Oklahoma! Page #10

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Oklahoma, okay

(GUESTS WHOOPING)

GUESTS:
Oklahoma

Where the wind comes sweepin'

down the plain, Oklahoma

Where the wavin' wheat

can sure smell sweet

When the wind comes

right behind the rain

Oklahoma

Every night my honey lamb and I

Every night we sit alone

and talk and watch a hawk

Makin' lazy circles in the sky

- We know we belong to the land

- Yo ho

And the land we belong to is grand

Ylippee yi, yippee yi

Yippee yi, yippee yi

Yippee yi, yippee yi

And when we say

Yeow

A-yip-i-o-ee-ay

We're only sayin'

you're doin' fine, Oklahoma

Oklahoma, you're okay

Oklahoma, Oklahoma

Oklahoma, Oklahoma

Oklahoma, Okla...

We know we belong to the land

And the land we belong to is grand

And when we say

Yeow

A-yip-i-o-ee-ay

We're only sayin'

you're doin' fine, Oklahoma

Oklahoma, O-K-L-A-H-O-M-A

Oklahoma

(GUESTS WHOOPING)

Say, you better hurry and get in that

other dress. We gotta get goin'.

You hurry and pack your own

duds and lean on over my...

(GUESTS CHATTERING)

- Come on now. You girls...

- (CONTINUES, INDISTINCT)

(SHOUTS OF PROTEST)

- I wanna go!

- Me too!

What you gonna do, Pa, give

Laurey and Curly a shivaree?

- That's right.

- I wished you wouldn't.

It's a good, old-fashioned

custom never hurt nobody.

Wait. You ladies just

stay right here now.

Vamoose! Go on! Scat!

Seems like there's times when men

ain't got no need for women.

There's times when women

ain't got no need for men.

- Yeah, but who wants to be dead?

- (GERTIE CACKLING)

- Thought you's in Bushyhead.

- Just come from there.

Too bad you missed

Laurey's weddin'.

- Been havin' one of my own.

- (GASPING, CHATTERING)

Lands, who'd you marry?

Where is he?

- There he is.

- Oh.

- Is that him?

- GERTIE:
That's him.

Oh, hello, Ado Annie.

- GERTIE:
Did you see my ring, girls?

- (WOMEN GASPING)

- How long you been married?

- Four days.

(CACKLING)

Four days with that laugh should

count like a golden wedding.

But if you married her,

you must have wanted to.

Oh, sure, I wanted to.

I wanted to marry her

when I saw the moonlight

shining on the barrel of

her father's shotgun.

- I thought it would be better to be alive.

- (CACKLES)

Now I ain't so sure.

Hey, Will, did you hear the news?

Gertie married the peddler.

Mighty glad to hear

that, peddler-man.

I think I oughta kiss the bride.

Oh.

Oh, friend of the family, remember?

Hey, Gertie, you ever had

an Oklahoma hello?

- (MUFFLED SHOUT)

- (WOMEN GASPING)

(SCREAMS) No, you don't!

(WOMEN SHOUTING)

(SHOUTING CONTINUES)

(SCREAMING)

Hey, hey! What are you doing?

I'm gonna keep Ado Annie

from killin' your wife.

Mind your own business.

- (CLOTH RIPPING)

- (SCREAMS)

- (BELLS JINGLING)

- Shh! Shh! Somebody'll hear ya.

They ain't listening

to anybody but theirselves.

Shh! Shh!

(LAUGHS)

(LAUGHS)

(LAUGHS)

- (WHISPERING)

- (LAUGHING)

(MEN WHOOPING)

Go on out of here,

you bunch of pig stealers!

Why don't you go on back

home where you belong?

(MEN SHOUTING)

(MEN WHOOPING)

- Up the ladder with ya, pretty thing!

- Boost her up!

Put your foot in the

right place, boy!

Go on, Mr. Bridegroom.

There's your bride.

