Oklahoma! (1999) Movie Script

There's a bright golden
haze on the meadow
The corn is as high
as an elephant's eye
And it looks like it's
climbing clear up to the sky
Oh, what a beautiful morning
Oh, what a beautiful day
I've got a beautiful feeling
Everything's going my way
All the cattle
are standing like statues
Hey!
All the cattle
are standing like statues
They don't turn their heads
as they see me ride by
But a little brown maverick
is winking her eye
Oh, what a beautiful morning
Oh, what a beautiful day
I've got a beautiful feeling
Everything's going my way
Aunt Eller.
Ah!
Scared me to death.
What you doin' around here?
Well, I come a sing in' to ya.
All the sounds of
the earth are like music
The breeze is so busy
it don't miss a tree
And an old weepin' willer
is laughin' at me
Oh, what a beautiful morning
Oh, what a beautiful day
I've got a beautiful feeling
Everything's going my way
Oh, what a beautiful day
If I wasn't an old woman
and you wasn't so young
and smart alecky, I'd marry you.
Get you to sit around
at night and sing to me.
No you wouldn't either,
'cause I wouldn't marry you,
nor none of your kinfolks
if I could help it.
No, none of my kinfolks, huh?
You tell them that, all of them,
including that niece of yours,
Miss Laurey Williams.
Aunt Eller, if you want to tell me
where Laurey was at, where
would you tell me she was at?
I wouldn't tell ya.
Not at all.
As far as I can make out,
Laurey ain't payin' you no heed.
So she don't take to me much, huh?
Where'd you get such an uppety
niece that wouldn't pay no heed to me?
Who's the best bronc buster
in this here territory?
Why, you, I bet.
And the best bulldogger in 17 counties?
Me. That's who.
Lookey here.
I'm handsome, ain't I?
Purdy as a picture.
Curly-headed, ain't I?
And bow-legged from the saddle
for God knows how long, ain't I?
Couldn't stop a pig in the road.
What else does she want
then, the damn she-mule?
Well, I don't know, but I'm
sure certain it ain't you.
[laughs]
So, who are you taking
to the Box Social tonight?
Oh, I ain't thought much about it.
Oh, I bet you come over to ask Laurey.
- What if I did?
- What, you asking me, too?
I'll wear my fascinator.
- You too?
- Yeah.
Oh, what a beautiful morning
Oh, what a beautiful day
Oh. I thought
you were somebody.
I got a beautiful feelin'
Everything's going my way
Is this all that's come a-calling
at already 10:00
on a Saturday morning?
You knowed it was me
before you opened the door.
- No such of a thing.
- You did too.
You heard my voice.
You know it was me.
I heard a voice a-talking
rumbly along at Aunt Eller.
I heard someone singing
like a bullfrog in a pond.
You knew it was me, you sittin'
there thinkin' up somethin' mean to say.
I've a good mind not to
ask you to the Box Social.
Well, if you did ask me,
I wouldn't go with you.
Besides, how would you take me?
You ain't bought a new buggy with
red wheels onto it, have you?
No, I ain't.
And a spanking team
their bridles all a-jingling.
No.
Expect me to ride on
behind ole Dun, I guess.
Better ask that old Cummings girl
you took such a shine to across the river.
Well, if I was to ask you,
there'd be a way to take
you, Miss Laurey Smarty.
Huh?
There would?
When I take you
out tonight with me
Honey, here's the
way it's gonna be
You will sit
behind a team
of snow white horses
In the slickest gig
you ever see
Lands!
Chicks and ducks
and geese better scurry
When I take you
out in the surrey
When I take you
out in the surrey
with the
fringe on top
Watch that fringe
and see how it flutters
When I drive them
high steppin' strutters
Nosey pokes all peek
through their shutters
and their eyes will pop
The wheels are yeller,
the upholstery's brown
The dashboard's
genuine leather
With isinglass curtains
you can roll right down
in case there's
a change in the weather
Two bright sidelights
winkin' and blinkin'
Ain't no finer rig
I'm a-thinkin'
You can keep your rig
if you're thinkin'
that I'd care to swap
for that shiny little surrey
with the fringe on the top
Would you say the
fringe was made of silk?
Oh, wouldn't have
no other kind but silk
Has it really got a team
of snow white horses?
One's like snow,
the other's more like milk
So you can tell them apart.
All the world'll
fly in a flurry
When I take you
out in the surrey
When I take you
out in the surrey
with the
fringe on top
When we hit that road,
hell for leather
Hya!
Cats and dogs will
dance in the heather
Birds and frogs
will sing all together
and the toads
will hop
Wa-haw!
The wind'll whistle
as we rattle along
Cows will moo
in the clover
The river will ripple
out a whispered song
And whisper it
over and over
Don't you wish
you'd go on forever?
Don't you wish
you'd go on forever?
Don't you wish
you'd go on forever?
And you'd never stop
In that shiny little surrey
with the fringe on the top
You'd sure feel like a queen
sitting up in that carriage.
Only she talked so
mean to me a while back,
Aunt Eller, I've a good
mind not to take her.
Ain't said I was going.
Ain't asked ya.
Where'd you get such a rig at?
[laughs]
I'll bet he went and
hired a rig over to Claremore
thinking I'd go with him.
That's all you know about it.
Oh, oh, oh, spent all his money
hiring a rig and now he
ain't got nobody to ride in it.
I have, too.
Look, I did not hire it.
I made the whole thing up out of my head.
What?
Made it up?
Dashboard and all.
Go on, get off of the place, you.
Aunt Eller, make him
get himself out of here.
Telling me lies.
Makin' up a few little... whoo!
Making up a few little pretties--hey!
Look out, now.
Making up a few pretties
ain't against any law I know of.
Hey, don't you wish
there was such a rig though?
Hmm?
Then you can go to that play party
and do a little hoedown till morning
if you was a-mind to.
And then...
when you was all wore out,
I'd lift you up onto that surrey,
jump up alongside of you and...
we'd just point the horses home.
I can see the stars
gettin' blurry
When we arrive
back home in the surrey
Riding slowly home
in the surrey
with a fringe on top
I can feel the day
getting older
Feel a sleepy head
near my shoulder
Nodding, drooping,
close to my shoulder
till it falls, kerplop
The sun is swimming
on the rim of a hill
The moon is taking a header
And just as I'm thinking
the earth is still
A lark will wake up
in the meadow
Hush, hush, you bird.
My baby's a-sleepin'
Maybe got a dream
worth a-keepin'
Whoa, you team.
And just
keep a-creepin'
at a slow
clip clop
Don't you hurry
with the surrey
with a fringe
on the top
[sighs]
[rooster crowing]
Only...
Only ain't no such rig.
What you just said,
you made the whole thing up.
Well...
Why'd you come 'round here,
these stories and lies
getting me all worked up that way?
Talking about the sun swimming
on the hill like it was so.
Laurey...
Who'd want to ride alongside you anyway?
Oh, why don't you just
grab her and kiss her
when she acts that way, Curly?
She's just aching for you, too, I bet.
I wouldn't even speak to him
let alone allow him to kiss me,
the bragging, bowlegged,
wish-he'd-had-a-sweetheart bum.
She likes you.
Quite a lot.
Yeah, if she liked me anymore,
she'd sic the dogs out on me.
[laughs]
Listen, Aunt Eller,
I got to know something.
Who's the low filthy sneak
Laurey's got her cap set for?
Oh, that's you.
No, never mind that.
There must be plenty
of men trying to spark her
and she surely leans
to one of them, now, don't she?
Well, now, there's that
fine farmer, Jace Hutchens.
Just the other side of Lone Ellum.
And then of course there's that
old widower man over at Claremore.
Makes out he's a doctor or a veterinary.
That's what I thought.
[dog barking]
Hello.
Hello yourself.
And...
And of course there's
someone much nearer her home,
got her on his mind most of the time,
so he can't tell a plow
from a threshing machine.
Him?
Yup. Jud Fry.
That bullet-colored growly man?
Now, don't you say nothin' against him.
He's the best hired hand I ever had.
Just about runs this farm by his self.
Well, two women couldn't
do it, you ought know that.
Laurey would take up with a man like that?
I never said she took up.
I know, but he's around all the time.
And he lives here.
In the smokehouse.
Hi, Eller.
Mornin', Ike.
We're going over to the station.
You need anything in Claremore?
You can take me with you.
There's somethin' on
that train I gotta pick up.
[clears throat]
Personal.
Hey, Curly.
Oh, hey, Slim.
Did you get it?
Did I get what?
Did you get that wagon hitched?
Wagon?
What wagon?
Uh, yeah. There's a crowd of
folks coming from Bushyhead...
to the Box Social.
Curly said maybe you'd
loan us your big wagon.
Take 'em over to
Mr. Skidmore's ranch.
Well, sure I would.
If he'd asked me.
Yeah, I just got talking
about a lot of other things
but I'll go hitch up the horses
now if you say it's all right.
- Go ahead.
- Time we got goin'.
Now, why don't you ask
the girls from Bushyhead
to stop by here
and freshen up?
All right.
It's a long way
to Mr. Skidmore's.
Thanks for the loan
of the wagon, Aunt Eller.
[laughing]
Aunt Eller.
Hey, hi, Will.
Hi, Aunt Eller!
What happened at the fair?
How'd you do with the steer ropin'?
Oh, I did purdy good.
I won it.
[laughs]
- Good boy.
- Thank you, Ike.
I hoped you would.
What?
What happened?
Oh, I can't stay but a minute, Aunt Eller.
I gotta get over to Ado Annie.
Don't you remember,
her Pa said if I was ever
worth $50, I could have her.
$50?
Is that what they gave ya for prize money?
That's right.
Well, if Ado Annie's pa keeps his promise,
we'll be dancin' at your wedding.
Well, if he don't keep his promise,
I'll take it from right under his nose.
I won't give him the present
I brung for him.
Lookey here, fellas, what
I got for Ado Annie's pa.
Watcha got there?
Oh, excuse us, Aunt Eller.
Huh?
Oh, come on, darling.
You put it up to your eye like this,
then when you get a good look,
you turn it at the top
and the picture changes.
[laughs]
Well, I'll be side-gaited!
