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00:00:24 In them days they called Junction City a lot of names.
00:00:27 Junctown, Holville.
00:00:31 Why, you could address a letter saying City, Kansas,
00:00:35 and they know to deliver it to us.
00:00:38 Why? Well, hell, 'cause of us.
00:00:42 'Cause of our street.
00:00:44 Oh, yeah, they gambled down there.
00:00:48 They bootlegged, and them gals did turn tricks for them soldiers,
00:00:53 and you're gonna have that in an army town.
00:00:57 See, Junction City was the way it was
00:01:00 because of them 20,000 soldiers stationed outside of town at Bo Riley.
00:01:05 Military payday is big money, baby.
00:01:09 That money turned a little country town like this into a boomtown.
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00:01:19 The streets served us black G.I.s of the 9th and 10th Cavalry,
00:01:24 the world-famous Buffalo Soldiers,
00:01:27 which I was a proud member of.
00:01:31 If that street hadn't have been down there, we'd have nowhere to go.
00:01:35 We'd gone crazy.
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00:01:42 It was one whole block of black-owned businesses.
00:01:46 Negroes.
00:01:48 It was our Harlem in Kansas.
00:01:51 Anything a colored man wanted, he could get down there.
00:01:55 Yeah, I loved that old street.
00:01:58 Yes, everybody.
00:02:00 And in them days, I loved me some wine, too.
00:02:05 I was the wine drinker down there.
00:02:07 On the corner, I had a job, see, a role.
00:02:14 I offered guidance, told them how to live.
00:02:19 My ace boom-koom, my buddy was Huddy.
00:02:24 Huddy had him a couple of wives.
00:02:27 They'd run off, and he got on that wine.
00:02:31 Huddy was my friend, my best friend.
00:02:36 But primetime, baby, was always at our home, White O Couch.
00:02:41 White O Couch was Grand Central.
00:02:44 That's where we held court.
00:02:46 Everything from street preachers to hole chasers appeared before us.
00:02:51 We watched over the street, the kids and whatnot.
00:02:54 Protected and served.
00:02:57 We was regular public servants.
00:02:59 [music]
00:03:04 There it is.
00:03:06 Friday night, payday, party time.
00:03:11 Sold your money, burns in them jokers' pockets, boy.
00:03:15 Them soldier boys spread the word about the street, see?
00:03:18 That's how the legend grew.
00:03:20 Soldiers partied down there from all over the country.
00:03:24 Then they'd go all over the world, talking about the times they had.
00:03:28 From Heidelberg, West Germany, to Seoul, South Korea, to Japan,
00:03:33 to them Philippine Islands.
00:03:36 You knew you'd been on honored ground when you snapped your fingers
00:03:41 and shook your behind on the internationally acclaimed,
00:03:45 world-renowned block known as Nice Street.
00:03:49 [music]
00:03:54 [cheering]
00:04:01 Nice Street is a hot street.
00:04:09 Nice Street is a cold street.
00:04:17 Nice Street is a tough street.
00:04:24 Nice Street is a rough street.
00:04:33 Come on, you soldier boys.
00:04:35 Play with these grown-up jokers.
00:04:40 Can't believe your eyes.
00:04:42 Soldiers paradise.
00:04:49 You can get the high price.
00:04:52 Just one roll of the dice.
00:04:56 Boys on tour, you the man.
00:04:59 Take a chance.
00:05:03 Nice Street is a blue street.
00:05:10 Nice Street is a cool street.
00:05:20 You shake so fine.
00:05:23 Easy to blow your mind.
00:05:28 If you got the money, you can get the honey.
00:05:34 Come on, you soldier boys.
00:05:37 Dance to the beat.
00:05:39 Feel all that body heat.
00:05:42 Ten dollars, you forget about home.
00:05:46 You can get the high price.
00:05:50 Come to Nice Street.
00:05:52 Nice Street is a dream street.
00:05:57 Nice Street is a mean street.
00:06:06 [music]
00:06:12 I told you no more.
00:06:14 I'm sick of you.
00:06:16 Get out here and stay out.
00:06:20 I hope you know you almost made me spill the wine.
00:06:28 Letty being my wife, I'd come to accept that life was one ass whooping after another.
00:06:38 But I couldn't stay home much, no how, 'cause Huddy and I, we had the daily requirements of our unlimited partnership.
00:06:48 Which had its problems.
00:06:52 17 cents.
00:06:53 What?
00:06:54 You got some money?
00:06:55 I ain't got a pot to piss in, no boot to pull out with.
00:06:58 Ain't got a quarter.
00:06:59 Nothing.
00:07:00 Bird calls.
00:07:01 52 cents and a pen a times.
00:07:04 Bubba.
00:07:05 Bubba got some money.
00:07:07 Go ask him.
00:07:08 That nigger think he shit on a rose bush since he got that job on the city.
00:07:19 You know, I never told you this, but Mama Butler, she got the hots for you.
00:07:30 Always did.
00:07:32 Get out of here.
00:07:34 I'm telling you, you know Mama Butler.
00:07:41 She had box, you know.
00:07:50 Funny eyes, huh?
00:07:51 Funny eyes.
00:07:56 Well, hell, what I got to lose?
00:07:58 You ain't got nothing to lose, boy.
00:08:00 Go on, get your stuff, boy.
00:08:01 I'm humming this move.
00:08:03 That don't mean nothing.
00:08:04 Go on, boy.
00:08:05 Get the wine.
00:08:06 Wish me luck.
00:08:07 Boy, you don't need no luck.
00:08:09 Boy, go on and tell her to send us some of them Dale donuts.
00:08:19 That boy as nice as he can be.
00:08:22 He ain't got a chance.
00:08:27 Hey, Mama.
00:08:28 Yes, baby?
00:08:29 Tell Willie about Butt.
00:08:30 Oh, you want to hear about Butt?
00:08:31 Oh, yeah.
00:08:33 Okay.
00:08:34 When me and my husband first opened up down here, wasn't all this killing and shooting
00:08:39 up.
00:08:40 The only shooting we had down here was between Buck and Double J down at the Depot.
00:08:45 Both of them carried four or five guns apiece, 'cause they couldn't shoot worth a shit.
00:08:51 Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam.
00:08:55 They run out of bullets and have to quit.
00:09:02 Then there was Junebug and Juan Mary Sue.
00:09:06 Oh, I remember.
00:09:07 You do, huh?
00:09:08 Yeah.
00:09:09 They'd drink and argue and get mad, and she'd carve into Junebug's behind like a Christmas
00:09:15 turkey.
00:09:16 She didn't want to kill him, just cut him, you know.
00:09:20 But she'd be ready, carry that butcher knife in that purse.
00:09:24 One day, she hid him and forgot she had that butcher knife in that purse.
00:09:28 Stabbed him in the heart.
00:09:30 Oh, yeah.
00:09:32 Sad, huh?
00:09:34 Then there was Grandma Pope and her grandson, Big Dog.
00:09:39 Big Dog was one of the baddest jokers that ever come through here.
00:09:43 Got in a fight one time when a man bit three of his fingers off.
00:09:47 Sure did.
00:09:48 But he should have known better than to joke with his grandma.
00:09:51 Big Dog come down talking about, "Grandma, I'm going home now.
00:09:55 Quit fucking with me.
00:09:56 I'm Big Dog.
00:09:57 Don't nobody run Big Dog.
00:09:59 Shit."
00:10:00 All of a sudden, bam.
00:10:02 "Boy, I brought you in this world, and I'll take you out.
00:10:05 Now get on in this automobile before I air condition your ass some more."
00:10:09 [laughter]
00:10:16 Honey, nice to change.
00:10:18 Thank you.
00:10:19 These soldiers coming through here now, they scare me.
00:10:22 They really do.
00:10:24 Them gals on the corner, they love them some mama
00:10:26 because she take them under her wing and help them, like Carrie Mae.
00:10:34 She did real good last night.
00:10:36 She slept all night.
00:10:37 Remember, you need to pay biscuit Friday.
00:10:39 I'm going to have your money.
00:10:42 Girl, you're looking kind of peaky.
00:10:44 You better get some rest.
00:10:46 Soldiers payday tonight, and I know you going to be after some of that money.
00:10:51 Did you get the baby them shots I told you she needed?
00:10:59 Tip and Toe ran B&W Cab.
00:11:03 I admired that joker.
00:11:05 Him and his wife got along.
00:11:07 They've been married I don't know how long.
00:11:10 Tip retired off that railroad.
00:11:13 That railroad was good to Tip as a government check.
00:11:16 But Tip wasn't too good.
00:11:18 He wouldn't sit down and have a drink with us.
00:11:21 What you say now?
00:11:25 Goddamn, Tip and Toe, boy, make some noise.
00:11:29 You old goat ought to clean that shit out your ear.
00:11:34 What's going on, Cap?
00:11:37 You ever read that thing that said to sit on it?
00:11:40 Well, shit, if it ain't piss down here, it's rain.
00:11:44 If it ain't rain, it's piss.
00:11:46 There he go.
00:11:48 What's going on, Cap?
00:11:50 I'm kicking but not high.
00:11:54 Trying to keep that old cab stand from going under.
00:11:59 ...on rooftops near the compound and are firing on American personnel inside the building.
00:12:04 And Pa Bada Ruby, they was always putting her crazy self in the Topeka State Mental Hospital.
00:12:11 ...commandoes penetrated the site.
00:12:13 Them white folks downtown couldn't figure out why she was always watching that raw on the television.
00:12:19 ...to Saigon itself.
00:12:20 American casualties also are estimated to be...
00:12:23 Move it.
00:12:24 ...1968...
00:12:25 Hey, dammit, I said move it along now, now.
00:12:28 Move it.
00:12:30 Get it.
00:12:31 ...from outside Saigon, this is Robert Sokol reporting.
