Oklahoma! Page #4

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your lips are like cherries

Or roses or berries

What you gonna do

Can't you feel my heart

palpitatin' and bumpin'

A-waitin' for somethin'

Somethin' nice from you

I gotta get a kiss

and it's gotta be quick

Or I'll jump in a creek and die

What's a girl to do

when you talk that way

(YIPPING)

Must be the folks stopping

on their way to Skidmore's. Oh!

Oh, you're all welcome!

Glad you could all come.

Everybody come in

and have a good time.

Curly!

I've been 'bout behind you

the whole way.

I know. I heared you.

Oh, welcome. Everybody's welcome.

Oh, what a beautiful morning

Oh, what a beautiful morning

Oh, what a beautiful day

I got a beautiful feeling

Everything's goin' my way

Oh, what a beautiful day

Girls, come on in the house

and freshen up.

You boys, better drive your

wagons down to the trough

and give your horses some water.

Hi, Laurey.

Hey, Curly, don't you reckon you

better take care of your horses too?

Thanks, Aunt Eller.

I reckon I better.

Oh, can't I come too, Curly? I just love

to watch the way you handle horses.

It's about all

I can handle, I guess.

(WOMAN CACKLES)

Another mile in that buggy with that

Perkins boy, and I'd have lost my mind.

I'll take Wilbur

if you don't want him.

Looks like Curly's took up

with that Cummings girl.

(GASPS)

What do I care about that?

Why should a woman

who is healthy and strong

Blubber like a baby if

her man goes away

A-weepin' and a-wailin'

how he's done her wrong

That's one thing you'll

never hear me say

Never gonna think

that the man I lose

Is the only man among men

I'll snap my fingers

to show I don't care

I'll buy me a brand-new

dress to wear

I'll scrub my neck

And I'll brush my hair

And start all over again

Many a new face will please my eye

Many a new love will find me

Never have I once

looked back to sigh

Over the romance behind me

Many a new day

will dawn before I do

Many a light lad may kiss and fly

A kiss gone by is bygone

Never have I asked an August sky

Where has last July gone

Never have I wandered

through the rye

Wondering where has some guy gone

Many a new day

will dawn before I do

Many a new face will please my eye

Many a new love will find me

Never have I once

looked back to sigh

Over the romance behind me

Many a new day

will dawn before I do

Never have I chased the honeybee

Who carelessly cajoled me

Somebody else just as sweet as he

Cheered me and consoled me

Never have I wept into my tea

Over the deal someone doled me

Many a new day will dawn

Many a red sun will set

Many a blue moon will shine

Before I do

Many a new face will please my eye

Many a new love will find me

Never have I once

looked back to sigh

Over the romance behind me

Many a new day will dawn

Many a red sun will set

Many a blue moon will shine

Before...

(WOMAN CACKLES)

Many a blue moon will shine

Before I

Do

Maurice, time we got out of here.

Back to the open road.

The open road

Ali. Ali, I'm sure sorry

to see you lookin' so happy

'cause what I got to say

will make you miserable.

- I gotta marry Will.

- Oh, well, that sure is sad news for me.

Well, he's a fine fellow.

Don't hide your feelings, Ali!

I can't bear it.

I'd rather have you come right out

and say your heart's busted in two.

- Are you positive you got to marry Will?

- Sure as shootin'!

There's no chance for you

to change your mind?

No chance.

All right then. My heart

is busted in two.

(GUNSHOT)

- Hello, Pa. What you been shootin'?

- Rabbits.

That true what I hear about

Will Parker getting $50?

That's right, Pa. He wants

to hold you to your promise.

Too bad. Still in all,

I can't go back on my word.

Listen to me, Annie, I advise you to

get that money before he loses it all.

Put it in your stocking

or inside your corset,

where he can't get at it...

Or can he?

But, Pa, he ain't exactly kept it.

He spent it all on presents.

See, what did I tell ya?

Well, now he can't have you.

- I said it had to be $50 cash!

- Is that fair, Mr. Carnes?

- Who the devil are you?

- Oh, Pa, that's Ali Hakim.

Well, shut your face, or I'll fill

your behind so full of buckshot,

you'll be walking around like

a duck the rest of your life.

Ali, if I don't have to marry Will,

maybe your heart don't have to

be busted in two like you said.

- I did not say that.

- Oh, yes, you did.

No, no, I did not.

Are you trying to make my

daughter out to be a liar?

No, I'm only trying to make clear to you

what a liar I am, if she is telling the truth.

- What else you been sayin' to my daughter?

- Oh! An awful lot.

- When?

- Last night in the moonlight.

- Where?

- Alongside a haystack.

- Oh, listen, Mr. Carnes.

- I'm listenin'. What else did you say?

- He called me his Persian kitten.

- What'd you call her that fer?

- I don't remember.

- I do. He said I's like a Persian kitten

'cause they is the cats

with the soft, round tails.

That's enough. In this country, that

better be a proposal of marriage.

- That's what I thought.

- That what you think?

- Look, Mr. Carnes...

- I'm lookin'. I'm lookin'.

I'm no good. I'm a peddler!

A peddler has to travel

up and down and all around.

You'd hardly ever

see your daughter no more.

That'd be all right.

Just take care of her, son.

- Just take care of my little rosebud.

- Oh, Pa, 'at's purty.

You sure for certain

you can bear to let me go?

- Are you sure, Mr. Carnes?

- You just try to change my mind.

Aw, Ali, ain't it wonderful,

Pa making up our minds for us?

And he won't change neither.

Once he gives his word that you

can have me, you've got me!

I know I got you.

Mrs. Ali Hakim,

the peddler's bride!

(WOMEN GIGGLING)

Oh, wait till I tell those girls!

Laurey! Laurey!

The peddler-man and me's

gonna get married!

(WOMAN CACKLING)

Congratulations.

I hope we'll be very happy.

Hi, Laurey. What you doin'?

Gonna pick peaches. What you doin'?

(GIGGLES) I peeked in your

basket up at the house.

I see you got gooseberry tarts too.

I wonder if they's

as light as mine.

Mine would like to float

away if you blew on them.

I just did blow on one of mine, and

it broke into a million pieces.

Ain't she funny? (LAUGHS)

Oh!

- Stop that!

- (INDISTINCT ARGUING)

- Stop it!

- Gertie!

Go on up the house and cool off!

Get along! Mind!

Don't forget tonight at the auction,

Curly, mine's the biggest hamper!

(LAUGHS)

So that's that old Cummings

gal I heared so much talk of.

- You seen her before, ain't ya?

- But not since she got so old.

Never did see anybody get so

peaked-lookin' in such a short time.

Yeah. Says she's 18.

Ha! Bet she's 19.

Are you really gonna drive to the

box social with that Jud fella?

- I reckon so. Why?

- Oh, nothing.

It's just that everybody seems

to expect me to take you.

Then maybe it's just

as well you ain't!

We don't want people

talkin' about us, do we?

Do you think people

really do talk about us?

Well, you know how they are,

like a swarm of mud wasps,

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