Stars in My Crown Page #8

To come bustin' into my store

And interferin' in my business.

Right now, Mr. Backett,

Your business is interfering with mine.

I'm asking you, before

god... don't you realize

What you're setting out to do here?

Murder one old man, steal his property,

Take your cut, and

then call the job done?

It won't end there. Don't think it.

You... all of you.

Where have you been in the last weeks?

Haven't you seen the slow fever at work?

Haven't you seen one poisoned well

Spread grief and trouble

through half the town?

Don't you realize the

poison in that well

Was Catlap compared to this?

If that poison's allowed to start,

It'll spread until

there isn't a whole soul

Or a healthy conscience

left in Walesburg.

Well, I aim to see...

you wait and see.

There'll be no rope

around anybody's neck

As long as there's one

man of us left to stop it.

Nightriders.

Yellowbacks in fancy dress.

You shame me, and you shame

The lord that made

you and called you men.

And if I wasn't his servant, I'd

take a buggy whip to the lot of you.

We gonna take that from him?

We don't want no preacher...

shut his mouth for him.

If he wants a fight,

let's give it to him.

Kind of looking forward to tonight.

Rolfe here tells me you run into

trouble with Lon Backett's crowd.

That's one way of putting it.

Well, is there enough

trouble for 6 of us?

Oh, Jed, you never change, do you?

Ha ha! Just like old times.

Well, I brung you a horse,

So get your pistols, and let's go.

I'm not taking my

pistols with me this time.

Afraid I might forget

myself and use 'em.

Well, that's what

they're for, ain't they?

Maybe, but it's not what I'm for.

Lord knows, I want you boys along...

Want you bad. But if you want to come,

You'll have to come like I

tell you, and on my terms.

So I'll just take charge of those guns.

Oh, now, lookit here.

You ain't got a friend in

that crowd since this morning.

And if you're aimin'

on spoiling their party,

You're gonna need

some care taken of you.

I figure I'll be taken

care of, all right.

Oh, J.D. Gray, I don't know you no more.

When are you gonna shuck

off that long tail coat

And be a man again?

When you comin' to church, Jed?

Oh... come on, boys.

Take care.

I'll never

forget how I felt that night

As I watched the Parson

set out, leaving me behind.

But I knew the way to uncle

famous' as well as he did.

And if his town had failed him,

That was no reason

for me to do the same.

Come on out, famous, or

we'll come in and get you!

All right, let's fetch him.

You're wastin' your time,

Parson. He ain't got a chance.

Stand aside.

Stand aside, Parson.

Come on out, famous!

Wait! Wait a minute, all of you!

And before you men go any further,

There's something I'd

like to take up with you.

Mind you, I'm not out here to try

And talk you out of anything.

If you're still determined

to do this thing,

I don't know of any way I can stop you.

I came out here to...

Uncle famous! Don't

let them do it, Parson.

Don't let them! Let go of me!

Parson! Parson! Why don't you

stop them? You gotta stop them!

You got to! You got to!

He don't belong here, anyhow.

You didn't let me finish.

I came out here tonight

Because uncle famous asked me to come.

He knows he's got to die.

But like everybody else,

He wanted to get things straight

With god and man before he goes.

We've prayed together,

And we've talked together.

Uncle famous has even made a will.

A will? Will?

Who's gonna get his property?

Yes, who's gonna get the mica vein?

Wait a minute.

Just so there won't be

any argument about this,

I'm gonna read the will to you

Right in front of uncle famous.

And after you've heard it

and know it's really his,

You can go about your work.

The will is in uncle famous' own words.

It isn't in lawyer form,

but just as he spoke it.

"I ain't been able to

put much by in this life,

"But the things I has,

"I wants to go to my friends.

"My house I leaves to

Mr. Ernest Cumberly,

"Whose daddy give me my freedom.

"I couldn't go out of

this world without leaving

"Something to old Mr. Cumberly's son,

"And next to my freedom, my

home is the thing I values most.

"I wants my fishing poles to go

"To Mr. Clem Elkhart.

"When he was a little boy,

"I teached him how to catch sunperch.

"He didn't have as good luck as I did,

"And I told him it was

'cause I had a magic pole.

"His eyes used to shine at that.

"Maybe now he can catch some fish.

"I sure wants Mr. Perry Lokey

"To have my watermelon patch.

"He was a full-Growed man afore

he quit snitching my melons,

"And he knowed I seen him, too.

"That old shotgun of

mine, I wants to leave

"To Mr. Len Childers.

"When he was a little boy,

"He shot it off at a cottontail

"And knocked it plumb over a rail fence.

"I reckon he's big enough and

man enough to handle it now.

"I wants to leave my hogs and

chickens to Mr. Thad Gabry.

"My, how that boy did love barbecue.

"He could smell it a mile off.

"I wants him to give a big barbecue

"And invite all our friends.

"Mr. Bill Cole can have my razor.

"Ever since he was

knee-High to a hop toad,

"The thing he wanted

more than anything else

"Was a beard.

"Now I reckon he's got

more beard than he wants.

"Every time he hones my razor,

"I hopes it'll remind him

that the lord will provide.

"My tools I leaves to Mr. Matt Gibson.

"One time helpin' me chop wood,

"He like to cut off

his big toe with my ax.

"Now I reckon he's the best

sawmill boss in the world.

"My old dog belle, I

leaves to Mr. Justin Briley.

"He didn't have no dog of his own

"When he was a little boy.

"I wants him to let her run free

And not keep her on no rope. "

"I wants all the mica on my property

"To go to Mr. Lon Backett.

"Seems like he wants

that mica powerful bad.

"Now he can have it.

"There's something else I

wants to leave to Mr. Backett.

"I wants him to have my bible.

"It ain't fancy.

"I guess it's almost wore out.

"But I wants Mr. Backett to have it.

I hope he reads it. "

You can have him now.

There's no writin' on here.

This ain't a will.

Yes, it is, son.

It's the will of god.

# Oh, to grace how great a debtor #

# Daily I'm constrained to be #

# Let thy goodness like a fetter #

# Bind my wandering heart to thee #

# Prone to wander, lord, I feel it #

# Prone to leave the god I love #

# Here's my heart,

lord, take and seal it #

# Seal it for thy courts above #

# Amen #

# Will there be any stars #

# Any stars in my crown #

# When at evening the sun goeth down #

# When I wake with the blessed

in those mansions of rest #

# Will there be any stars in my crown? #

# I am thinking today

of that beautiful land #

# I shall reach when

the sun goeth down #

# When through wonderful

grace by my savior I stand #

# Will there be any stars in my crown? #

# Will there be any stars,

any stars in my crown #

# When at evening the sun goeth down #

# When I wake with the blessed

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