Lilies of the Field Page #4

seems to have gotten better since I left.

A question. Why?

- Why did I take off?

- No. Why you come back?

What's it to you?

S. S. S. Gracias.

- Now you have done it.

- Hm?

That was a messenger. They

want to know if you are back to stay.

I have told them yes. I make them happy.

Now you have the big breakfast, eh?

What will it be?

A coke.

"Wash yourself, Schmidt.

Vash away ze stink."

Why didn't they ask me to build

a bath tub with nice hot water?

That'd make more sense.

"Wash yourself, Schmidt."

That's the first kind word I've had

since I got back.

What bugs me, she was so positive

I was coming back.

You wouldn't happen to have

a nice cold can of beer on you?

I must be out of my skull coming back.

Schmidt!

Schmidt!

Schmidt, look, all these bricks!

Isn't it glorious?

Gracias.

Faulpelz. Lassen Sie doch die...

- Don't work them by themselves.

- This isn't enough.

- All right.

- All right? What?

We pray some more!

- We have come to help you.

- Thanks.

I thank you very much,

but I don't need any help, thank you.

You are sure

you are doing the right thing?

You prayed up a lot of bricks, Mama,

but you only prayed for one man

to build your chapel.

Hey, amigo. I had to come see

the one-man cathedral.

This is all you have done in one week?

God made the whole world in that time.

And he was able to rest.

Hey. Notice your audience.

- I can't get rid of 'em.

- They heard it was the best show in town!

Est bien para un americano.

Move your foot off my adobe.

Where would you like us to bury you?

Under the altar?

Move your foot off my adobe.

You do not want it? Do not take it.

Step over it and go get another one.

A piece of pie?

I'm not hungry.

Was ist los mit dem? Was ist?

I wanted to build it myself.

Those people help you and all is well.

I don't want any help.

I wanted to build it myself.

That way it would be built

slowly and carefully.

So now it's fast and it's ready the sooner.

The Archbishop...

If he is busy, he will not come

but I think we should invite him.

Look...

You see, all my life,

I wanted to really build something.

Maybe if I had had an education I would

have been an architect or an engineer -

throw the Golden Gate Bridge

across San Francisco Bay.

And even maybe

build a rocket ship to Venus.

I'm not getting through to you.

Well, the chapel is being built

and that's all that matters.

I wanted to build it myself.

God is building out there the chapel

and you sit here feeling sorry for yourself

because you are not Him?

Ah.

He did not finish den Kaffee.

You build the walls too high.

Die Mauern. Die Mauern... zu hoch.

Der Balken - nicht dort, da anfangen.

Verstehen Sie mich?

Necesitamos para el marco de la ventana.

Es ist ja ganz egal, was Sie sagen.

Es ist kein Platz fr den Beichtstuhl

und das Weihwasser vorgesehen.

Mother Maria, no comprende

sus instrucionnes.

Das ist nicht richtig. Verstehen Sie?

Aber das ist nicht richtig.

Verstehen Sie?

Deswegen hat die Mutter Maria gesagt,

wir mssen...

Ah, Francesco.

Der Wanden is for support. The wall.

Madre mia! What am I doing here?

Amigo!

Everybody. Everybody! Everybody!

It is wrong... was ihr macht.

Eine Kirche is for Beten. Beten.

Look, you promised them a chapel,

now they will have nothing. Nada.

...with practically application.

So... Oh, do not stop now.

OK, OK. I thought you was loco.

I was wrong. You was right.

See, I have the big humility, amigo.

How about you?

The walls are high too much.

The padre was right.

You quit, they go home,

the walls fall down,

the rain, she melts the bricks,

the wind, she blows away the dust.

They will be back

getting their spiritual comfort

from the back end of a pie wagon.

Come!

Please come back like it was.

Everyone working together

and laughing and singing!

And that's the way how it should be!

Hold it!

Everything is cockeyed.

That beam - Mario, Pedro -

it belongs there.

Here's the way it goes. That beam

sits on a joist and it supports the roof.

- You got it?

- S.

And the walls are not high enough.

- Jesus, we need more adobe all around.

- S, seor.

- Some boss, eh?

- S.

A job needs a boss

who knows what he's doing.

I'm no boss, but I just know

how I want my chapel built.

Felipe, once we get that beam in place,

we're gonna pitch the roof, yeah?

- Like this. You follow?

- El boss!

All right. Vamanos.

Let's get this show on the road.

Let's go. Girls, these men

are gonna need food - lots of it.

So start squeezing that cow

and buttering up those sandwiches.

More adobe in here! Let's go!

You too, Mama. Macht schnell!

A Hitler.

Adobe.

This was made for ten thousand years.

- Feel good!

- Ja!

- Boss wants more adobe.

- Ja.

Where is the boss?

Hey, put another man on this beam!

Miguel!

I need you topside to tie off this truss.

Easy does it. Hold it there.

Hold it there.

Oh, hello... Get up there and tie off

that side. He'll be up in a second.

- I heard about this in town.

- Yeah, you did?

- Juan, think the barbecue's ready?

- Oh, s. S, seor.

- Let them tie off this, then call lunch.

- OK, boss.

Some boss!

Muchachos! Lunch! Lunch!

Lunch! Lunch!

Say, where'd you get all the materials?

- The people give them, seor.

- What for?

A man he gives wood, bricks.

This time, what does he get? A chapel.

A place where his children

can receive the sacraments.

For their children to have faith,

it is important.

- Is that why you're here?

- To me, it is insurance.

To me, life is here on this earth. I cannot

see further so I cannot believe further.

But if they are right about the hereafter,

I have paid my insurance, seor.

Hey, boss!

- Is there something I can do for you?

- Well, I'm kind of short-handed.

Getting good labour is always a problem.

Oh, really?

Er, I've got a new freeway deal.

Sorry, Mr Ashton,

but I've got a church contract.

Well, when you're finished,

I could use a foreman, Mr Smith.

Thanks, Mr Ashton. But when

I'm finished here, I'll be moving on.

- But thanks.

- Seor Homer?

Oh.

Well, we're gonna have to find

a very special place to put that!

Thank you. Thank you.

You'd better take this to Mother Maria.

Everybody wants to give.

Hey, mister. Mister.

Today we raise the roof.

We have fiesta. You come?

Oh. No. No, thanks.

I've got something I have to do,

but thanks.

De nada. Adios.

"Und Gott war das Wort... "

Dieser verrckte Schmidt

und seine verrckten Freunde.

Perdnelos, madre,

que todos son unos borrachos.

They build a house, a barn,

there's always a fiesta.

Fiesta! In my chapel!

Gringo man!

Gringo! I don't know

if that's a step up or a step down

from somethin' else

I've been called all my life!

- Well, you are awake?

- I guess so.

Good.

Why'd you do that?

The women last night

say that is the only thing

when a man has been mixing wine

with tequila.

I'm gonna mix you... With tequila!

Por favor, shut that thing off!

Morning! I've brought

something over for your chapel.

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