Carmen Jones Page #7

No matter what the time

So I won't fill my pretty eyes

With salty tears

Cos I ain't got de time

I'm gonna run out

every second I got left

Before he throws me down

I'm gonna laugh and sing

and use up all my breath

Before he mows me down

While I can fly around

I'll do my flying high

I'm gonna keep on livin'

Up to the day I die

De nine

Hello

OI' boy

Hello?

My Joe

He was always my Joe

and use up all my breath

Joe said there never could be

We was in love

And I reckon we showed it

From the way people talked

Reckon everyone knowed it

Kids on the street where we'd go

Used to yell at us

"Cindy Lou belongs to Joe!"

Lord! O Lord!

You know that was true

And Joey belonged

To Cindy Lou?

We wanna check on his pass. He's

been shacking up here for a week.

- I run a respectable place.

- Ain't sayin' you don't.

Take a look at this picture.

Does he live here?

One flight up. Room 24.

You're too late, miss. Husky's

finished trainin' for the day.

I'm looking for someone the papers

say he's runnin' around with.

- Is her name Carmen?

- That too.

She's in his dressing room now,

right in there, to the left.

Thank you.

Sorry, we got all the toothbrushes

we need, little lady.

Wait. I'm here to see

Miss Carmen Jones. Please.

Me?

Say, ain't you that little gal

Joe was stuck on?

Yes. I came here

to find out where he is.

You the only one that know.

Nice gal like you gonna get into

trouble taking up with a deserter.

I don't care what he done. I gotta

find him before the military do.

Tell me where he is, please.

Joe!

So you ran out on me.

Sure. He can give you a better time

than I can.

Fancy clothes...

swell company, the whole works.

Husky Miller's latest woman.

Only that ain't the way

it's gonna be.

We's all washed up.

Go away.

Go with this sweet little gal.

You'd like that, I guess,

so it'd leave you free to play.

Only you're coming with me,

where you belong.

Put a hand on Carmen again

and I'll immobilise you.

- Joe, don't fight with him.

- Leave me alone.

- Who is this jerk, anyhow?

- You shut your fat trap!

- You double-crossin' tramp!

- What'd you call her?

- Husky, you'll kill him!

- If it's the last thing I do!

Husky, that won't be

the last thing you do.

- I swore I'd let no man take you!

- How you gonna stop me?

- I'll show you!

- No! You's in enough trouble!

- Cindy, go away.

- Somebody get the police!

- Dink, what you waitin' on?

- Stay put!

Joe, honey, listen!

I ain't no good to ya, Cindy. Go home

to your maw where you belong.

Put that thing away, boy.

Ain't gonna get you nowhere with me.

Nor with him neither!

That's enough, Husky!

That's enough!

One more crack!

The MPs!

Get out the back way! Go on!

- You're comin' with me.

- She ain't goin' nowhere with you.

- I said we was washed up.

- Why you helpin' me get away?

Cos I can't stand nobody

bein' cooped up!

- Right this way, gentlemen.

- Just keep goin'.

Go on home. Forget him.

Bait your hook for fish you can fry.

How can I love a man

When I know he don't want me?

He ain't been good

He ain't been kind

He give me up

For that old roadside woman

But I can't drive him

from my mind

I's scared, O Lord, I's scared

I's like a leaf

that's lost her tree

I's alone, O Lord, I's alone

He got hisself

another woman

Did she feel his arms

All around her?

No, Lord, I can't believe it's so

No, Lord,

don't you let her keep my Joe

Make him throw her back

Where he found her

Joe!

You said that both your arms

was mine

Remember?

You said your arms

Was mine

I's...

Your gal

I was always your gal

There was no-one but me

You said there never could be

We was in love

And I reckon we showed it

From the way people talked

Reckon everyone knowed it

Kids on the street where we'd go

Used to yell at us

"Cindy Lou belongs to Joe!"

Lord, O Lord

Look down and try to see

How you can make Joe

Come home

To me

O Lord, look down

Lead my Joe

Off the road

Where he's strayin'

Oh, tell my man

Where to go

O Lord, I's callin'

On

You?

Poncho! Poncho!

Ladies and gentlemen,

this is your feature presentation,

ten rounds of boxing...

...introducing from the great city

of Chicago, Husky Miller!

And his opponent from Brazil...

the South American heavyweight

champion, the sensational...

Kid Poncho!

Give him another one, Husky!

Punch him! Punch him!

Punch him on the nose!

Well, what do you think?

This is just the beginning.

A piece of gum, please.

Hit him with the right! Hit him!

Yeah! Hit him, Husky!

...three, four...

five, six...

seven, eight...

nine, ten!

Husky! Husky!

The time:
Two minutes,

20 seconds of the second round.

The winner,

by a knockout, Husky Miller!

Stand up and fight

until you hear the bell

Stand toe to toe

Trade blow for blow

Keep punching

till you make your punches tell

Show that crowd what you know

Until you hear that bell,

that final bell

Stand up and...

That's our man

The man with the wallop

Hotter than a firecracker

What a man, man, oh, what a man

Bell! Bell! Bell!

Attaboy, can you

make with the wallop

Win that dough

and then we can doll up

With a diamond big as a scallop

Attaboy, attaboy, attaboy!

You're comin' with me

or you ain't goin' noplace.

Let me go!

You promised you was gonna be mine

till the end.

That's one promise you're gonna keep.

Can't you get it through your head?

We're done. Now let me go!

I'd sooner kill you.

Then here's your chance.

But all I wanna do

Is love you

Like I used to

To hold your hand

In my hand

And feel your heart

Next to my heart

Can't we begin again?

Couldn't we start all over?

Couldn't we

Begin again?

If you want to start a fire

where a fire was before

The coal you burn must be new coal

Our flame is out

Cold as the snow

We had ourselves some fun

Didn't we?

And now it's done

But where can I put my memories?

They got no sea to drown in

The little things

that used to make us laugh

When we was clownin'

And all the things

we'd say or do

Are all part of me and you

Joe, you is makin' it tough now

For yourself, the same as for me

Joe, ain't you heard me

say enough now?

No! No!

No!

What used to be ain't no more!

Do you forget

how I used to love you?

No-one but Joe

ever loved you so good

Let's go away

and begin our life all over

Carmen all alone with Joe

Don't you think

there's a chance?

Only say that you do

No! That wouldn't be true

Ain't gonna lie!

Ain't gonna lie!

I look at life straight

in the eye?

I'll have no man laugh at me

while you roll around in his arms.

You're stayin' with me

or I'll kill you.

OK. Kill me now or let me go!

- For the last time...

- For the last time.

Here's that ten-cent store ring you

gave me. Now that's the end of you!

You tramp!

You're no good. You never were.

Two-timin' me,

like it don't count for nothin'.

Well, it does.

You ain't never gonna do that

to no man again.

Keep punching

till you make your punches tell

Show that crowd...?

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