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0:34don't get away from me with that
0:35he walked away from me calling you a
0:37troublemaker what miss francine
0:40yeah he said that told me to grind the
0:43commissioner's office next friday
0:44did they call me down there to see them
0:48white fellas tell me long you got your
0:49complaint fire they can't fire you
0:51they wouldn't go five minutes like
0:53everybody's gonna find me what are they
0:54gonna fight me for asking a question
0:56that's all i've done i went to mr ran
0:58action why
1:00i say well why you got the white
1:02feathers driving the colors
1:03i said what's the matter don't i count
1:06you figure only
1:07white fellas got no sense to drive a
1:08truck yeah this ain't no paper job
1:10anybody can drive a truck why you got
1:12the whitest driving the cutter's good
1:15he tell me take it to the union
1:19hell that's about done no i didn't want
1:21to call this a pack alive
1:23i i told brian if they get the man come
1:25up to
1:26ask some questions just tell the truth
1:29brother ain't got that much sense see
1:30all i want to do is
1:31change the job description give
1:33everybody a chance to grab a truck
1:35sorry can't see that so he ain't got
1:37that much scent
1:40[Music]
1:53if you got anywhere in that game twenty
1:55minutes later you're gonna give him
1:56somebody to tell
1:56somebody to bribe you and that's gonna
1:58be me i'm just saying i see where you're
2:00behind
2:01yeah all the women i don't miss nothing
2:05don't you let nobody tell you troy
2:06maxwell know how to win
2:09you doing more than i hear you don't
2:10bought a drink or two hell yeah i bought
2:13a drink
2:14what that what that mean i bought you
2:16one too what do that mean cause i bought
2:17a drink
2:18i'm just being polite well when you buy
2:20one or two drinks that's what you call
2:22being polite
2:22when you buy a three or four that's what
2:25i like to call i
2:26know that long as you know you you ever
2:29know me to chase women
2:31hell yeah you forget nothing i'm talking
2:34about
2:35happening bro no not since you've been
2:38married
2:38all right then kate's close i see he'd
2:41be walking around her house she supposed
2:42to be up at taylor's
2:44what you watching while i'm walking from
2:46i ain't watching after you
2:48i see you walking around there more than
2:50once you liable to see me walking
2:52anywhere
2:52i don't mean nothing cause you see me
2:53walking around
2:56where she from she just kind of showed
2:58up one day she gotta ask me
3:01you you can look at it and tell she went
3:03on florida again they got some big old
3:05healthy women down there
3:06they growing right underground got a
3:09little bit of
3:10all them [ __ ] down there thought i got
3:12something i don't know about that indian
3:14part but she's so
3:15big and healthy one was a big stalking
3:18hips why does the mississippi river
3:20them legs don't mean nothing you just
3:22move them back away with them hips
3:24and i was pushing for the ride you got
3:27those sick
3:28it's the truth yeah
3:38i don't care about y'all being talking
3:39oh no you're gonna stay for supper oh no
3:41thank you roll
3:42cooking up a whole pot of pizzas
3:49[Music]
3:52i'm cooking some chicken chicken and
3:53collard greens
3:55when you're going back in the eye let me
3:57involve my fish what are you talking
3:58about this isn't me
3:59talking i got some talk with you later
4:02you might know what kind of talk i've
4:04been
4:04going there
4:07come here woman bono you see this one
4:10with me
4:12when i met this woman when i got that
4:14place
4:15i said catch up my pope sound like my
4:18man
4:19there's a woman out there for me
4:20somewhere i looked here i looked there
4:23and i
4:24i saw her
4:54is
5:08put them in the backyard so when you see
5:10a stranger come up here
5:12zap his wings
5:15i can watch the front door myself it's
5:17the fact though
5:20only thing is we first got married
5:24forget the rooster we didn't have no
5:26yard i hate telling me lucille had the
5:28two bedroom with i hopped on logan
5:30street
5:31oh i didn't mind the outhouse number
5:32when that goddamn winner went
5:35that's what i'm talking about oh i ain't
5:37know i can do any better we were down
5:38there for six years
5:41well a lot of folks don't know they can
5:42do better than what they're doing now
5:44that's something they got to learn some
5:46folks still shopping at fellas
5:48hell they ain't nothing wrong with
5:49shopping at bella she got fresh food
5:52i ain't talking about she got fresh food
5:53or not i'm talking about what you charge
5:5510 cents more than the amp
5:59never done nothing for me and i do my
6:01shopping where people
6:02treat me right i go to bella i i say
6:06i need loaf of bread i'll pay your own
6:09fries
6:10she give it to me now now what kind of
6:12sticks that make i get my money and i
6:14gonna spend it somewhere else and i
6:15ignore the person
6:16who done right about me that ain't about
6:19we ain't talking about what's in no
6:21bible
6:21what does it make for you to shout when
6:23they overcharge well look here
6:25you're still gonna be waiting i gotta
6:26get home where you going let it sit all
6:28right
6:30well hell i am if you're gonna turn if
6:32you ever turn the bottle loose
6:35when you do your shopping when you wanna
6:36shop at it and i do my shop when people
6:38don't treat me wrong
6:40well i just don't think it's right for
6:41over charge the only thing is about that
6:43amp is i'm glad corbin got that job done
6:45that he could start
6:47looking out for himself buying this
6:50thing
6:50bang gonna got tight around here cory
6:53started looking out for herself
6:56corydon when he got recruited by a
6:57college football team oh
6:59i told that boy about that football
7:01stuff white man ain't gonna let him get
7:03the word out football i told him about
7:05that when he first covered me with it
7:06now you're gonna telling me
7:07you don't got more tired up in it than
7:08you already were healthy the others will
7:11get recruited on how to fix cars or
7:12something
7:13so he can make a lift he ain't talking
7:15about making no living playing football
7:17it's just something that boys in school
7:18do that recruiter going to be about here
7:20next week to tell you about it and here
7:22he'll tell you he ain't talking about
7:23making no living it's just an honor to
7:25be recruited
7:26he ain't going to get him nowhere bono
7:28tell them that if if you be like you in
7:30the sport destroy he'll be high
7:32ain't but two men play baseball's good
7:34issue that babe ruth and josh gibson
7:37those only two men that hit more home
7:38runs than you yeah
7:39whatever got me what it ever got me huh
7:42i ain't got to pop the piss in or
7:44willing to throw it out well times
7:47unchanged from
7:48when you was young and playing baseball
7:50that was before the war
7:51times are changing they got a lot of
7:55color boys playing ball now
7:56baseball and football you right about
7:59that bro
8:00you don't come along too early yeah
8:02there are not been no time called tour
8:06you take that fella playing right field
8:08for the yeah you gonna talk about hold
8:09on playing right before james
8:38[Music]
8:41well they got a lot of color boys
8:42playing baseball now that jackie
8:44robinson was the first
8:46we had to wait on jackie robinson jackie
8:49robinson want nobody
8:51hey i know 100 [ __ ] play baseball
8:53better than zachary robertson
8:55i know some teams like roberts couldn't
8:56even make talking about detective
8:58roberts
8:59you could play it all that you play
9:01right when i come along too early if you
9:03could play
9:03they all had let you play don't care
9:04what color you were you could play
9:06they'll have to let you
9:19no raffle that ain't nothing but a
9:24fastball little outside coat and you
9:26know what i'll do that bro though
9:29fastballs by the way it's hot or i would
9:32outside corner and play with it we eat
9:34the meat on
9:48you want to go on and talk about death
9:50now ain't no no i'm talking about that
9:53that's a part of life everybody's going
9:55to die
9:56hell you won't die i'm going to die
9:59go no one die and we all going to die i
10:02just don't like to talk about it
10:04you're the one who brought it up i mean
10:07what i'm talking about baseball like
10:08that right
10:09you go telling me i'm gonna take myself
10:11to death and you know i don't think this
10:13book
10:14one night a week that's friday night i
10:17think that's enough where i could handle
10:18that
10:18i turned it loose i leased it wrong so
10:21people tell me about it
10:23then i ain't worried about that you know
10:25i don't see it
10:27now
10:33i looked up one day there
10:38marching straight at it like soldiers on
10:41parade
10:41i'm out there marching straight at
10:46middle of july 1941
10:49he got real cold just like a big one
10:52seemed like death himself he restarted
10:55cut me on the shore
10:56he touched me like i'm touching you
10:57right now i got cold with his eyes
11:01there you step in there you better
11:05talk man
11:09what you wrote mister dad you be with me
11:14you you don't stick your arm to be
11:15getting me i wasn't
11:17there not i wasn't feeling that i
11:20already
11:20tanked but i'm ready to take it right
11:22now the bible said being a [ __ ]
11:25that's why i don't get so drunk
11:40finally he said you won't file lower for
11:45another year
11:46just like that like that you won't buy
11:50lower for another year i totally bound
11:54over here
12:03[Music]
12:08he wrestled
12:12i can't say where i got the stream from
12:15every time i feel like he gonna get the
12:16best of me i'll reach way
12:18down deep inside myself and find the
12:20strength to do no one better
12:22every time troy tell that story to find
12:24different ways to tell it
12:27different things he got made up about it
12:28i ain't making up tonight
12:30i wrestled with that for three days and
12:32three nights i'm telling him to tell you
12:34about it
12:36all right all right the end of the third
12:40night
12:42we don't weaken each other we can't
12:45hardly move
12:48he stood up throw it on the road
13:01i'll be back just like that
13:06be back i said yeah you know how to find
13:10me
13:11i ain't no food yeah i ain't gonna look
13:13for him yeah you gonna still wanna get
13:15me i got jordan's on me this cap will
13:17follow us
13:18as long as i keep my visuals up in my
13:20strength they see him coming
13:22tonight when you keep up your vision
13:25let's let me have that thought
13:28i should've got that tell me that i told
13:30you trump you're talking about something
13:32half the time he don't
13:49[Music]
14:14come
14:25[Music]
14:27i just stopped by
14:35[Music]
14:45that's what i want to hear troy more
14:46about the devil you don't see what
14:48parkinson's oh you too much pop
14:51he ain't seen no devil and i told y'all
14:53anything that man can't understand
14:55he want to call it the devil yeah i
14:57don't think that we don't talk really
15:01look at them i go down to herzberg
15:07buy some furniture they got three rooms
15:10down there from 298.