00:12:38 You know me?
00:12:41 Only in the spirit.
00:12:43 Do you know who I am?
00:12:45 My name is Ruby.
00:12:46 They call me Pop Bottle Ruby.
00:12:49 I'm Father Cody.
00:12:54 You scared of me?
00:12:57 Should I be?
00:12:59 No.
00:13:01 What's your favorite Bible story?
00:13:03 The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes.
00:13:06 Mine is The Woman at the Well.
00:13:08 Why?
00:13:10 I am the woman at the well.
00:13:17 Everybody else, they scared of me.
00:13:24 Oh, no, no, it's too much.
00:13:26 I'm gonna take it back.
00:13:28 You sure?
00:13:29 Most white folks from town were scared to come down here.
00:13:32 He wasn't.
00:13:33 He was a Catholic worker.
00:13:36 He helped us.
00:13:37 He helped a lot of folks.
00:13:39 Now, his church told him to keep his ass out from around here.
00:13:43 Shit, he didn't.
00:13:46 Now, I guess I best tell you about Love.
00:13:50 Donnie Love.
00:13:52 The boy wanted to be like Banker Drysdale.
00:13:55 Thing is, he had to put them gals on the corner to get it.
00:13:59 Love made big money running them gals across the state line from Fort Sill to Fort Bragg.
00:14:05 Oh, he'd find these old gals out in the sticks and take them to the store,
00:14:10 buy them a little something-something, and turn them straight on out.
00:14:15 Love stole from other gal runners.
00:14:17 He's not Snooki from some negro out of Lawton, Oklahoma.
00:14:22 Love sure could get them gals to make that money for him.
00:14:27 He knew how to run that game, morally.
00:14:31 [TV]
00:14:41 Thank you, Marty.
00:14:43 What's the matter?
00:14:57 Why'd you stop?
00:14:59 I don't need this from you.
00:15:02 That's not why I love you.
00:15:04 That's not why I need you.
00:15:07 Ever since I met you, I've been trying to show you how I feel about you.
00:15:14 Now it's time for you to show me.
00:15:17 I'll show you, Love.
00:15:19 I'll show you anything you want.
00:15:21 Shh.
00:15:24 I want you to go get you some rest.
00:15:28 Go get prettied up.
00:15:31 Soldiers get paid tonight.
00:15:34 You can show me how you feel for me.
00:15:55 How'd we do?
00:15:58 You tell me.
00:16:00 G was Love's muscle, his gun.
00:16:10 Together them bucks gave us old-timers fits.
00:16:15 What Love wasn't buying up, G was killing up.
00:16:20 [gunshot]
00:16:22 They say G will kill a man for $50.
00:16:32 What the f--
00:16:37 I say it's more like five.
00:16:40 We saw a lot of jokers go off to Vietnam.
00:16:47 Fine young men come back half nuts.
00:16:51 They sure knew how to send them over there.
00:16:53 They just didn't know what to do with them when they came back.
00:16:58 Huddy and I both knew 9th Street was changing.
00:17:03 And not for the better.
00:17:06 [music]
00:17:09 [music]
00:17:12 [music]
00:17:16 [music]
00:17:44 I want part of the business.
00:17:46 You want what?
00:17:48 Say that again.
00:17:50 I want part of the business.
00:17:53 Look here, honey.
00:17:55 I'm Jesse James and I'm robbing this train.
00:17:58 This here's a community and we takes care of one another.
00:18:01 That's what I'm saying.
00:18:03 White folks wouldn't be having that.
00:18:06 We got to start planning and organizing.
00:18:09 These weak motherfuckers got to go.
00:18:12 You the motherfucker got to go.
00:18:15 And my place of business is like a hawk watching a chicken.
00:18:19 Child know a little ashy, beady shot head, pigtail ass kid
00:18:23 going to steal what me and my husband done worked so hard to build.
00:18:28 You old.
00:18:31 One day they going to carry you up out of here.
00:18:34 Then 9th will be mine.
00:18:38 And honey, when they do, you still going to be a pussy.
00:18:43 [laughing]
00:18:52 Piggy Pop?
00:18:57 Come on, I got a whole bag now.
00:18:59 Come on, honey, I don't want no Piggy Pop.
00:19:01 Put some of that hot sauce on it.
00:19:03 You like it with the hot sauce, don't you?
00:19:04 Get away from me, honey.
00:19:05 Can I talk to you for a minute?
00:19:07 This is Temple of Faith.
00:19:08 We having a revival.
00:19:10 People getting filled with that Holy Ghost.
00:19:12 Yes, Lord.
00:19:13 Either one of you been saved?
00:19:15 No, I ain't been saved.
00:19:16 You been saved, honey?
00:19:18 No, sir, I can't say I have.
00:19:20 Y'all interested in getting saved?
00:19:22 Shit.
00:19:24 Save me.
00:19:27 A lot of folks down here like this passage.
00:19:30 Happy are those that follow the word of God.
00:19:33 Be bolder is often happy.
00:19:36 The reason you living like this, cause you living in sin.
00:19:41 What you want me to do?
00:19:43 Go sit up in the church all day?
00:19:45 You know, I had a problem on these streets.
00:19:48 Doing fine now.
00:19:49 Got me a job sanitizing bottle.
00:19:51 Bought me a new car.
00:19:53 Goddamn, it's going to be some shit now.
00:20:00 Hey, girl.
00:20:01 How y'all doing?
00:20:02 How y'all doing?
00:20:03 Come on down here and get your taste.
00:20:04 Yeah, I'm good.
00:20:06 Ruby, hold on now.
00:20:08 Ruby, wait a minute now.
00:20:10 Shit.
00:20:12 You know they trying to send me to peak state again.
00:20:15 I ain't going.
00:20:16 No, I ain't going.
00:20:18 Filling me up with all that old dopey medicine so I can't feel.
00:20:22 You selling that dope, boy?
00:20:26 Found me a whole mess of strays.
00:20:28 Somebody done throw it away.
00:20:31 Come to the Lord.
00:20:32 He'll help you.
00:20:33 Who this hottie?
00:20:34 Put that inside.
00:20:35 Got that book sweating like one of these hoes.
00:20:38 Like them when something's in them.
00:20:44 When they empty.
00:20:46 Mr. Honey.
00:20:50 Mm-hmm.
00:20:52 I don't know why they scared of me.
00:20:53 Oh, yeah?
00:20:57 Calling me crazy.
00:20:59 I ain't crazy worth a damn.
00:21:02 Ray Lee?
00:21:06 Ray Lee?
00:21:08 You know they killed my baby just so they could watch television?
00:21:13 Ray Lee?
00:21:15 Find any strays, save them for me.
00:21:22 All right, now, Ruby.
00:21:29 [chatter]
00:21:32 You out of coals again?
00:21:49 You pull that knob?
00:21:51 Yeah.
00:21:53 Anything come out?
00:21:55 No.
00:21:56 Then it ain't none in there.
00:21:59 I admire you, Mr. Tippy-Toe.
00:22:08 You seem content in your place.
00:22:11 Well, you can see a lot from down here.
00:22:16 Man's character, for one.
00:22:23 Yeah, you learn a lot from the bottom up.
00:22:27 But then again, some of us can't handle a goddamn thing.
00:22:32 You mean you actually make some money with these raggedy-ass caps?
00:22:36 If I didn't make a damn dime, that's my business.
00:22:42 I see this is like a hobby for you.
00:22:46 Nigga, I know you think you Mr. Big Business and all,
00:22:52 but don't you come in here talking to me like I'm a goddamn child, yeah?
00:22:57 I seen this boy reading the Wall Street Journal.
00:23:01 Ain't that the shit?
00:23:04 Don't your narrow ass know this ain't no Wall Street?
00:23:07 This is 9th Street!
00:23:11 I don't like to be talked to like that.
00:23:14 Well, kiss my ass.
00:23:17 Today just ain't your day, is it?
00:23:21 [radio chatter]
00:23:24 If you could beat sense into a dog,
00:23:42 you'd be beating him all the time.
00:23:46 You afraid of dying, people?
00:23:50 I specs I'm more afraid of living than I am of dying.
00:23:55 I mean, I don't know, you know.
00:23:58 I'm kind of looking forward to this shit, you know.
00:24:01 But what have we done with our lives, huh?
00:24:04 What have we done? Ain't done nothing.
00:24:06 Sat up here, ain't done nothing. Just looking.
00:24:08 So we ain't some of them so-called successful people.
00:24:13 Well, what makes them right anyhow?
00:24:15 'Cause they made a whole lot of money?
00:24:17 Well, what if God wanted everybody to be like us, huh?
00:24:22 Shit, we the only ones succeeded.
00:24:25 Don't nobody know.
00:24:27 I sure hope to hell you right.
00:24:29 Damn straight I'm right. Am I ever wrong?
00:24:33 Shit.
00:24:37 Oh, I don't want them people looking and gawking at me,
00:24:42 talking about he wasn't this, he wasn't that.
00:24:45 Keep that casket closed. Keep it closed now.
00:24:47 Fool, ain't nobody gonna be looking at you.
00:24:50 You dead. What do you care?
00:24:52 Hell, for me, I don't want to lay up in no bed.
00:24:56 Boy, I seen too many people get in them deathbeds and never get out.
00:25:00 Not me, no, sirree, buddy.
00:25:02 See, I want to die standing up with my boots on.
00:25:06 Just like that cowboy Randolph Scott.
00:25:09 Now, them was real men, boy.
00:25:11 You died in the sack.
00:25:13 Oh, Bebo, Randolph Scott wasn't nothing but a movie actor.
00:25:17 I don't care, P. Don't you worry about it.
00:25:21 Long as I got my baby here, I ain't worried about nothing.
00:25:25 See, it's like that boy Samson.
00:25:27 See, his strength be in his hair.
00:25:30 This here be my strength.
