Hallelujah (1929)

Daniel L. Haynes: Zeke

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• Zeke : Mammy, I can't buy you nothin'. I got to buy you somethin'. Why, they ain't no nothin' to buy.

• Zeke : You is just what I has got on my mind. Let's get on away from here.

  Chick : Say, get outta the way, small change. You don't look like no big money to me!

• Zeke : Pappy, can I come into your house?

  Parson : Boy, you're just in time to help us with the pickin'.

• Mammy : [Last lines]  Son, you must be mighty hungry. Don't you want some chitterlings and spare ribs?

  Zeke : Mammy, I like anything you cook.

• Zeke : Missy Rose, you ain't forgot me?

  Missy Rose : Of course not. I love you too much.

• Missy Rose : I don't ever asks you for no weddin' dress. Who'd marry you?

  Zeke : Why, you would! Why, what does you think Mammy adopted you for 'cept so's you could marry me.

• Zeke : Excuse me, Missy Rose, but it looks like the devil's in me here tonight.

• Johnson Kid : Good night, Mammy.

  Mammy : Good night.

  Spunk : Good night, Mammy.

  Mammy : Good night, Spunk.

  Missy Rose : Good night, Pappy.

  Parson : Good night, Missy.

  Zeke : Good night, Mammy.

  Mammy : Good night, Zeke.

  Zeke : I'll see you in the morning.

  Mammy : All righty.

  Johnson Kid : Good night, Zeke.

  Zeke : Good night, sleep tight. Good night, Pappy.

  Parson : Good night, Zeke.

  Spunk : Good night, Pappy.

  Parson : Good night, Spunk.

  Mammy : Oh, thank God.

• Zeke : What is the matter with that tinhorn?

• Parson : Come, Son, I am not here to judge you.

  Zeke : Oh, Pappy, I've sinned. I've sinned! And I'm hangin' on the edge of hell!

  Parson : Yes, Son, but the Lord forgives.

  Zeke : My heart is achin' for my poor brother. Oh, my heart is achin'! Oh, Pappy, show me how to repent. Show me the way.

  Parson : Look, Son, the Lord has sent an angel to show you the way. Can't you see him comin' in that snow-white chariot, in his snow-white robe? Can't you hear him, Son? It is the angel of the Lord that comforts them that mourns. Look, Son! Can't you see him?

  Zeke : Yes, Pappy, I see him and I hear him. The Lord has done shown me the light. The Lord has shown the truth of his creation. I lay my brother down in the ground. But, the ground can't hold my brother. No, Pappy, the ground can't hold him. For the Lord is stronger than the ground. But the Lord is the ground. The Lord is the sky and the heavens and the moon and the sun. The Lord is the earth and all the living things on earth. The Lord in his kingdom. Ain't no pain. Ain't no more sorrow. And there ain't no more death. So, why wail and grieve?

• Zeke : Brothers and sisters, the point of my sermon is going to be: repent, ye sinners, before it is too late. The road to hell is downhill. Easy and greased like lightin'. And the Cannonball Express is leavin' for hell twice a day. I'm talkin' to all you sinners out there who's on that train. I'm ridin' along with ya. And I'm gonna give all you sinners your last chance. But, remember, they ain't no round-trip ticket to hell. All aboard...

• Mammy : What is the matter, Son?

  Zeke : I'm just thinkin', Mammy. I don't know what I would do if I didn't have you and Missy Rose to look after me.

  Mammy : I tell you, it done take a good woman for to keep a man out of mischief these days.

  Zeke : That's right, Mammy, it sure does.

• Missy Rose : What's the matter, brother Zeke?

  Zeke : That's just it. I don't know what is the matter. Seems like the devil's done took a hold of me.

  Missy Rose : What you mean? What kinda talk is that? A big strong man like you ain't gonna give into that... after we done traveled this far.

  Zeke : I don't want to give in! But he just keeps on a torin' and a pullin' after me all the time.

  Missy Rose : That's just the way he is.

  Zeke : Just won't let me be.

  Missy Rose : What's we want to do, big brother?

  Zeke : I don't know what we gonna do. Unlessin'...

  Missy Rose : Unless what, Zeke?

  Zeke : Missy Rose, supposin' you and me, em, let's you and me get married at the next station. That'll stop him quicker than anything!

• Zeke : I sure is tired, Chick. I'm tired of thinkin'

  Chick : I know you is. Stop thinkin'.

• Mammy : Tired, Son? How you like to have a nice plate of this hot chitterlings?

  Zeke : I sure would, Mammy. But I likes everything you cooks.

  Mammy : I know you sure is crazy about chitterlings.