15:12now what they said on the radio three
15:14rooms 298 they even got a little song
15:16they made up about it
15:18i go around there man tell me i can't
15:21get no credit
15:23working every day can't get no credit
15:26what to do gotta hit the house with some
15:29right ass furniture
15:31corey he ain't got no bed he's keeping
15:34on a pile of rags on the floor
15:36working every day
15:51who know i'm here
16:07got on good clothes and everything can a
16:09clipboard in his head
16:11i ain't have to say nothing the first
16:14girl come out of his mouth
16:15he said i understand you need some
16:18furniture and can't get no rent
16:20i like the fella he said i'll give you
16:22all the credits you want
16:24but you got to pay the interest on i say
16:27well give me three more
16:29next day this truck pull up two millions
16:32got out and
16:33unload them three rooms the third that
16:35was driving the truck
16:37giving this in a book he said um you
16:40send ten dollars to the address in this
16:42book
16:43the first heavy month everything will be
16:45all right
16:47you miss one payment the devil coming
16:50back
16:51and they're going to be held today you
16:53know that was 15 years ago
16:55and i see my team like everybody every
16:58month
17:17and more like clocked how long you've
17:19been paying for 10
17:2115 years 15 years hell haven't you done
17:24paying for it by now yeah yeah i don't
17:26pay for i'm going to pay for it 10 times
17:28more
17:29like this i'm scared to stop paying it i
17:32told y'all troy lyon
17:34we got that furniture down there for mr
17:36glitten that's he can't go ten dollars a
17:37month and nobody
17:39it don't matter if the devil if it
17:40wasn't ever giving credit yeah somebody
17:42got to get pregnant
17:43well i didn't matter talking about
17:44having trouble with the devil now now
17:46god's gonna be the one you have now
17:48he's gonna be one of the judgements yeah
17:50well look here
17:52let me call them ten dollars like i
17:53asked you about i paid back to you
17:55finally got a job working at the
17:57hospital
18:11what that mean to me by the way i don't
18:14care she working you running why don't
18:15you get it out of my mouth she worked
18:17my body work [ __ ] why aren't you
18:19working oh paul you know i can't find a
18:21decent job
18:22well i'ma find a job as part you know i
18:24can't find a decent job i told you
18:26i know some people down there i can get
18:28you over with the rubbers told you that
18:29last time
18:30somebody asked me something well well
18:32well thanks paul but that ain't for me
18:34now i don't want to be carrying nobody
18:36rubbing or
18:37pointing somebody time clock
18:43[Music]
18:45and give you my money come payday
18:48because you're too lazy to work
18:50you're too lazy to work you want to know
18:51why you ain't got what i got
18:53the line what hospital body
19:06[Music]
19:11[Music]
19:26you want to be a musician
19:30well you got to do right for you by
19:32yourself i have to owe you nothing
19:33to yourself right now what do you want
19:35me two different people you got your
19:38where to go
19:38in the world and i got mine the only
19:41thing that matters to me
19:43is the music you got that right it don't
19:46matter how you gonna eat
19:48no matter where your next dollar coming
19:49from
19:55but i gotta live too i need something
19:58that's gonna
19:59make me get up out of bed in the morning
20:01you know make me feel like i belong in
20:02the world
20:03otherwise ain't no telling what i might
20:05do no i don't come
20:07criticizing you about how you live only
20:09thing i did was come
20:10i asked you for ten dollars and you want
20:12to talk about how i live you don't know
20:14nothing about how to live pop
20:17boy come on
20:20well you can't change me i'm 34 years
20:22old
20:23if you want to change me pop you should
20:25have been though when i was growing up
20:28only thing i did coming at you for ten
20:30dollars and you want to talk about how i
20:31was raised
20:33you don't know nothing about how i was
20:34raised troy just let the boy have the
20:36ten dollars
20:38you looking at me no you got ain't no
20:41damn ten dollars
20:42with my money but you you wanna have to
20:44know you get into it
20:46okay i will as soon as you turn it loose
20:56no i assume they died
21:00i ain't gonna get the six of that back
21:02you want to stop that line
21:04headlines thank you all right well
21:07i got to go and uh
21:10you gonna say thank you you're gonna
21:12look back and see what you got them ten
21:14dollars from
21:28all right see you later
21:30[Music]
21:4234 years old you gonna stop that again
21:45look here i got to get going you're
21:48still gonna be raising all kinds of
21:56hello
22:09so i gotta go back to the face so
22:13don't you come by my house by the
22:14morning early i'm not going to work
22:17still be strong all right destroy the
22:20whole thing
22:24troy all right
22:41will be offense all around me
22:44every day jesus
22:49wants you to protect me as i travel
22:55[Laughter]
23:07coffee this morning all right oh you
23:10know that six five
23:11one hit yesterday second time this month
23:14miss pearl she hit for a dollar seem
23:16like those that needed the least
23:18always get lucky because po folks can't
23:21get nothing
23:23them numbers don't know about it i don't
23:25know what they're all fooled with
23:26you were lying folks it's something to
23:28do troy
23:30all you're doing is throwing your mother
23:31away now you know i don't play foolishly
23:34just a nipple here nipple there them two
23:36[ __ ] you're gonna throw it away
23:39i hit sometimes and that make up for it
23:42i don't hear you complaining then hell i
23:45ain't complaining enough i'm just saying
23:46this
23:46foolishness trying to guess that all the
23:48way are never going to go
23:50if i had to have one of these [ __ ]
23:51thrown away on numbers for one week
23:53just one week i'll be a [ __ ] man well
23:56you wishing and calling it foolish ain't
23:58gonna stop folks and playing the numbers
23:59that's one thing for sure
24:01besides some good things come off their
24:02numbers look how mr pope got in that
24:05restaurant
24:05off the numbers i can't stand [ __ ]
24:09like that
24:10and then walk around here with a shoe
24:13run over
24:14bumping money for cigarettes all right
24:16he got lucky hit the note
24:17all right i know all about it yeah
24:21he ain't throwing money away bumping
24:24that restaurant down there
24:26i've seen some [ __ ] hit the numbers
24:28that go through four thousand dollars in
24:29two days
24:41a color fella go down there one time i
24:42couldn't get no kind of stuff
24:44i see the white fella going out and
24:46order a bowl of stew
24:48pour went in the back and picked out all
24:50the meat out of the pot for the man
24:53man they had nothing but a a bowl of
24:54meat yeah colored feeler come behind him
24:57all you gotta
24:58calves and potato you picked the wrong
25:00example
25:01all right choice
25:05before all right
25:08you know what you shouldn't worry about
25:10what happened at your job yesterday
25:13worrying about that everybody think they
25:15gonna fire me i ain't everybody gonna
25:17find me i ain't worried about that you
25:18can bet that i ain't worried about that
25:22what we're calling corey now corey
25:25sorry he going out he going out huh
25:29he going out cause you know i want him
25:31to help me fix this fence
25:32that's why he's going out he had to go
25:35to football practice
25:36the coach wanted him to be a little yeah
25:38i got his practice
25:39i got his pride he ain't none of his
25:41chores that that boy i scared to work
25:44a little record all in life charlie what
25:46is wrong with you this morning there's
25:47nothing wrong with me why something
25:48wrong with me
25:49cuz you got something to say about
25:50everything versus the numbers this is
25:53how pope got his restaurant
25:54then you want to get on corey what's it
25:56going to be next
25:57we'll come back to the sky see how the
25:59weather suits you or is it going to be
26:01i can't pull up this fish with all these
26:02clothes hanging in there
26:04on the hair dude i know you like i know
26:07the back of my hand
26:09you go in there and get you some coffee
26:10or something cause maybe i'll straighten
26:12you out cause you ain't right this
26:13morning
26:14yes ma'am i got plums hmm
26:1810 cents a piece three four quarters
26:21coming back
26:28[Music]
26:32what you got there you know what i got
26:36rude i got fruits and
26:50everybody
26:54[Music]
27:01[Music]
27:18my key it's my key
27:23my key ain't nobody got a key like that
27:25my key
27:26michael rose that's good gabe
27:30that's good you got your own key that's
27:32that's good gabe you hungry
27:34i can fetch you some breakfast getting
27:35ready to pick troy his breakfast
27:37i'll take some business you got some
