Poitier's song in The Defiant Ones

Read this script, maybe it will help : The defiant ones - script

I like Sydney Poitier...

I would like to see those lyrics, too.

http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/b13.htm



http://books.google.com/books?id=6ZAPD2YdBXYC&pg=PA167&lpg=PA167&dq=the+defiant+ones+bowling+green&source=web&ots=X6JQQo0B4E&sig=5aO5i1fZjStEl5EOmozd4Op-udc#PPA168,M1

Snood- I could not find lyrics, but I think that these links will help. On the first link, what you want is near the bottom of the page.

Defiant ones

Are these the lyrics, snood?

So, these aren't the lyrics he sings at the beginning and at the end of the movie?


Long gone
Ain't he lucky
Long gone
To Kentucky
Long gone
What I mean
Long gone Sam on a bowlin' green
Bowlin' green
Sewin' machine
Sewin' machine
Sew so fast
Sew eleven stitches
In a little cat's tail
I left my home in Nashville

A-look a-here what I got, Jack
A-twenty long years on a chain gang
A-sweatin' and bustin' rock
A judge, he come from Memphis
A-put me in the pen

If I ever see his face once more
He never get home again
That judge be long gone
To Kentucky
Long gone
Don't mean maybe
A long gone
What I mean
A long gone judge on a bowlin' green
Bowlin' green
A sewin' machine
A sewin' machine

YES! those are the lyrics.

Thank you! Now (pushing his luck, he said), do ya know who wrote 'em?

writer
# "Long Gone"
Adapted from "Long Gone (From Bowlin' Green)"
Music by W.C. Handy (as William C. Handy)
Words by Chris Smith

Excellent, awall, and welcome to A2K and the film forum.

I just saw "the Defiant Ones". Great movie; the friendship and loyalty that developed from hate and anger - classic ending.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kV_5ewikm0