They call it the Little Wonder.
Silly goats.
Why, the hussy!
Why, she ought to be ashamed
of herself.
You too.
How do you turn this thing
to get her out of the picture?
Wait, wait, wait.
I'm gettin' it.
I'm gettin' it.
Did you tell her?
[laughs]
No tellin' what you've been up to.
I bet you carried on
plenty in Kansas City.
Well, I wouldn't exactly
call it carrying on.
But I sure did see some
things I'd never seen before.
I got to Kansas City
on a Friday
By Saturday I learned
a thing or two
'Cause up till then
I didn't have an idea
of what the modern
world was coming to
I counted 20 gas buggies
going by themselves
almost every time
I took a walk
Then I put my ear
to a Bell telephone
and a strange woman
started into talk
- What next?
- Yeah, what?
What next?
Everything's up
to date in Kansas City
They've gone about
as far as they can go
They went and
built a skyscraper
seven stories high
About as high as
a building oughta grow
Everything's like
a dream in Kansas City
It's better than
a magic lantern show
You can turn
the radiator on
whenever you
want some heat
With every kind of comfort,
every house is all complete
You can walk
to privies in the rain
and never wet your feet
They've gone about
as far as they can go
Yes sir!
They've gone about
as far as they can go
Come here.
Everything's up
to date in Kansas City
They've gone about
as far as they can go
They got a big theater
they call a burleekew
For 50 cents you
can see a dandy show
Girls!
One of the girls was
fat and pink and pretty
As round above
as she was round below
I could swear
that she was padded
from her shoulder
to her heel
but later in the second act
she began to peel
She proved that everything
she had was absolutely real
She went about as
far as she could go
Yes sir!
She went about as far
as she could go
- Watcha doin'?
- Hey!
Two-step. It's all
the dancing nowadays.
The waltz is through.
Catch on to it.
One and a two.
One and a two.
'Course they don't do it alone.
Come on, Eller.
And that's about
as far as I can go
Yes sir!
That's about
as far as she can go
Watcha doin' now, Will?
Ragtime.
Seen a couple of fellas
doing it in the street.
Whoa.
Come on, fellas.
Pick this one up.
Watch out, Will.
Come on, now.
I've got ya.
All right, fellas.
Here we go.
(Aunt Eller)
Oh, look at that.
Hey.
Nobody can swing a rope like that.
Good boy.
Oh, look at that.
Hillbilly!
[cheering]
Come on, Will.
Will, you do it.
Yeehaw!
Come on, Will.
Come on, Cord.
Come on over.
That's not funny.
Cut it out, Will.
I said, cut that out, Will.
No, I'm tellin' ya.
Stop that.
No.
Hold on now.
Watch my feet.
Look at that.
Oh, that's mighty genius, what that is.
Look at that.
He must be in Kansas City trouble,
Aunt Eller.
Ain't she got a great smile?
Thank you, ma'am.
Hey, what's going on?
Come on back.
Woo hoo!
Come on now.
Up. Up.
Watch my feet now.
Pick it up now.
Let's go.
All about as
far as we can go
Thank you.
May I?
We've gone as
far as we can go
[singing in foreign language]
Yoo hoo!
Ado Annie.
Hello, Laurey!
Hello.
My, oh my, Miss Laurey.
Chippety crickets.
How high you have growed up.
Last time I come to here, you was tiny.
Like a shrimp with freckles.
Now look on you. Woo!
A great big beautiful lady.
Quit bitin' me.
If you had no breakfast,
go get yourself a green apple.
Yeah, all right, all
right, I take my things
up to the house.
No, no, no, no, no.
I see you in a minute, baby, eh?
[singing in foreign language]
Hey, Will Parker's back from Kansas City.
Will Parker?
I didn't count on him being back so soon.
I can see that.
The peddler man's gonna
drive me to the Box Social.
I got sort of a tasty lunch.
Oh, Annie, have you
took up with that peddler man?
Not yet.
But you're promised to
Will Parker, ain't ya?
Well, not what you might say promised.
I just told him maybe.
Don't you love Will anymore?
Of course I do.
There won't never be nobody like Will.
What about this peddler man?
They won't never be
nobody like him neither.
Well, which one do you like the best?
Whatever one I'm with.
You're a silly cow.
Now, Laurey,
you know that nobody paid me no mind
up until this year
on account of I was scrawny
and flat as a bean pole.
Then I kinda rounded up a little
and now the boys act different to me.
What's wrong with that?
Well, nothing wrong.
I like it.
I like it so much when
a fella talks purdy to me
that I get all shaky from
horn to hoof. Don't you?
Can't think what you're talkin' about.
Don't you feel kind of sorry for a fella
when he looks like he wants to kiss ya?
You just can't go around kissing every man
that asks ya.
Didn't anyone ever tell you that?
Yeah.
They told me.
It ain't
so much a question
of not knowing
what to do
I know what's
right and wrong
since I've been 10
I heard a lot of stories
and I reckon they are true
about how girls
are put upon by men
I know I mustn't
fall into the pit
but when I'm with
a fella I forget
Oh.
I'm just the girl
who can't say no
I'm in a terrible fix
I always say,
come on, let's go
just when
I oughta say nix
When a person
tries to kiss a girl
I know she ought
to give his face a smack
But as soon as
someone kisses me
I somehow sort of
wanna kiss him back
I'm just a fool
when lights are low
I can't be
prissy and quaint
I ain't the type
that can faint
How can I be
what I ain't?
I can't say no
Watcha gonna do
when a fella gets flirty
and starts
to talk purdy?
Watcha gonna do,
supposin' that he says
that your lips
are like cherries?
Or roses,
or berries
Watcha gonna do?
Supposin' that he says
that you're sweeter
than cream and he's
gotta have cream or die
Watcha gonna do
when he talks that way?
- Spit in his eye?
- No.
I'm just the girl
who can't say no
Can't seem
to say it at all
I hate
to disappoint a beau
when he is payin' a call
For a while I act
refined and cool
while sittin' on
my velveteen settee
And then I'll think
of that old golden rule
and do for him
what he would do for me
I can't
resist a Romeo
in a sombrero
wearing chaps
Soon as I sit
on their laps
something inside
of me snaps
I can't say no
It's like a I told ya,
I just get sorry for him.
Well, I wouldn't feel sorry
for no man no matter what.
But, see, with Ali Hakim now...
Ali Hakim?
Is that his name?
Yeah.
It's Persian.
[giggles]
Are you sure for certain
you love him better
than you love Will?
Well, I was sure.
But now that ol' Will has to come back home
and first thing you know
he'll be talkin' purdy to me
and changing my mind back.
But Will wants to marry you.
Well, so does Ali Hakim.
The peddler?
Did he ask you?
Well, not directly.
But how I know is he said to me
this mornin' when we
was ridin' in his buggy,
that he wanted for me to drive like that
with him to the end of the world.
Well, if we only drove as far as Catoosie,
that'd take till sundown, wouldn't it?
Then we'd have to go somewheres
and spend all night together.
And being together all night
means he wants a wedding, don't it?
Not to a peddler it don't.
Hey, Aunt Eller.
Hi, yourselves.
Why, it's that peddler.
One that sold me that eggbeater.
Hey, peddler man, hold your horses.
I wanna talk to you.
You remember what you told me, hmm?
Told me that eggbeater
would beat up the eggs
and wring out my dishrags
and turn my ice cream freezer,
and I don't know what all.
All right. If the
eggbeater don't work,
- I give you something just as good.
- Just as good?
It better be a thousand
million times better.
- Now, Aunt Eller, just listen to--
- I ain't your Aunt Eller.
Don't you call me Aunt Eller,
you little wart.
[laughing]
[coughing]
Well, don't anybody wanna buy somethin'?
Well, how about you,
Miss Laurey. Come on.
Must be wanting something,
a purdy young girl like you, hmm?
Me?
'Course I want something.
I want a buckle made out of shiny silver
to tassle onto my shoe.
I want a dress with lace.
Want perfume, wanna be pretty.
Wanna smell like a honeysuckle vine.
Give her a cake of soap.
One thing I heard of, never had before
a rubber-tired buggy.
Cut glass sugar bowl.
Want things I can't tell you about,
not only things to look at
and hold in your hands, but,
things to happen to you.
Things so nice if they
ever did happen to you
your heart, it'd quit beatin', you'd...
fall down dead.
(Ali)
I got just the thing for you.
The Elixir of Egypt.
What's that?
It's a secret formula belonged
to Pharaoh's daughter.
Smelling salts.
But a special kind of a smelling salt.
Now, read what it says on the label here.
"Take a deep breath
and you see
everything clear."
That's what Pharaoh's daughter
used to do, you know?
When she had a hard problem to decide
like what prince she oughta marry
or what dress to wear to a party,
or if she oughtta cut off somebody's head,
she'd take a whiff of this.
Oh, fiddlesticks.
I'll take a bottle
of this, Mr. Peddler.
Precious stuff.
- How much?
- Two bits.
Throwin' away your money.
Helps you decide what to do.
Now, don't you want me to show you
some purdy doo dads, huh?
You know, with lace around the bottom here
and pretty ribbons running in and out
What, you mean fancy drawers?
All made in Paris.
Well, I don't wear that
kind of thing myself.
But I sure do like to look at 'em.
Yeah. They're all right
if you ain't going no place.
Why don't you bring your trappings inside?
Maybe I'll find you
something to eat and drink.
Ma'am.
He is not gonna marry you.
He is. He is.
He said he was. He is.
Well, ask him,
why don't ya?
Ali, me and Laurey
have been having an argument.
About what, baby?
About what you meant when you said that
about driving with me
to the end of the world.
I didn't really mean
to the end of the world.
Well, then, how far do you wanna go?
Oh, about as far as, say, Claremore.
To the hotel.
What's at the hotel?
Look, in front of the hotel
is a veranda.
Veranda.
Inside is a lobby.
Okay.
Upstairs...
Upstairs might be paradise.
I thought they was just bedrooms.
- No.
- No?
No, for you and me, baby, paradise.
You see?
I knew I was right and Laurey was wrong.
You do wanna marry me, don't ya?
Hey. What did
you just say?