27:39business
27:41did you know that when i was in heaven
27:43me and saint peter would sit down by the
27:45gates
27:46and eat us some big fat biscuits oh yeah
27:49we have ourselves a good time
27:50we [ __ ] everybody and eat some biscuits
27:53they say peter will go off to sleep and
27:55tell me to wake him up
27:56when it's time to open the gates but
27:58come on in uh make sure
27:59batch of biscuits troy
28:02st peter got your name in the book i see
28:04you it's a troy max
28:07i said i know him he got the same name
28:10what i got
28:11that's my brother okay how many times
28:14you gonna tell me
28:15ain't got to have my name in the book i
28:16just died and went to heaven
28:18but he got your name though one day
28:21looking at the book marking it up for
28:22the judgment and he showed it
28:24got it got rose name i ain't seen it
28:28like i seen yours
28:29but i know what's in there got everybody
28:31new to ever been born
28:33that's what he told me but i think your
28:35name i sent you with my own eyes
28:37hey what are you going to get something
28:39rose going to teach you something
28:41oh i ain't hungry i don't have breakfast
28:43with ain't your mom
28:46she cooked me a whole mess of flapjacks
28:49we used to eat some flapjacks
28:51okay i gotta spill my flour
28:56i just saw
29:05so i can buy a new orange
29:12yeah that's the hill house
29:17i got i gotta chase them away from here
29:20go away from here
29:27make it ready for judgment
29:30making ready for the judgment my lord is
29:34coming down
30:00it just seemed like something ought to
30:01be done to help you that's all what you
30:03want to lock him up for
30:04i don't want to be locked up just like a
30:06[ __ ]
30:08they can help him take care of himself
30:10but man go over there and fight that war
30:14mess around with them damn japs get half
30:16his head blowed off
30:18we ain't getting allowed to three
30:19thousand dollars now i
30:29well ain't no sense you blaming yourself
30:30for nothing gabe was in no position to
30:33manage that money
30:34you don't know what was right by detroit
30:36nobody said you didn't i think what i'm
30:38saying bro i'm just thinking this fast
30:40look at the one for that damn another
30:41plate i want to have a [ __ ] piss in
30:43or we're gonna throw it out of and
30:44i'm 53 years old let's see if you can
30:46understand that
30:50where you going you're supposed to be
30:51working on this fence
30:53i'm going under taylor's for a little
30:54while listen to the ball game i'll be
30:56back in a bit
30:57i'll work on that when i come back
31:08[Applause]
31:25[Music]
31:29he said you're supposed to be helping
31:30him with this fence you've was saying
31:31that for the past four or five seconds
31:32he ain't gonna do nothing
31:33going down in taylor's correct did you
31:35uh tell him
31:37yeah i told him well what did he say not
31:40too much
31:41you go on there and get started on the
31:42chores and scrub down the steps before
31:44he get back here holiday carrying on
31:46homie what you got to eat
31:47going there you stand on them chores
31:51there's something open the refrigerator
31:53make yourself a sandwich
31:54and don't make no mess in there
32:24into the ball game
32:37[Music]
33:09on salmon everything else come out of
33:10that then you get that salt
33:13and cut them both
33:51what i wouldn't know so you can watch
33:53things on it
33:54you know lots of things on tv not even
33:56got baseball let me watch the world
33:58series
33:59i'm gonna put it on tv oh i don't know
34:02they got them on sale for about 200
34:04hundred dollars and that ain't much bob
34:08no that's that's that's two hundred
34:09dollars
34:13you see that roof over your head tonight
34:16let me tell you something about that
34:18rule
34:20it'd been another 10 years since that
34:21roofer last time
34:24it wouldn't come the snow sit up like it
34:27is
34:28they're going to sleep all in the house
34:30ain't going to be a little bit at first
34:32you know how to notice
34:44i don't know 254 dollars
34:48cash money now while you think about a
34:52tv and everything else
34:53i'm thinking about fixing that roof and
34:55everything everything else going wrong
34:56around here
34:57now if you have 200 what would you do
34:59would you buy a tv or you fix the roof
35:02that's easy i'd buy the tv
35:05[Music]
35:07then when it started to leak wouldn't
35:10need to fix it
35:12i fixed it
35:16you gonna get your money from you gonna
35:18spend your money on a brand new tv
35:20you wanna sit in your house and watch
35:21that water run all over your brand new
35:23tv
35:24well you ain't gotta pay for it all at
35:25once you can put it down people don't
35:27wanna take it home with you know i ain't
35:28gonna know
35:42you go ahead i want to buy you a tv if
35:44you want to i got a better thing to do
35:46with my money
35:47ah you got the money i know you do [ __ ]
35:48well i got that huh you got it in the
35:50bank oh you want to see my bank book you
35:52want to see them 1735 since i got it
35:55come on
36:06well i ain't got no two hundred dollars
36:09i never seen two hundred dollars
36:12well i'll tell you what you get a
36:13hundred dollars out of 100
36:17all right let me show you
36:20right now you're going to show me how to
36:21cut them both
36:26you know the pirates one today make five
36:28in a row i ain't thinking about those
36:30damn
36:30pirates they got an all-white team
36:34we got that puerto rican boy clemente
36:37he can have white beasts so they
36:43he gets lots of chances to play talk
36:46about playing a regular boy playing
36:47every day when you get the timer down
36:49and i'm talking about playing every day
36:51they got white guys on the tv you play
36:53with it you can't play everybody at the
36:54same time
36:55they got a white color on the tv to bet
36:57your last daughter you can't play
36:59but cuddle fella gotta be twice good to
37:00get on the team that's why we want to
37:02get mixed up with them sports
37:03all them the same they got covers on the
37:05team and don't even play them that's the
37:07same it's not even happening
37:09the braves have hanging air in the west
37:11covington hey aaron hit two home runs
37:13there i ain't carrying ain't nobody
37:17four hours right now mr league [ __ ] you
37:19couldn't hey
37:44[Music]
37:59[Music]
38:03and holding that job at the amp
38:06mrs stella job for me say start the next
38:09week
38:11what kind of foolish that is this might
38:12take away your job
38:14what do you mean get your money from
38:15take your girlfriend out and whatnot
38:18what kind of food is that take it with
38:20your jobs you can play some damn
38:21football
38:22you're still gonna have a weekend yeah
38:23i'll write you are you gonna get your
38:24job back
38:27now look here boy go ahead and get your
38:29book blown up you a trade or something
38:32the white man let you get up with that
38:34football stuff
38:35get you a trade you don't have to build
38:37houses and fix cars and use your hands
38:39put your hands some good news besides
38:41hauling people's garbage
38:42i get good grades
38:59back you can't keep that job down in the
39:02afp and keep up with the choice
39:04you just gotta quit the football team
39:07you gotta take the clinic with the
39:08straights
39:08the crooked with the straights
39:12look at that a
39:26football
39:35can i ask you a question
39:38there you would ask me to start with you
39:40one of the questions
39:50like
39:54who the hell said i gotta like you
39:59what law is just saying i gotta like you
40:03you wanna stand in my face ask me a damn
40:05fool ass question like that talking
40:07about
40:07liking somebody come here boy
40:10come here i'm talking to you
40:18straighten up goddammit now i ask you a
40:21question
40:23what law is there to say i gotta like
40:25you
40:28well all right then don't you eat every
40:30day
40:32yeah [ __ ] as long as you in my house
40:34you put a circle into that
40:36you eat every day yes sir you got
40:39clothes on your back
40:42a roof over your head
40:45why do you think that is
40:48because of you well i know what's
40:50causing me
40:51but why you think that is
40:55because you like it
41:01i go out here every morning busting my
41:04butt
41:04putting up with them crackers every day
41:06cause i like you
41:08about the biggest food i ever saw it's
41:12my job
41:13it's my it's my duty our responsibility
41:16you understand
41:17a man gonna take care of his family
41:20you live in my house stick you behind on
41:23my bed clothes
41:24fill your bed up with my food because
41:25you my son
41:27do my flesh and my blood cause my duty
41:31not cause i like let's get this straight
41:34right now pokemon
41:35[ __ ] listen i ain't gotta lie
41:39mr rand don't give me my money come
41:41payday cause he like me
41:43he give me cause he owes me now i don't
41:46give
