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Clips from Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

"Stop it now. Somebody gonna come in here."
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"No, they ain't."
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"Look here, sugar."
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"What I wants to know is,"
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"can I introduce my red rooster to your brown hen."
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"You get your own band and we'll see if your red rooster know how to crow."
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"Mmm. Damn, baby."
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"Now I know why my grandpappy sat on the front porch"
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"with a straight razor when my grandma hung out the wash."
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"You crazy!"
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"Whoo!"
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"I bet you sound like the midnight train to Alabama"
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"when it crosses the Mason-Dixon Line."
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"How you get so crazy?"
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"It's women like you that drive me so…"
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"Good God."
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"Happy birthday to the lady with the cakes."
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"Sure done got quiet in here."
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"I never could stand no silence."
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"I always got to have some music going on in my head somewhere."
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"It keeps things balanced."
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"Music will do that. It fills things up."
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"The more music you have in the world, the fuller it is."
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"I can agree with that. I got to have my music too."
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"White folk don't understand about the blues."
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"They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there."
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"They don't understand that that's life's way of talking."
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"You don't sing to feel better."
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"You sing 'cause that's a way of understanding life."
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"The blues help you get out of bed in the morning."
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"You get up knowing you ain't alone."
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"There's something else in the world."
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"Something's been added by that song."
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"Mmm."
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"This be an empty world without the blues."
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"Yeah."
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"I try to take that emptiness and fill it up with something."
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"Ooh!"
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"I ain't started blues way of singing. Blues always been there."
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"But if they wanna call me the Mother of Blues,"
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"that's all right with me. It don't hurt none."
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"Sure did take y'all a long time. Sylvester, get Irvin."
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"Tell him we ready to go."
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"I'll grab Levee."
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"Ah…"
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"Ma got her Coke, Levee. We about ready to start."
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"- Get this off me. - Okay."
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"- Okay, gotta go. - Just go!"
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"Okay, boys. "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," take one."
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"Two, you know what to do."
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"All right, boys, you… you… d… done…"
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"Take two."
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"All right, boys,"
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"you done seen the rest. Now I'm gonna show you the best."
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"Ma Rainey's gonna show you her… B… B… B…"
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"Take…"
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"Hmm."
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"Ma, can we just do it without the…"
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"Take six."
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"Take seven."
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"All right, boys,"
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"you done seen the rest. Now I'm gonna show you the best."
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"Ma Rainey's gonna show you her black bottom."
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"♪ Way down South in Alabamy ♪"
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"♪ I got a friend they call Dancin' Sammy ♪"
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"♪ Who's crazy About all the latest dances ♪"
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"♪ Black bottom stomps And the new baby prances ♪"
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"♪ The other night at a swell affair ♪"
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"♪ Soon as the boys Found out that I was there ♪"
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"♪ They said, "Come on, Ma Let's go to the cabaret" ♪"
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"♪ When I got there, they began to say ♪"
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"♪ "I wanna see that dance They call the black bottom" ♪"
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"♪ "I wanna learn that dance" ♪"
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"♪ "Wanna see the dance They call your big black bottom" ♪"
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"♪ It'll put you in a trance ♪"
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"♪ All the boys in the neighborhood ♪"
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"♪ They say "Your black bottom is really good" ♪"
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"♪ "Come on and show me Your black bottom" ♪"
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"♪ "I wanna learn that dance" ♪"
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"♪ I wanna see the dance They call the black bottom ♪"
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"♪ I wanna learn that dance ♪"
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"♪ Wanna see you do the dance You call your big black bottom ♪"
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"♪ It'll put you in a trance ♪"
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"♪ Early one morning 'Bout the break of day ♪"
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"♪ Grandpa told Grandma, I heard him say ♪"
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"♪ "Get on up and show your old man Your black bottom" ♪"
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"♪ I wanna learn that dance Yes, sir ♪"
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"♪ I wanna learn that dance ♪"
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"Okay, that's good, Ma. That sounded great. Good job, boys."
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"See? I told you you could do it!"
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"- He did good. - All you gotta do is set your mind to it."
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"- He did better than I thought he would. - My baby."
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"- Mwah. That's my baby. - Hey, boy. Hey, boys, Ma."
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"- Yeah! - Hey, let's do "Moonshine Blues" next?"
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""Moonshine Blues," boys."
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"Irv? Something happened with the recording. Check that mic."
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"One, one, one, two, check, one..."
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"No. The problem's with the kid's mic."
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"Oh, Christ Almighty!"
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"- Ma, we didn't record the song. - Shit!"
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"What you mean you didn't record the song?"
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"What were you and Sturdyvant doing up there?"
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"Levee must have kicked the plug out."
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"I ain't kicked nothing."
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"If Levee had his mind on what he was doing."
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"If it ain't one thing, it's another. Straighten your black ass out."
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"Hell, it ain't my fault. I ain't done nothing."
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"It's the cord, Mel."
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"The cord's all chewed up. We need another cord."
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"- The most disorganized… - Ma?"
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"- Waste of my time. - Where's she going?"
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"- Shit. - Ma? Ma!"
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"Ma?"
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"If you walk out of this studio, you're through. You're washed-up."
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"Chrissakes, Mel! Ma!"
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"Ma, come back here! Ma, please!"
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"Listen, Ma."
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"These records are gonna be hits."
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"They are gonna sell like crazy."
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"Hell, even Sylvester will be a star."
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