Finian's Rainbow (1968)

Don Francks: Woody Mahoney

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• Woody Mahoney : How'd you get so pretty? And so rich?

  Sharon McLonergan : Well, you see, in Glocca Morra, where we come from, there's an old legend, and it says: 'You'll never grow old and you'll never grow poor, if you look to the rainbow, beyond the next moor.'

  Woody Mahoney : That's a lovely legend.

  Sharon McLonergan : Aye.

  Woody Mahoney : I wonder who thought it up.

  Sharon McLonergan : My father: Finian McLonnergan.

• Finian McLonergan : Goodbye, me darling. Goodbye, me friends. I'll see you all in Glocca Morra.

  Woody Mahoney : Sharon, where is Glocca Morra?

  Sharon McLonergan : Well, you see, it's always somewhere - over there.

• Woody Mahoney : What's going on?

  Finian McLonergan : The Senator tried to take our land away from us.

  Sharon McLonergan : Aye. And then I lost me temper with him, and I shouted at him and he turned black right in front of me eyes.

  Woody Mahoney : Don't worry about that. It happens every time that he meets somebody he disagrees with. He sees red, and then he turns purple with rage and then he yells himself black in the face.

• Sharon McLonergan : I'd rather like to know the more complicated part of the legend.

  Woody Mahoney : It's only how to make yourself immune from the werewolves, that's it.

  Sharon McLonergan : Well, how would I be doing that?

  Woody Mahoney : Well, you have to stand very, very close to the nicest, handsomest fellow around.

  Sharon McLonergan : That must be you.

  Woody Mahoney : Must be. Then you make yourself comfortable on the grass. Now, you blink your eyes - twice and keep them closed. Now you say, "petrified parsley" over and over, real fast.

  Sharon McLonergan : Petrified parsley, petrified parsley, petrified parsley, petrified parsley, petrified parsley, petrified parsley...

  Woody Mahoney : Feel immune yet?

  Sharon McLonergan : No. Petrified parsley, petrified parsley, petrified parsley, petrified parsley.

  [Woody gives Sharon a long kiss] 

  Sharon McLonergan : Oh, that's a lovely legend. Who made it up?

  Woody Mahoney : I did.

• Woody Mahoney : Now what's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?

  Sharon McLonergan : Oh, it's you Mr. Mahoney. I was - lookin' for me father.

  Woody Mahoney : Not too long a girl, if they find a young girl in the forest in the middle of the night, why they'd think that she's - a witch.

• Woody Mahoney : You are looking at the mentholated tobacco plant. Here, smell. Smell the mint-julep nicotine.

  Sharon McLonergan : Mmm. That's nice. Really smells lovely.

  Howard : It's a whole new form of tobacco life. It only has one drawback.

  Sharon McLonergan : What's that?

  Howard : Well, it doesn't burn.

  Sharon McLonergan : It doesn't burn?

  Woody Mahoney : It's worse than asbestos. It actually puts fires out. But, we're working on it!

• Woody Mahoney : [singing]  You and your glance, Make this romance, Too hot to handle...

• Sharon McLonergan : [singing]  Old devil moon, Deep in your eyes, Blinds me with - love

  Woody Mahoney : Yeah...

  Sharon McLonergan : Yeah...

  Woody Mahoney : Mmm Mmm..

  Sharon McLonergan : Mmm mmm mmm...

  Woody Mahoney : Mmm mmm mmm...