41:46everything i had to get i gave you life
41:50you mean your mama you put that
41:52opportunity and knocking your black ass
41:54on the part of the body
41:56so don't you go through life worried
41:58about whether or not somebody like
41:59you or not you best be making sure
42:02they're doing the right value you
42:04understand
42:05you understand yes sir we'll get the
42:07hell out of my face
42:08definitely change up my dynamite and
42:10peek at the job
42:20why don't you go ahead and let that one
42:21play football troy
42:23ain't no harm in that and he just trying
42:26to be like you with them
42:29i don't sports to be like me i want me
42:32to get as
42:33far in my life as he can bros you know
42:36this
42:37thing never happened to me i i wish him
42:39that but i don't wish him nothing else
42:41for my life
42:42no i decided 17 years ago that boy he
42:45won't really get mixed up in those
42:46sports
42:46not the way they did to me in sports
42:50why don't you admit you was too old to
42:51play in the major leagues but let's just
42:53admit that
42:55you mean too old don't tell me i was
43:04how you gonna play baseball when you was
43:05over party troy
43:07sometimes i can't make no no sense out
43:09of you
43:10i got a good sense woman i got good sex
43:13i got enough sense nothing that one get
43:15hurt playing those sports
43:17you've been muddling the board too much
43:18he around here running by the people
43:20people liking it
43:23everything that boy do he do for you he
43:26just wants you to say good job son
43:28that's all
43:29rose i ain't got time for that he he
43:32you're alive he healthy hell he got to
43:35make his own way i made mine
43:36everybody hold his hand out here in the
43:38world
43:40time's gonna change from when you was
43:41young troy
43:43people change the world changing around
43:46you
43:47and you can't even see it warmer
43:52okay i do the best i can do i come in
43:55here every friday
43:57i carry a bucket of lawn and a stock of
43:58potatoes y'all lying up at the door with
44:00your hands out
44:02i give you a link in my pocket i give
44:04you my sweat
44:05and my blood and i ain't got
44:21to the next ride that's all i got bro
44:26but that's all i got to give
44:29i can't give nothing else
44:37[Applause]
44:43i got it
44:46hello corey hey jesse now just getting
44:49ready to leave now
44:52yeah i told you man this bike's all
44:54torah girl got this bike though
44:56for me ma'am i'm talking to jesse
44:59yeah when she say that all right
45:04[Music]
45:13get back in here you got all this stuff
45:15thrown out and pulled out in your room
45:16yes you want to
46:09[Music]
46:12um
46:26um
46:48[Music]
46:54i went down near the commissioner's
46:56office today and talking with people
47:00come from the top they're gonna make me
47:03a driver
47:05all right
47:09[Music]
47:23come on pop now that ain't got nothing
47:24to do with me all right
47:26i don't go down there again i go down
47:28there sit down with the band
47:29now that gambling part they ain't got
47:31nothing to do with me
47:32but they do got some good music down you
47:34got some roads down there what they got
47:36how are you doing how are you doing i
47:38see when you be playing the crossbar
47:40tonight
47:41now how come we bring bonnie back like i
47:43told you i ain't seen that in a month
47:45well i was just in the neighborhood yeah
47:47you gonna start
47:48to stop by there you go um
48:19driver's license on my business
48:28oh i know what kind of looking up that
48:30is looking for this one
48:31it's friday day the [ __ ] out there on
48:35there
48:35the ones that ain't in jail the lions
48:36hop into this [ __ ]
48:39now look here you give somebody else a
48:41chance to talk
48:42you're going to see that i often get ten
48:45dollars back like i told you
48:56you put that in the bank the next time
48:58you want to come ask me for something
49:00you can go get that
49:12for the next six months oh troy you can
49:15hang yours over here too
49:19see how they doing
49:20[Music]
49:20[Laughter]
49:23the same way ready for the judgment
49:27begging for judgment
49:33[Music]
49:42jungle hey rose
49:46i i brought you a flower
49:50that's right it's a rose like you is
49:54so what you been doing again oh
49:58i've been chasing hellhounds and waiting
49:59on st peter to open the gates
50:01she's a hill house huh well i guess you
50:04doing the right thing
50:05somebody got to do it oh i know
50:15they were strong but
50:19i hear hounds tripping everybody's feet
50:22but i got my arm
50:23i'm waiting on judgment time so you
50:25waiting on the battle again
50:27ain't gonna be much of a battle when god
50:29gets waving that judgment short
50:32but people don't have a hell of a time
50:33getting in heaven
50:35[Music]
50:37if the gates ain't open
50:52want no plate i won't eat with my hands
50:55i'll take a sandwich bros
51:01lions king of the jungle
51:04will you come on in and i'll make you a
51:06plate and a sandwich
51:08troy mad at me what you made a little
51:11gay football
51:13he think troy made him because he went
51:15over that move with his pearl
51:16what do you mean you know his girl don't
51:19like nobody
51:20oh she don't mind him too much she's
51:22real nice to him she just don't allow
51:23all that singing
51:25she don't mind that really playing that
51:27one she don't like nobody going into
51:28that but you know
51:29troy he over there because he wanted to
51:31come and go as he pleased yeah they
51:32could come and go his plea right i ain't
51:34put no rules
51:35it ain't the same thing and you know it
51:37i don't hear nothing else about gabe and
51:39miss pearl
51:40oh and next week whenever recruiter
51:41comes by here you're gonna sign that
51:43paper
51:43let corey play brothers okay
52:01thinking he can do what he want to do he
52:03respect him for what i said
52:06well he [ __ ] broke down there he
52:08ain't really gonna die now
52:09i went down there mr stoneman said he
52:11ain't been down there he pulled me from
52:12the weekend that wasn't lying to me he
52:14ain't running over again
52:15well he ain't doing nothing but busting
52:17your scenes and trying to fill in your
52:18shoes
52:18uh i don't care what he's trying to do
52:20when he gets to the point where he will
52:22disobey me it's time for him to move on
52:25hell i bet you
52:26i bet you bono ain't that disobedient
52:28without paying the consequences i bet
52:29you that
52:30ain't never had a chance to my daddy
52:33just come on through
52:35and he doing this i never knew him to
52:36see him what he was going and what was
52:39on his mind just coming on through
52:41section not a new land that's what the
52:42old folks called lying to certain new
52:44lands
52:44going from place to place woman to woman
52:48and then i come around i ain't want no
52:50kids
52:51i didn't know if i was going to be in
52:52one place do right by them as their
52:54daddy
52:55and as it turned out i've been with
52:57lucille about as long as your daddy had
52:58been with rose we're going
52:59on 16 years
53:03sometimes i wish i ain't know my dad
53:07my dad didn't care nothing about those
53:08kids
53:10and all he wanted to do was learn how to
53:13walk so you can start to work
53:16when it comes time to eat he ate first
53:19you got what was left over
53:22i seen that man sit down and eat four
53:24chickens and give you away
53:26come on pop nah everybody take care of
53:28their kids
53:29no matter how hard times is they make
53:31sure they have something to eat
53:32the only thing my dad cared about was
53:35getting them bales of cotton mr louis
53:37that's the only thing he cared about
53:39i used to run sometimes why he was still
53:43living
53:44why the devil ain't coming guy and
53:47that's all he cared about
53:49get them battle cockney mr luke find out
53:52he owe him money
54:06he was crap he was trapped now i think
54:09he knew he was trapped
54:11but i know one thing maybe he didn't
54:14treat us like the way i
54:15thought he should have but he had a
54:18responsibility to it
54:19and without the responsibility he could
54:21have walked off and made his own way
54:23that's how they did it back in the day
54:25you see a fella just going down one road
54:27or another looking for something else
54:29they think they call it the walking blue
54:32that's what i'm talking about
54:50couldn't stand that evil and she
54:55she ran off without about eight
54:58all this would run out he wasn't good
55:00for nobody
55:02my mama she sneaked off one night
55:06she told me she was gonna come back and
55:09get me i ain't
55:10i ain't never seen him no more
55:14my time coming right off the head out i
55:17was
55:18about four
55:33my dad is sitting out losing plowing i
55:36tied up all
55:37right boy and we're gonna fool around
55:39with joe kane's one dog
55:41we don't went down there by the tree
55:43that got real cozy
55:46she about 13.
