Flower Drum Song Page #5

And people in the moon

are so small, like a bean,

they fit on your hand.

And spaceman

fell in love with a girl

and asked her to marry.

"I love you.

I want to marry you.

"I want to take you

back to the Earth.

"Ask your father.

"Sir, I would...

"Shh.

"I would like to marry

with your daughter.

"May I? Oh, thank you.

That's wonderful."

I like.

Very good.

Before I make my final award,

I wish to thank

Master Wang Chi-Yang

for so graciously permitting

us to use his beautiful garden

for our commencement

exercises.

And now, I proudly announce the winner

of the medal of excellence of

the Marino School for Citizenship,

Madam Liang.

Oh, my! For me.

Oh, thank you, Professor.

Don't thank me. You were

the best in the class.

As Lincoln said, "You can only

fool half of the people at a time."

Right.

Wonderful speech

you made today, Ta.

Thank you, Helen.

My son, today is the first time

since you lost your baby teeth

that I have been proud of you.

Thank you, my father.

It's been a long time

between compliments.

Aren't you also proud

of this fine American citizen

in your family, Master Wang?

To become an American citizen,

it took her five years.

She was Chinese

in nine months.

I am happy to be

both Chinese and American.

You are like the Chinese dish

the Americans invented.

What do they call it?

Chop suey.

That is it. Everything

is in it, all mixed up.

I like that.

Chop suey

Living here is very much

like chop suey

Hula-Hoops and nuclear war

Doctor Salk

and Zsa Zsa Gabor

Bobby Darin, Sandra Dee

and Dewey

Chop suey

Chop suey

Stars are drifting overhead

Birds and worms

have gone to bed

Men work late

in laboratories

Others read

detective stories

Some are roaming

round the country

Others sit beneath

just one tree

Tonight on TV's late,

late show

You can look at Clara Bow

Who?

Chop suey

Good and bad, intelligent,

mad and screwy

Violins and trumpets

and drums

Take it all the way

that it comes

Sad and funny,

sour and honeydewy

Chop suey

Chop suey

Ball point pens

and filter tips

Lipsticks and potato chips

In the dampest kind

of heat wave

You can give your hair

a neat wave

Hear that lovely La Paloma

Lullaby by Perry Como

Dreaming

in my Maidenform Bra

Dreamed I danced

the cha cha cha

Chop suey

Cha cha cha cha

Chop suey

Cha cha cha cha

Mixed with all the hokum

and ballyhooey

Something real

and glowing and grand

Sheds a light

all over the land

Boston, Austin,

Wichita and Saint Louis

Chop suey

Chop suey

Chop suey

Chop suey

Chop suey

Chop suey

Meet your partner

with a bow

Two by two, kowtow

Allemande

with an elbow swing

Promenade round the ring

Right and left grand,

chop-chop

With a do-si-do

Promenade

Go, go, go

Waltz the hall

Everybody have a ball

Chop suey

You know, it's amazing.

For a broken-down comic, you

almost look like a sea captain.

Thanks. If Sammy hears about this,

I'll be captain

of the good ship Up the Creek.

Well, come on.

Well, Mei Li, how are you and

the boy barrister getting along?

Wang Ta?

Yeah.

Oh, I like him very much. Good.

But he is a puzzle.

Sometimes I am not sure

he likes me very much,

and sometimes I think maybe

he likes me a little much.

How could he help himself,

baby? You're a bunch of stuff.

Excuse me.

Linda?

Hello, Ta.

This is my brother,

Commodore Low.

Glad to meet you, Commodore.

I told Brother about us and he

would like to meet your father.

My...

Aye aye. We ought to have a little

talk and get you two launched.

You know how we sailors are.

We like to have everything

tied down in shipshape.

Sure, sure.

Would you come

with me, please?

Excuse me, my father.

I present my father.

Madam Liang,

Dr. Li and his daughter.

This is Miss Linda Low and

her brother, Commodore Low.

I'm happy to meet all the esteemed

and honored Wang Chi-Yang family.

Glad to be aboard.

Sweet incense. You smell good.

You wear incense

to keep evil spirits away?

Oh, no. To attract them.

You live with your family,

Miss Low?

Well, no. I have a little

apartment on Grant Avenue.

Near my music teacher.

You are a student?

Well, I...

You drive that crazy car.

I saw you drive up

the other night.

That's me. You sing rock and roll?

I dig that the most.

Do you know You Be the

Rock, I'll Be the Roll?

Sure.

You be the rock

I'll be the roll

You be the soup

I'll be the bowl

You be the furnace

I'll be the coal

Rock, rock, rock

Roll, roll, roll

Wang San!

Strictly.

Master Wang?

Venerable Master Wang.

I wish to say

I've been considering your son's

proposal to my honorable sister.

Proposal?

As her guardian and her loving

brother, I hereby give my consent.

Father.

Please. I would like

to speak to my son.

Alone.

Have something to eat, drink.

I'll be right back.

I am going to my room,

my father.

I think I want to go to bed.

I understand.

Mei Li, I've known Ta

for a long time.

And I know Linda Low.

I do not believe

he's in love with her.

The old man sure left you

with egg fooyung on your face.

Give the old boy time. He's

got to get used to the idea.

Well, well, well.

Hello, there.

Hi, Commodore.

Glad to have you aboard.

Who's taking tickets

down at the theater?

Well, I... She...

What did you say

the name of your ship was?

The SS... The SS...

Well, you got the

initials right, anyway.

Now I know where you've been

sneaking off to every night.

What is it with you?

You don't love that jerk.

He's a very sweet boy.

Besides, you and I have been

keeping company for five years

and I'm just where I started.

I want a little

social security.

What do you know of marriage?

What do you know of women?

Sir, what did you know of marriage

and women when you married my mother?

Nothing. That is why I obeyed my father

and married the woman he chose for me.

This is not China.

This is a different world.

And here a man has a right

to choose his own wife.

And here he also has the right to get

divorced every year and pick a new one.

After all, I am over 21.

Do you think

you were born over 21?

Almost everything you are

up to now has come from me.

Ta, do you really want

to marry that girl?

Sure I do.

I knew it!

You do not even know

your own mind.

That's not the point. Here, a man

is supposed to think for himself!

When that day come when

you can think for yourself,

I will let you know!

My trusted servants,

friends and merchants.

In observance

of our ancient tradition,

we must all start the new year

with a clean body

and a clean conscience

and all our debts paid.

Thank you, honored sir.

I wish all our customers observed

the ancient laws the way you do.

My son!

How did you hurt yourself?

Paul Revere's horse

kicked me.

Paul who?

San should see a doctor.

No, he's all right.

He's in

the New Year's Day parade.

The spirit of 1776, when

we won the Boston Tea Party.

What happened

to your Western suit?

I burned a hole in it

while smoking my water pipe.

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