00:25:32 Long as I got my wine, I ain't never gonna die.
00:25:36 [coughing]
00:25:38 [coughing]
00:25:40 [coughing]
00:25:42 Oh, yeah.
00:25:44 Looks like you're living on borrowed time, Bebo.
00:25:48 Thank you, Pete.
00:25:52 Oh, no, Pop, it's on the house.
00:25:54 All right, thank you, brother.
00:25:56 Not bad for a white man.
00:26:04 See you guys later.
00:26:06 All right.
00:26:08 Yeah, you gonna need all the practice your ass can get.
00:26:13 Oklahoma fools better not come around here
00:26:16 trying to take my girl, my air-conditioned ass, out, baby.
00:26:20 [gunshot]
00:26:22 Oh, shoot.
00:26:24 Here we go.
00:26:26 Hit something.
00:26:28 I got this one.
00:26:30 [gunshot]
00:26:32 You could leave with the back of a bone.
00:26:34 [laughing]
00:26:36 Yeah, your ass need to learn how to aim.
00:26:39 I don't need to know how to aim.
00:26:41 That's what I got you for.
00:26:43 Yeah, I ain't worried about no Oklahoma motherfuckers.
00:26:46 I took her, and she's mine.
00:26:48 Let me show you how this is done.
00:26:50 Love bullets is for mama butler.
00:26:52 [gunshots]
00:26:56 Ruby, don't you want to come in here and eat?
00:27:03 I'm not being there with them people, no.
00:27:05 Are you sure?
00:27:07 Sure I'm sure.
00:27:09 All right, have it your way.
00:27:12 Praise the Lord and bless the cook.
00:27:15 Whoo!
00:27:20 Boy, this shit could put tits on a bull, boy.
00:27:22 [coughing]
00:27:24 Tip, look here now.
00:27:26 You're gonna have to take that snuff out your mouth now.
00:27:29 Don't do that.
00:27:31 I'm thinking about his wine.
00:27:33 Always cracking about shit.
00:27:35 Give me that.
00:27:40 Go on.
00:27:42 Good!
00:27:48 [laughing]
00:27:50 Till my granddaddy used to drink a gallon of corn whiskey a day,
00:27:54 lived to be 102.
00:27:56 Yeah, but you're at your granddaddy's.
00:27:58 Yeah, and Negro today is soft.
00:28:01 Cut him with a butter knife.
00:28:03 Sure is.
00:28:05 You know, back then, a colored man was a bad mojo.
00:28:08 So what?
00:28:10 Jesse Owen.
00:28:12 Paul Robeson.
00:28:14 Remember South Japan?
00:28:16 South Japan, go on now.
00:28:18 Pitch for the Monarchs.
00:28:20 Now, them was some tough Negroes.
00:28:22 Jack Johns.
00:28:24 Yeah, old Jack.
00:28:26 Old Jack was on Jack's behind.
00:28:28 Boy, that boy couldn't go to the toilet stool
00:28:30 without them white gals coming in behind him.
00:28:32 Yeah, like them old white gals did.
00:28:34 Yes, he did.
00:28:36 How you think white folks took that, him having a white woman at all?
00:28:39 Oh, how you think they took it?
00:28:41 Like that about as much as the plague?
00:28:43 Shit, that's one thing the white man don't like,
00:28:46 y'all messing with his women.
00:28:48 He don't want nobody abusing them but him.
00:28:52 That's the truth.
00:28:54 [toilet flushing]
00:28:56 [exhaling]
00:28:58 [baby crying]
00:29:10 I'm coming, dammit! Wait a minute!
00:29:21 [baby crying]
00:29:23 [baby crying]
00:29:25 [baby crying]
00:29:27 [toilet flushing]
00:29:29 [music playing]
00:29:31 [music playing]
00:29:33 Where am I gonna go?
00:29:35 What about the baby?
00:29:37 How am I gonna quit the life, huh?
00:29:39 You see Luther blow that horn?
00:29:41 He's improvising.
00:29:43 That's how life is, is improvising.
00:29:45 You figure it out as you go along.
00:29:47 Like, you leaving may not make your life no better,
00:29:49 but that's the blues.
00:29:51 The blues is about possibility, tomorrow,
00:29:53 rigging and scuffling and making a way.
00:29:56 Kermit, I may not know much about life,
00:29:58 but I know about the blues.
00:30:00 And the blues ain't nothing but life, and life is God.
00:30:03 The blues is what you're living right and high
00:30:05 when you ain't got a pot.
00:30:07 Don't be scared of the blues, girl.
00:30:09 That's what gives you meaning.
00:30:11 [music playing]
00:30:14 [music playing]
00:30:16 [speaking spanish]
00:30:42 Oh, I bet you, I bet you they looking for that boy
00:30:46 that robbed that liquor store last night.
00:30:48 You know what they say, Clifford done it.
00:30:50 Clifford? Clifford Jones?
00:30:53 Yes, sir.
00:30:55 I can believe that.
00:30:57 That boy's on some serious narcotic.
00:30:59 I seen that boy last week standing right there
00:31:03 on that corner, buck naked.
00:31:05 Boy didn't have no shirt, no drawers on,
00:31:08 no nothing except some tennis shoes so he could run.
00:31:11 I bet the whole crew.
00:31:13 I knew then that boy was upset.
00:31:15 Well, they say he beat that white man up awful bad.
00:31:19 White man, huh?
00:31:21 Old white man.
00:31:23 Oh, Clifford.
00:31:25 Boy, we won't be seeing your ass for a long time, boy.
00:31:30 You want to have to use that?
00:31:32 [gunshot]
00:31:33 [cheering]
00:31:35 Look at him.
00:31:38 Running out of here like chickens with their heads cut off.
00:31:41 Yeah, uh-huh, yeah, you niggas love to talk shit,
00:31:44 but when the man come down here,
00:31:46 you run out of here making that.
00:31:48 Bunch of titty suckers!
00:31:50 Bunch of natural born titty suckers!
00:31:52 That's what y'all is!
00:31:54 Say, say, Mr. Policeman,
00:31:56 I ain't afraid of your god damn shit!
00:31:58 I ain't scared of it, huh?
00:32:00 What you gonna do, huh?
00:32:01 When you run out of room in the jailhouse, huh?
00:32:03 What you gonna do, huh?
00:32:06 God damn it!
00:32:08 [gunshot]
00:32:09 [cheering]
00:32:11 Get down, now!
00:32:13 You can't put our niggas in the wall!
00:32:16 Can the who's count?
00:32:18 You can't do it!
00:32:20 Shoot 'em, Bebo!
00:32:21 There's too many of us!
00:32:22 Bebo, you gonna get us in trouble!
00:32:24 We in trouble now!
00:32:26 [shouting]
00:32:28 Then you get your money!
00:32:30 You ain't supposed to be down here!
00:32:32 You're supposed to be on the hill protecting the nation!
00:32:35 You can't kill all these black motherfuckers down here!
00:32:38 You can't do it!
00:32:39 You can't do it, Mr. Policeman!
00:32:41 So what you gonna do, huh?
00:32:43 What you gonna do, Mr. Policeman?
00:32:46 Bebo, take your ass out of the street!
00:32:50 Bebo, stay out of this, man!
00:32:52 [sirens]
00:33:01 All y'all just get inside!
00:33:03 Get your ass on in the house!
00:33:05 Hell, y'all ain't shit!
00:33:07 Scared of everything!
00:33:09 Scared you're gonna die!
00:33:11 Hell, y'all was born dead!
00:33:14 [sirens]
00:33:19 You gonna bring the law down on us, that's what you gonna do?
00:33:22 [sirens]
00:33:25 Next time, they gonna be after you, Bebo!
00:33:28 [sirens]
00:33:31 Don't be throwing no rocks!
00:33:33 Throw another one!
00:33:35 I'll knock your ass out!
00:33:38 You better hush up or one of them jokers come over here
00:33:42 and call cocky upside your head!
00:33:44 Man get tired of seeing the same thing every day!
00:33:48 [music]
00:34:02 People say talking trash is a waste of time,
00:34:06 but talking shit is what keeps most black men
00:34:09 from going stark raving mad.
00:34:11 This might sound foolish here, Bebo, and whatnot,
00:34:14 but I feel sorry for the white man.
00:34:17 Oh, honey.
00:34:18 I do now, I swear.
00:34:20 Always having to watch his stuff.
00:34:22 I bet he won't blink sometime, you know?
00:34:26 See, I just wish things would just turn around, you know?
00:34:33 This be our country and they be working for us.
00:34:37 See, wouldn't that be something, honey?
00:34:39 See, white folks need some money.
00:34:42 Got to go to the Negro for a loan.
00:34:45 We be handing out the money.
00:34:47 Wouldn't be no more of that bull in November
00:34:50 pick the rich white man of your choice for president.
00:34:53 Be a colored man?
00:34:54 It's our country, ain't it?
00:34:56 Shh, hell boy, white folks couldn't take being a nigger, boy.
00:34:59 Be just like in '29.
00:35:01 They be jumping out of windows again.
00:35:03 A colored president.
00:35:05 Abernathy.
00:35:06 Thurgood Marshall.
00:35:07 Maybe Cassius Clack.
00:35:09 Couldn't be no worse than what they got running now.
00:35:12 Nixie.
00:35:13 He got the nerve to run again.
00:35:16 That boy want to be president bad.
00:35:19 He look like a crook to me.
00:35:21 Oh, you can see it in his eyes.
00:35:23 You know, sneaky.
00:35:25 Say, he got a good chance of winning.
00:35:27 Oh, hell, he'll probably win.
00:35:29 See, white folks vote for anybody.
00:35:31 See, if I wasn't colored, I'd run for president and win.
00:35:35 See, all you got to do is be a trickster, a con man, or actor.
00:35:40 Something like that.
