy clothes.

- Diamonds and mink!

We'll be livin' off

the fatheads of the land.

The fatheads of fatheads.

We've room for one more. Care

to join us at Husky's invitation?

Hear that, honeyHe askin' you

to come to Chicago with us.

Keep us company.

- Chicago.

- Man, we'll have ourselves a ball!

All expenses paid

including the little extras.

Like a storeful of diamonds and

fancy clothes and everything nice.

- For true?

- That ain't the half of it.

You take us to Chicago, show us

a good time. What we gotta do for it?

Don't ask him that now, honey.

Let's get to Chicago first.

What do you say, Heat Wave?

Wanna make a trip

on a crack Chicago train

That's a trip you ought to make

It won't be hard for you to take

Travel 'bout as fast

as a Kansas hurricane

It only takes a half a day

to be a thousand miles away

- Away, away

- Come on, come on

That streamline engine won't delay

- Away, away

- Come on, come on

That streamline engine won't delay

That streamline engine

just can't wait

That streamline engine

ain't no freight

That streamline engine

won't be late

Whizzing away along the track

Clickety-clack, clickety-clack

Leavin' the wind away in back

Clickety-clack, clickety-clack

Up a hill and down a hill

And out upon the plains again

Through a storm and outta the storm

and pretty soon it rains again

It only takes a half a day

To be a thousand miles away

It only takes a half a day

To be a thousand miles away, away

- Come on, away

- Chicago, Chicago

- Away, away

- To come away, to come away

Hey!

On a Chicago train?

Go pack your duds.

Ain't got much time.

- Carmen'll come.

- I knew she would.

Well, let's get going.

Wait! Let me say my say

If you're bustin' to go, then go

But just count me out of the party

Just count me out

Cos I ain't in

Ah, Carmen, honey, have a heart

Don't want no part of it,

don't want no part of it

Don't want no part!

Don't waste our time

with all this fuss

Don't want no part of it,

don't want no part of it

Don't want no part

What you got that you like

so much better than this?

- What ya got?

- What ya got?

What ya got, what ya got?

If I told you, you'd only laugh

- Oh, no

- Not me

- Go on

- Give out

You got to promise not to laugh

OK:

OK:

Dere's a man I'm crazy for

She's got a man she's crazy for!

That's why she can't come to Chicago.

That's a laugh!

I'm in love

And dat ain't no laugh

Well, shut my mouth

and call me dumb

And beat me! I'm a kettledrum

The birdies

in the trees are hummin'

Carmen's in love, Carmen's in love

Still we ask, won't you come?

And break your date

Give the gate to your chum?

Another night, I might've come

To raise some pandemonium

But now

the mockingbirds are hummin'

Carmen's in love, Carmen's in love

Leave me here with my Joe

Take your train to Chicago and go

- We gotta get you on that train

- Some other time

What makes you think

there'll be another time?

What makes you think

there'll be another time?

- To get a trip

- To get a trip

- To Illinois

- To Illinois

- And get it free?

- And get it free?

Dat is the place

that I'd sure like to see

Whizzing away along the track

Clickety-clack, clickety-clack

Leavin' the wind away in back

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