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- Say what?

Say good-bye, Go ahead,

Come here,

Come here,

Oh, I see,

I'll just have to wait

until you say come here, right?

And then when you say come here,

I'm supposed to come here,

Look, look,

You think I came all the way down here

to argue with you, huh?

You think I came all the way down here,

chased you, to argue with you?

I'm just contused,

Didn't you understand when I said

"major chord" that I meant it about you?

Sometimes you really are

hard to understand, You really are,

You're hard to understand,

Don't change the subject,

I love you,

I mean, I don't love you,

I dig you, I like you a lot,

and, you know,,,

I wouldn't come all the way

down here it I didn't like you, right?

Yeah,

Oh, Jimmy,

How do you teel about Texarkana?

How do I teel about Texarkana?

What do you mean?

What I'm sayin'

is that Frankie said

that it you came down,

you could audition,

I could audition? No, torget it,

I'll play tor him, I won't audition,

Okay,

Don't, Jimmy,

Jimmy, come on,

Jay, will you, please?

It's slippery out there,

We don't want to slide into town,

we want to drive in,

Leave me alone,

I'm tryin' to take a nap,

All right, The points,

Give me some quarters,

He's beating the pants ott me,

I'm glad I'm working tor you,

You should be glad

to work tor anybody,

You're not the greatest piano player

in the world, you know that?

It's gonna be one ot those nights,

I'm a good musician, man,

You really are,

Coming trom me, that means nothing,

Maybe someday you'll

write something tor me, too,

I am writing something tor you,

I'm writing this tor you,

What? You think

I check out each room?

- The last time I got a room...

- Will you get ott my back?

When you play cards,

you go crazy,

Why don't you guys zip up?

Clam up, will ya?

You don't even let me

read what you're writing now,

let alone your tirst poem,

lmagine you giving me

your tirst poem?

Now let's go into the bridge,

It you let me read it,,,

It you let me read some ot that,

I'll let you write the lyrics to this,

That's blackmail,

Right,

Oh, Jimmy,

Aw, come on, Come on,

let me see what it is,

- No, I don't want to,

- Aw, come on,

- No, it's private,

- It's only a poem,

Well, it's my poem,

and it's tor me,

You never let me

see what you're writing,

Well, I'm embarrassed,

You wrote all this about me?

It's all about me?

Well, most ot it,

It's all about me, though?

It's not about anybody else?

It's all about me?

That's right,

Get your shoes on, Come on,

- Are you all right, honey?

- Yeah,

I know it's not very good, but,,,

Come on, get 'em on,

Come on,

I don't know

what we're doing now,

Wait a minute,

Here, pay me,

We're gonna be right back,

Few minutes,

- No, pay me now,

- I'm not gonna pay you now, man!

You think I'm not gonna have a cab

standing by in the middle ot nowhere?

We'll be back in a second, I think,

Pull it back with your hand,

Jimmy,

You all right?

You want a handkerchiet?

- It's nothing,

- Here, I've got a handkerchiet,

- You knocked?

- Yes, I'm sorry,

I'm terribly sorry about that,

Are you the justice ot the peace?

That's right,

You are? I'm sorry about the window,

It's just, you know, we're a little anxious,

Is there a possibility that

we could be married now?

We're in a bit ot a hurry,

I can't even explain to you why,

I wish I could,

You can see the way we look,

- Please close this up, honey,

- Now?

Could you please? Just take

about two minutes ot your time,

We'll make it worth your while,

and I will pay tor the glass, too,

- Could you, please?

- Well,,, I guess I could,

Oh, yeah, we can arrange it,

We can arrange it,

Come on in,

No, Uh,,, just a minute,

- Can I talk to you?

- Aren't you sure?

Yeah, just one second, please,

- You're kidding, right?

- Kidding what?

- That was it?

- What was what?

Your proposal?

"Get your coat on, Put on your shoes,

Come on, let's go," That was it?

What's wrong with that?

- They're not sure,

- Sure, we're sure,

What's wrong with that?

I thought it was gonna be ditterent,

It is ditterent,

It's the way I do it,

Anything wrong?

There's nothing wrong,

They're not sure, believe me,

No, I just thought,,,

What?

Nothing, I just thought

it would be ditterent,

Ditterent? It is ditterent!

I know it's ditterent, It's not

the kind ot ditterent I had in mind,

The kind ot ditterent I had in mind

was maybe sweet and calm...

It is calm!

- All right, That's good,

- I'm sorry, I'm just a little,,,

- And pretty, you know?

- What?

- Pretty,

- It's pretty!

But you can't say that,

You can't say it's pretty,

I want to marry you!

What are you talking about?

Please go inside, go inside,

This is private,

Would you wait one second?

I'm coming,

- Did you hear what I said?

- Yes,

I want to marry you,

Okay, Okay?

What's the matter now?

What do you want me to do?

You want me to kill myselt

over this, darling?

All right,

Listen, when I say "now,"

you back up,

- That's it,

- Jimmy, I,,,

Wait a minute, don't back up!

Don't move!

Now!

No! No!

Now!

Don't shitt,

don't do anything, Just stay,

Will you please

get out trom under...

This happens all the time,

Will you,,,

Will you marry me?

Will you marry me?

I love you, Will you marry me?

I don't want

anybody else to be with you,

I want to be with you,

do you understand?

I don't want anybody else

to be with you except me,

I love you,

I love you,

Look at me, I love you,

Oh, I love you, too,

Wait a minute,

See, that was territic,

You liked that?

Yeah, I really liked that,

It was a lot better that way?

- Yeah,

- Aw, good,

Hey, no! Stop! Please!

You missing a man?

Yeah, Fowler,

Did you tind him?

The house dick did, Caught him

in his room with a local chick,

Big deal, So what?

What do you mean, big deal?

She's 13,

Fowler grabbed the guy's gun

and started shooting out all the lights,

Cops got him now,

Thanks,

Jimmy, take over tor me,

will you, please?

I gotta go bail Fowler out again,

This guy's driving me crazy,

Think I could do a couple

ot my arrangements?

Please, not tonight,

Just play the usual, huh?

Come on, man,

There are only tour people

in the audience, What's the ditterence?

I don't care about that,

I'm only asking you to tront tor me,

Now, do you have to

give me griet, too?

All right, all right,

Frannie, I'm gonna cancel

the rest ot the tour,

Again?

What do you mean "again"?

Well, this is the titth time

that you've cancelled,

But this is the tirst time I meant it,

I really mean it now,

Then I was jivin' you,

I mean it, I'm gonna

really pack it in, Yeah, yeah,

Oh, come on, you remember,

we used to go out and do 80,

85 one-nighters in a row,

Yeah,

All those joints... they're not

ballrooms anymore, baby,

They're like parking lots,

skating rinks,

The theaters,

they're all bombed out,

I really did, I thought a lot about it,

thought about tinally letting

somebody else tront the band,

you know,

take a piece ot the action,

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