(ALL SHOUTING)

- (PANS CLANGING)

- (MEN WHOOPING)

MAN:
Maybe we'll let you down

in time to catch your train!

Hey, Laurey, here's

a girl baby for ya!

(LAUGHTER)

(WHOOPING, CLANGING CONTINUE)

Fire! Haystack's a-fire!

Get some water!

Get water! Hurry up!

Get the water!

Curly, I got a present for ya!

I didn't get to kiss the bride,

but I got a present for you!

(LAUREY SCREAMS)

There's a present for you!

Come on! Come on!

- Ike! Slim! Quick!

- Come on!

(SCREAMS)

- What'd you do to him?

- I knowed this was gonna happen.

- They've been feudin' for quite a spell.

- (CHATTERING)

- What happened?

- He fell on his own knife.

- Stuck clean through the ribs.

- He's still breathing, ain't he?

Let me look at him.

Can't do a thing here.

Better get him to a doctor.

Carry him over to my rig.

We'll take him to Doc Tyler's.

I don't see why this had to happen,

just when everything was so fine.

Don't let your mind run on it.

I can't forget it, I tell you.

I never will.

Don't try, honey.

You got to get used to havin' all

kinds of things happenin' to you.

You got to look at all

the good on one side

and all the bad on the other side

and say, "Well, all right

then," to both of them.

Lots of things happen to a woman,

sickness or being poor

and hungry even,

being left alone in your old age,

being afeared to die,

and you can stand it.

There's one way.

You gotta be hardy. Ya gotta be!

Oh, I wished I was the way you are.

Oh, fiddlesticks! Scrawny and old?

You couldn't hire me

to be the way I am.

Oh, what'd I do without you?

You're such a crazy.

Sure as you're born.

(FOOTSTEPS)

Jud's over to Doc Tyler's.

They'll take care of everything.

Is he alive?

(MURMURING)

Laurey, honey, Cord Elam here,

he being federal marshal and all,

thinks I oughta give

myself up, and right now.

Oh, no!

Their train leaves Claremore in less

than an hour. It's their honeymoon.

The best thing is for Curly to go of

his own accord and tell the judge.

- Why, you're the judge, ain't you, Andrew?

- Yeah.

Then tell him now

and get it over with.

It wouldn't be proper.

It's gotta be done in court.

Oh, fiddlesticks. Let's do it here

and say we done it in court.

- Can't do that. That's breakin' the law.

- Let's not break the law.

- Let's just bend it a little.

- (LAUGHTER)

Come on, Andrew. Start the trial.

- We ain't got but a few minutes.

- Sure.

- Andrew, I got to protest.

- Aw, shut your trap.

We can give the boy a fair trial without

lookin' him up on his honeymoon.

All right. Here's the long

and the short of it.

What's your plea?

That means, Why'd you do it?

Well, Jud's been pesterin' Laurey.

- And I always swore...

- Just a minute.

Don't let your tongue wobble around

in your head. Listen to my question.

What happened last night

that made you do it?

Why, he tried to burn us to death,

and he come at me with a knife.

- And you had to defend yourself, didn't ya?

- Yes. Furthermore...

Never mind the "furthermores. "

The plea is self-defense.

- All right. Order. Wait. Is there a witness,

- (CHATTERING LOUDLY)

wait a minute,

who's seen this happen?

- Absolutely.

- All right. Order.

I feel funny about it.

I feel funny.

You'll feel funny when I tell your wife

you're carrying on with another woman.

I ain't carrying on with no one!

Maybe not, but you'll sure feel funny

when I tell your wife you are.

Laugh all you like,

but as federal marshal...

Aw, shut up about being

federal marshal.

If we get to be a state, we're

gonna elect ourselves a sheriff.

If you don't keep your mouth shut,

ain't nobody gonna vote for ya.

Come on!

Yeah, let's get movin' and get

the happy couple on the train!

- (SHOUTING)

- Wait a minute! I ain't said the verdict yet.

- The verdict's not guilty, ain't it?

- 'Course, but I gotta say it.

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