Goin' South

Oh, you Rio Grande!

Get in there.

Viva Mxico!

Viva Mxico!

This here's Mexican

dirt. You can't touch me.

Thought you'd get me?

You're a disgrace to the Confederacy.

Speed, this ain't no time

to let me down. Get up!

This is Mexican territory.

He gets across the river

and his horse faints on him!

This ain't fair, goddamn

it. This ain't fair.

This ain't fair.

Good Lord. They're

stringing up old Speed.

I have here a very fine animal

once owned by the hombre

we're about to hang.

What am I offered?

Hey! I still own that horse.

When we want to hear from you,

amigo, we'll rattle your cage.

Ain't that the horse that fainted?

Yeah, he fainted. But

he got up, didn't he?

What?

What?

Towfield, I said keep

these buzzards out.

Take it easy, Moon. You're lucky

you're getting a decent hanging.

I'd have done it out

there on a scrub oak.

Goddamn vultures hanging

around here all morning.

They just want to see

the man of the hour.

Well, I'm flattered as hell.

You're a real card,

Moon. I'm gonna miss you.

Your family's here. Make it short.

Boys!

Brother Abe, Jimmy,

Gussy and everybody.

Dumb-ass deputy. He thought

you were really my family.

So I figured...

You look pretty as a painting, honey.

- How ya doin', Henry?

- Well...

...roll it out.

- Nothing like that, Henry.

- We just come to see you off.

See me off?

Doesn't look like you did

too good on your own, Henry.

You should've stuck with us.

We was going places, goddamn it.

What do you mean, "was"?

All you gotta do is spring me.

If we tried anything,

we'd only get shot.

Yeah, but that's without my plan.

Cut that out.

Big Abe, they're gonna

send me to the bone orchard.

If you got anything you want to

give away, Henry, now's the time.

Say your goodbyes, boys.

- Nice knowing you.

- Yeah, Coogan, sure.

It just ain't right. Just for cutting

a few horses and robbing a few banks.

The law's gotta be changed, Henry.

Go on outside.

So long, Moon.

Adios.

Well, honey, at least we had

some good old times together.

You was the best I ever had.

Except maybe that circus fella.

- Why does that always upset you?

- Why bring that up now, Hermine?

- Sh*t!

- Oh, Henry.

Don't worry, Moon.

I'm gonna take care of this

girl like she's my very own.

- Come on, honey.

- Oh, Henry.

Mr Moon?

It's about that time.

- What about my last meal?

- You're smoking it.

Hands behind your back, Mr Moon.

He ain't for you.

I wouldn't take you to a dog fight

if you was the defending champ.

You oughtn't to have

done that, Mr Moon.

Well, why don't you

keep me in jail for it?

- You tell him about the ordinance?

- No.

Why not?

People I don't like,

I don't tell nothing.

- Goddamn it, Towfield.

- What ordinance?

- What ordinance, Sheriff Pile?

- Kyle.

We got this ordinance here,

passed after the Civil War,

because a lot of our

boys didn't come home

and the women was

chewing up the grass.

- I feel sorry for the grass.

- I feel sorry for the women.

This ordinance says any

man, short of a murderer,

can be saved from the gallows

by any property-holding female,

providing she decides to marry him.

They done that in Roman

times, as I recall.

Sweet Jesus H Christ

Almighty! Ma'am! Ma'am!

There's a couple of things about

me that I'd like you to consider.

- I don't need your insults.

- I agree completely.

But you've gotta take into

consideration that a man...

...can get a little irritated...

...and act like the dickens

when he's about to die.

- Buzzards, huh?

- Well, buzzards can fly.

And they keep the

desert clean. I cook.

I cook like a sonofabitch.

I mean like the dickens.

- Hello, son.

- Go to hell.

I understand.

Henry Lloyd Moon,

you've been found guilty of horse

thievery and sentenced to be hanged.

Do you have any final last words?

Just this:

I wanna tell you good

people of Longhorn,

especially you lovely ladies,

that the old saying, "You can't

judge a book by its cover",

it's true.

Some books are all

scruffed up on the outside,

but when you turn around

and look inside, why,

the words is just wonderful.

Is that it, Moon?

Isn't there anybody

else got anything to say?

"The Lord is my Shepherd,

I shall not want.

"He maketh me to lie

down in green pastures.

"He leadeth me beside

the still waters.

"He restoreth my soul."

That's not right.

"The Lord is my Shepherd,

I shall not want.

"He maketh me to lie

down in green pastures.

"He restoreth my soul.

"He leadeth me beside

the still waters.

"Yea, though I walk

through the valley..."

I'm a veteran of the great Civil War.

The only reason why I turned to

crime was there wasn't no jobs.

Not one single job for a

man who risked his life...

...for his country.

In the Confederacy!

This one's dumb, he'll swing for sure.

He's better off.

"And I will dwell in the

house of the Lord forever."

Bullshit!

Ready to go.

Stop!

I'll take him.

Florence! Now...

Don't you think that you're...

...a mite too elderly to take

on a responsibility like this?

I've got a good feeling

about him, Andrew.

The boy's a veteran. He

deserves a second chance.

Somebody take this

son-bitchin' blindfold off me

and let me see my bride.

Where is she?

Florence!

Florence!

Mrs Henry Moon.

Let me look at you.

- Stand back, folks.

- Florence!

Stand back, please.

Just ain't your day.

Maybe she just fainted.

- I made her dizzy.

- Down she go, up you go.

Is she dead?

Then I'll take him.

Julia, what are you

saying? He's an outlaw.

I assumed that's why

you're hanging him.

Are you drunk?

Sheriff, you know I don't drink.

'Course she don't drink.

You want him?

The law says I can claim him, right?

I asked you out ten times. What did

I get? A flap of your umbrella. Sh*t!

All right.

OK, Julia.

Mr Moon, what do you say?

I ain't no side of beef

to be auctioned off, but...

...hell, fine by me.

Well, I think I'll skip the wedding.

I ain't taking Frank

Towfield's business tonight.

Somebody's taking his business,

or we ain't got no business.

Now, Mr Moon:
No

drinking, no gambling,

no wife-beating, no

alley-cattin' and what have you.

You've got to mind her.

If you try running, there'll

be $500 on your head.

Well, gentlemen, much

obliged to you. Much obliged.

Shall I take the reins, dear?

Adios!

See, I told you he had a plan.

You can dance in the air, you

sonofabitch. Stealing my girl.

Miss, in case you want to

know who you're dealing with...

...I used to ride with

Quantrill's Raiders.

You always this quiet?

When I have something

to say, you'll hear it.

Well, look, I can get off right

here as far as I'm concerned.

Of course, a good

husband's hard to find.

You weren't hard to find, standing

there with a rope around your neck.

Yeah. You sure are a smart woman.

I like smart women.

Sure you do.

Who's that?

One of the reasons we got married.

Hey, Rover.

That's Grover.

This is where I live.

Well, Julia. It ain't

much, but it's a start.

Guess I don't get to carry

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