I said, you do wanna marry me, don't ya?
- What did you say?
- I didn't say nothin'.
(Will)
Yoo hoo. Ado Annie, it's me, I'm back.
Oh, foot.
Just when-'Lo Will!
That's Will Parker.
- Ado Annie!
- Hey!
Woo, Will!
How's my honey bunch?
How's the sweetest 110-pound of sugar
in the territory?
Will, this is Ali Hakim.
How are ya, Hak?
Don't mind the way I talk.
It's all right.
I'm gonna marry her.
Marry her.
On purpose?
- Well, sure.
- No such of a thing.
No, no, it's a wonderful
thing to be married.
Listen, I got a brother
in Persia got six wives.
Six wives?
- All at once?
- Sure.
It's the way they do it in them countries.
No. No.
Not always.
Got another brother in Persia
got only one wife.
Yeah, he's a bachelor.
Come here. Come here.
- Look Will--
- Look Will nothing.
Know what I got for
first prize at the fair?
- $50!
- [squeals]
$50!
Catch on? Your pa
promised I can marry ya
if I could get $50.
That's right.
He did.
- Know what I done with it?
- Huh?
Spent it all on presents for you.
But if you spent it, then
you ain't got the cash.
What I got's worth more than the cash.
Fella who sold me the stuff told me.
But Will...
Stop saying, "But Will."
When do I get a little kiss?
Ado Annie, honey, you ain't been
off of my mind since I left.
All the time at the fairgrounds.
Even when I was chasing steers.
I'd rope one under the hooves
and I'd pull him up sharp.
And he'd land on his little rump.
Then I'd think of you.
Don't start talkin' purdy, Will.
See a lot of beautiful gals in
Kansas City, didn't give one a look.
How could you see 'em
if you didn't give 'em a look?
I mean I didn't look loving at 'em.
Like the way I look at you.
Oh, Will.
Please don't look at me that way.
I can't bear it.
Ain't gonna stop looking like this
till you give me a little old kiss.
Oh, what's a little old kiss?
No.
No.
No, I won't.
Supposin' I say that
your lips are like cherries
roses or berries,
watch a gonna do?
Can't you feel my heart
palpitatin' and a bumpin'?
Waitin' for somethin',
somethin' nice from you
- No.
- 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 say
when you talk that way?
Well, now, howdy.
How y'all doin'?
Good to see ya.
Oh, what a beautiful mornin'
Oh, what a beautiful day
I got a beautiful feelin'
Everything's goin' my way
Hey, don't forget, Aunt Eller,
you and me's got a date together.
And if you make up a nice lunch,
Well, maybe I'll bid for it.
Oh, how we gettin' there, Curly?
In that rig you made up?
I'll ride a-straddle of them lights
a-winkin' like lightenin' bugs!
That there ain't no made-up rig,
you hear me? I hired it over to Claremore.
Lands, you did?
[Curly]
Sure did. Purdy one, too.
Changed my mind about
cleaning the hen house today.
Leavin' it till tomorrow.
I gotta quit early
'cause I'm drivin' Laurey
over to the party tonight.
[Curly]
Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa.
You're drivin' Laurey?
Asked her.
Curly, why don't you take the wagon
down to the trough and
get the team some water?
Yeah.
Right away, Aunt Eller.
[whistles]
That's a right smart turnout.
The wheels are yella,
the upholstery's brown
the dashboard's
genuine leather
with isinglass curtains
you can roll right down
in case there's
a change in the weather
Can I come, too, Curly?
Just love to watch
the way ya handle horses.
That's about all I can handle, I guess.
I can't believe that.
Not from what I heard about ya.
Ain't no finer rig I'm a-thinkin'
that I care to swap
for that shiny little surrey
with a fringe on the top
Come on, boys, better get those hampers
out under the trees where it's cool.
Looks like Curly's took off
with that Cummings girl.
Oh, what do I care about that?
Well, I thought Curly was
supposed to be stuck on you.
Well, I'd say he ain't
stuck on her no more.
Seeing is believing.
- Bye bye, Curly.
- Stop it.
Well, that's right.
You'll make her cry.
How would you like it
if you lost your man?
It's all right.
It's so sad.
Don't you pay 'em no mind, Laurey.
Why should a woman
who is healthy and strong
blubber like a baby
if her man goes away?
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
[chattering]
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
[chattering]
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?
- I never say that.
Never have I wandered
through the rye
wondering where
has some guy gone
Many a new day
will dawn before I do
Miss Laurey, in jest, of course.
Really?
- Howdy, ma'am.
- Hi.
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 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 red sun will set
Many a blue moon
will shine
before I do
Thanks a lot.
[singing in foreign language]
Ali Hakim.
Hello, kiddo.
Not sure I'm sorry to see you so happy.
'Cause what I gotta tell ya is gonna
make you miserable.
I gotta marry Will.
Oh, well, that's sad news for me.
Well, he is a fine fellow.
Don't try to hide your
feelings, Ali, I can't stand it.
I'd rather you just come right out
and say your heart is busted in two.
Are you positive you got to marry Will?
Sure shootin'.
And there's no chance for
you to change your mind?
No chance.
All right, then,
my heart is busted in two.
Oh, Ali, you do make up
purdy things to say.
Is that you, Annie?
Hello, Pa.
Watcha been shootin'?
Rabbits.
Is that true what I hear about Will Parker
gettin' $50?
That's right, Pa.
And he wants to hold you to your promise.
Too bad.
Still and all, I can't go back on my word.
See, Ali Hakim?
I advise you to get the money off of him
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.
You see?
I told ya.
Now he can't have ya.
I said it had to be $50 cash.
Is that fair,
Mr. Carnes?
Who the hell are you?
Well, this is 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, I did not.
You tryin' to make out
that my daughter's a liar?
No. I'm just
making it clear
of what a liar I am if
she's telling the truth.
What else you been saying to my daughter?
Oh, an awful lot.
When?
- Last night in the moonlight.
- Where?
Alongside a haystack.
Listen, Mr. Carnes...
I'm Iistenin'.
What else you been sayin'?
He called me his Persian kitten.
Why'd you call her that?
- I don't remember.
- I do.
He said I was like a Persian kitten
'cause they was the cats
with the soft around the tails.
That's enough.
In this part of the country that
better be a proposal of marriage.
See?
That's what I thought.
What do you think?
Look, Mr. Carnes...
I'm Iookin'.
I'm no good.
Look, I'm a peddler.
A peddler travels
up and down and all around.
And you'd hardly ever
see your daughter no more.
That'll be all right.
Take care of her...
son.
Take care of my little rosebud.
Aw, Pa, that's purdy.
You sure for certain you
can bear to let me go, Pa?
Are you sure, Mr. Carnes?
Just try changin' my mind.
See what happens to ya.
Ali Hakim, ain't it wonderful?
Pa makin' up our minds for us.
He won't change, neither,
once he gives his word
that you can have me.
Well, you've got me.
I know. I gotcha.
Mrs. Ali Hakim,
the peddler's bride.
Ah! Wait'll
I tell the girls.
Hey, girls, guess what?
I'm gonna become a bride!
Fathers with shotguns, trapped.
Tricked.
Hoodblinked.
Ambushed.
Friend,
what's on your mind?
Why do you walk
around and around?
With your hands
folded behind
and your chin
scraping the ground
Twenty minutes ago
I am free like a breeze.
Free like a bird in the woodland wild.
Free like a gypsy.
Free like a child.
I'm unattached.
Twenty minutes ago I can do what I please.
Flick my cigar ashes on the rug.
Dunk with a doughnut.
Drink from a jug.
Hey, I'm a happy man.
[laughs]
I'm minding my own
business like I oughtta.
Ain't meaning any harm to anyone.
I'm talking to a certain farmer's daughter
and then I'm looking
down the muzzle of a gun.
It's getting so you
can't have any fun
Every daughter has
a father with a gun
A big gun they got on them.
It's a scandal,
it's an outrage
how a gal gets
a husband today
If you make one mistake,
then the moon is bright
then they tie you
to a contract
so you'll
make it every night
It's a scandal,
it's an outrage
when her family
surrounds you and say
you gotta take and make
an honest woman outta Nell
To make you make her honest,
she will lie like hell
It's a scandal,
it's an outrage
on our manhood it's a blot
You got it.
Where is the leader
who will save us
from being
the first man to be shot
- What, me?
- Yes, you.
Get outta here.
It's a scandal,
it's an outrage
just a wink
and a kiss and you're through
You're a mess
and in less than a year
by heck, there's a baby
on your shoulder
making bubbles
on your neck
It's a scandal,
it's an outrage
any farmer will
tell you it's true
A rooster
in a chicken coop
is better off than man
He ain't
the special property
of just one hen
It's a scandal,
it's an outrage
We could fight
if we were drilled
We've gotta
make a revolution
So you make hay
while I get killed
That's it. Hey, hey, hey, hey.
Come here.
Fathers with shotguns.
Ah!
Fathers with shotguns.
Ah!
Come on.
Ah!
- Ah!
- Ah!
- Ah!
- Ah!
- Ah!
- Ah!
Ah!
- Revolution!
- Revolution!
It's a problem
we must solve
We gotta start
a revolution
All right, boys.
Come on.
It's a scandal,
it's an outrage
It's a problem
we must crack
Look, there he is!
I've got the answer
I go away and
don't come back
I gotta get home right now. I gotta run.
I got places I gotta go.
Gotta get your hamper packed.
Well, you sure do have a lot of company.
Hello, Laurey.
Just packing your hamper now?
I've been busy.
You got gooseberry tarts, too.
I wonder if they is as light as mine.
Mine would like to float away
if you blew on 'em.
I did blow on one of mine
and it broke into a million pieces.
[annoying laugh]
Well, ain't you funny.
[annoying laugh]
Gertie, why don't you
come inside and cool off?
You comin' inside with me, Curly?
Not just yet.
Well, don't be too long.
And don't forget, when
the auction starts tonight,
mine's the biggest hamper.
[annoying laugh]
So, that's the Cummings girl
I hear so much talk of.
You seen her before, ain't ya?
Yeah.
But not since she got so old.
Never did see anyone get so peaked looking
in such a short time.
