To Have and Have Not (1944)

Hoagy Carmichael: Cricket

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• [last lines] 

  Slim : Cricket. I came to say good-bye.

  Cricket : What?

  Slim : We're leaving now. Thanks for everything.

  Cricket : Hey Slim, are you still happy?

  Slim : What do you think?

• Cricket : [singing]  It's the story of a very unfortunate colored man, Who got arrested down in old Hong Kong, He got twenty years privilege taken away from him, When he kicked old Buddha's gong, And now he's poppin' the piano just to raise the price, Of a ticket to the land of the free...

• Cricket : You all set, Slim?

  Slim : Sure, but don't make it sad, Cricket. I don't feel that way.

  Cricket : You don't look that way, either. Let's go. Top note, boys.

  Slim : [singing]  Maybe it happens this way, Maybe we really belong together, But after all, how little we know, Maybe it's just for a day, Love is as changeable as the weather...

• Cricket : [singing]  Was a time

  Slim : I was his only one

  Cricket : But, now I'm

  Slim : The sad and lonely one

  Cricket : So lonely, Was I gay?

  Slim : Was I gay?

  Cricket : Till today

  Slim : Till today

  Cricket : Now she's gone away, we're through, Baby

  Cricket , Slim : Am I blue? -- Am I blue?

• Slim : What's the name of that tune?

  Cricket : It hasn't got a name yet. I've just been foolin' around with the lyrics. They're not so hot, either. Would you like to hear them?

  Slim : Sure.

  [strikes a match, lights a cigarette, Cricket plays the piano] 

  Slim : Hmm-hmm-hmm. Hmm-hmm.

  Cricket : [sings]  I run to the telephone, Whenever it rings, I can't be alone, It's one of those things, I tell a star, My little whoas, Hang around the bar, Till it's ready to close, So it goes.

  [speaks] 

  Cricket : And that's about as far as it goes.

  Slim : I like it.

  Cricket : Yes, if I could get the right lyric.