Guys and Dolls Page #11

especially to explain about tonight.

- If you knew what I'd been through.

- Please. Let us not have a vulgar scene.

After all, we're civilised people. We do

not have to conduct ourselves like a slob.

Adelaide, what is this? How can you be

so upset over one lousy elopement?

I am not upset. I have succeeded in

your not being able to upset me no more.

I have got you completely out of my...

- Gesundheit.

- ...system.

Oh, Nathan!

Adelaide, baby.

Don't do that to me.

I can't stand it when you cry.

Look, we'll get married, I promise you.

And we'll have what you always wanted.

A little white house with a green fence.

Just like the Whitney colours.

Oh, Nathan. If I could only believe you.

We could still make everything all right.

- We could elope right now.

- Adelaide, could we?

I almost forgot...

but right at this time I cannot.

- Why not?

- I'm gonna tell the truth,

- but you will not believe me.

- Nathan, why can't we elope?

I have to go to a prayer meeting.

That is the biggest and most

unforgivable lie you have ever told me.

It's true. I promise you.

You promise me this,

you promise me that

You promise me everything

under the sun, but you give me a kiss

And you're grabbin' your hat

and you're off to the races again

- When I think of the time gone by

- Adelaide, Adelaide...

- And I think of the way I try

- Adelaide...

I could honestly die

Call a lawyer and sue me, sue me

What can you do me?

I love you

Give a holler and hate me, hate me

- Go ahead, hate me, I love you

- The best years of my life

I was a fool to give to you

All right already,

I'm just a no-goodnik

All right already, it's true

So nu?

So sue me, sue me

What can you do me?

I love you

You gamble it here, you gamble it there,

you gamble on everything all except me

And I'm sick of you keepin' me up in

the air till you're back in the money again

- When I think of the time gone by

- Adelaide, Adelaide...

- And I think of the way I try

- Adelaide...

I could honestly die

Serve a paper and sue me, sue me

What can you do me?

I love you

Give a holler and hate me, hate me

- Go ahead, hate me, I love you

- When you wind up in jail

Don't come to me to bail you out

All right already, so call a policeman

All right already, it's true

So nu?

So sue me, sue me

What can you do me?

I love you

You're at it again,

you're running the game

I'm not gonna play second fiddle to that

I'm sick and I'm tired of starting a row

and I'm telling you now that we're through

- When I think of the time gone by

- Adelaide, Adelaide...

- And I think of the way I try

- Adelaide!

I could honestly die

Sue me, sue me

Shoot bullets through me

I love you

According to my wrist chronometer,

it's well past midnight.

If this big meeting were going

to be as big as you'd hoped,

- by now somebody...

- You're quite right, General.

- Sarah.

- Why keep up this silly pretending?

It was childish of us to think we could

suddenly make sinners appear

when we've failed

so miserably up to now.

And when I say "we", General,

I mean I've failed.

Welcome, brothers, welcome!

Come in, come in!

Come on. Move in. Move in. Everybody in.

Hats off. Step along.

You too, Big Jule.

Move it. Come on, kid.

Keep movin'. Come on.

Is everybody accounted for?

- Where's Nathan Detroit?

- Present.

All right.

Well, I made good my marker.

I oughta ask you to return it,

but it would break up

your pretty set of thoughts for today.

When you get around to it,

mark it "paid in full".

Won't you gentlemen sit down?

Sit down. Do as you're told.

On behalf of General Cartwright, Sergeant

Sarah Brown and the rest of us...

The army's certainly changed. In the next

war I wanna be a Red Cross nurse.

Quiet!

I would like to remind you, you are

no longer on your knees in a sewer,

but sitting in a mission. I trust that

there will be no further unpleasantness.

And now,

since I depart to move on to other places,

I'm appointing

Nathan Detroit as my deputy.

Nathan, I hand you all their markers,

to be returned when they are made good.

Anybody who does not play

strictly according to Hoyle

will answer to me personally.

And that means in person.

What a remarkable young man.

I will add nothin' to what Sky said,

except to say that there are many here

upon who, if they get outta line,

I would squeal with pleasure.

Brother Arvide, your dice.

Gentlemen, our meeting will be

conducted by the regional director

of the Save-A-Soul Mission,

General Cartwright.

I have rarely attended a meeting

in any of our branches

which could boast of

so many evil-looking sinners.

Now surely your hearts must be heavy

with sins to which you want to confess.

Who will be the first to start

by giving testimony?

- Benny Southstreet, give testimony.

- I plead the fifth commandment.

Come, brothers.

We know how difficult it is.

But if one will open your heart,

the others will follow.

Benny, this is an order.

Tell the people what a bum you are.

Well... I was always a bad guy.

I was even a bad gambler. I would like

to be a good guy and a good gambler.

I thank you.

- Who will be next?

- Big Jule.

What's the pitch?

Tell the people all the terrible things

you done but ain't gonna do no more.

And watch your language.

Well, I used to be bad when I was a kid.

But ever since then I've gone straight,

as I can prove by my record -

33 arrests and no convictions.

- Horse.

- No.

- Harry the Horse.

- Go ahead.

Well, when Sky was rollin' us

against our souls, I...

- I beg your pardon?

- Sky Masterson.

He rolled us 1,000 bucks.

That's why we're here.

- I don't think I understand.

- I'll interpret for you, General.

He means that they are here only because

Sky Masterson won them in a dice game.

Then this whole meeting,

in a way, is the result of gambling.

Fire fought with fire.

Sergeant Sarah,

you are to be congratulated.

Congratulations, Sarah.

Thank you so much.

I ain't finished my testimony yet.

So, my sin is that when Sky was rollin' us,

I wished that I could win the 1,000 bucks

instead of havin' to come here.

But now that I'm here,

I still wish it.

Something very funny has been

happening to me. Sitting here, I mean.

Like I've been remembering a dream.

Tell us, Nicely. Tell us in your own words.

Yeah, that's it. A dream.

I dreamed last night

I got on the boat to heaven

And by some chance

I had brought my dice along

And there I stood

and I hollered "Someone fade me!"

But the passengers,

they knew right from wrong

For the people all said sit down,

sit down, you're rockin' the boat

People all said sit down,

sit down, you're rockin' the boat

And the devil'll drag you under

by the sharp lapel of your chequered coat

Sit down, sit down, sit down, sit down,

sit down, you're rockin' the boat

I sailed away

on that little boat to heaven

And by some chance

found a bottle in my fist

And there I stood,

nicely passin' out the whisky

But the passengers were bound to resist

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