Yeah, and she says she's only 18.
I bet ya she's 19.
Watcha got in your hamper?
Oh, just some old meat pies
and apple jelly.
Nothing like what Gertie Cummings
has got in her basket.
[annoying laugh]
So you...
you're really gonna drive
to the Box Social tonight
with that Jud feller?
[laughs]
Reckon so. Why?
Nothin'.
Well, 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
talking about us, do we?
You think people do talk about us?
You know how they are.
Like a swarm of mud wasps
always gotta be buzzin' about somethin'.
Well, what are they sayin'?
Oh, that you're stuck on me.
Most of the talk is
that you're stuck on me.
Well, I can't imagine how
these ugly rumors start.
Me neither.
Why do they think up
stories that link
my name with yours?
Why do the neighbors
chatter all day
behind their doors?
I know a way
to prove what they say
is quite untrue
Here is the gist,
a practical list of don'ts
- for you
- Uh huh.
Don't throw
bouquets at me
Oh.
- Don't please my folks too much
- Aunt Eller?
Don't laugh at
my jokes too much
People will say
we're in love
Who laughs at your jokes?
Don't sigh
and gaze at me
Your sighs
are so like mine
Your eyes mustn't
glow like mine
People will say
we're in love
Don't start
collecting things
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Like what?
Give me my rose
and my gloves
Oh, no, no, no.
Sweetheart,
they're suspecting things
People will say
we're in love
[giggles]
Some people claim
that you are to blame
as much as I
Why do you take
the trouble to bake
- my favorite pie?
- It is?
Granting your wish
I carved our initials
on the tree
Just keep a slice of
all the advice you give
- so free
- Uh huh.
Don't praise
my charm too much
Don't look
so vain with me
Vain?
Don't stand
in the rain with me
People will say
we're in love
Don't take
my arm too much
Let go.
Don't keep
your hand in mine
Your hand feels
so grand in mine
People will say
we're in love
Don't dance
all night with me
till the stars
fade from above
They'll see it's
all right with me
People will say
we're in love
Don't you reckon you could just
tell that Jud fella you'd
rather go with me tonight?
Curly...
Hmm?
No, I couldn't.
You couldn't.
Well, I think I'll go
down to the smokehouse
where Jud's at
just to see what's so elegant about him,
makes girls wanna go to parties with him.
- Curly.
- What?
Nothin'.
Don't sigh
and gaze at me
Your sighs
are so like mine
Your eyes mustn't...
You got your hamper packed?
Oh, Aunt Eller.
Yes, nearly.
Would you like a hanky?
What do I want with an old hanky?
Well, you got a smudge on your cheek.
No. Just
under your eye.
Aunt Eller, don't go to
Skidmore's with Curly tonight.
If you do I'll have to
ride with Jud all alone.
Well, that's the way
you wanted it, ain't it?
No.
But I did it 'cause Curly was so fresh.
But I'm afraid to tell Jud I
won't go with him, Aunt Eller.
He'd do somethin' terrible.
Well, you ever been down that
old smokehouse where he's at?
Yeah, plenty of times.
Did you see them pictures
he's got tacked onto the walls?
Yeah.
I seen 'em.
Don't you pay them no heed.
There's somethin' wrong
inside of him, Aunt Eller.
I hook my door at night
and fasten my windows again.
Again.
What?
It.
And the sound of feet
walkin' on down out there
under that tree outside my room.
Laurey...
I know what I'm talkin' about.
You crazy yellin'.
Now, you stop acting like a chicken
that's had its head cut off.
Laurey.
Now, Laurey, I got to thinkin'
about how you don't have
a right lot to wear,
except your mother's old wedding dress.
And I, well, I saved up my pennies
and I got you somethin'.
What is it?
Well, now...
Aunt Eller!
Oh my Lord.
Thank you so much.
Yeah, well, try it on.
- It's beautiful.
- Yes.
Well, open it, can't ya?
Howdy.
What do you want?
Well, I done got through my business
up here at the house, I just thought
I'd pay you a call.
You got a gun, I see.
Good un'. Colt .45.
Wooee, watch a do with it?
Shoot things.
Oh.
Hey, that there pink picture's
a naked woman, ain't it?
Your eyes don't lie to you.
She's plumb stark naked as a jaybird.
Actually, no. No, she ain't. Not quite.
She got a couple a
thing-a-bobs tied on her there.
Shucks. That ain't
a thing to what I got here.
Take a look at that top one.
Whew.
I'll go blind.
That'd give me ideas, that would.
That's a dinger, that is.
Oh yeah, that sure is a dinger.
Hey, that's a good lookin'
rope you got there.
Hey, you know Will Parker?
Yeah, well, he can sure spin a rope.
It's a strong hook you got there, Jud.
You can hang yourself on that.
I could what?
Uh, uh, hang yourself.
Well, yeah, it'd...
it'd be as easy as falling off a log.
Matter of fact you could
stand on a log or a chair,
if you'd rather, right about here, see?
Just put this here around your neck,
tie that good up there first, of course.
And all you'd have to do
would be to fall off the log.
Or the chair, whichever
you'd rather fall off of.
And in five minutes or less
with good luck you'd be,
you'd be dead as a doornail.
What do you mean by that?
Well, then, and folks
would come to your funeral
and sing sad songs.
Oh, they would.
Well, you never know
how many people like ya
till you're dead.
You know...
you'd probably be laid out in that parlor
all decked out in your best suit.
Your hair combed down slick
in a high starched collar.
Hmm?
Would there be any flowers, you think?
Sure would.
And palms, too, all around your coffin.
And then, then folks
would gather around you
and the men'd bare their heads
and the women, the women'd sniffle softly.
Well, some would probably faint.
You know, the ones
that took a shine to you
when you was alive.
What women ever took a shine to me?
Oh, lots of women.
You see, they don't never come right out
and show you how they feel
unless you die first.
I guess that's so.
They sure would sing loud,
though, when the singing started.
Sing like their hearts are breaking.
Poor Jud is dead
Poor Jud Fry is dead
All gather around
his coffin now and cry
He had a heart of gold
and he wasn't very old
Oh, why did such
a fella have to die?
Poor Jud is dead
Poor Jud Fry is dead
He's looking
oh so peaceful and serene
And serene
He's all
laid out to rest
with his hands
across his chest
His fingernails have
never been so clean
Then the preacher would
get up and he'd say,
"Folks, we gathered here
today to moan and groan
"over our brother Jud Fry.
"Who hung his self up
by a rope in the smokehouse."
Then there'd be weepin' and wailin'
from some of those women.
Then he'd say, Jud was the most
misunderstood man in the territory.
People used to think that
he was a mean ugly fella.
And they called him a dirty skunk
and an ornery pig stealer.
But the folks
that really knowed him
know that beneath
them two dirty shirts
he always wore
there beat a heart
as big as all outdoors
As big as
all outdoors
Jud Fry loved
his fellow man
He loved
his fellow man
He loved the birds
of the forests
and the beasts
of the field
He loved the mice
and the vermin in the barn
and he treated the rats
like equals, which was right
Oh, and he loved the little children.
No, no, no, he loved everybody
and everything in the whole world.
Only he never let on
so nobody ever knowed it.
Poor Jud is dead,
poor Jud Fry is dead
His friends
will weep and wail
for miles around
Miles around
The daisies in the dell will
give out a different smell
Because poor Jud
is underneath the ground
Poor Jud is dead
A candle lights his head
He's layin' in a coffin
made of wood
Wood
And folks
are feelin' sad
'cause they used
to treat him bad
And now they know their
friend has gone for good
Good
Poor Jud is dead
A candle
lights his head
He's lookin'
oh so purdy
and so nice
Shh, shh, shh.
He looks like
he's asleep
It's a shame
that he won't keep
But it's summer and
we're running out of ice
Poor Jud
Yes, sir.
That's how it'd be.
That sure would be an interesting funeral.
I wouldn't wanna miss it.
Wouldn't wanna miss it, huh?
Maybe you will.
Maybe you'd go first.
Maybe.
Yeah...
- [coughs]
- [laughs]
Let's see now.
Where'd you work at
before you come up here?
It's up by Quapaw, wasn't it?
Yeah.
- Before that, over by Tulsa.
- Uh huh.
Lousy they was to me, both of 'em.
Always makin' out they were better.
Always treatin' me like dirt.
What'd you do?
Did you get even?
If it'd ever come to gettin' even
with somebody, I'd know how to do it.
That?
[scoffs]
No.
There's safer ways than that
if you use your brain.
You remember that fire
on the Bartlett farm
over by Sweetwater?
Sure do. About five years
ago, terrible accident.
That burned up the father,
mother, and daughter.
Yeah, well, that there
weren't no accident.
Fella told me the hired hand
was stuck on the Bartlett girl
and he found her in the hay loft
with another feller.
And it was him that burnt the place?
Took him weeks to get up the kerosene.
Buying it up at different times.
[laughs]
The fella who told me, made out like
it happened in Missouri,
but I knowed all along
it was the Bartlett farm.
[laughs]
What a liar he was.
And a kind of a murderer too.
Wasn't he?
Let's get a little air in here.
You ain't told me yet what
business you have here.
We ain't got no cattle to sell ya,
there are no cow ponies
and the oat crop's done spoke for.
You sure relieved my mind considerable.
There can only be one other thing
you want on this farm.
It better not be that.
But that's just what it is.
Better not be.
You stay away from her, you hear?
A fellow wouldn't feel
very safe in here with you,
Jud, if he didn't know ya.
But I know ya.
See, in this country, there's two things
you can do if you're a man.
Live out of doors is one
or live in a hole is the other.
As long as you live
in a hole, you're scared.
You gotta have protection.
Yeah, you can have muscles like iron
and still be as weak as an empty bladder
unless'n you got things
to barb your hide with.
How'd you get to be
the way you are anyway?
You're sittin' here in this filthy hole
thinkin' the way you're thinkin'.
You oughta do something
healthy once in a while.
Instead of staying shut up in here
crawling and festering.
[screams]
[gunshot]
Well, you oughtta feel better now.
That's hard on the roof though.
Well, I wish you'd let me
show you something.
You see that knothole over there,
about as big as a dime?