00:35:41 And I can ask my ass off, boy.
00:35:43 See, I tell them fools what they want to hear.
00:35:46 And they'll believe it.
00:35:47 They'll believe anything.
00:35:49 You see what they did to that young boy, can't you?
00:35:52 Bobby shot that boy down.
00:35:54 Say, he's going to do a lot for colored people, too.
00:35:56 Why you think he dead?
00:35:59 Yeah, you can't help nobody when you dead.
00:36:02 Well, hell, I lost my leg fighting some people I ain't never, ever seen before.
00:36:07 Can't speak the language.
00:36:08 Who's high-hitching all that shit?
00:36:10 But when they kills colored folks over here, we're supposed to be nonviolent.
00:36:14 Well, how am I going to be nonviolent when everybody's killing me?
00:36:17 Jesus did it.
00:36:19 Jesus, daddy, was God.
00:36:21 I ain't got no relatives like that.
00:36:23 I guess I never wanted it that bad.
00:36:25 Couldn't do the things Mr. Charlie do.
00:36:27 It would have been a damn sight better than sitting in a jail cell.
00:36:31 It would have been a damn sight better than sitting on that sofa.
00:36:34 I ain't going to kill to get off that car.
00:36:36 Use a fool.
00:36:38 You must be one, too, then.
00:36:44 Well, one of these days, white folks, they're going to put the wrong idiot in office.
00:36:47 In Russia, one of them is going to call him up and talk about his mama, and boom.
00:36:52 That crazy son of a gun push that button.
00:36:54 Wake up in the morning dead.
00:36:56 Would that be a bitch?
00:36:57 Then what they going to say?
00:36:59 Sorry, we're sorry, walking around, picking up shit.
00:37:03 You think in Russia they're really going to drop something on us?
00:37:06 Not unless we can make some money out of it.
00:37:09 I was thinking they're going to drop that bomb on them big Kongs,
00:37:12 on them things on them Kongs over there.
00:37:14 See, ain't no money in that kind of war.
00:37:17 You got to use a lot of tanks, airplanes, shit like that.
00:37:20 How are these big shots going to make their money?
00:37:23 One big boom make the whole war a bad investment.
00:37:26 You sure?
00:37:27 Tell you what I know now.
00:37:28 Don't you worry about them Russians.
00:37:30 They too busy trying to stay warm.
00:37:32 Look here.
00:37:33 Keep your eye on these motherfuckers over here.
00:37:36 [all agreeing]
00:37:42 Why?
00:37:44 Why you think them men's going up on that move?
00:37:51 You want the gospel truth?
00:37:53 Of course.
00:37:55 You probably won't believe this.
00:37:57 Look, I believe the government is going up there because of--
00:38:06 one day they're going to ship all the niggers up there.
00:38:10 Oh, look here now.
00:38:13 The moon ain't worth nothing.
00:38:15 Ain't nothing but a bunch of big hoes in the ground, I reckon.
00:38:18 So why they going somewhere it ain't worth nothing?
00:38:21 I don't know why.
00:38:23 Because they plan on putting all the undesirables,
00:38:27 and that's about all of us, on the moon.
00:38:30 See, it's like them Russians.
00:38:32 Them Russians got this place called Siberia
00:38:35 where they put all the Russians that can't get along.
00:38:37 So?
00:38:39 So that's what this country planning to do,
00:38:42 put all the niggers on the moon, boy.
00:38:44 Mark my word, one day get rid of them.
00:38:46 Are you serious?
00:38:48 I am serious as the bubonic plague.
00:38:51 One by one, the white man going to snatch us up
00:38:54 and ship us to the moon, boy.
00:38:56 I'm telling you, we're the known now.
00:38:58 They just wasting money.
00:38:59 They just wasting more money.
00:39:01 Maybe so.
00:39:02 Maybe so.
00:39:04 But if one morning you wake up and I ain't here,
00:39:12 you know they got me.
00:39:15 [music]
00:39:19 The Bible talks about it.
00:39:32 Sins of the flesh, fornication, it's all here.
00:39:35 In my opinion, we should run all these whores and harlots
00:39:38 out of this street.
00:39:39 Scandalous.
00:39:40 The Bible talks about it.
00:39:42 Here's that casserole I made for your mama.
00:39:44 I hope she gets to feel it.
00:39:46 Thank you.
00:39:48 Son, you have a church in here.
00:39:50 Sinners down here on these streets, some in this room,
00:39:53 those people going to that bottomless pit,
00:39:55 that lake of fire.
00:39:57 What people you talking about?
00:39:58 Yeah, Johnny, you got to get out of here.
00:40:00 No, uh-uh, uh-uh, let him stay.
00:40:03 I want to hear this.
00:40:05 You running the business of sins, whores, and liquor, vice,
00:40:09 your way is hell, straight to hell.
00:40:11 Look here, boy, I don't play this.
00:40:13 Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute, mama, please.
00:40:15 Son, I don't think you realize how disrespectful
00:40:17 you're being to this good woman.
00:40:19 Disrespectful?
00:40:20 Look at you, supposed to be a man of God?
00:40:23 You drink, don't you?
00:40:24 Smoke?
00:40:25 Who knows what all?
00:40:27 How can you ever hope to help someone
00:40:29 talking to them like that?
00:40:31 The Bible says it, I believe it, that settles it.
00:40:34 See, we're all missing the point.
00:40:36 The fact is, this street out here is going to die soon
00:40:39 unless it gets some help.
00:40:41 The street is sin, the way of sin is death.
00:40:44 Y'all come on down to the church, get right.
00:40:46 Didn't Dr. King say the church is the place to go forth from?
00:40:50 You and I are in the same business,
00:40:51 this business of religion.
00:40:53 Shouldn't religion make it easier for people to be good?
00:40:56 Dr. King, if King had been in the church being Reverend King
00:41:00 instead of out there on them streets being Dr. King,
00:41:03 he wouldn't be dead now.
00:41:07 Maybe you're right.
00:41:08 Amen, I know I'm right.
00:41:10 God bless you, brother.
00:41:12 God don't care about all that marching and going on,
00:41:17 being all in the world.
00:41:19 Get right, live right.
00:41:20 First Temple of Faith, 704 14th Street.
00:41:23 Thank you, Jesus.
00:41:24 Come and get saved.
00:41:26 Don't play Johnny No Mind.
00:41:32 I've seen kids like him before.
00:41:34 He's afraid, that's all it is, fear.
00:41:36 Come on, let me buy you a beer.
00:41:39 How's it going, Mr. Honey?
00:41:43 How y'all doing?
00:41:44 Fine, fine, same old 76.
00:41:47 Now, we'd be doing a whole lot better if we had a taste.
00:41:51 Oh, look at me, honey.
00:41:53 I'm as broke as the Ten Commandments.
00:41:55 Just spent my last dime, though, on this new outfit.
00:41:58 What do y'all think?
00:41:59 What kind of get up you call that?
00:42:01 This?
00:42:02 This what they call hot pants.
00:42:04 Shit, when them suckers showing off his hot shit,
00:42:07 got me to sweating.
00:42:08 Somebody call a firehouse.
00:42:10 Fool, you need to quit.
00:42:12 Like they say, baby, you got to spend money to make money.
00:42:16 A toast to the white man who wants to go to the moon.
00:42:21 May that motherfucker stay there.
00:42:24 I swear, Bebo, you ain't got a lick of sense.
00:42:28 How you make it, girl?
00:42:30 Shit.
00:42:31 Them Okie Lawton, out-of-state Kansas City, Florida hoes,
00:42:35 they be taking all the money on payday.
00:42:38 Everything be all right, though, if it wasn't for that shit.
00:42:41 So you done got away from love?
00:42:43 Yeah, honey.
00:42:44 Carrie don't need no nigga.
00:42:46 Girl, what you ever see in that joker anyhow?
00:42:49 He ain't even pretty.
00:42:51 What I see, I see something strong.
00:42:54 Strong shit.
00:42:56 That boy ain't doodling squat.
00:42:58 Compared to what me and Honey put out in our day.
00:43:01 Hell, you just think he's so much 'cause he got money.
00:43:04 Baby, that ain't got nothing to do with it.
00:43:06 When you be sitting beside love in that car,
00:43:09 you be feeling good.
00:43:11 Aw, come on now, Carrie.
00:43:13 You act like some school gal.
00:43:15 Well, maybe I is.
00:43:17 Maybe I want to be.
00:43:19 Feel good having a man do for you.
00:43:21 These lame dudes can't do for me.
00:43:23 Shit, Color Man been held back a long time.
00:43:26 Yeah, I done heard y'all cry about it all my damn life.
00:43:30 Now, now, wait a minute now.
00:43:32 No, you wait a minute.
00:43:34 Which one of these men around here gonna do for me?
00:43:36 Not nail one, can't do for theyself.
00:43:39 Her love? That y'all done got over.
00:43:41 Girl, girl, get up off the Color Man now.
00:43:43 It's the truth.
00:43:45 Y'all sitting on a white-o couch acting like y'all part of the world.
00:43:48 I'm sorry. Y'all a part of nothing.
00:43:51 And that boy love is, huh?
00:43:53 Damn straight he is.
00:43:55 Love don't need none of them civil rights.
00:43:57 He out there right now equal.
00:43:59 If that boy is so damn much, why ain't you with him?
00:44:04 Tell you something, Mr. Bebo.
00:44:09 I done known y'all since I was a kid.
00:44:12 See, I ain't one of them, "Hey, daddy this, daddy that" women no more.
00:44:18 I need a change.
00:44:21 I'm getting off this corner.
00:44:25 That girl need to get off of that corner.
00:44:29 I heard her.
00:44:31 She act like she don't want to quit.
00:44:33 Karen Mae doing what she know.
00:44:35 Her mama was on that corner.