56:01rainbow hat don't got loose i don't want
56:03him back to the house
56:05and my daddy was looking for him me and
56:08that gal
56:09we down there by that creek and jordan i
56:12was saying that
56:14my daddy going ball
56:17i jumped up mad at him my dad
56:21he had he had the ring off around me
56:25and he committed whipping on me like
56:27they were tomorrow
56:29right now i hopped up trying to get out
56:31the way
56:33i thought he was mad at me because i
56:35ain't done my work
56:37but i see he was running me off so he
56:40had a gal to himself when i
56:44when i figured out the matter of it was
56:46i i lost all the feeling right there
56:50i got the same rain yeah
56:53my time people in the range and i
56:56started looking over here
56:58like yeah she she jumped up and run off
57:01my daddy turned around in the face man
57:04i see why the devil ended up coming
57:06again
57:11i don't remember what happened after
57:12that i woke up down there by that creek
57:16this old dog over here look at my face
57:18and i thought i was blind
57:20both my clothes were swollen shut
57:24i ain't know what to do they better
57:27creep crying
57:30i knew one thing though time for me to
57:33leave my daddy house
57:34i knew that and right then at that point
57:37the world
57:37was suddenly got real big it was a long
57:41time before i could cut it down so i
57:42could have one
57:44part of that cutting down while i feel
57:46my daddy kicking in my blood
57:50and i realized one thing separated us
57:53just a matter of a few years
57:56what you got done forget it got myself a
57:59ham sandwich
58:00rose made me a ham sandwich you know
58:04i don't lost track with everybody except
58:06for game
58:08i don't know what happened to my dad
58:11but i hope he did i hope he found some
58:14peace
58:15that's what he hated the story pop i
58:17didn't know you were 14 when you got out
58:19on your own
58:20yeah didn't know that all the thing i
58:22knew was going forty two eggs and
58:24mississippi's land that's all i care
58:25about
58:27my team was kind of young i don't know
58:28what i would've done
58:30i laid you down there by that creek
58:34and i said i do it for him i don't want
58:36to try my
58:37my luck in the city lay down about that
58:40creepy i got up and i walked him over
58:43i walked in
58:47wait a minute you ain't walking 200
58:49miles apart you talking about
58:51200 miles that's a lot of walking though
58:53that's how they did it back in the day
58:55[ __ ] damn if i want to hit the ride with
58:57somebody who are you going to hit your
58:58island boy
58:59huh they have no cars anything that they
59:02got now
59:10i was just talking to bonnie asking why
59:11she didn't come on back then she tell me
59:13you supposed to be picking it up
59:15okay bro i went on down to mobile
59:20and i hooked up with some from a fellow
59:22that were coming up this way
59:24and i got a pen i thought i was free
59:32not only couldn't you find no job you
59:34didn't have nowhere to live
59:36covered folks living down there on the
59:37riverbanks and whatever kind of show
59:39they could find
59:41right down there on the brady street
59:43bridge
59:50she messed around and went from bad to
59:52worse
59:54started stealing first it was
59:58it was full
1:00:08[Music]
1:00:15[Music]
1:00:25[Music]
1:00:27three times and i still let me feed me
1:00:29her and
1:00:30and him i went out one day leaving
1:00:33somebody
1:00:33wrong how would i water rock
1:00:37i'm ashamed or not but it's the truth i
1:00:40was a robber
1:00:42i went out one day he was about to rob i
1:00:44come on this fella
1:00:47robin i pulled my knife out i pulled out
1:00:50my knife he pulled out
1:00:52and he shot me feel like
1:00:56hot brown and iron they say when they
1:01:00shot me i jumped up with my knives and i
1:01:02killed them
1:01:04they put me in the table for 15 years
1:01:08that's why i met bola i brought her out
1:01:11to play baseball
1:01:14when i got out yo mama she done she
1:01:17moved on i made a lot for us 15 years a
1:01:21long time far away
1:01:23but those 15 years curled me all that
1:01:26foolishness
1:01:26carried on i wrote she tell you
1:01:30when i met her she matched me she said
1:01:32yo you got all that food
1:01:35i said baby only thing counting me is
1:01:38you in
1:01:39baseball she asked me he asked me
1:01:43which one comes first i said babe ain't
1:01:46no doubt
1:01:47it's baseball
1:01:50agent
1:01:55talking about baby you always be number
1:01:58one with me
1:01:59that's what you were talking about
1:02:01that's why i know that
1:02:03that's why i love the bono get off live
1:02:30all right well take care rules
1:02:40[Music]
1:02:55[Laughter]
1:03:00i don't
1:03:14we do some things man we still standing
1:03:17showing the show man couldn't actually
1:03:20no more than that
1:03:21you should write about that troy
1:03:27i love you
1:03:32i love you too i see you got your woman
1:03:35in hand i'm gonna head on home and get
1:03:36mine
1:03:37uh you gonna die i see you monday troy
1:03:44what did you do that for pop what's the
1:03:46matter cory probably
1:03:47went down to the school until it goes
1:03:48down i can't play football though
1:03:51yeah i did it and therefore i know why i
1:03:53did it why are you gonna go there to be
1:03:55taught
1:03:56to yourself
1:04:11and play football too i try to tell you
1:04:12that but you and i want to listen to
1:04:14nobody
1:04:20that boy been lying to me you know what
1:04:22i did i told him
1:04:24just
1:04:38gonna do nothing now i'm gonna tell you
1:04:40what the mistake was
1:04:42so you just wanna get the ball and you
1:04:43missed you're in the balance box now
1:04:47you swung at the ball and you missed
1:04:49that strike one
1:04:52don't you strike out
1:05:03[Applause]
1:05:20so
1:05:23cory come in here and help me clean out
1:05:24the covers please i ain't quitting the
1:05:26team
1:05:27i don't care what i'm saying well i'll
1:05:29talk to him when he gets back
1:05:31he had to go see about your uncle gabe
1:05:32they got arrested say he was disturbing
1:05:35the peace
1:05:47[Music]
1:06:02is
1:06:10that's all they care about is that money
1:06:12they don't care about what's right
1:06:19[ __ ] why are you gonna get some hard
1:06:20wood all you need is some power
1:06:22you just build a little old fence yeah i
1:06:24know what i'm doing
1:06:25hell you seeing sidewall you put pine
1:06:28wood
1:06:28it's inside wool pine wood
1:06:53the old folks my granddaddy used to pull
1:06:55his teeth out with pies all the time he
1:06:57had no dinner folks back there you get
1:07:01[Music]
1:07:12guys
1:07:26troy
1:07:35[Music]
1:07:54just
1:08:37wants to hold on to you she loves you
1:08:40[ __ ] i know my wife loves me been
1:08:42married to 18 years i don't need to tell
1:08:43me she loves me
1:08:46corey go in the house if you found
1:08:48another song let's say
1:08:50i said find it you look forward to your
1:08:53fire
1:09:02what you mean you're trying to keep us
1:09:04in
1:09:15when you chose rose i was like my man
1:09:17troy knows what he's doing
1:09:19i'm following his name and i've been
1:09:21following you too
1:09:22you know you know talking about how to
1:09:25tell
1:09:26[ __ ] from my father you're gonna told me
1:09:28i learned a lot of things from you troy
1:09:30all i'm saying is rose is a good woman
1:09:34[Music]
1:09:46just like i say anything else
1:09:52you can't find a better woman being
1:09:54white
1:09:55but this other girl
1:10:15control troy that's what you used to
1:10:17tell me who's responsible for what you
1:10:19do
1:10:20i know what she means to you i ain't
1:10:24trying to do
1:10:24[Music]
1:10:25turning like that i mean she's gonna be
1:10:28with me
1:10:39like that i tried to follow my heart and
1:10:42it
1:10:42take it right from wrong every time i'm
1:10:45just trying to look at that one
1:10:47and try to work it out but work it out
1:10:49so it'll come out right
1:10:51you can juggle the both of them you
1:10:53assume that you're gonna drop one what
1:10:54you gonna do when she finds out
1:10:56i love you on
1:11:11is and miller don't need that money bad
1:11:13news still get that refrigerator
1:11:15tell you what i do you finish building
1:11:18this here fence
1:11:19and i'll buy this in that refrigerator
1:11:26hey where you going [ __ ] i know you
1:11:29don't expect me to help you feel this
1:11:30fence now
1:11:31you'll be here another six months
1:11:32without me i'm just trying to take my
1:11:34money
1:11:35you ain't right when it comes to my
1:11:37money i'm riding the fireworks on the
1:11:394th of july all right you better get
1:11:40your facebook out
1:11:46so what they say
1:11:51man i just i went down there and i i i
1:11:53did a judge fifty dollars and they gonna
1:11:55have a hearing
1:11:56show called why he shouldn't be
1:11:58recommitted
1:12:01so what did he do to get arrested it