See it a-winkin'?
I just wanna see if I can hit it.
Well, that's a bullet
right through the center.
Slick as a whistle,
without touchin', didn't I?
See, I knowed I could do it.
You saw it, didn't ya?
[distant voices]
Why someone's comin', I expect.
Who fired off that gun?
Curly, was that you?
Well, don't just sit there, you lummy.
- Answer when you're spoken to.
- Well I shot once.
Well, what was you shootin' at?
See that knothole over there?
I see lots of knotholes.
Yeah, well, it was one of them.
Well, ain't you a pair
of purdy nothins, huh?
Pickin' away at knotholes and
scaring everybody half to death.
I oughta give you a Dutch rub
and iron the craziness outta you.
It's all right.
Ain't nobody hurt.
Just a pair of fools swapping noises.
Mind if I visit with you gents?
[laughs]
Yeah, it's good to get away
from the women for awhile, huh?
Now, then.
We are by ourselves.
I got a few purdies.
Private knick knacks to show
you, a special for the men folks.
I'll see you gentlemen later. I
gotta get a surrey I hired for tonight.
An odd postcard!
Who do you think you're
takin' in that surrey?
Aunt Eller.
And Laurey, if she'll come with me.
She won't.
Maybe she will.
She promised to go with me.
She better not change her mind.
She better not!
Now, I want you to look at these.
Straight from Paris.
I don't want none of them things now.
I'll tell you what
I'd like if you got one.
You ever heard of one of them things
you call the Little Wonder?
It's a thing you hold up to your eye
to see pictures.
Only that ain't all there is to it.
Not quite.
It's got a jigger onto it.
And you touch it and
down springs a sharp blade.
On a spring, huh?
You say to a feller, look through this
and then when he's lookin',
you snap the blade out.
It's just above his chest and then,
bang, down you go.
[laughs]
That's a good joke to play on a friend.
No.
I don't like to handle things like that.
It's too dangerous.
Now, what I'd like to show you
is my new stock of postcards.
I'm sick of them things.
Now, I'm gonna get me a real woman.
I'm tired of all these pictures of women.
So, you want a real woman, huh?
Yeah.
Say...
you ever happen to hear of a girl
named Ado Annie?
I don't want her.
I don't want her either, but I got her.
I don't want nothin' from no peddler man.
I want real things!
What am I doin'?
Crawlin' and festerin'.
What am I doin' in this lousy smokehouse?
The floor creaks
The door squeaks
There's a field mouse
nibblin' on the broom
And I sit by myself
like a cobweb on a shelf
by myself
in a lonely room
But when there's
a moon in my winder
And it slants down
a beam across my bed
and the shadow of a tree
starts a dancin' on the wall
and a dream starts
dancin' in my head
And all of the things
that I wish for
turn out like
I want them to be
And I'm better than
that smart aleck cowhand
who thinks
he's better than me
And the girl
that I want
ain't afraid
of my arms
And her own soft
arms keep me warm
And her long tangled hair
falls across my face
just like a rain
in a storm
The floor creeks
The door squeaks
And the mouse starts
nibblin' on the broom
And the sun
flicks my eyes
It was all
a pack of lies
I'm awake
in a lonely room
I ain't gonna dream
about her arms no more
I ain't gonna
leave her alone
Goin' outside,
get myself a bride
Get me a woman
to call my own
[chattering]
To your house.
A dog?
[chattering]
- Look at that.
- Did you see that?
Come on, now.
Take a card.
Girls, could you go somewhere
else and tell fortunes?
I gotta be here by myself.
[pleading]
She brought out old smelling salts
the peddler tried to sell us.
Well, it ain't smelling salts
that's gonna make my mind up for me.
Well, look at me take a good whiff now.
That's the camphor.
[annoying laugh]
Please, girls, go away.
Hey, Laurey,
is it true you're gonna
let Jud take you tonight
instead of Curly?
Tell you about it when I
think everything out clear.
Beginning to see things clear already.
I can tell you what you want.
Out of your dreams
and into his arms
you long to fly
You don't need
Egyptian smelling salts
to tell you why
Out of your dreams
and into the hush
of falling shadows
When the mist is low
And stars are
breaking through
Then out of your
dreams you'll go
into a dream come true
Make up your mind,
make up your mind, Laurey
Laurey, dear,
make up your own
make up your own story
Laurey, dear
OI' Pharaoh's daughter
won't tell you what to do
Ask your heart
Whatever it
tells you will be true
Out of my dreams
and into your arms
I long to fly
I will come
as evening comes
to woo a waiting sky
Out of my dreams
and into the hush
of falling shadows
When the mist is low
and stars are
breaking through
And out of
my dreams I'll go
into a dream with you
No!
[whimpering]
(Jud)
Laurey?
Wake up, Miss Laurey.
It's time to start for the party.
[chattering]
Come on. Come on.
Over there. Come on.
That's it. Watch it.
Whoa. Whoa. Whoa.
Hey, I'm talkin' to you,
Chalmers, you stupid mule.
You just dropped that schoolhouse.
I never dropped nothin'.
It's what you cow-folks tend to do.
Hey, hey, hey. Come on
now. Now, stop that right now.
Come on, let me at him.
Now, I'll tell you what.
Hey, Aunt Eller, what's going on?
The farmer and the
cowman should be friends
Oh, the farmer and the
cowman should be friends
One man likes
to push a plow
The other likes
to chase a cow
But that's no reason
why they can't be friends
Territory folks
should stick together
Territory folks
should all be pals
Cowboys dance
with the farmers' daughters
Farmers dance
with the ranchers' gals
Territory folks
should stick together
Territory folks
should all be pals
Farmers dance
with the farmers' daughters
Farmers dance
with the ranchers' gals
(Aunt Eller)
Come on, now. That's right.
What's the matter, Curly,
don't you know how to dance?
This is probably the only
dance you're gonna get.
Fred, will you help me out
now, will ya? Come on. Listen.
I'd like to say
a word for the farmer
Just say it.
He come out West
and made a lot of changes
He come out West
and built a lot of fences
That's right, Will.
And built 'em right
across our cattle ranges
That's right.
Why don't those dirt scratchers
stay in Missouri where they belong?
Hell, we got as much
right here as anybody else.
- Let me at him.
- Stop now.
- You reckon so?
- I reckon so.
Hey. Shut up.
The farmer is a good
and thrifty citizen
He's thrifty all right.
No matter what the
cowman says or thinks
You'll seldom see him
drinking at a bar room
Unless somebody else
is buying drinks
You can't say that about farmers.
The cowman
should be friends
Oh, the farmer and the
cowman should be friends
The cowman ropes
a cow with his ease
The farmer steals
their butter and cheese
But that's no reason
why they can't be friends
Territory folks
should stick together
Territory folks
should all be pals
Cowboys dance with
the farmers' daughters
Farmers dance with
the ranchers' gals
I'd like to say
a word for the cowboy
Oh, you would.
The road he treads
is difficult and stony
He rides for days on end
with just a pony for a friend
I sure am feeling
sorry for the pony
The farmer should be
sociable with the cowboy
if he rides by and
asks for food and water
Don't treat him
like a louse
Make him welcome
in your house
But make sure that you
lock up your wife and daughter
Now, that's not right, now.
Ah, who needs an old farm woman anyway?
Noticed you married one so
as you could get a square meal.
Yeah, you can't talk
that way about our womenfolk.
- Would you shut up?
- He can say what he wants to say.
Now, you stop that.
I'm warning you. Hey!
Ain't nobody gonna slug out anything.
This here is a party.
Sing it, Andrew.
Dum diddy um dum dum
The farmer and the
cowman should be friends
Oh, the farmer and the
cowman should be friends
One man likes
to push a plow
The other likes
to chase a cow
But that's no reason
why they can't be friends
And when this
territory is a state
and joins the union
just like all the others
The farmer and the
cowman and the merchant
must all behave their selves
and act like brothers
I'd like to teach
y'all a little saying
And learn these words
by heart the way you should
I don't say I'm no better
than anybody else
But I'll be damned
if I ain't just as good
I don't say I'm no
better than anybody else
but I'll be damned
if I ain't just as good
Territory folks
should stick together
Territory folks
should all be pals
Cowboys dance with
the farmers' daughters
Farmers dance with
the ranchers' gals
Thanks.
I gotcha.
I'm tellin' ya.
Territory folks
should stick together
Territory folks
should all be pals
Cowboys dance with
the farmers' daughters
Farmers dance with
the ranchers' gals
[cheering]
Boy, I'll tell ya.
Come on, everybody.
It's time to start the Box Social.
Gentlemen, y'all know the rules.
Gotta bid blind.
You ain't supposed to know what girl
goes with what hamper.
'Course if your sweetheart's
told you that hers is done up
in a certain kind of way
with a certain color ribbon,
well, that ain't my fault.
Now we're gonna auction
with all of the hampers
up around the wagon.
Follow me. Come on now.
Thank you, honey.
You all right now?
- Oh, here we go.
- Hey, what's going on here?
My favorite moment.
Psst.
- Hello, young fellow.
- Oh, it's you.
I was just hoping to meet up with you.
It seems like you and me
ought to have a little talk.
We only got one thing to talk about.
Well, Mr. Hakim,
I hear you got
yourself engaged to Ado Annie.
- Yeah--
- Well, nothing.
I don't know what to call you.
You ain't pretty enough for a skunk,
you ain't skinny enough for a snake.
You're too little to be a man
and too big to be a mouse.
I reckon you're a rat.
That's logical.
Hey, answer me one
question. Do you really love her?
'Cause if I thought you
didn't, I'd tie you up in this bag
and I'd drop you in the river.
- Are you serious about her?
- Yes, I'm serious.
Would you spend every
cent you had for her?
That's what I did.
See that bag full of presents?
Cost me 50 bucks.
All I had in the world.
If you had $50 cash--
I'd have Ado Annie and you'd lose her.
Yes.
I'd lose her.
Let's see what you got in here,
I might want to buy something.
What would you want with them?
I'm a peddler, ain't I?
I buy and sell. You know,
maybe I'd pay you real money.
Maybe as much as, well, a lot.
Ah.
What a beautiful hot water bag.