00:44:37 Long as that military got that money, these girls gonna be after these men.
00:44:41 On the job and time, they either gonna ma'am, trick 'em or both.
00:44:45 Let that military leave and this whole town drive like a broom.
00:44:49 Them girls out there got their uniforms on,
00:44:51 marching down the street, ready to take orders.
00:44:54 Girl, you need to quit.
00:44:56 Honey, let me tell you.
00:44:58 These soldiers in these holes, they just the like.
00:45:02 They know they being pimp, but they want that money.
00:45:05 But why turn tricks?
00:45:08 Letting all them no count men jiggle up in you?
00:45:11 Oh, no.
00:45:12 Oh, shit, Winifred.
00:45:14 Why you think all them little young niggas over there killing them gentlemen in Vietnam?
00:45:19 'Cause some big shot pimp want them to.
00:45:23 Myself, I ain't throwing no stones.
00:45:29 By the way, when's the two of you hold one at one time?
00:45:36 [♪♪♪]
00:45:42 Fuck!
00:45:43 Told Love your motherfucking ass was gonna be trouble.
00:45:46 I should have never took you from them Oklahoma motherfuckers.
00:45:49 Well, send my ass back then.
00:45:52 You know what?
00:45:53 Back in the day, you could take a motherfucking ho,
00:45:56 but right now, motherfuckers don't play that shit.
00:45:59 I know these guys.
00:46:01 They ain't gonna do shit.
00:46:03 He should have left your backwoods country ass right where the fuck he found you.
00:46:08 Fuck you, G.
00:46:10 You just blame me for every goddamn thing.
00:46:14 'Cause you loves money, ho.
00:46:16 I can't fuck you up.
00:46:18 But let me tell you something.
00:46:21 Those backwoods country ass motherfucking Oklahomans
00:46:25 will come here and find you belly up in Milford Lake.
00:46:28 You got that?
00:46:30 [♪♪♪]
00:46:38 [sighs]
00:46:40 [♪♪♪]
00:46:43 You, uh--
00:46:45 You love Lettie.
00:46:48 Why?
00:46:49 You want her?
00:46:50 No.
00:46:52 You don't want that woman?
00:46:55 Just wondering if you loved her.
00:46:59 Love.
00:47:00 Shit.
00:47:03 What does that mean?
00:47:05 Ho, a woman got something everybody want,
00:47:09 and she know how to use it.
00:47:11 Have your nose wide open.
00:47:13 You act like I don't know that.
00:47:15 You don't.
00:47:16 You the one love every woman you run into.
00:47:19 So?
00:47:20 So you's too good to your women.
00:47:22 You treat a woman good, she think you weak.
00:47:27 Well, you treated all your women bad.
00:47:30 Look where it got you.
00:47:32 [♪♪♪]
00:47:36 Smart ass.
00:47:38 Hell, I-- I wanted to do for Lettie,
00:47:41 couldn't do for myself.
00:47:43 She be talking about get a job and quit your drinking
00:47:48 and telling me about what the neighbors had to say about me.
00:47:51 Hell, I done heard what the neighbors had to say
00:47:53 all my damn life.
00:47:55 They don't want to let me in that door,
00:47:57 then I don't want in there no more.
00:47:59 They can keep it.
00:48:01 I ain't all hung up on that mess.
00:48:03 Why, she got to be.
00:48:05 Well, she ain't never had a chance to go uptown.
00:48:07 She ain't--
00:48:08 Well, if she ain't, then it's a blessing.
00:48:12 And old Lettie still want me to be like everybody else.
00:48:17 Can't she see they won't let me be like everybody else?
00:48:21 [♪♪♪]
00:48:23 ♪ Once upon a time ♪
00:48:25 ♪ Our love was solid as a rock ♪
00:48:28 ♪ What happened to you, baby? ♪
00:48:32 ♪ What caused that good loving to stop? ♪
00:48:36 [♪♪♪]
00:48:40 [muttering]
00:48:43 16 coaches and all.
00:48:46 And that alone.
00:48:49 Need a cab to the post?
00:48:51 [police radio chatter]
00:48:54 Can I help you with something?
00:48:57 Sean?
00:48:59 Something?
00:49:01 [♪♪♪]
00:49:04 Sean?
00:49:06 [♪♪♪]
00:49:09 [radio chatter]
00:49:12 [♪♪♪]
00:49:15 [phone ringing]
00:49:18 [♪♪♪]
00:49:21 [radio chatter]
00:49:23 [♪♪♪]
00:49:26 [phone ringing]
00:49:29 [♪♪♪]
00:49:32 [phone ringing]
00:49:35 [♪♪♪]
00:49:38 [phone ringing]
00:49:41 [♪♪♪]
00:49:44 [phone ringing]
00:49:47 [♪♪♪]
00:49:50 [♪♪♪]
00:49:53 Hey.
00:49:55 We all brothers down here on the block.
00:49:58 Boy, get your hands off me, love.
00:50:00 I ain't one of your bitches.
00:50:02 Now straight up now, 'cause I don't play with kids, boy.
00:50:05 Son, I don't like you.
00:50:07 You or none of these other half-ass gangsters around here.
00:50:10 Boy, 9th Street used to be a paradise
00:50:13 till y'all come down here.
00:50:15 Yeah, we hustle, but we wasn't into all that gangster shit.
00:50:19 We didn't just use people and put 'em in the street.
00:50:23 Nobody want to hear that shit.
00:50:26 [♪♪♪]
00:50:29 [♪♪♪]
00:50:32 [♪♪♪]
00:50:35 What's it gonna be?
00:50:37 Give me a razor line.
00:50:39 [♪♪♪]
00:50:42 Mama Butler and some of these boot-licking toms.
00:50:45 Scared they gonna close these tired, hunky toms.
00:50:48 Oh, shit. Here we go.
00:50:50 Leonardo Strassi.
00:50:53 And I do wear a hundred alligators.
00:50:55 And our plan's to be the first nigga in town
00:50:58 to get me one of them cold-blooded 69 Eldorados,
00:51:02 knocking 'em dead.
00:51:04 Boy, that make you somebody.
00:51:06 Boy, I got dirty drums on, and I know I'm somebody.
00:51:09 9th done changed.
00:51:11 You think I like whooping my hoes?
00:51:13 Gia tell you, everybody wants tough.
00:51:16 You got to be tough.
00:51:18 Tough? What the hell is that?
00:51:20 My hoes call me Westmoreland,
00:51:22 'cause I gives them a Vietnam-ass kickin'.
00:51:25 You know a woman loves a good beatin' every now and then.
00:51:29 Love? You make my ass sick, boy.
00:51:31 Yeah, I get a kick out of you old fossils.
00:51:34 Fossils? Eat that up, bitch.
00:51:38 Try and understand this, old man.
00:51:40 Life, good life, in order to have it,
00:51:43 you got to kick a little ass sometimes.
00:51:45 It ain't just given to you.
00:51:47 You got to earn it, baby.
00:51:49 As y'all should know, it's called progress, you dig?
00:51:53 Progress?
00:51:55 You know, building buildings and shit.
00:51:58 I don't even know why I talk to you.
00:52:00 It's the same shit every week,
00:52:02 Bebo talking about the system.
00:52:05 Hell, ain't nothing wrong with this shit.
00:52:07 America's numero uno, baby.
00:52:09 It'd work for y'all if you got off your dead fossilized asses
00:52:13 and do something.
00:52:15 Ain't we doing something?
00:52:17 Y'all ain't helping shit.
00:52:19 I'm trying to help you.
00:52:21 Gee.
00:52:23 That gets you an opinion.
00:52:30 Stick with me, I'll get you in the mainstream.
00:52:33 Boy, I wouldn't go around the block with your ass.
00:52:37 You fossils got to learn how to compromise.
00:52:40 How many times I got to tell y'all that?
00:52:42 Never no more.
00:52:44 Y'all heard people speak in tongues?
00:52:49 Just them people uptown, boy.
00:52:52 You know, this street been cursed.
00:52:54 Lord done cursed this street.
00:52:56 Now, what we done did that the Lord want to curse us, huh?
00:53:00 Y'all full of sin.
00:53:02 Ain't a soul down here that's free of sin.
00:53:04 Cursed, shit.
00:53:07 Ain't nobody in your church love God and ain't shit.
00:53:10 I mean, you know love God and ain't successful.
00:53:13 You get off that sofa, you could be.
00:53:15 Somebody shut the door on me, boy.
00:53:17 Lazy excuses.
00:53:19 Y'all just like being down here with these low-life losers.
00:53:22 Boy, Jesus was a loser.
00:53:24 'Cause, boy, hell,
00:53:26 the boy was the world's greatest failure on these terms.
00:53:29 Your terms.
00:53:31 Boy, the boy could have had everything.
00:53:33 Got hung to a tree.
00:53:35 Hell, you talking that money bullshit.
00:53:37 With Jesus, I'm a free man, boy.
00:53:39 I'm a free man.
00:53:41 Go on, live your life, wino.
00:53:43 I can't believe. Do you know Jesus?
00:53:45 Do I know Jesus?
00:53:47 Do I know Jesus?
00:53:49 Talked to the nigga on the telephone a week ago Sunday.
00:53:51 Oh, that's the devil talking.
00:53:53 Look here, boy, I done played enough with God for one day.
00:53:56 Let me tell you something.
00:53:58 Jesus, oh, he coming back.
00:54:00 But don't think he come to sit up in your church.
00:54:02 'Cause if you read your Bible,
00:54:04 you'll see that Jesus kept company with the prostitutes.
00:54:07 Wine drinkers, tax collectors.
00:54:10 And, uh, let me tell you this before you go.
00:54:13 Don't be sitting up waiting for Jesus in his house.
00:54:17 'Cause, uh, you don't stay home much.
00:54:19 He like visiting for us.