1:12:04wasn't none he was just
1:12:05it was some kids was bothering me he
1:12:06brought him home home and
1:12:08some folks saw him and he was out there
1:12:09howling and carrying on and
1:12:11and some folks folks told me to call the
1:12:13police that's all it was
1:12:15so what'd you say what'd you tell a
1:12:17judge i told them that i would
1:12:19look out for them and stuff and they
1:12:20just took out this big old greasy hair
1:12:22and i'd give him to the doll and then
1:12:23let him go
1:12:25so where are you now where'd he run off
1:12:27to he going
1:12:28about his business bro was he anybody to
1:12:30hold his hand i don't know troy
1:12:33i just think it would be best if they
1:12:34just
1:12:35[Music]
1:12:37now i know what you're going to say but
1:12:39i just think that'll be best
1:12:41you want to lock him up four rows ain't
1:12:43just mixed up because of that meditation
1:12:45and said he don't bother nobody what you
1:12:46want to lock him up
1:12:47let the man be free everybody got their
1:12:51own way of looking at it i guess
1:12:52i got some lunch a lot of beans and
1:12:54cornbread in the oven come on in i'll
1:12:56show you lunch
1:12:57ain't no sense in french
1:13:01i need to talk to you about stuff
1:13:14i don't know how to explain it it kind
1:13:15of just kind of like grows on until it
1:13:18gets out of hand kill it
1:13:22it starts out like a little old bush and
1:13:24then before you know there's a big old
1:13:25forest
1:13:26what are you talking about
1:13:43you're telling me you're gonna be what
1:13:51[Music]
1:14:01[Music]
1:14:12to
1:14:20a brilliant quarter gabe go in the house
1:14:22i got some
1:14:24i got some watermelon in the fridge
1:14:26today
1:14:37i was chasing hellhounds and the bad man
1:14:40came and put me away
1:14:42troy help me he came down there and told
1:14:46him
1:14:46you better let me go he's going to beat
1:14:48them up
1:14:50he did go on in the house now the
1:14:52batman's all gone now
1:14:55get your watermelon okay i'm gonna get
1:14:57some watermelon if
1:14:58you count with the stripes on
1:15:01troy why after all these years don't
1:15:04make no sense at your
1:15:05age what are you gonna do with it i'm
1:15:07expecting 10 or 15 years ago but not now
1:15:12i don't try to be everything a wife
1:15:14could be
1:15:16everything a wife should be
1:15:19i've been married 18 years and have to
1:15:21live to see today you've been seeing
1:15:22another woman and then following a child
1:15:24by her
1:15:25and you know i never want no half
1:15:27nothing's in my family
1:15:30my whole family's half we can't sit down
1:15:34and say
1:15:34papa and mama it's either your father
1:15:36your mama my papa my mama
1:15:38and i ain't never want that for a lot of
1:15:40my children troy and you want to drag
1:15:41your behind here and tell me something
1:15:43like this
1:15:44i don't know damn it i can't make it go
1:15:46away it's done now i can't wish it away
1:15:53maybe you want to wish me and my boy
1:15:55away
1:15:56but you can't wish us away troy i have
1:16:0018 years of my life invested in you
1:16:04you should have stayed in my bed where
1:16:06you belong
1:16:10hold on bro
1:16:14i i can do it in her house i can be a
1:16:17part of myself i ain't never been
1:16:19like i could go to her house and i ain't
1:16:22got to worry about
1:16:23getting the move fixed up how to pay the
1:16:26bills
1:16:28i can be a part of myself i ain't never
1:16:30been
1:16:33i just want to know do you plan on
1:16:35continuing to see her that's that's all
1:16:37you can say to me now
1:16:40rules no you don't understand those
1:16:45well i couldn't go to her house
1:16:59it reaches all the way down to the
1:17:01bottom of my shoe bro
1:17:03i can't get that up
1:17:08well just go down there and be with him
1:17:10if she a better woman than me
1:17:12it ain't about nobody being a better
1:17:13woman nothing like that rose
1:17:15hell a man can't ask for wanting to be a
1:17:17better wife than you
1:17:18you ain't to blame and i just got myself
1:17:21into a pattern of taking care of y'all
1:17:22and i
1:17:23i forgot about myself that's all it was
1:17:26what the hell was backing for that was
1:17:29my job
1:17:30troy not somebody else's
1:17:34i don't try to live live decent i don't
1:17:36try to live a good hard clean life bro
1:17:40i try to be a good husband to you the
1:17:42best i know how
1:17:44hell maybe i was just born in the world
1:17:46back for some i don't know
1:17:49but when you're born you got two strikes
1:17:51when you come to the plate
1:17:53you got the guard that close you can't
1:17:55let none get past you
1:17:56you got to always be looking for that
1:17:58for that curveball on the inside code
1:18:02if you're going down you can better go
1:18:04down swinging
1:18:06everything up against you everything up
1:18:09against you
1:18:09what you gonna do what you're going to
1:18:11do
1:18:13i fooled the rose i fooled
1:18:17i bought it but i found you and corey
1:18:21and i got me a half a decent job i was
1:18:23safe
1:18:24i was on first and i don't want to check
1:18:26out no more
1:18:27hell i wasn't going back to the
1:18:28penitentiary i wasn't going to lay in
1:18:30the street but don't bother wine
1:18:32i i i wasn't going to check out tomorrow
1:18:35i was on first i was safe i was waiting
1:18:36for one of the boys
1:18:37to knock me in to bring me your heart
1:18:41you should have stayed here with me
1:18:45damn lord then i saw that girl
1:18:50and she feeling my backbone and i got to
1:18:53thinking
1:18:54i said what [ __ ] i might just be able to
1:18:57steal a second
1:18:59you know after 18 years i was stepping
1:19:01on first and i wanted to steal a second
1:19:02you should have held me tighter you
1:19:04should have grabbed me and held on troy
1:19:06i said well god damn it going through it
1:19:10we ain't talking no baseball we talking
1:19:13about you going with another woman and
1:19:14bringing it home to me
1:19:15we ain't talking no baseball i'm trying
1:19:17to explain it to you
1:19:18they use me to say it to you you can't
1:19:20stand here and tell you i've been
1:19:21standing the same spot
1:19:23for 18 years but i've been standing here
1:19:25with you
1:19:27i got a life but i gave
1:19:3118 years of my life to stand in the same
1:19:34spot with you
1:19:37don't you think i ever wanted other
1:19:39things
1:19:41that i had hopes and dreams
1:19:46what about my life troy what about me
1:19:52don't you think it never crossed my mind
1:19:54to want to know another man
1:19:57that i wanted to lay off somewhere and
1:19:59forget my responsibilities
1:20:01that i wanted somebody to make me laugh
1:20:02so i can feel good
1:20:07you're not the only one with hopes and
1:20:09dreams troy
1:20:11but i took all my feelings my hopes my
1:20:14dreams and my wants and
1:20:16not buried them inside you
1:20:21i planted the seed and i watched
1:20:24it and i prayed over it
1:20:28i planted myself inside you
1:20:32and i'm waiting to bloom
1:20:36but it didn't take me no 18 years to
1:20:38realize
1:20:39that that soil was hard and rocky it was
1:20:41never gonna bloom
1:20:43but i held onto you troy i held you
1:20:46tighter
1:20:47she was my husband and i owed you
1:20:51everything i had
1:20:52every part of me i had to give
1:20:58and upstairs in that room with that
1:20:59darkness falling on me i gave
1:21:01every part of me to to erase the doubt
1:21:03that you
1:21:04you want the finest man in the world but
1:21:07wherever you was going
1:21:10i wanted to be there
1:21:13because you was my husband and that was
1:21:16the only way i was going to survive is
1:21:18your wife
1:21:20so you always talking about what you
1:21:22give
1:21:23or what you don't have to give
1:21:28[Music]
1:21:30you take and you don't realize
1:21:33nobody's given yeah and don't give
1:21:40up
1:21:44[Music]
1:21:48boy you stay away from me you stay away
1:21:50from me okay
1:21:52you stay away from me that's track two
1:21:56that's strike two don't you strike out
1:22:12[Music]
1:22:22easy
1:22:36so
1:22:40[Music]
1:22:51hey are you in a position last night now
1:22:53you wanna you wanna talk to me
1:22:56i wanna know if you're coming home
1:22:57tomorrow's friday roads always come home
1:23:00roads you know that
1:23:01ain't been a lot of ain't come home hey
1:23:03what i'm talking about you know i want
1:23:05you to come straight home after work
1:23:08i'll make a lot of tables for a little
1:23:10while this is the ball game of search
1:23:13i can't live like this and i won't live
1:23:15like this it's been
1:23:16six months and you ain't been coming
1:23:18home come on
1:23:19365 days of the year
1:23:24i want you to come straight home after
1:23:26work tomorrow
1:23:29you know i don't i don't i don't mess
1:23:31with my money i don't mess with my pay
1:23:33i get my money i get i give it to you
1:23:35all i have is what you get back to me