Well, now, it looks French.
It must've cost plenty.
I'll give you $8 for it.
$8?
That wouldn't be honest.
I only paid $3.50.
All right.
All right.
I said I'd give ya $8 for it, and I will.
Say...
That's a crackerjack.
Take your hands off that.
That was for our wedding night.
Yeah, don't fit you so good.
I'll pay you $22.
I only paid--
All right.
All right.
$22.50.
Not a cent more.
You wanna buy some more?
I might.
You ever see one of these things?
What made you buy this for?
You got it in for somebody?
What do you mean?
It's just funny pictures.
That's all
you think it is.
Well, it's
more than that.
Where is everybody?
Where's Aunt Eller?
Over at the auction, Laurey.
(Jud)
Laurey! Laurey!
How much you give me for this thing?
I told you I don't like to
handle things like this.
I guess you don't know what it really is.
(Will)
I sorta do. It's just a girl in pink tights.
Either you two seen Laurey?
Just went over yonder.
Auction's going on there.
Hey, Jud, you know,
here's one of them things
you was lookin' for, the Little Wonder.
How much?
$3.50.
That's a lot of money.
But I got an idea it might be worth it.
Here's 4.
Four and...
Now, let's see.
$3.50 from him.
$45.50 from you.
That makes $50, don't it?
(Ali)
No, $1 short.
(Will) How much for the
rest of the stuff in the bag?
- (Ali) One dollar.
- (Will) Done.
And when I tell her pa who
I got most of the money off,
maybe he'll change
his mind about who's smart
and who's dumb.
Say, young fella, you know,
you certainly buncoed me.
Hey, Aunt Eller.
We got two more hampers over here.
These here are the last two hampers.
Whose they are I ain't got no idea.
Oh, that one's mine.
And the one next to it's Laurey's.
Well, that's the end of that secret.
[laughter]
Now, what do I hear
for Ado Annie's hamper?
- I'll give you two bits.
- Four.
Four.
Who says six?
Slim?
Ain't nobody hungry no more?
What about you peddler man?
Six bits.
- Come on.
- Six bits.
Six bits ain't enough for a
lunch like Ado Annie can make.
What about you, Mike?
You won her last year.
Yeah, that's right.
Say, Ado Annie, you got that same
sweet potato pie
like last year?
You bet.
Yeah, same old sweet potato
pie, Mike. What do you say?
I say it gave me a three-day belly ache.
Well, never mind about that.
Come on now, let me hear...
Bid a dollar.
Ninety cents.
(Aunt Eller)
Ninety cents.
Another desk for the schoolhouse.
Aint' I gonna hear any more?
(Will)
You hear $50.
Hey.
(Aunt Eller)
$50?
Ain't nobody ever bid $50 for lunch, Will.
Ain't nobody ever bid 10.
He ain't got $50.
Oh, yes I have.
And if you were a man of honor,
you gotta say Ado Annie belongs to me.
Like you said she would.
[chatter]
Where's your money?
Right here in my hand.
(Woman)
He got it.
That ain't yours.
You just bid that.
Just give that to the schoolhouse.
Right.
Absolutely.
[chatter]
I got to say the peddler man
still gets my daughter's hand.
Now, wait a minute.
That ain't fair.
Well, it's goin' for $50.
- It's going. It's going. It's--
- $51.
Are you crazy?
Fifty--
What?
Wait a minute.
If I don't bid no more,
I can keep my money, can't I?
Sure can.
Then I still got $50.
This is mine.
You feeble-minded shag poke.
It's going for $51.
It's going. It's going. It's gone.
Yeah.
And that means, Ado
Annie gets the prize, I guess.
That's a $50 bill, ma'am.
Fifty dollar bill.
And I get Ado Annie.
Woo!
What do you get for your $51?
A three-day belly ache.
(Aunt Eller)
Now, listen.
Come on now. Hey.
Now, this here is my niece's hamper.
I took a peek in that a
while ago and I must say
it looked mighty tasty.
So, what do I hear, Jim?
- (Jim) Two bits.
- (Aunt Eller) Two bits.
- (Man) Four bits.
- (Aunt Eller) Four bits.
What do you say, Slim, six?
I say six bits.
Yeah, more like it.
Come on, let me hear $1.
- One dollar.
- (Aunt Eller) One dollar.
One dollar.
$1.50.
- Two dollars.
- And two bits.
$2 dollars and four bits.
Call it now.
- Three dollars.
- Three dollars.
And two bits.
Ain't I gonna hear any more?
- Come on, Curly, come on, Curly.
- Curly, ain't you gonna bid?
Now, I got a bid here.
Three and a quarter dollars.
To Jud Fry.
Well, Andrew, you gonna let him have it?
Three and a half.
Three and a half.
Woo!
- Going. It's going--
- $3.75.
(Aunt Eller)
$3.75.
Yeah, well, come on, gentlemen.
Schoolhouse ain't built yet.
Gotta have a nice chimney.
[clears throat]
Four dollars.
Four dollars.
It's going. It's going. It's--
And two bits.
That's too rich for my
blood. Can't afford no more.
It's going to Jud Fry.
It's going. It's going. It's--
- Who'd you say was gettin' Laurey?
- Jud Fry.
And how much?
(Aunt Eller)
Four and a quarter.
I don't figure that's
quite enough, do you?
More than you got.
No, I got a saddle here that cost me $30.
Well, you can't bid saddles.
Huh.
It got to be cash.
Okay, well, $30 saddle must
be worth somethin' to somebody.
Hmm? Huh?
I'll give you 10.
Don't be a fool, boy. You can't
earn a living without a saddle.
You got cash?
- Right in my pocket.
- All right.
Well, don't let's waste any
time. How high are you goin'?
Higher than you no matter what.
Ooh-ee.
Well, Aunt Eller...
I'm gonna bid all this $10
that Tom's just give me.
Well, it's goin' for $10.
It's going.
It's going.
$10 and 2 bits.
Curly...
Okay, most of you boys know my horse.
Dun.
Hmm?
Come on. She's kinda a
nice horse, gentle or broke.
Don't sell Dun, Curly.
It ain't worth it.
I'll give you 25 for her.
I'll sell Dun to ya.
Well...
That makes the bid 35, Aunt Eller.
Woo, Curly.
You crazy.
But it's all for the schoolhouse.
Ain't it?
It's all for educatin' and learnin'.
(Crowd)
Yeah. That's right.
Laurey's goin' for $35.
It's going.
It's going.
Hold on.
Hold on.
I ain't through bidding yet.
You just put up everything
you got in the world, didn't you?
Can't bid the clothes on your back
'cause they ain't worth nothin'.
You can't bid your gun
'cause you need that.
Yes sir, you need that bad.
So, Aunt Eller, I'm just as reckless
as Curly McLain, I guess.
Just as good at gettin' what I want.
I'm gonna put up
everything I got in the world.
All I saved for two years
doing farm work.
All for Laurey.
Here it is.
$42.31.
(Crowd)
Oh. Oh my word.
Anybody wanna buy a gun?
Curly, come on.
Hey you, Cord, bought that brand new last
Thanksgiving. That's worth a lot.
Curly, please don't sell your gun.
Hmm?
I'll give you $18 for it.
Sold.
Well, that makes my bid $53, Aunt Eller.
Anybody goin' any higher?
Goin', goin', gone.
Well, what's the matter with you folks?
Ain't nobody gonna cheer or nothin'?
Dum diddy
dum dum dum
Oh, the farmer and the
cowman should be friends
That's the idea.
Cowman and the farmer should be friends.
Now, you lost the bid.
But the biddin' was fair.
(Man)
That's right.
Come on, shake the farmer's hand.
Sure.
I'll shake your hand.
And no hard feelings, Curly.
No hard feelings, that's right, now, Jud.
I'm sorry about that.
Curly, come on, give me the...
- Oh.
- Thank you. That's right, now.
Curly?
Curly.
I wanna show you somethin'.
Excuse us, Laurey.
- You ever seen one of them things?
- Just what is that?
Well, it's something special, see?
You hold it up to your eye like this.
[laughs]
Take a look.
No, go on.
You gotta hold it.
(Jud)
Yeah. Go on. Now, hold it.
(Aunt Eller)
Curly!
Curly, what you doin'?
Doin'?
Nothin' much.
Why do you wanna squeal
at a man like that for?
You scared the livin' lights
out of a fella. Come here.
Well, why don't you stop lookin' at those
old French pictures and ask me to dance?
You brung me to the party, didn't ya?
I'll dance with ya, you silly old woman.
I'll dance you all over
the meadow if you want.
- Pick that banjo to pieces, Sam.
- All right.
Hey, Curly.
After you two dance you
gotta take a look at this.
I'll be right here.
You turn the top and the picture's...
(Aunt Eller)
Oh, come on.
Hey, peddler man, it's my
turn to dance with her now.
Hey, Laurey, I gotta talk to you.
Hey, Laurey, I gotta talk. Laurey! Laurey!
Laurey!
Woo!
Well, Ado Annie, I got the $50 cash.
Now, you name the day.
August 15th.
Why August 15th?
That was the first night I was kissed.
Was it?
I don't remember that.
You wasn't there.
Now, looky here, we
gotta have a serious talk.
Now that you're engaged to me
- you gotta stop having fun.
- [gasps]
I mean with other fellers.
You'll have to be
a little more standoffish
when fellers offer
you a buggy ride
I'll give an
imitation of a crawfish
and dig myself
a hole where I can hide
I heard how you was
kicking up some capers
when I was up
in Kansas City, MO
I heard some things
you couldn't print in papers
from fellers who been
talking like they know
Foot!
I only did the kind
of things I oughta, sorta
To you I was as faithful
as can be, for me
Them stories 'bout the way I lost
my bloomers-Rumors
A lot o' tempest
in a pot of tea
The whole thing don't
sound very good to me
Well, you see--
I go and sow my last wild oat,
I cut out all shennanigans.
I saved my money, don't gamble or drink
in the back room down at Flannigan's.
I gave up lots of other things
a gentleman never mentions.
Before I give up anymore,
I wanna know your intentions!
Oh!
With me it's
all or nothin'
Is it all
or nothin' with you?