00:54:21 You want to see Jesus, come on down here to 9th Street.
00:54:25 He'll probably be over there talking to one of them hoes.
00:54:29 [chuckles]
00:54:31 [music]
00:54:40 Please, Cobb.
00:54:43 No, son, I think something best off right here.
00:54:48 [music]
00:54:57 I'm sorry, honey, go on with him if you want to.
00:55:01 I ain't going no place.
00:55:03 I'm waiting for him.
00:55:05 [music]
00:55:12 Ten and two, baby, and I'll take you around the world.
00:55:15 Ten dollars? God damn.
00:55:18 What do you say I give you about five or six dollars
00:55:20 you drop me off in St. Louis?
00:55:22 Baby, this ain't the Goodwill.
00:55:24 I'm out here for the money.
00:55:27 I'll make a man pat his pocket.
00:55:29 Pat your happy ass on the head.
00:55:31 Come on.
00:55:33 You know better than to be on my corner?
00:55:35 Pepper, I ain't never had to sit on your corner to make it.
00:55:38 So why don't you take that mammy-made ass
00:55:40 and that bale of straw out of my face?
00:55:43 Listen to Miss Mike next.
00:55:45 You sure got ugly ways, girl.
00:55:47 But I forget, you press me like a whore, Junior, right?
00:55:51 Oh, shh.
00:55:52 She something, Miss Parky.
00:55:55 Girl, this was love at the time.
00:55:58 Spot on his arm like he had a Jones for.
00:56:00 Whip my ass for Junior with her.
00:56:02 Tell me to get up off of his woman.
00:56:05 You ain't nothing but another nice street hoe.
00:56:08 And that makes two of us.
00:56:10 Carrie Mae, heard you was putting his life down.
00:56:14 Heard you was going to get off the corner.
00:56:16 Going to get off the corner, huh?
00:56:18 I see your feet still on it.
00:56:21 You going to get off the corner?
00:56:23 Kiss my ass, motherfucker.
00:56:25 Keep your mama off the street and she won't get fucked.
00:56:29 Stop her, fool.
00:56:30 Stop her, stop her.
00:56:32 Motherfucker, let me go.
00:56:34 You're a damn mother--
00:56:35 No, no, no.
00:56:37 Didn't I tell you not to mess with her?
00:56:40 You understand me?
00:56:41 You understand?
00:56:43 [music playing]
00:56:46 Going to Kansas City, Kansas City, here I come.
00:57:03 [gibberish]
00:57:05 Going to Kansas City, Kansas City, here I come.
00:57:09 [gibberish]
00:57:12 They got crazy little women there.
00:57:14 I'm going to get me one.
00:57:16 [gibberish]
00:57:18 I'll be standing on the corner.
00:57:20 Oh, 12th and Vine.
00:57:22 [gibberish]
00:57:25 Oh, Lord, boy, don't talk about Vine.
00:57:28 Hurts me to my heart.
00:57:29 Yes, Kansas City, Missouri, boy.
00:57:32 Good times.
00:57:33 Them women on Vine was fine.
00:57:36 You remember old Clary's Walker, don't you?
00:57:38 Clary's Walker.
00:57:39 What about Georgia Tid?
00:57:41 Georgia Tid.
00:57:42 Boy, that nasty was tight as a bark on a tree, boy.
00:57:46 How'd you know that?
00:57:47 He don't know.
00:57:48 He don't know, Tim.
00:57:49 He don't know.
00:57:50 He don't know.
00:57:51 A whole lot of them big names used to stop down on 9th, too.
00:57:54 Big Nick Nicholas.
00:57:55 Where's my Kansas City, baby?
00:57:57 My bottle of Kansas City wine.
00:58:00 Oh, yeah.
00:58:01 Bird.
00:58:05 [jazz music]
00:58:08 Joker stopped down there to the Flamingo Club.
00:58:15 Had a jam session.
00:58:16 Mm-hmm.
00:58:17 Boy played that straight ahead jazz.
00:58:19 Straight ahead, yeah.
00:58:20 Won't Charlie be having a fit on that hunk?
00:58:22 Yeah, he do.
00:58:23 Bird get to sweating that funky jazz.
00:58:25 Man, man, man.
00:58:27 Man, you can feel them blues all the way down in your back.
00:58:33 Oh, Tim, what you say?
00:58:35 [jazz music]
00:58:38 [chatter]
00:58:41 [jazz music]
00:58:45 [chatter]
00:58:48 [jazz music]
00:58:51 [laughter]
00:58:52 [jazz music]
00:58:55 Get it.
00:59:01 Get it, Tim.
00:59:02 Get it now.
00:59:03 [jazz music]
00:59:06 Let me show you, boy.
00:59:16 Let me show you what I can do.
00:59:17 Don't stand.
00:59:18 [chatter]
00:59:19 Bring it on.
00:59:20 There it is.
00:59:21 [chatter]
00:59:22 [laughter]
00:59:23 Don't stand there, boy.
00:59:25 Yeah.
00:59:26 [chatter]
00:59:27 [jazz music]
00:59:30 Mama Butler told me
00:59:45 mine ain't nothing but a shell now.
00:59:48 Ain't nothing down there.
00:59:51 Vast street?
00:59:53 A shell?
00:59:54 Mm-hmm.
00:59:55 Well, nothing lasts forever.
01:00:02 Even mine wears out.
01:00:04 Mm, mm, mm.
01:00:08 Mm.
01:00:15 See, I told him don't go down there.
01:00:18 Then here they come in them suits they wear
01:00:20 when they trying them pressing things,
01:00:22 talking that USA, Heavenly Father, Glory, Glory shit.
01:00:27 Mixed that witch's brew up.
01:00:30 Had them colors coming.
01:00:32 Hero smoke bubbling up from the pot.
01:00:35 Rainy, gone, and breathing.
01:00:38 Lord Almighty, he breathed it in.
01:00:43 Baby breathed it in and ain't been the same never no more.
01:00:47 You know they took his mind.
01:00:50 Stars and striped men.
01:00:53 Rainy wanted something to believe in.
01:00:56 Of course, looking at all them pictures on the wall they had,
01:01:00 he wanted something, needed something.
01:01:04 Lord knows he did.
01:01:07 You understand.
01:01:09 I know that you do.
01:01:11 They fooled them kids.
01:01:13 They fooled.
01:01:15 I know.
01:01:16 I know they game.
01:01:18 Sending me all them letters, dollar money,
01:01:22 talking that hero shit.
01:01:25 I want my boy.
01:01:27 I don't want no more damn letters.
01:01:31 I want to feel again.
01:01:33 Everybody hear me?
01:01:35 You understand.
01:01:40 God knows you do.
01:01:42 Don't breathe that smog, whatever you do.
01:01:46 Stay clear of the smog.
01:01:48 I used to be fine.
01:01:51 Until I breathed it in.
01:01:54 Got me.
01:01:56 Sure did.
01:01:57 Because it got my baby.
01:01:59 Got my boy.
01:02:02 [music]
01:02:16 Them Oklahoma motherfuckers in town,
01:02:18 they been asking about you.
01:02:21 Man, fuck the motherfuckers.
01:02:26 Carrie May in here?
01:02:28 Yeah, she's at the bar.
01:02:30 [music]
01:02:43 Let me buy you a drink.
01:02:45 [music]
01:02:50 Why don't you leave that girl alone?
01:02:52 You know you don't mean her no good.
01:02:55 No.
01:02:56 Your nose is too long.
01:02:58 Get you some goddamn business.
01:03:00 [music]
01:03:11 That'll get her up.
01:03:13 [music]
01:03:26 Why you want to run?
01:03:29 We had something special.
01:03:32 I never treated you like you was a commodity.
01:03:36 You was my lady.
01:03:39 You remember how we talked about quitting the life,
01:03:43 getting out of this damn town,
01:03:46 and go somewhere.
01:03:48 Just you and me.
01:03:51 You my heart.
01:03:54 Come on back home.
01:03:57 [music]
01:04:09 [chatter]
01:04:19 [music]
01:04:29 [chatter]
01:04:39 This is me, Fossils.
01:04:41 69 El Dorado.
01:04:44 Son, you all in the Kool-Aid and don't know what flavor it is?
01:04:48 Look here, Antique.
01:04:50 I'm out here trying to make a living,
01:04:53 something y'all ain't never done.
01:04:55 You right, Steph.
01:04:56 'Cause there ain't about to be no motherfucker like you.
01:04:59 Son, that's a terrible way to think now.
01:05:01 Terrible.
01:05:02 Maybe if you thought like me, Mr. Huddy,
01:05:04 your ass wouldn't be sitting here now.
01:05:09 Let me tell you something.
01:05:12 All them things you be talking about,
01:05:15 they ain't nothing but dead dreams.
01:05:18 You and all them things you hold up so high,
01:05:22 they'll die.
01:05:27 Boy, you best find you something don't die.
01:05:32 [music]
01:05:47 Hey, D, the white trick Brenda you looking for,
01:05:50 she ain't here.
01:05:51 You see them two colored bitches over there?
01:05:53 I'll give you both of them for the price of the white trick.
01:05:56 Is that cool?
01:05:58 Yeah.
01:05:59 Bet.
01:06:05 Selling that Gap goody.
01:06:07 $55.
01:06:09 Cash money, baby.
01:06:10 Can't touch his ass with a red apple now.
01:06:14 Boy, somebody gonna send your ass a duster.
01:06:20 Wine-nose think they the smartest motherfuckers in the world.
01:06:30 Tippy.
01:06:37 Tippy.
01:06:40 Tippy!
01:06:41 What?
01:06:42 Fake cars, boy.
01:06:43 What the hell?
01:06:44 Tippy.
01:06:48 Chosen?
01:06:49 I'm good.
01:06:50 Hit more than myself.
01:06:53 There it is.
01:06:54 21, blackjack.
