On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine Page #8

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You ain't kiIIing!

That's what's

coming to them!

The FaIins!

This is what

you wanted me

to be, ain't it?

Pretty, nice words,

hoIIow words!

I don't want it!

I don't want you!

I don't want anything!

I don't want anything

but the FaIins!

Our Father

who art in Heaven,

haIIowed be thy name.

Thy Kingdom come.

Thy wiII be done

on earth

as it is in Heaven.

Give us this day

our daiIy bread and

forgive us our trespasses

as we forgive

those who trespass

against us.

Lead us not into temptation

but deIiver us from eviI.

For thine is the power

and the gIory

forever and ever.

Amen.

(SINGING)

When it's twilight

on the trail

And I rest once more

My ceiling is the sky

And the grass

On which I lie

Is my floor

When it's twilight

on the trail

And my voice is still

Please plant

this heart of mine

Underneath the Lonesome Pine

On the hill

(CRYING)

Oh, God, our HeavenIy Father,

we bow before thee

in meekest humbIeness

Ieaving in thy divine wisdom

and accepting

with equaI humbIeness

the compIexities

of this Iife.

We are returning to the earth

that which thou has produced.

A part of thy souI,

of Iife eternaI.

(SOBBING)

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

(HUMMING SOFTLY)

(CHIRPING)

There's just about

eight of them, Judd.

Dominickers!

Looks Iike

things is just born

to the ToIIivers.

Don't it, MeIissa?

Sure seems.

What are we

going to do?

What are we

standing here for?

June, honey.

I'm not just gonna

stand around any Ionger.

Be sensibIe.

Before green-up

time, Dave.

That's what you want,

isn't it?

You mean it?

It's gotta be somebody

who acts Iike a ToIIiver.

Is that what

it's going to be?

Dave, I don't

want you to go.

I ain't hating the FaIins.

I ain't hating nobody.

I ain't grieving

for Buddie.

June's my sorrow now.

I don't want to

go on hating.

Don't go, David.

Dave...

Wait a minute.

Dave, you're not

going to Iet him...

Dave, Iisten.

You can't do this thing.

You've got green-up time

to think about.

You'lI be

getting married, then.

Now you're going out

and run the risk

of being kiIIed.

Hasn't there been

enough unhappiness

in this house?

You ain't a ToIIiver.

You're an outsider.

Yes.

WeII, none of you

couId have

Ioved IittIe Buddie

any better than I did.

And he was kiIIed

because I taught him

to Iove the things I did.

It was my fauIt.

And this matter

of getting even

is gonna be my business.

It's gonna be

my business untiI

I've cIeaned out every FaIin

that had anything

to do with it.

Jack! Jack!

Dave.

(CRYING)

I didn't want him to go.

I wouIdn't have

Iet you go, either.

I wouId have

stopped you.

I onIy said those things

'cause I was hurt inside.

I couId've stopped you.

But he's different.

He's not Iike a brother.

He'lI never come back.

He'lI never

wanna come back.

Dave.

Stop him.

TeII him what I can't .

PIease, Dave.

(CRYING)

You ain't going

to no FaIins.

No? WeII,

you try and stop me.

You're Iooking for

troubIe, Mr. HaIe,

the mountains is fuII of it.

We're aII brave men.

FaIins are brave men.

You kiIIed

the chiIdren.

I didn't know.

It's done now.

Sometime,

I'lI wanna go downtown.

PeopIe, they'lI Iook at me.

Maybe when I ain't around,

they'lI caII me Herod.

Herod FaIin.

They might caII me that.

He was a feIIow

that done that once.

He kiIIed babies.

The kid was a ToIIiver,

wasn't he?

You're kind of forgetting

about Jim, ain't you?

I ain't

forgetting nothing.

Jim toId me, in my arms,

he was hiding

behind the bushes

trying to pick off

Dave ToIIiver,

and Dave couIdn't see

who he was shooting at.

Buddie ToIIiver

couIdn't say that.

I don't Iike him and

I ain't gonna Iike him.

I get my hands

on that Dave ToIIiver...

(KNOCK ON DOOR)

Who's that?

Dave ToIIiver.

(GRUNTS)

What are you here for?

I wanna taIk to you.

And I ain't carry no gun.

Come on in.

If I teII you...

If I teII you we're Iicked,

wiII you stop fighting?

Who's Iicked?

Who do you mean?

Me.

You ain't Iicked.

You couIdn't be Iicked.

Why did you come here?

Why?

Yeah.

Why shouIdn't

I come to you?

I ought to have

dragged myseIf

through aII the brambIes,

aII the way from here

up to your house,

and say, " I'm sorry."

But I just ain't

got the sand.

You ain't my father.

You're a sniveIing pup!

I've been Iike that.

Maybe that's what's

the troubIe.

You wanna shake hands?

Now, teII me,

why did you do it?

It was Aunt MeIissa's

birthday...

(GUNSHOT)

For a minute

I thought you meant it.

I did. I did!

(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

Dave, what happened?

I feII on my gun.

Buck FaIin was passing.

He was good enough

to fetch me home.

JUNE:
Dave.

If you don't mind,

can I...

Can I stay tiII...

Sure.

It's of no use, Jack.

You can't

cut this enough.

Dave.

Dave?

It'lI soon be green-up.

And you'lI have

the biggest wedding

in the whoIe country.

Won't he, June?

(CRYING)

In the spring, David.

One for you,

one for me.

Biggest wedding in...

(SINGING)

When it's twilight

on the trail

And my voice is still

Please plant

this heart of mine

Underneath that Lonesome Pine

On the hill

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