1:23:37now i just want a little time for myself
1:23:39to enjoy a lot
1:23:42but what about me when is it gonna be my
1:23:45time to enjoy
1:23:46life well i don't know what to tell you
1:23:48bro i'm doing the best i can do
1:23:52you come in here long enough to change
1:23:54your clothes and you say that's the best
1:23:56you can do
1:23:59look here i'm gonna go down to the
1:24:00hospital and check on that brother
1:24:02like she might be going having that baby
1:24:04early so i'm gonna go down there and
1:24:06check on her
1:24:07i i won't be long troy you ought to know
1:24:10something though
1:24:13they wouldn't pick the game from his
1:24:15pearls today
1:24:18and say you told him to lock him up who
1:24:20told him that whoever said that tells a
1:24:21big fan
1:24:22i ain't saying nothing oh they didn't
1:24:23have to say it i read it on the paper
1:24:25you ain't seen nothing i signed on paper
1:24:27people right on the paper trailer you
1:24:29ain't seen nothing outside whoever's
1:24:30saying that they mixed it up at the mix
1:24:32of everything
1:24:32yeah the government gets half the check
1:24:34in the other half why make the rules of
1:24:36eyes work they messed up
1:24:39you did gay just like you did corey what
1:24:41side of paper
1:24:42for cory
1:24:56son
1:25:24that was a hospital
1:25:38alberta died having that baby
1:25:44what's that you say no no no you
1:25:47you you say what you say alberta no no
1:25:49no no
1:25:51rose you said you said she dead
1:25:55you couldn't do nothing else how the
1:25:58baby rose
1:25:59it's a girl it is healthy they say
1:26:03i wonder who's gonna bury us what you
1:26:05saying that
1:26:06she
1:26:30give me some room to breathe
1:27:02oh
1:27:04all right all right mr death
1:27:10all right
1:27:13i'm going to tell you what i'm going to
1:27:14do you see i'm i'm attacked i'm gonna be
1:27:18a meal building a fence around this air
1:27:21y'all
1:27:25around everything that belongs to me
1:27:28you ain't gonna sneak up on me no more i
1:27:31ain't going to fall
1:27:32down on my business no more
1:27:35and build me a fix and i want you to
1:27:38stay on the other side
1:27:38of this fence until you're ready for me
1:27:41it's between you
1:27:43and me nobody else
1:27:46so you you come on you you come out
1:27:50you bring your army you bring your
1:27:54sickle you bring in your wrath
1:27:55then close you come on
1:27:59when the top of your list saying troy
1:28:01maxin you come on and you come and knock
1:28:04knock on the front door you coming knock
1:28:07on the on the front though
1:28:08anytime you want i'll be ready
1:28:12come on and knock on the on the front
1:28:14though
1:28:17now i'll be ready anytime you want
1:28:21but it ain't gonna be easy
1:28:28[Applause]
1:28:35[Music]
1:28:38and mighty ford has gone down
1:28:47here's a drive in the left center
1:28:49chasing an important thing
1:28:57[Music]
1:29:02some applause
1:29:18low outside 401 new york five pittsburgh
1:29:21four it's the first of the seventh bobby
1:29:24richardson on deck
1:29:29the high power was played out of play
1:29:36all right you got
1:29:43[Music]
1:29:50max
1:29:57rolls
1:30:04rolls
1:30:15[Music]
1:30:32she ain't got no mom
1:30:35what you telling me about troy
1:30:44well i guess we'll just sit out here on
1:30:46this post
1:31:00i ain't sorry for nothing i've done it
1:31:04felt right in my heart man got to do
1:31:08what feel right
1:31:09in his heart
1:31:28huh
1:31:41sometimes sometimes your daddy
1:31:44he gets scared yeah
1:31:48sometimes your daddy he gets scared
1:31:53right now your daddy daddy he's scared
1:31:55cause
1:32:11usb out there on the road by yourself
1:32:17see where the little train is coming yes
1:32:20hop over
1:32:33let a man ride the line
1:32:40she my daughter rose
1:32:43she she my family she wrote she my flesh
1:32:46and blood she
1:32:47she my daughter i can't deny none rose
1:32:51you see my family just like just like
1:32:52you and them boys
1:32:57i kept denial man
1:33:02she family bro
1:33:05just like you and them boys
1:33:11rolls out i guess what i'm asking you
1:33:15roses
1:33:19rose i appreciate it if you help me take
1:33:30[Music]
1:33:34care
1:33:36okay troy i'll take care of your baby
1:33:39for you
1:33:40cause like you say she innocent and you
1:33:43can't visit the sins of the father upon
1:33:45the child
1:33:47the mother this child's got a hard time
1:34:04so from now on this baby she got a mama
1:34:09but you a womanless man
1:34:30um
1:34:58well just put it in there on the table
1:34:59he'll get it when he gets back
1:35:04tell papa said thanks all right i'll see
1:35:06you again
1:35:07all right hey ryan
1:35:10hey what's happening say man listen
1:35:14sorry i didn't make it to your
1:35:15graduation you know i had a gig
1:35:18and i couldn't get away otherwise you
1:35:20know i'd have been there
1:35:21so what you doing man i'm trying to find
1:35:24a job
1:35:24yeah i know how that goes you know jobs
1:35:27are scarce
1:35:28and it's rough out here yeah you got
1:35:30that right well look here
1:35:31i gotta run so talk to paul he may be
1:35:34able to get you a job
1:35:36he knows some people talk to him see
1:35:38what he say
1:35:39and then i'll talk to you
1:35:55you and they're on the table he going
1:35:56this way put it now on the table i get
1:35:58it when i get back
1:36:01what time do you what time are you going
1:36:02to be coming back
1:36:04you know you should study me and it
1:36:06don't matter what time i come back
1:36:07well i i can't ask you no question no
1:36:12now you get in there just gotta heat it
1:36:14up and don't be making no mess in there
1:36:16and don't touch them cakes i'm coming
1:36:17back home for the bake sale tomorrow at
1:36:18the church
1:36:34you know blue was a good old dog
1:36:49[Music]
1:37:00[Music]
1:37:04green tree huh if the
1:37:07barrels ain't getting any heavier but i
1:37:09think about putting my two years and
1:37:10call it quits
1:37:12yeah i'm i'm thinking about retiring
1:37:15myself
1:37:19oh she she's doing great arthritis
1:37:21acting up
1:37:22so rolls on my way in is she going down
1:37:25to the church
1:37:26yeah she done she done she done
1:37:30she done took up going down at the
1:37:33church
1:37:34them them preachers they need somebody
1:37:35to let them lie in their pockets
1:37:39i got i got some g in there get you a
1:37:40drink oh don't think i just stopped by
1:37:42to say hello all right let me get you a
1:37:44drink
1:37:44you ain't been in time you turn out no
1:37:46drink get you a drink you ain't got to
1:37:48work tomorrow
1:37:49i just thought i'm on my way to skinners
1:37:51we got a domino game going every friday
1:37:53you can't play no damn domino i used to
1:37:56beat you for another five [ __ ]
1:38:00i'm getting better
1:38:04after you bought lugia that freedom
1:38:05right i figured
1:38:07you know bill rose's fan so i think we
1:38:09call it even
1:38:11i i i figured you would look at you i
1:38:14got to be getting home
1:38:16you stop by sometime huh um
1:38:20i'll be seeing you going on all right
1:38:23take care of yourself troy god
1:38:28i had a dog his name was blue
1:38:32old blue died i load him down with a
1:38:34golden chain
1:38:38every night you hear blue ball
1:38:41you know blue treated
1:38:56what'd you say you you want to get by
1:38:59well
1:39:02what are you trying to get by
1:39:03[Laughter]
1:39:08come on
1:39:12come in my house when you see me sitting
1:39:15you and you say excuse me like your mama
1:39:17talked
1:39:18i ain't got to say excuse me you don't
1:39:21count you're gonna walk where you're
1:39:22gonna walk over on top of me
1:39:24you're just gonna walk over on top of me
1:39:26in my own house
1:39:27if you want to put it like my own house
1:39:30bought and paid for about
1:39:32by the sweat of my brother took me 15
1:39:35years
1:39:36you you you just gonna walk over on top
1:39:38of me
1:39:39without saying excuse me
1:39:42if you want to put it like that you want
1:39:45to
1:39:45walk over on top of me you're going to
1:39:47come in my house i guess i guess
1:39:49i guess you're going to come in here and
1:39:51you're going to put on my pants they
1:39:54lay out my bed you you you man
1:40:00you you got you got some food to put in
1:40:02your bedroom
1:40:04you're gonna have to add that you don't
1:40:06know what i got papa
1:40:09that's right i don't know what you got
1:40:10out i don't know
1:40:12been 17 years trying to worry about what
1:40:14you got now is your turn to worry about
1:40:16what you got
1:40:18so you a man we don't establish that so
1:40:22you
1:40:22you turn your behind around and you walk
1:40:25out this
1:40:26yard and when you get out there in that
1:40:27alley
1:40:29you can forget about this house but this
1:40:31is my house
1:40:34you never gave me nothing pop i don't
1:40:36know i don't i don't give you
1:40:38everything like what i give you i give