01:06:56 Negro, what you doing?
01:06:58 What?
01:06:59 You had 17 and now you're hitting yourself again.
01:07:03 That's the rules.
01:07:04 I'm the dealer.
01:07:06 What rules?
01:07:07 The rules of the game, Tippy.
01:07:10 What game?
01:07:12 The game we playing, the game they play in Las Vegas,
01:07:15 it's called blackjack, where the dealer hits you
01:07:18 and you lose the game.
01:07:20 Blackjack, where the dealer hits himself?
01:07:23 Not if the player got over 16 and you had 17, fool.
01:07:28 I know the Las Vegas rules.
01:07:31 What you know about Las Vegas?
01:07:33 I know what I know about the Las Vegas rules.
01:07:40 Las Vegas rules my ass.
01:07:43 What you is, is just plain law.
01:07:47 I can see that you're lost now.
01:07:49 Let me see.
01:07:52 What about the god damn--
01:07:56 That ain't even 21.
01:08:07 I know the Las Vegas rules.
01:08:09 Shit.
01:08:10 Homemade rules.
01:08:13 No, I got the blues bad, boy.
01:08:15 Like Oedipus.
01:08:17 Like who?
01:08:18 Oedipus, you know, the king.
01:08:21 You know the story, Oedipus.
01:08:24 I don't know that story.
01:08:25 Oh, you ought to read that, boy.
01:08:27 That's a motherfucker.
01:08:34 Say, man, is this a nice street?
01:08:41 Is this a nice street?
01:08:43 Boy, this here is the internationally acclaimed,
01:08:47 world-renowned block known as Nice Street.
01:08:51 Feel privileged, boy.
01:08:53 Where the women at, pops?
01:08:55 I heard this place be jumping.
01:08:57 What kind of women you looking for, son?
01:08:59 All y'all got down here is a bunch of hoes.
01:09:01 You didn't come down here looking for love, did you?
01:09:04 Boy, this is Nice Street.
01:09:06 This how we serves the community.
01:09:08 That's how we serve the community.
01:09:11 That's how we serve the--
01:09:13 What's your name, boy?
01:09:14 Jackson's my name.
01:09:16 You been to war?
01:09:18 What you mean, real war?
01:09:21 Boy, let me show you something here.
01:09:25 Come here, let me show you something.
01:09:27 Are you nuts?
01:09:28 You just stabbed yourself in the leg.
01:09:30 Yeah, wood leg.
01:09:33 You always doing that to people, fool.
01:09:35 Scared you, didn't I?
01:09:36 That's right, boy.
01:09:37 I gave my leg to the U.S. government
01:09:39 fighting them Jerrys, them Nassers in WWII,
01:09:43 Northern Africa, Sicily, 1941, '42.
01:09:46 You know the year they didn't make no cars.
01:09:48 Just because it happened to you
01:09:49 don't mean it's going to happen to me.
01:09:51 What they want from you?
01:09:53 I got to go to NAMA and kill some VC.
01:09:55 It ain't nothing.
01:09:57 Hey, what are y'all?
01:09:59 Some of them hippies talking anti-war shit?
01:10:01 Uh, son, I was hippie before they was born.
01:10:05 Color man ain't got no business over there, no how.
01:10:08 What you protecting, boy? This shit?
01:10:11 Better than standing on it.
01:10:13 Son, when you're dying of thirst,
01:10:14 you want anything to look like water.
01:10:16 If I was you, I'd haul my ass up north
01:10:20 with them politician sons.
01:10:22 Dessert?
01:10:23 Hell, dessert, lunch, dinner, hell.
01:10:25 I call it keeping my ass amongst the living.
01:10:28 You wild.
01:10:29 Son, that war business is what's wild.
01:10:33 Let me tell you, son,
01:10:35 when I lost my leg,
01:10:38 used to hurt me down here.
01:10:40 When my leg was gone,
01:10:42 wasn't nothing there and it still hurt me.
01:10:46 Don't hurt me there no more.
01:10:48 Hurt me in here.
01:10:51 How you mean?
01:10:53 How I mean?
01:10:55 I mean I shouldn't have come back to this country
01:10:57 after the war.
01:10:59 They tried to make me stay.
01:11:01 No, I come back to this country
01:11:03 thinking things have changed.
01:11:07 Shit.
01:11:11 Oh, don't pay him no mind, boy.
01:11:14 You'll be all right.
01:11:17 Lord will watch you, boy.
01:11:19 He'll watch you.
01:11:23 Here's a little something here,
01:11:26 so you don't be forgetting.
01:11:31 Go on.
01:11:36 Hey, well, you better go and get you one of them bitches
01:11:41 before they all gone.
01:11:45 Yo, dudes, take care.
01:11:47 All right, sir.
01:11:51 You think he gonna be all right?
01:11:53 He look like he can run fast.
01:11:56 But you sure got messed up in that war.
01:11:59 Your leg, your arm there.
01:12:04 I didn't hurt my arm in no war.
01:12:07 You didn't?
01:12:09 How you do that?
01:12:13 Done it to myself.
01:12:16 How you mess your arm up all like that?
01:12:21 Trying to cut the black off.
01:12:30 Yeah, you gotta start taking care of business, girl, okay?
01:12:36 And get the baby's shots.
01:12:39 Can I help you, baby?
01:12:41 [speaking in foreign language]
01:12:43 Shit.
01:12:45 You're gonna have to speak English, honey.
01:12:47 We don't speak that language here.
01:12:49 [speaking in foreign language]
01:12:51 [speaking in foreign language]
01:12:53 [speaking in foreign language]
01:12:55 [speaking in foreign language]
01:12:57 [speaking in foreign language]
01:12:59 [speaking in foreign language]
01:13:01 [speaking in foreign language]
01:13:03 [speaking in foreign language]
01:13:05 [speaking in foreign language]
01:13:07 Oh, my God.
01:13:09 [speaking in foreign language]
01:13:11 You hurt nobody up in here, okay?
01:13:13 Take it easy, take it easy, take it easy, honey.
01:13:15 Take it easy.
01:13:17 Calm down.
01:13:19 Calm down now.
01:13:22 Take it easy.
01:13:24 I'm your friend.
01:13:27 I'm your friend.
01:13:32 I'm your friend.
01:13:36 [phone ringing]
01:13:38 Dysar.
01:13:54 [doorbell rings]
01:13:56 [gunshot]
01:14:16 No!
01:14:20 Oh, my God!
01:14:25 [speaking in foreign language]
01:14:27 [speaking in foreign language]
01:14:29 [speaking in foreign language]
01:14:31 [speaking in foreign language]
01:14:33 [speaking in foreign language]
01:14:35 [screaming]
01:14:37 [gunshot]
01:14:39 [explosion]
01:14:41 [drumming]
01:14:51 [gunshots]
01:15:05 Hey!
01:15:07 Hey! Hey you! Crazy lady! You won't find her there! She's dead!
01:15:12 Soldier done blowed her head clean off! She's in hell now! Amen?
01:15:17 (dramatic music)
01:15:20 ♪ No, no, no ♪
01:15:23 ♪ No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no ♪
01:15:27 ♪ No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no ♪
01:15:33 ♪ No, can't be stopped ♪
01:15:37 (car crashing)
01:15:42 (dramatic music)
01:15:45 - Yes.
01:15:49 (dramatic music)
01:15:52 Yeah.
01:15:52 Yeah.
01:15:55 Shame about Mama Butler.
01:15:58 Real shame.
01:16:00 She was the last of the old timers.
01:16:04 'Sup, y'all?
01:16:07 (dramatic music)
01:16:10 (dramatic music)
01:16:13 - Get yourself something that won't rot
01:16:21 your goddamn guts out.
01:16:23 (dramatic music)
01:16:26 - Here.
01:16:32 - No, man, keep it.
01:16:36 - No, here.
01:16:38 Take your money.
01:16:39 You don't need it.
01:16:41 - I didn't mean...
01:16:43 You old fossils.
01:16:48 Fuck you then.
01:16:51 - You know, as bad as we needed that money,
01:17:02 I'm glad we didn't take it.
01:17:05 - Yeah, that's our problem.
01:17:08 We never took their money.
01:17:10 - We're commanded by the gospel
01:17:13 to follow the non-violent Jesus.
01:17:17 And my church is in bed with the state on the Vietnam War.
01:17:20 Where can that possibly lead?
01:17:23 I wonder about my work here, whether it had any worth.
01:17:28 Sometimes I wonder if I ever should've come down here
01:17:30 on Ninth Street.
01:17:32 But I love the life here,
01:17:33 the powerful nourishment it gave me.
01:17:36 And I wanted to take that nourishment to my parishioners.
01:17:40 And I proved only to be a scandal for them.
01:17:45 That's why they're transferring me.
01:17:47 - What they doing?
01:17:48 They doing what?
01:17:49 - Scandalous behavior.
01:17:50 But you wanna know something?
01:17:51 The worst scandal of all is Jesus Christ himself,
01:17:54 because the more you think and act
01:17:55 like a non-violent Jesus,
01:17:57 the more scandalous you're bound to become.
01:18:03 - I thought you know that.
01:18:06 Take care of yourself, boy.
01:18:11 - You too, I'm gonna miss you, brother.
01:18:12 - Oh, I'm gonna miss you.
01:18:13 - Not as much as I'm gonna miss you.
01:18:14 - No, I'm gonna miss you, brother.
01:18:15 - No, I'm gonna miss you.
01:18:16 - No, I'm gonna miss you.
01:18:17 - I'm telling you I'm gonna miss you.
01:18:18 (laughing)
01:18:20 - Take care of yourself.
01:18:22 - You too.
01:18:22 - Take care of yourself.
01:18:24 (dramatic music)
01:18:27 - You ain't gonna kill nobody.
01:18:45 - No more.