It can't be in between
It can't be now and then
No half and half
romance will do
I'm a one-woman man
home-lovin' type
all complete with
slippers and pipe
Take me like I am
or leave me be
If you can't give me all,
give me nothin'
And nothin's what
you'll get from me
Not even somethin'?
Nothing's what
you'll get from me
- Oh, Will.
- Nothin'.
- It can't be in between?
- Uh-uh.
It can't be
now and then?
No half and half
romance will do
Would you build me a house
all painted white
cute and clean and
pretty and bright?
Big enough for two,
but not for three
Supposin' that
we should have a third one
He'd better look
a lot like me
The spittin' image
He'd better look
a lot like me
Oh.
Aw, Annie.
- With you it's all or nothin'
- Uh-huh.
- All for you and nothing for me
- Aw, Annie.
But if a wife is wise,
she's gotta realize
that men like you
are wild and free
So I ain't gonna fuss,
ain't gonna frown
have your fun,
go out on the town
stay out late and
don't come home till 3
And go right off
to sleep if you're sleepy
There's no use
waitin' up for me
Aw, Ado Annie
No use
waitin' up for me
- Come on and kiss me
- No.
Come on, Annie.
Come on.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Hold on, now, Laurey.
Why are we stoppin'?
I thought you wanted to dance.
I wanna talk to ya.
What made you slap
that whip onto Old Eighty?
And it make her run away?
What was your hurry?
Afraid we'd be late for the party.
You didn't wanna be
left with me by yourself.
Not a minute more
than you had to, didn't you?
I don't know what you're talking about.
With you by myself now, ain't I?
You wouldn't have been
if you coulda got out of it.
Mornin's you stay hidden
in your room all the time.
Nights you sit in the front room
and won't get outta Aunt Eller's sight.
Last time I seen you alone
it was the winter and the snow
was six-feet deep in drifts and I was sick
and you brought that hot soup
out to the smokehouse
and you gave it to me, and me in bed...
I hadn't shaved in two days.
And you asked me if I had a fever.
And you put your hand on my head to see.
I remember.
Do ya?
I bet you don't remember as much as me.
I remember everything you ever done.
Every word you've ever said.
I can't think of nothin' else.
See?
You see how it is?
Laurey.
Now, Laurey.
Let go.
I ain't good enough for you, am I?
I'm just a hired hand.
Got dirt on my hands.
Pig slop!
Ain't fit to touch you.
You're better.
You're so much better.
No.
We'll see who's better, Miss
Laurey. We'll see who's better.
And then maybe you won't
be so free with your airs.
You're such a fine lady.
No! No!
Are you making threats to me?
You keep standin' there trying to tell me
that if I don't allow you
to slobber over me
like a hog, what, are you
gonna do something about it?
Why, you're nothing but a mangy dog
and somebody oughtta shoot you.
You think so much
about being a hired hand.
I'll just tell you something
that'll rest your brain, Mr. Jud.
You ain't a hired hand for me no more,
so you can just pack up
your duds and scoot.
And I even got better ideas than that.
You ain't to come on the place again.
You hear me?
I'll send your stuff any place you say,
but don't so much as set
foot inside the pasture gate
or I'll sic the dogs on you.
You said your say.
You brought it on yourself.
I can't help it.
I can't never rest.
I told you the way it was.
And you wouldn't listen.
Who's that?
Oh, it's me, Laurey.
Hey, have you seen Ado Annie?
She's gone again.
- Will?
- Uh-huh?
Could you do somethin' for me?
Go and find Curly and tell him I'm here.
I wanna see Curly real bad.
I gotta see him.
Then why don't you turn around
and look then, you crazy woman?
Curly.
Well, you got yours.
I gotta go hunt for mine.
Hey, hey. Now, now. What on
earth is ailing the belle of Claremore?
By gum if you ain't cryin'.
Don't mind me a-cryin'.
I can't help it.
Well, you cry your eyes out.
Shh. Shh.
I don't know what to do.
Well, here, I'll show you.
Oh my goodness.
Oh, that's just...
That's just about all a
man can stand in public.
Oh. Oh, oh, oh.
Go away from me, you.
You don't like me, Curly.
Like ya?
My God, you get away
from me, I tell ya.
You just stay a-plumb away from me.
Curly, you sittin' on a stove!
Ah! Doh!
It's cold as a hunk of ice.
[laughter]
Laurey...
Okay, now you...
You stand there right where you are.
And I'm gonna...
Ow!
Gosh.
I'm gonna sit over here and you
tell me what you wanted with me.
Jud was here.
Okay.
And he scared me.
Well, he's crazy.
I never saw no one like him.
He started talkin' wild
and he threatened me.
So I fired him.
I wished I hadn't.
Well, there ain't no
telling what he'll do now.
- You fired him?
- Uh-huh.
Well, okay, that's all there is to it.
Tomorrow I'll get you a new hired hand.
And I'll stay in the place myself tonight
if you're nervous about that hound dog.
Now, quit your worrying about it
or I'll spank ya.
And, hey...
while I think about it, how about...
how about...
marrying me?
Gracious.
What'd I wanna marry you for?
Well...
I don't know. Couldn't you maybe
think up some reason why you might?
Can't think of none right now hardly.
Laurey...
Please, ma'am, marry me.
I...
I just don't know what
I'm gonna do if you don't.
Curly...
I'll marry you.
If you want me to.
Oh, I'd be the happiest man alive
as soon as we are married.
I gotta learn to be a farmer.
Oh no, I see that.
I gotta quit worrying about
throwing the rope and startin' to get
my hands blistered a new way.
Things are changing right and left.
I gotta buy mowin' machines
and cut down the prairies.
Shoe your horses, drag
them plows under the sod.
You know...
They are gonna make a
state out of this territory.
And they're gonna put it in the union.
Country's a-changin'.
You gotta change with it.
Bring up a pair of boys.
New stock just to keep up
the way things is going
in this here crazy country.
So now I got you to help me.
I'm going to amount to something yet.
You know...
I remember the very
first time I ever seen you.
You was at the fair riding that little
grey filly of Blue Stars.
And I said to someone, I said,
"Who's that skinny little thing with
"a bang hanging down
on her forehead?"
I remember.
And you was riding the broncs that day.
That's right.
And one of them throwed ya.
That's...
[laughs]
Did not throw me.
Guess you jumped off that.
Sure, yeah.
No, I jumped off.
- Yeah, you sure did.
- [laughs]
Hey!
If there's anybody at around this yard
that can hear my voice,
oh, I'd like for you to know
- that Laurey Williams is my girl.
- Curly!
And she went and got me
to ask her to marry me.
They'll hear you all the way to Catoosie.
Let 'em.
Let people say
we're in love
Who cares
what happens now
Just keep
your hand in mine
Your hand feels
so grand in mine
Let people say
we're in love
Starlight
looks well on us
Let the stars
beam from above
Who cares
if they tell on us
Let people say
we're in love
Time for the lonely gypsy
to go back to the open road.
Wished I was goin' with ya.
Then you wouldn't have to be so lonely.
Look, Ado Annie, there is a man I know
who loves you like
nothin' ever loved nobody.
Yes, Ali Hakim.
No, no, no.
A man who will stick to you all your life.
And that's the man for you.
Mm hmm.
Will Parker.
Oh.
Yeah, well, I like Will a lot, but he--
Look, he is a fine fellow, huh?
Strong like an ox.
Young and handsome.
Oh, I love him all right, I guess.
'Course you do.
You love those clear
blue eyes of his, huh?
The way his mouth
wrinkles up when he smiles.
So, you love him, too?
Look, I love him because he will
make my Ado Annie happy.
Well...
goodbye, my baby.
Oh.
I will show you how we say goodbye
in my country.
Goodbye.
Goodbye.
Goodbye. Goodbye.
Good--
I am glad you will marry
such a wonderful man
as this Will Parker.
You deserve a fine man.
And you got one.
Oh, hey, Will.
Ah.
Ali Hakim was just saying goodbye.
Will.
I want to say goodbye to you, too.
No you don't.
I just saw the last one.
[laughs]
You were made for each other.
Now, you be good to her, Will.
And you be good to him.
Oh.
You don't mind?
I am a friend of the family now.
See?
Goodbye, my baby.
A friend of the family.
Persian goodbye.
Lucky fellow.
No, no, you know, I wish it was me
she was marrying instead of you.
Don't seem to make much difference hardly.
Well, back to the open
road, the poor gypsy.
[singing in foreign language]
You ain't gonna be thinking that
old peddler man no more, are ya?
'Course not.
I never think of no one
unless he's with me.
Then I'm never gonna leave your side.
Oh.
Well, even if you don't,
even if you never go away on a trip
or nothin', couldn't you just
once in a while give me one
of them Persian goodbyes?
Persian goodbyes?
That ain't nothing compared
to an Oklahoma hello.
[gasp]
Hello, Will.
Come on.
Three cheers for the happy couple.
Hip hip--
Hooray!
Hip hip--
Hooray!
Hip hip--
Hooray!
There you go with that
healthy appetite, Curly, boy.
Weren't you scared when the preacher
said that about, "Do you
take this here woman?"
Well, I was scared.
That he wouldn't say it.
I was afraid Curly would back out on me.
They couldn't pick a better
time to start in life
It ain't too early
and it ain't too late
Startin' as a farmer
with a brand new wife
Soon be living
in a brand new state
Brand new state
Gonna treat you great
Gonna give you barley
Carrots and potatoes
Pasture for the cattle
Spinach and tomatoes
Flowers on the prairie
where the June bugs zoom
Plenty of air
and plenty of room
Plenty of room
to swing a rope
Plenty of heart
and plenty of hope
Oklahoma when the wind comes
sweeping down the plain
And the wavin' wheat
can sure smell sweet
when the wind comes
right behind the rain
Oklahoma, every night
my honey lamb and I
sit alone and talk
and watch a hawk
makin' lazy circles
in the sky
We know we belong
to the land
and the land
we belong to is grand
that when we say ee-ow
Ee-ow
A-yip-i-o-ee-ay
We're only sayin' you're
doing fine, Oklahoma
Oklahoma OK
Oklahoma, where the wind
comes sweepin' down the plain
Oklahoma, where the wavin'
wheat can sure smell sweet
When the wind comes
right behind the rain
Oklahoma, every night
my honey lamb and I
Every night we sit alone
and talk and watch a hawk
Makin' lazy circles
in the sky
We know we belong
to the land
and the land we
belong to is grand
yipee-yay yipee-yay yipee-yay
We say ee-ow
A-yip-i-o-ee-ay
We're only sayin'
you're doing fine, Oklahoma!
