Their Eyes Were Watching God Page #5

Tea Cake walking

Miss Janie home at nights,

but don'twalk hisself home till the mornin',

Tea Cake usin' our collection-plate money

to buy gasoline with,

Yeah, he just draggin' her

out of the church,

I'm worried about you,

Don't be,

Tea Cake is draggin' you 'round

to places you ain't used to,

Shootin', and fishin', and,,,

- What's so bad about all that?

-,,,picnics in the middle of the week,

You act Iike it's against the Iaw, Phoebe,

Janie,

(giggling) Girl!

He's helpin' you spend your money,

Ain't he?

He got you buyin' him clothes,

and hats, and whatnots,

What's wrong with that?

You know how it is when

a woman runs off with a younger man,

Tea Cake ain't Iike that,

With him, I'm gonna utilize myself all over,

He want me to be serious with him,

He asked me to marry him,

Janie!

Don't worry, I said no,

I ain't never gettin' married again,

But I am gonna run off with him,

You gonna end up Iike Annie Taller,

- No, I ain't,

Remember how we all sat on our porches,

watchin' her? Remember?

After she was a widow? When she ran off

with her no-count good-time fellow,

she was Iaughing and sure, just Iike you,

That young fellow

gettin' ready to snatch all of her money,

(laughs)

(Phoebe) But he was only after

what he could get,

Stole her car, Stole her money,

After that, he was gone,

like a turkey through the corn,

Well, I Iove T ea Cake,

He gonna make a fool out of you,

I want to Ieave a hour early

to get everything ready,

Don't you go missin' that bus or nothin',

and Ieave me all high and dry, you hear?

I won't,

You wouldn't go makin'

no false pretense with me, would you?

Can't nobody hold a candle to you, Janie,

You got the keys to the kingdom, girl,

- Mrs, Mayor Starks?

- Take care of things, won't you, Hezekiah?

Yes, ma'am,

- Where's she off to, you think?

- Question ain't where to, it's who with,

Well, you gotta hand it to her,

she sure Iook good,

T'ain't right,

She gonna be back here

before you know it, You mark my words,

( band plays "Simply Beautiful")

(drunken talking and laughter)

(man) If I gave you my Iove

Baby

I tell you what I would do

I'd expect a whole Iot of Iove

Out of you

You got to be good to me

I'm gonna be good to you

There's a whole Iotta things

You and I could do

What about the way you Iove me

And the way you squeeze me

Simply beautiful

Yeah, yeah, beautiful, yeah

When you get right down to it

When you need me, I was right there

Beside you, girl, oh, beside you, girl

Beside you

Baby

Baby, baby

Yeah, yeah

oh, yeah

Little girl, sometimes

The way you feelin'

Honey, all you got to do

Is call me

Simply beautiful

Simply beautiful

Simply beautiful

Tea Cake?

Where you at, honey?

Tea Cake?

What you want, honey?

You want some breakfast?

No, I'm fine, Miss,

(car horn)

What about the way you love me

And the way you squeeze me

Simply beautiful to me

Beautiful, simply

(woman) That young fellow

gettin' ready to snatch all her money,

What about the way you hold me

And the way you squeeze me

Simply beautiful

Where the hell you been?

It's good to see you too, baby,

Good to see me, huh?

Where the hell is my money?

I Iost it,

You Iost it? You Iost it?

- What do you mean, you Iost it?

- Listen!

- You ain't gonna make no fool outta me,,,

- You know I got a way with cards,

Y'all walk out with a few hundred

and walk back in with a few grand,

You Iyin'!

I was gonna take you to Orlando

and buy you Iots of pretty stuff,

- You Iost my money,

- I musta been nervous, 'cause I couldn't,,,

Couldn't win a hand, Janie!

You stole my money,

and you gambled it away,

Yeah,

My car, too,

Well, you a damn fool,

And I ain't never gonna give you a chance

to make no fool out of me,

Never gonna Iet you Ieave me

in no dirty hotel room,

I made up my mind never,,, never to

Iet you see no commonness in me,

You're hurt, What happened to you?

- I was gonna,,,

- Why, you hurt,,,

-,,,go out and win the world for you,

- You hurt yourself?

- What happened to you?

- So you can Iive with pretty things,

I don't want to drag you down,

I don't want to drag you down

in no kind of way,

No kind of way,

You can't drag me down,

AII you got to give me is yourself,

That's it,

Simply beautiful

Want to go to the muck?

To the muck?

What's the muck?

It's this place down in the Everglades,

Oh, it's beautiful and wild,

There's plenty of work and fun,

We,,, we could make us some money

and have a hell of a time,

- Now what you say to that?

- No, we don't need no money,

'Cause I got plenty of money in the bank,

- We get us a new car,,,

- No, no, no, no,

See, your money gonna stay there,

It's gonna stay in the bank,

While we's together, we eat whatever

my money can buy, and wear the same,

Now, if I ain't got nothing,

you don't got nothing,

Well, that's all right with me,

Yeah, that's Lake Okeechobee,

An awful bigwater.

Yes, ma'am, That's a whole heap of water,

(Janie) I felt like I had been

looking for this place my whole life,

They came every spring,

truckloads of 'em,

From the east, west, north and south,

Wild people,

hopin ' to change their fortunes

with the pickin ' season on the muck,

Drums, Livin ' three lifetimes in one,

Blues, made and used

right there on the spot,

(harmonica playing)

(children singing nursery rhyme)

(man) You watchin'?

(native Americans talking)

- What's your name?

- Janie, What's yours?

Nunkie,

Oh, good,

Sure Iook nice in them overalls,

Now, you sure

you want to pick these cucumbers?

- Do I want to pick cucumbers?

- Mm-hm,

Yeah, I want to pick cucumbers!

You miss me when you at work,

- and I miss you when I'm at home,

- It's hard work, though,

I think I can handle it!

The Iunch, the Iunch,,,

Yeah, yeah, get that, I'm hungry,

(Janie) I felt for the very first time

like I was livin' my life,

I had love, and it was real,

Tea Cake gave me

the whole world every day,

(native Americans talking)

- Now, where y'all goin'?

- (man) To high ground,

Sawgrass bloomed, Hurricane's coming,

- Oh, they all just scared,

- Oh, I been in the glades for years,

There ain't nothin' comin' but a Iittle blow,

Indians is Ieavin'

'cause they say a storm comin',

Well, if the Indians knew anything,

they'd still own this Iand, wouldn't they?

- (woman) Come on, now, We gotta git,

- (man) If they don't come, they don't come,

Why don't you hold that fish up

and Iet the wind blow them scales off?

Like that?

- (man) Come on, y'all, hurry up,

- (woman) Step up,

How about after the harvest

we go and take a Iook around Chicago?

- Sounds good,

- Mm-hm,

They crossin' the road in broad daylight,

Hey, the crows done flew up,

They say that's a bad sign,

I'm gonna go up north a few miles,

be on the safe side,

- It ain't nothing but a Iittle windy,

- They say this one gonna be bad,

I got some space in here

if y'all two want to come,

We go, we gonna Iose

a two whole days' pay,

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