01:18:45 - I'm gonna kill myself.
01:18:48 - What the hell are you doing?
01:18:53 You crazy woman.
01:18:54 (slapping)
01:18:56 - Murderer.
01:18:57 - My feet, my feet, my feet.
01:19:02 My feet.
01:19:04 My feet, my feet, my feet.
01:19:10 I ain't going, I ain't going.
01:19:14 I ain't going.
01:19:24 - When the night got so rough,
01:19:26 them big shots used to come down here and need a cab.
01:19:30 Tipper told this, Tipper told that.
01:19:33 Treat me like a goddamn child.
01:19:36 - People ain't shit.
01:19:38 - Son, they walking around dead.
01:19:41 - I ain't done much with what God give me.
01:19:45 I ain't done much.
01:19:48 - What you talking about?
01:19:51 - I'm just up here begging, depending.
01:19:55 Tipper, I've had me two fine wives, good women.
01:19:58 I couldn't keep them.
01:20:00 That drink, that drink been my downfall.
01:20:04 My Lord gonna love this here, huh?
01:20:10 They gonna love wine, though.
01:20:12 - Honey, honey, every man, I said every man got a part of him
01:20:17 he can't do nothing with.
01:20:20 - Nah, the Lord don't expect nothing from nobody.
01:20:24 - I don't want the Lord to understand, Tipper, don't.
01:20:27 Don't, now.
01:20:28 - You talking about that job shit again, ain't you?
01:20:34 - Fool.
01:20:34 - Shit.
01:20:36 Job don't give you meaning.
01:20:37 Living what give you meaning.
01:20:40 - Honey, just 'cause a man ain't got much,
01:20:47 don't mean he ain't got nothing to give.
01:20:51 - But in me, we never talk like that.
01:21:02 Or we philosophize and such.
01:21:06 But not them things, not the important things.
01:21:10 I should have told that boy his life had meaning
01:21:13 when I had the chance to.
01:21:15 - See, what I'm gonna do first, knock all that dough shit out.
01:21:19 - Love, you're supposed to take me to the store.
01:21:21 - Right, see, then, then, I'm gonna put up some of them
01:21:24 double doors with all kind of lights around it.
01:21:27 - Love, you promised me you'd take me to the store.
01:21:30 - Man, let me take this bitch to the store.
01:21:33 Don't ever do that shit again, you hear me?
01:21:38 You told me nothing, I don't wanna hear that shit.
01:21:40 Fuck!
01:21:41 (gunshots)
01:21:43 - Kansas, motherfucker!
01:21:51 (tires screeching)
01:21:54 Kansas, motherfucker!
01:21:56 (tires screeching)
01:21:59 (sad music)
01:22:15 (sad music)
01:22:17 (sad music)
01:22:20 (sad music)
01:22:22 (sad music)
01:22:24 (sad music)
01:22:27 (sad music)
01:22:29 - Last I did a red mama butler made.
01:22:55 (sad music)
01:22:57 Mama butler.
01:23:04 - Show slow down when you get old.
01:23:14 - Yeah, yeah, it sure do.
01:23:21 Got time to do all the things we used to wanna do.
01:23:25 Now we can't do 'em.
01:23:28 Ain't that a kick in the head?
01:23:31 - Too much damn time, boy, too much.
01:23:34 - You know, ain't but one thing,
01:23:39 worse than being old.
01:23:42 Being old and poor.
01:23:47 - I know you was gonna say that.
01:23:50 (laughing)
01:23:52 - Yeah.
01:23:55 I wish I could work,
01:23:58 out at a king,
01:24:00 do something, anything.
01:24:04 Done got a week now.
01:24:08 Forgetful.
01:24:10 Ain't no use to nobody.
01:24:14 - You're used to me?
01:24:17 - Well, somebody gonna lie too.
01:24:20 If I didn't have you, boy,
01:24:25 be a dull existence.
01:24:26 - Aspects.
01:24:30 Aspects.
01:24:33 - You know, I remember,
01:24:38 I remember the first time I saw you, boy.
01:24:41 You was coming out of club,
01:24:42 talked to the French.
01:24:45 Had that conchaline in your head,
01:24:48 and about a pound of Murray's pomade on top of that.
01:24:53 Swear to God, you was really excited, boy.
01:24:56 ♪ You shoulda seen you ♪
01:24:58 ♪ Had a gal on each arm ♪
01:25:01 ♪ Them old pointy toe shoes ♪
01:25:03 ♪ That old blue suit ♪
01:25:04 ♪ Chain hanging down to the ground ♪
01:25:07 (laughing)
01:25:08 ♪ We'd been in this liquor ♪
01:25:10 ♪ We'd all slid out the middle of the street ♪
01:25:11 (laughing)
01:25:13 - Yeah, boy, knife.
01:25:15 Knife been good to us.
01:25:19 We been good to knife.
01:25:22 Yeah.
01:25:25 (jazz music)
01:25:29 Tonight's street.
01:25:42 May it live forever.
01:25:43 And to all the cats,
01:25:47 we done seen come up and down this here block.
01:25:51 This be a touch for y'all.
01:25:54 This be a touch for y'all.
01:25:56 (upbeat jazz music)
01:26:21 (whistling)
01:26:23 - Baby, you wanna play?
01:26:28 - Yeah.
01:26:28 - You wanna play?
01:26:29 - Yeah.
01:26:30 - You wanna play?
01:26:31 (upbeat jazz music)
01:26:49 - Baby, baby, you wanna play?
01:26:51 Come on, let's go.
01:26:53 (laughing)
01:26:55 - Hey, boo.
01:27:18 Hey, boy down here.
01:27:20 Give me this little bottle here.
01:27:22 Jack, shit, hell.
01:27:23 It ain't wine, but hell, it ain't bad.
01:27:27 (grunting)
01:27:29 God damn.
01:27:30 Shit, no wonder I'm a wino.
01:27:32 (laughing)
01:27:35 Yeah, get it, boy.
01:27:36 Hand now, hand now.
01:27:38 Come on, boy, please, please, please.
01:27:40 Woo!
01:27:41 Honey, goddamn, boy.
01:27:44 Wake up, boo.
01:27:45 Honey, honey, wake up.
01:27:48 What's the matter, boy?
01:27:49 You sick?
01:27:50 Honey.
01:27:52 Hey, boy, wake up, honey.
01:27:55 Honey.
01:27:58 Boy.
01:28:00 Wake up now.
01:28:03 Honey, get up.
01:28:04 Come on.
01:28:05 Come on, honey.
01:28:06 You got to wake up now.
01:28:07 Come on, see?
01:28:08 Yeah, it's gonna be all right,
01:28:12 'cause look at my sister in Oakland.
01:28:17 She'll, she'll send for us.
01:28:19 (laughing)
01:28:21 We'll see the movie stars.
01:28:24 The weather'll be fine.
01:28:26 And then it'll be all right.
01:28:30 Only me with these motherfuckers.
01:28:34 Honey.
01:28:36 Honey.
01:28:38 (laughing)
01:28:45 (laughing)
01:28:47 - Daddy, you wanna play?
01:28:53 (laughing)
01:28:55 (upbeat music)
01:28:58 (car horn honking)
01:29:05 (upbeat music)
01:29:08 - After Huddie Pass, I went and lived with my sister.
01:29:32 Checked into the VA and dried out.
01:29:34 Well, I ain't had a drink in 20 years.
01:29:37 In 1976, the city got tired and they tore the street down.
01:29:41 It's a parking lot now.
01:29:45 When I think on the street being gone,
01:29:47 it don't make me sad.
01:29:49 It's like Huddie always said,
01:29:51 some things just don't die.
01:29:54 (upbeat music)
01:30:01 (upbeat music)
01:30:04 (upbeat music)
01:30:06 (upbeat music)
01:30:09 (upbeat music)
01:30:12 ♪ Eighth Street is a hot street ♪
01:30:17 ♪ Ninth Street is a cold street ♪
01:30:24 ♪ Ninth Street is a tough street ♪
01:30:32 ♪ Ninth Street is a rough street ♪
01:30:39 (upbeat music)
01:30:42 ♪ You can get the high price ♪
01:31:01 ♪ With just one roll of the dice ♪
01:31:06 ♪ Come on, soldier boy ♪
01:31:09 ♪ Come on, take a chance ♪
01:31:13 ♪ Dance to the beat ♪
01:31:15 ♪ And feel all that vibe ♪
01:31:20 ♪ Come on, you soldier boy ♪
01:31:22 ♪ Play with these grown-up toys ♪
01:31:25 ♪ All your fantasies ♪
01:31:26 ♪ Come to Ninth Street ♪
01:31:28 ♪ Ninth Street ♪
01:31:36 ♪ On this corner, blues-dyed corner ♪
01:31:39 ♪ Thinking 'bout what I could have been ♪
01:31:43 ♪ Thinking 'bout what I should have been ♪
01:31:48 ♪ Trying to be anything but what I am ♪
01:31:51 ♪ I can't stand the pain, can't play the game ♪
01:31:55 ♪ It's a blues life, my life ♪
01:32:00 ♪ It's a blues life, my life ♪
01:32:04 (upbeat music)
01:32:07 ♪ I hear the echoes from joints long gone ♪
01:32:17 ♪ Big Joe shouts at Bird in the dark ♪
01:32:21 ♪ Lord, this street done lived this long ♪
01:32:25 ♪ Jitterbugs bounce to the rotten floors ♪
01:32:30 ♪ Fingers popped, crying for some more ♪
01:32:33 ♪ It's a blues life, my life ♪
01:32:37 ♪ It's a blues life, my life ♪
01:32:42 ♪ Mm-hmm, talking 'bout it's a blues life ♪
01:32:48 ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, well, ooh ♪
01:32:53 ♪ Talking 'bout my life, oh ♪
01:32:57 (music fades)
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