Oklahoma OK
Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Oklahoma
We know
we belong to the land
and the land
we belong to is grand
And when we say ee-ow
A-yip-i-o-ee-ay
We're only sayin'
you're doing fine, Oklahoma
Oklahoma
O-K-L-A-H-O-M-A
Oklahoma
Yeow!
[cheering]
Oklahoma, where the wind comes
sweepin' down the plain
Oklahoma, where the wavin'
wheat can sure smell sweet
when the wind comes
right behind the rain
Oklahoma, every night
my honey lamb and I
Every night we sit alone
and talk and watch a hawk
makin' lazy
circles in the sky
Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Oklahoma
We know
we belong to the land
and the land
we belong to is grand
And when they say ee-ow
A-yip-i-o-ee-ay
We're only sayin'
you're doing fine, Oklahoma
Oklahoma O-K
L-A-H-O-M-A
Oklahoma
Yeow!
[cheering]
Hey, hey, Laurey.
Laurey?
You better hurry and
change into your other dress.
Yeah, we gotta get going in a minute.
Yeah, you better hurry and
pack your own duds, Curly.
They're laying all over my room.
- Yeah. Oh, Will.
- Uh huh?
Would you mind hitchin' up
the team to the surrey for me?
Sure will have it up in a jiffy.
Yeah, I'll...
Has he gone upstairs?
Yeah.
Hey, come on, girls.
Go on, get outta there now.
- Watcha gonna do, Pa?
- Shh.
- Give Laurey and Curly a shivery?
- Shh!
I wish you wouldn't.
Oh, what's a good old
custom ever hurt anybody?
And you ladies, you
just better stay out of it.
Vamoose.
It's an awful thing they shouldn't do.
It ain't gonna be rough, is it?
Stop gabbin' about it.
Get outta here.
You're too young.
[annoying laugh]
Gertie?
Thought you was
in Bushyhead.
I just come from there.
Too bad you missed Laurey's weddin'.
Been havin' one of my own.
Lands.
Who'd you marry?
Where is he?
Is that him?
That's him.
Hello.
Ali Hakim.
Oh, Ado Annie.
Hello.
Did you see my ring, girls?
Is that gold?
It looks fake.
How long you been married?
Four days.
[annoying laugh]
Yeah, four days with that laugh
should count like a golden wedding.
But if you married her
you must've wanted to.
Oh, sure, sure.
No, no.
I wanted to.
I wanted to marry her
when I saw the moonlight
shining on the barrel
of her father's shotgun.
You know, I thought it
would be better to be alive.
[annoying laugh]
And now I ain't so sure.
I'll see you later.
Thank you so much.
- From Persia?
- That's all the way from Persia.
Hey there.
Ali ain't gonna travel
around the country no more.
I decided he oughtta
settle down in Bushyhead
and run Papa's store.
(Ado Annie)
Hey, Will.
Did you hear the news?
Gertie married the peddler.
Mighty glad to hear that, peddler man.
Oh, thank you so much.
I think I oughtta kiss the bride.
Friend of the family, remember?
[laughs]
Hey, Gertie.
Have you ever had an Oklahoma hello?
Uh-uh.
[screams]
- Get off!
- Ow!
Get off.
What's the matter with him?
Are you crazy?
[screams]
Come on!
Help! Help!
[whistle]
Where you goin'?
I'm gonna stop Ado Annie
from killing your wife.
Mind your own business.
Why, Andrew, why wasn't you
back at the barn with us gettin' drunk?
Never seen you stay so
sober at a wedding party.
I was scared all night, scared Jud Fry'd
would come back and start up on Curly.
Jud Fry's been out of the
territory for three weeks.
He's back.
Seen him at Claremore
last night drunk as a lord.
Shh. Come on.
Come on.
[cheering]
Come on down peaceable, Laurey, sugar.
And you too, you curly-headed cowboy.
With the dimple on your chin.
What you doin' out there
makin' all that racket?
You bunch of pig stealers?
[cheering]
Come on, everybody, let's get 'em down.
[yelling]
Hey, where's the happy couple?
Come on, Curly, get up there.
Here's a baby girl for you.
Here's a baby boy.
Here's twins.
(Man)
We got you, Curly, boy.
Weddin' party's still going on?
Glad I ain't too late.
I got a present for the groom.
First I wanna kiss the bride.
Laurey.
Come on now, get off.
Hey, Jud, get up.
[laughing]
Got a present for you.
Come on, come on, now.
Hey, hey.
Leave it.
What's going on?
Get him, Curly.
Come on, that's it, Curly.
Come on.
Hey.
(Aunt Eller)
Stand back now.
Come on now.
(Aunt Eller)
Come on, now, Curly.
Hey, hey, Curly. That's enough!
That ain't gonna stop him.
You let him run.
(Aunt Eller)
Laurey, come up.
Get him off.
That's it! Come on, boys.
That's it.
Come on.
Just settle down--
Come on.
No!
Drop it now!
Hey, look.
What's the matter?
Turn him over.
Get away, some of you.
Let me look at him.
Ain't he all right?
He fell on his own knife.
What do we do?
- Curly, is he--
- Don't say anything.
It can't be that way.
- I didn't--
- It can't be like that.
I can't do a thing now.
Maybe get him to a doctor,
but I don't know.
Maybe someone could
carry him over to my rig.
I'll drive him
to Dr. Tyler.
Look, I gotta go and see if there's
something can be done for him..
Aunt Eller, please, you look after Laurey.
Maybe it's better you and Curly
don't go away tonight. Maybe...
No.
All right, ready?
One, two, three.
Handle him easy.
Don't shake him.
Careful.
I don't see why this had to
happen when everything was so fine.
Now don't let your mind run on it.
I won't ever forget it, I tell ya.
Never will.
That's all right, Laurey baby.
You can't forget, just don't try to.
Oh, lots of things happen to folks.
Sickness or being poor and hungry.
Being old and a feared to die.
That's the way it is.
Cradle to grave.
You can stand it.
There's just one way.
You gotta be hardy.
You gotta be.
You can't deserve
the sweet and tender in life
unless you're tough.
I wished I was the way you were.
Oh, fiddlesticks.
Scrawny and old.
Why, you couldn't hire
me to be the way I am.
What'd I do without you?
You're such a crazy...
Sure as you're borned.
Laurey.
What?
We took Jud over to
Dave Tyler's till the mornin'.
Is he alive?
No ma'am.
Laurey, honey.
Cord Elam, he's a
federal marshal, you know.
He thinks I oughtta give
myself up tonight, he thinks.
Tonight?
Why, your train leaves
Claremore in two hours.
The best thing is for Curly to go
his own accord and tell the judge.
Curly. Curly, come on now.
Well, you're the judge
hereabouts, ain't ya, Andrew?
Yeah, but...
Well, tell him now and get it over with.
That wouldn't be proper.
You have to do it in court.
Oh, fiddlesticks.
Let's do it here
and say we did it in court.
We can't do that.
That's breakin' the law.
Oh, well, let's not break the law.
Let's just bend it a little.
Come on, Andrew, let's start
the trial. We ain't got long.
Aunt Eller, I ain't havin' that.
Oh, come on, Cord,
what's the matter with you?
Hey, Andrew. Andrew, we can work this out.
I ain't going to court, but we can
make it proper and do it legal.
- You know this is wrong.
- It ain't wrong.
We can do it right. We can do it legal.
Andrew, I got
to protest.
Oh, shut your trap.
We can give the boy a fair trial without
lockin' him up on his weddin' night.
So, here's the long and the short of it.
Thank you, Eller.
First, I gotta ask you what you plea.
Huh?
That means why'd you do it?
Oh, why'd I do it?
Well, 'cause he'd always
been pesterin' Laurey.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
Don't let your tongue go wobbling
around in your mouth like that.
Now, listen to my question.
What happened tonight
that made you kill him?
No, he come at me
with a knife.
And you had to defend yourself, didn't ya?
Why, yes.
And furthermore--
Nevermind the furthermores.
The plea is self defense.
Self defense.
[chatter]
We need a witness who saw this happen.
I seen it.
Slim.
Cowman.
He tried to stab him with a frog sticker.
Fred.
Cowman.
Self defense, all right.
Chalmers.
Farmer.
Now, I feel funny about this.
Well, you'll feel funny
when I tell your wife
you're carrying on with
another woman, won't you?
I ain't carryin' on with no woman.
Maybe not, but you'll sure feel
funny when I tell your wife you are.
[laughter]
Now, you can laugh all you like,
but as federal marshal,
I'll tell you now--
Oh, shut up about being marshal.
We ain't gonna let you send
the boy to jail on his weddin' night.
- That's right.
- Now, we ain't gonna let ya.
- So shut up.
- That's right.
Let's pull them to their
train in Curly's surrey.
Hold on.
I ain't told the verdict yet.
Well, the verdict's
"not guilty," isn't it?
'Course, but--
Well, then say it.
Not guilty.
Court's adjourned.
Come on, now Laurey, go get
yourself ready. No time for tears now.
- Andrew, I wanna thank you.
- My pleasure.
Why, Ado Annie, where
on earth have you been?
Will and me had a little misunderstanding.
But he explained it fine.
I got a
beautiful feelin'
Everything's goin' my way
Bride and groom, you ready?
Oh, what a
beautiful mornin'
Oh, what a beautiful day
What?
I got a
beautiful feelin'
Everything's goin' my way
Oh, what a beautiful day
Okla, Okla, homa, Okla, homa
homa, homa, homa
We know we belong
to the land
and the land
we belong to is grand
And when we say ee-ow
A-yip-i-o-ee-ay
We're only sayin' you're
doing fine, Oklahoma
Oklahoma
O-K-L-A-H-O-M-A
Oklahoma
Yeow!