Uptown Saturday Night Page #5

Trying to off me. I will murder the sucker!

Okay, Geechie...

that was your short!

Next time it's going to be your life!

-You got a life, too, Silky Slim !

-I'm giving you two minutes.

We make a deal now...

or you're going to be wearing wings.

-Take your best shot! No deal!

-Come on, man.

-Let's be reasonable.

-Ain't nothing to be reasonable about.

Look, Geechie...

I said let's talk, my man.

You team up with me

and we rule this town from river to river.

Never will so few

owe so much to so many.

-That's the one! He's the one we're after.

-Shut up over there!

But he's the one

who robbed Madame Zenobia's.

So what?

But he stole something that night.

Something he don't know about...

something that's worth a lot of money.

I told you, shut up over there.

Don't bug me with this penny ante crap

at a time like this.

-You've got one minute, Geechie.

-But this ain't no penny ante.

It's worth a fortune.

We'll share it with you, Mr. Geechie Dan.

-You know how much it's worth?

-$300,000.

-What'd you say?

-$300,000 in diamonds.

Slim?

$300,000?

ln diamonds?

Yeah, but he don't know nothing

about it, see?

How you know

they knocked off Zenobia's?

Go on, talk fast, turkey,

or I'll put a hole through your eyes.

'Cause that's what he said

when he robbed the place.

He said, "Never have so few

owed so much to so many."

You see?

And he had a mask on at the time...

but we recognize his voice.

-Yeah. He's the one.

-What about the diamonds?

-Your time's up, Geechie.

-Give me a couple of minutes, Slim.

I'm talking it over with my boys.

One minute, my man.

Go on. Talk.

Me and my man,

we was going to Madame Zenobia's.

And we was behind

these two African gentlemen...

who was going in there.

First, see, the doorman,

he wouldn't let them in.

Then they showed him a letter

from their lawyer...

that said they were very important people

in the diamond business.

So the doorman apologized to them

and he let them in.

Later on that evening, I was in the john.

I was relieving myself.

And the two Africans

came into the bathroom.

Now, they didn't know I was in there

because I was sitting on the john.

And one of them, I heard him say:

"What did you do with the diamonds?"

So the other one said,

"They're in my lawyer's office.

"They'll be safe there

for the next 10 days...

"till we get back from Washington.

"And then the buyer will come in

from California."

The other African said:

"How much you think

we going to get for these stones?"

So the other one said:

"$300,000."

So they left...

and I came running out

to talk to my man...

about getting to the lawyer's office

to hit the place and get them diamonds.

That's when Silky Slim come in

and held everybody up...

and took the wallets and the money,

and along with it, the lawyer's letter...

with the address

of where the diamonds is.

So that's why you've been sniffing around.

-To help you find the letter.

-Yes, sir.

Of course, if you're lying...

the undertaker's going to visit

your relatives.

Okay, Geechie, let me hear it.

All right!

We can make some kind of deal.

-Come on in.

-Good.

Everybody keep their hands

where we can see them.

Make sure you come through that door

the same way.

No, put them away.

My man.

What's happening?

Down to business, Slim.

I don't like your bag.

You got no class.

Drug dealing, prostitution...

vulgar stickups like Madame Zenobia's

last Saturday night.

-That ain't my thing.

-I was home in bed last Saturday night.

No skin off me, man, so let's move on.

Now I got something

we can work on together.

It's a $300,000 proposition.

-I'm interested.

-Fifty-fifty.

And if we wrap it up,

then we can talk maybe...

about some togetherness

on a permanent basis.

What's the deal?

You left Zenobia's the other night

loaded down with personal effects...

among which is a document

that will lead us to the $300,000.

It's a simple document.

lt ain't got no meaning

until I tell you what it connects up with...

and I ain't going to tell you...

until you bring back every bit

of the personal property you lifted.

You won't figure it out

in a million years, Slim.

-How do I know you ain't running a game?

-My word is my rep.

But, of course, if you didn't hit

Madame Zenobia's last Saturday night...

then the whole thing is academic.

You got a deal.

Good.

We'll meet in a neutral place.

I'll let you know where,

when I call you and tell you what time.

I'll be there with three of my boys,

and you show up with three of yours.

-Look to see you around.

-You will.

Order me a new car.

That is if you want to be comfortable

riding around in your own.

Amen! Truly wonderful.

We got to thank our choir.

Sister Louise, you are certainly

in rare form tonight.

Mr. Geechie Dan?

My wallet is in that bag

Mr. Silky Slim's got on his lap there.

And please, sir, may I have it?

This thing go all right, boy,

you can buy yourseIf a dozen wallets...

and fill them all with $100 bills.

That one has family mementos.

If it's all the same to you--

Now, before we leave

on our annual picnic...

I'd like to bring to your attention....

We're going on this picnic.

That way if anything happens,

we got the perfect alibi.

And the saying that comes back

into my mind from that war...

was, "Loose lips sink ships."

Said that, Second World War...

'cause they wanted people

to keep their mouths shut...

and listen a little more.

Loose lips sink ships!

And the looser the lips are,

the faster the ship sinks.

And some of the lips

in this congregation...

done sunk aircraft carriers.

Friends, I say to you tonight...

if we were as fast on the hip

as we are on the lip...

we'd have a bigger church here.

Better know it.

Let me tell you about some of the people

in this congregation.

You know what they're doing?

A lot of the people in this church

have been going around...

spreading falsehoods, lies, and rumors,

trying to ruin the reputation...

of a lot of other people in this church.

They go around trying to rock

somebody else's cradle...

trying to get a piece

of somebody else's pie.

Trying to covet somebody else's mate

for their own.

Amen.

Loose lips...

friends put in motion

by lechery and sinful thought...

is sinking some of the great ships

of marriage.

They are going down on the rocks.

That's what they are doing. Sinking!

Amen.

'Cause lips won't shut up...

and help the buoyancy

keep them floating...

across the top of the river of happiness.

You all know I'm talking

about the loose lips...

that go around kissing on lips

that don't belong to them.

That go around lying on folks...

that make young girls make promises

they know their bodies can't stand.

That's the kind of lips I'm talking about.

We got to learn to control them lips,

tighten up them ears a little tighter!

We got to learn to call on the Lord

and ask him to teach us some discipline!

Remember, children,

loose lips are everywhere.

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