Easy Rider Page #2

- Cut that out!

I guess nobody else here is interested,

but I'd sure like to meet your friend.

I bet you'd like

to do more than that.

I think he's beautiful.

He's beautiful.

What is that weird thing

up there on the hill, man?

It looks like a stage. You got

light opera coming here or something?

That's the mime troupe's stage.

They've gone down

to the hot springs to bathe.

Mime troupe?

Hey, Lisa.

What does this mean?

"Starting brings misfortune.

Perseverance brings danger.

Not every demand for change

in the existing order should be heeded.

On the other hand,

repeated and well-founded complaints...

should not fail to a hearing."

Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye!

We've come to play for our dinner.

Or should I say,

stay for our dinner?

Or even...

slay for our dinner!

Oh! Men at war.

How ghastly.

We've come to drink your wine...

taste your food

and take pleasure in your women.

The water in that river

is about 80 degrees.

You put your hand in about a foot away,

it's below freezing.

- Come on! I've got to get dinner on!

- What's this I hear?

Who said "out" to me?

Pardon me!

I've played communes all...

Out! Out! Out!

The evil eye on this place!

A double whammy for all of you!

- When you lie with dogs, you get fleas.

- Come, my dear.

We won't play here.

Wow. Wow. Wow.

Get out.

I like you.

What happened here is, these people

got here late in the summer.

Too late to plant.

But the weather was beautiful,

it was easy living, everything was fine.

Then came that winter.

Forty or fifty of them

living in this one- room place down here.

Nothing to eat. Starving.

Out by the road looking for dead horses.

Anything they could get a hold of.

There's 18 or 20 of them left,

and they're city kids... look at them.

But they're getting this crop in...

and they're gonna stay here

till it's harvested.

Do you get much rain here, man?

I guess we're gonna

have to dance for that.

Look at this, man.

A seashell, man.

See that?

This is nothing but sand.

They ain't gonna grow anything here.

They're gonna make it.

Dig, man.

They're gonna make it.

We have planted our seeds.

We ask...

that our efforts be worthy...

to produce simple food...

for our simple taste.

We ask that our efforts...

be rewarded.

We thank You for the food we eat

from other hands...

that we may share it

with our fellow man...

and be even more generous...

when it is from our own.

Thank You for a place...

to make a stand.

Amen.

Let's eat.

Ah, hark, ye gentles!

Hark, ye all!

The time has come

for a curtain call.

How do you wear your hair

Does your hair hang low

Do you tie it in a ribbon

Do you tie it in a bow

Do you wear it over your shoulder

like a Continental soldier

Does your hair hang low

Are you an Aquarius?

Pisces?

I guessed right.

Do you like our place here?

Yeah.

We will kill the old red rooster

We will kill the old red rooster

when she comes

We'll all go to greet her

when she comes

We will all have chicken and dumplings

when she comes

Who sent you?

Does your hair hang low

Do you tie it in a ribbon

Do you tie it in a bow

Do you throw it over your shoulder

like a Continental soldier

Does your hair hang low

Look, I gotta get out of here, man.

We got things we wanna do, man.

I gotta get out of here, man.

Could you take me and my friend

over across the canyon?

Yeah, anything.

It won't be out of your way.

Honest.

It's all right.

We're not no travelin' bureau.

Why don't they get their own ride?

We're eating their food.

All right.

- Get 'em together, though, man.

- Right.

More water! More water!

Well, I'd rather go and journey

Where the diamond crescent's glowing

And run across the valley

Beneath the sacred mountain

And wander through the forest

Where the trees have leaves of prisms

And break the light in colors

That no one knows the names of

And when it's time I'll go and wait

Beside a legendary fountain

Till I see the form reflected

In its clear and jewelled waters

And if you think I'm ready

You may lead me to the chasm

Where the rivers of our vision

Flow into one another

I will want to dive beneath

The white cascading waters

She may beg, she may plead

She may argue with her logic

And mention all the things I learned

That really have no value

In the end, she will surely know

I wasn't born to follow

When you get to the right place

with the right people...

quarter this.

You know,

this could be the right place.

Your time's running out.

If we're going, let's go!

Yeah.

I'm hip about time.

But I gotta go.

"Parading without a permit"?

You gotta be kidding!

Do you know who this is?

This is Captain America! I'm Billy!

Hey, we're headliners, baby!

We played every fair in this part

of the country, and for top dollar too!

Weirdo hicks, man.

A bunch of weirdo hicks.

"Parading without a permit"!

Man!

Oh, no.

What did I do now?

Oh, what am I gonna do now?

Oh, my head.

All right, George,

what are you gonna do now?

I mean, you promised these people.

You promised these people.

They ain't gonna believe you, George.

Hey, man, would you mind?

You just woke my friend up.

Oh. Yeah, well...

I'm real sorry.

I didn't realize.

I didn't realize.

My head.

If you don't shut your mouth,

you ain't gonna have a head.

I see you're up, Mr. Hanson.

You'll feel a lot better after this.

Oh.

Thank you, Bob.

I guess I really tied one on

last night.

Must have had

a hell of a good time.

Wish I could remember it.

Hey, man, you don't think

you could get me a cigarette, do you?

You animals ain't smart enough

to play with fire.

Oh, no, that's all right, Bob.

They're good boys.

You can give them a cigarette.

Thanks, mister.

- You got a match?

- Yeah.

Thank you, Bob.

I'm sorry about, you know,

the misunderstanding.

Oh, that's all right.

There was no misunderstanding.

We're all in the same cage here.

You must be some important dude, man,

to get that treatment.

"Dude"?

What does he mean, "dude"?

Dude ranch?

"Dude" means...

a nice guy.

A regular sort of person.

Well, you boys don't look like

you're from this part of the country.

You're lucky I'm here to see

that you don't get into anything.

"Anything"?

They got this here...

scissor-happy, "beautify America" thing

going on around here.

They're trying to make everybody

look like Yul Brynner.

They used rusty razor blades...

on the last two longhairs

they brought in here...

and I wasn't here to protect 'em.

I'm a lawyer.

Done a lot of work for the ACLU.

"George Hanson."

You think you can help us

get out of here with no sweat?

I imagine that I can,

if you haven't killed anybody.

At least nobody white.

See there? Twenty-five dollars.

And no razor blades.

Very groovy, George.

Thank you.

"Very groovy". See there?

I'll bet nobody ever said that to you.

Oh, by the way, Bob,

thanks for the aspirin before.

George, I'm gettin' to think

you're a regular regular around here.

I'm not gonna tell your dad.

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