Bing Crosby: Relating the Story of Ichabod Crane
Quotes
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[last lines]
Narrator : Man, I'm getting out of here!
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Brom Bones : I'm telling you, brother, it's a frightful sight for what goes on Halloween night.
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Narrator : Oh, Katrina, my love. Who can resist your grace, your charm? And who can resist your father's farm?
[Whistles]
Narrator : Boy, what a set-up! There's gold in them acres, and that ain't hay. Not to mention all that lovely green stuff! Dear Katrina, my love, my treasure. Treasure? Ah, that barn's a gold mine. How I'd love to hit the jackpot. Sweet Katrina, Papa's only child. Papa? Well, the old goat can't take it with him, and when he cuts out, that's where I cut in.
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[the movie now segues through the library from the end of "The Wind In the Willows" to the start of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"]
Narrator : Yeah, J. Thaddeus, quite a lad. Speaking of fabulous characters, England has produced a bumper crop of them. But don't forget, over here in the colonies, we've managed to come up with a few of our own. How about Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, Johnny Appleseed, Black Bart, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone and, of course, the one and only Ichabod Crane. Old Ichy, if you recall, was the country schoolmaster dreamed up by Washington Irving. Oh, he had a way with the yarn, good Mr. Irving.
[the "Sleepy Hollow" portion of the movie starts]
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Brom Bones : Odds bodkins, gadzooks! Look at that old spook of spooks.
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Narrator : Don't try to figure out a plan. You can't reason with a headless man.
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Chorus : Who's that walking down the street?
Narrator : Are those shovels, or are they feet?
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Narrator : Next morning, Ichabod's hat was found, and close beside it, a shattered pumpkin, but there was no trace of the schoolmaster. It was shortly thereafter that Brom Bones led the fair Katrina to the altar. Now, rumors persisted that Ichabod was still alive, married to a wealthy widow in a distant county. But of course, the Dutch settlers refused to believe such nonsense, for they knew the schoolmaster had been spirited away by the Headless Horseman.
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[Brom is trying to scare Ichabod with the tale of The Headless Horseman]
Brom Bones : [singing] When the ghosts have a midnight jamboree/They break it up with fiendish glee/Ghosts are bad, but the one that's cursed/Is the Headless Horseman; he's the worst!
Additional voices : [singing] That's right, he's a fright on Halloween night!
Brom Bones : When he goes a-jogging across the land/Holding his noggin in his hand/Demons take one look and groan/And they hit the road for parts unknown!
Additional voices : Beware, take care; he rides alone!
[Ichabod watches Brom split a hair with a machete with terror on his face]
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Additional voices : It's the new schoolmaster.
Additional voices : What's his name?
Narrator : Ichabod, Ichabod Crane.
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[At the end of the party, Ichabod has become thoroughly traumatized by the story of the Headless Horseman as he heads home through Sleepy Hollow]
Narrator : It was the very witching hour of night as Ichabod pursued his travel homeward. The sky grew darker and darker as one by one, the stars winked out their lights. Driving clouds obscured the moon from sight. Never had the schoolmaster felt so melancholy, so utterly alone, and the nearer he approached the hollow, the more dismal he became.
[as Ichabod very slowly enters Sleepy Hollow on his horse, he nervously whistles his song about Katrina, but he is interrupted by strange sounds there]
Narrator : Once inside the murky glen, Ichabod's anxiety increased one hundred fold. And how the forest seemed to close in behind him. Every small detail of Brom's awful story returned to haunt his recollection.