1:40:41you them feet
1:40:42and then bones and that i give you that
1:40:44perfect heart [ __ ]
1:40:49you know the old time growing up in this
1:40:51house i used to be scared of you bob
1:40:53i used to think what's papa gonna do if
1:40:56i say this
1:40:57what's probably gonna do if i do that
1:40:58and i used to tremble
1:41:00every time you call my name
1:41:16it now i don't told you
1:41:21i told you what see you keep your mama
1:41:24out of this
1:41:25see you you you know what you when you
1:41:27just look yes another [ __ ] in the
1:41:29street to me
1:41:30i want you to
1:41:45me up come on you put my back down you
1:41:46wanted to use that backwards
1:41:48use it you mad i'm going to kill it
1:41:50right back you want to kill the eye
1:41:55[Music]
1:41:57get me out of my yard
1:42:01[Music]
1:42:03damn fish
1:42:32can't taste nothing
1:42:38hallelujah can't that taste more
1:42:46come on can you come on you come on
1:42:50yeah you you come on i'm ready for you
1:42:54you come on
1:42:59you come on it ain't gonna be easy
1:43:10[Applause]
1:43:15[Music]
1:43:22this
1:43:33[Music]
1:43:44[Music]
1:43:50what are you doing
1:43:58a watch pot never boils not gonna get
1:44:04drips
1:44:18so you must be right now um
1:44:45don't look good huh what what took you
1:44:48so long
1:44:49you know how the military is gonna get
1:44:51all your paperwork done to let you go
1:44:52anywhere well i'm glad you made it you
1:44:54see that
1:44:55they let lions out nobody
1:44:58i'm gabe i just got the phone with them
1:45:00so
1:45:02[Music]
1:45:11lucille got the choir lined up at the
1:45:13church i'm going to head down and get
1:45:14the ball back
1:45:22ain't she precious she's gonna break a
1:45:24whole lot of hearts man
1:45:28you remember your brother corey don't
1:45:29you no
1:45:32well we talked about it she heard us
1:45:33talk about it say hello to your brother
1:45:34corey
1:45:37and y'all come on in the house and get
1:45:39something to eat
1:45:51right now get that dress on please so
1:45:55man i hear you about to get mad
1:45:58yeah lions about that time yeah
1:46:01well man bonnie we split up about four
1:46:03years ago
1:46:05i guess she got tired of me taking her
1:46:07through all the changes
1:46:09probably by the time
1:46:13[Music]
1:46:17man i got six already i think that's
1:46:19enough no no man stick with uncle sam
1:46:21all right retire early it ain't nothing
1:46:23not here
1:46:24so i guess rosen told you what happened
1:46:26to me now what happened
1:46:28they got me down to the workhouse
1:46:31thought i was being slick by cashing
1:46:32other people's checks
1:46:35so how much time they got you doing they
1:46:38give me three years
1:46:40but i think i got that beat now you know
1:46:43got about nine more months
1:46:45but it's just like dealing with anything
1:46:48like you deal with everything else
1:46:49like papa used to say take the crickets
1:46:52with the streets
1:46:54i remember i was at one of papa baseball
1:46:56games and
1:46:58and he he hit the ball and he hit a way
1:47:01out of homestead field
1:47:03you know you know paul used to get mad
1:47:04when he hit it inside he wanted to hit
1:47:06it over everything you know
1:47:08and after papa did that after the game
1:47:13it was about 200 people lined up waiting
1:47:16to get an autograph
1:47:17now you know papa was something but
1:47:20like he always just say you gotta take
1:47:23the crickets
1:47:24with the streets so you're still playing
1:47:27come on court you know i'm still playing
1:47:30i think we got us a band now
1:47:32got a couple people down at the
1:47:33workhouse you know what i think we're
1:47:35gonna stick together
1:47:36you know try to make something out of it
1:47:40or
1:47:41you know it it makes me get up out of
1:47:43bed in the morning make me feel good
1:47:45so as long as we keep playing i think
1:47:48we're gonna make some sense out of them
1:47:50in the past let me put these in get
1:47:53ready to go there
1:47:55you all right sure
1:48:10too much change around here
1:48:15daddy was out here swinging that bat and
1:48:18he had this big grin on his face i was
1:48:21getting ready to go back in the house
1:48:22and he swung that bat and
1:48:24fell over
1:48:27they took them all down to the hospital
1:48:29but i know there was no need
1:48:32come on in the house and people could
1:48:34stretch that take some breakfast
1:48:36i gotta take some
1:48:44okay
1:48:46i'm not going to pop street my boy
1:48:49you standing here all healthy and
1:48:50growing talking about you ain't going to
1:48:51your daddy's funeral
1:48:54i raise you to come to this i gotta say
1:48:57no to him i don't have to hear that kind
1:48:58of talk this morning cory i can't drive
1:49:00papa with me everywhere i go
1:49:02i'm not gonna listen to this no no i
1:49:04know you and your daddy ain't seen eye
1:49:06to eye
1:49:07but the time has come down to set that
1:49:09aside and put it on the shelf somewhere
1:49:11forget about it disrespecting your daddy
1:49:15ain't gonna make you no man cory
1:49:17you gotta find a way to come to that on
1:49:18your own so
1:49:20not going to your daddy's funeral ain't
1:49:21gonna make you no man
1:49:23mama the whole time growing up in this
1:49:25house
1:49:26probably was like a shadow he followed
1:49:29you everywhere
1:49:30he he tried to live his life
1:49:33through you he dropped around you so
1:49:35tight we didn't know which one he was
1:49:37against my mom
1:49:38every time i looked back troy maxim was
1:49:40staring back at
1:49:42i just gotta say no two months in my
1:49:43life mama this could be it
1:49:46yeah i mean you're good i don't want to
1:49:47hit that this morning i don't want to be
1:49:49torn
1:49:50i want to be me can't be nobody but who
1:49:54you are
1:49:56that shadow you seen wasn't nothing but
1:49:59you growing into yourself
1:50:01you either got to grow into it or cut it
1:50:03down to a fiction
1:50:06because that's all you got to make life
1:50:07with that's all you got to measure
1:50:09yourself against that
1:50:10world out there now yo daddy he wanted
1:50:13you to be everything that he wasn't
1:50:16but at the same time he tried to make
1:50:18you everything that he was
1:50:20now i don't know whether that was right
1:50:22or wrong
1:50:23but i do know that he he meant to do
1:50:25more good
1:50:27than he meant to do harm
1:50:30sometimes when he when he touched he
1:50:31bruised and
1:50:33sometimes when he took me in his arms he
1:50:35cut
1:50:37oh but when i first met your daddy when
1:50:40i seen him i said
1:50:41now there's a man i could lay down when
1:50:43it make me a baby
1:50:45that's the first thing i thought when i
1:50:47seen him see i was 30 years old and
1:50:49hadn't seen my share of me in it
1:50:51your daddy walked up to me and said i
1:50:53could dance you or dance that'll make
1:50:55you
1:50:56dizzy i said rose lee here's a man you
1:50:59can open yourself up look at me feel the
1:51:01bursting
1:51:03a man that can fill up all the empty
1:51:04spaces you can dance around the edges of
1:51:06them
1:51:09one of them in these spaces corey was
1:51:11being somebody's mother
1:51:14so i married your daddy and i settled
1:51:17down to
1:51:18cooking his dinner and keeping clean
1:51:20sheets on the bed and
1:51:23when he walked in that house he filled
1:51:25it up
1:51:27and that was my first mistake
1:51:31not to make him leave some room for me
1:51:34for my part in the matter
1:51:37but i did that that was my choice and i
1:51:39didn't have to live life like that
1:51:41but i did i took on all those pieces and
1:51:45they got so mixed up you couldn't tell
1:51:47which was which anymore
1:51:50i didn't know to keep up his strength i
1:51:51had to give up mine but i did that
1:51:55that's what life offered me in the way
1:51:56of being a woman and i took it i grabbed
1:51:59hold with both hands and i took it
1:52:04by the time little rainelle came in the
1:52:05house me and your daddy hadn't lost
1:52:07touch with one another
1:52:10and i didn't want to make my blessings
1:52:12out with somebody else's misfortune but
1:52:13i
1:52:14i took on ray now like she was all them
1:52:16babies i wanted and never had
1:52:21like i've been blessed to relive a part
1:52:22of my life
1:52:27and if the lord see fit i'm gonna do her
1:52:29just like your daddy didn't you
1:52:32hey bros hey
1:52:36look at him
1:52:40see roll i told you they made them come
1:52:44how you doing up greg how you doing
1:52:45uncle gabe
1:52:48hey bros it's time to tell st peter to
1:52:50open the gates
1:52:52i'm gonna tell st peter to get you you
1:52:54ready troy
1:52:55you ready i'm gonna tell st peter to
1:52:57open the gate you get ready okay
1:53:55[Music]
1:54:06foreign
1:54:28that's the way that go
1:54:35[Applause]
1:54:48hmm
1:55:02so
1:55:16so
1:55:26[Applause]
1:55:45thank you

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