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♪ Hello, heartbreak

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♪ You're at my doorstep once again

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♪ Why me, oh, my

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♪ My poor heart

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♪ Hello, heartbreak

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♪ I'm saying this for the last time

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♪ Won't let you
take me down this road again

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♪ Hello, heartbreak

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Get off my premises with your mess.

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Go!
# Why have you left me

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♪ Feeling this way?

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♪ Dazed and confused,
now all I can do is sing the...

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'# ..blues, blues -'

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The wash is done.
The floor's scrubbed, too.

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Please, Aunt Duke,
don't give me the stick!

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Oh, I ain't giving you the stick.
Thank you, ma'am.

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But you ain't getting
baptised Sunday.

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God brought me home early to see...

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..you ain't ready.

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But they made my new dress
so pretty.

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You don't deserve that dress.
Please!

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I won't let you go in that water
no dry devil to come out a wet one.

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You the devil!

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When you come out that water,
you got to be perfect.

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God demands! He wants your best!

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You see I do the best with my gift -
to heal people who sick,

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feed anybody hungry,
raise children ain't even my own.

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Before you get baptised,
you got to decide...

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what you gonna do with your gift?
I already did.

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People love my singing,
tell me all the time.

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You see them out there
gathering to listen.

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That's MY gift.

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And you wanna use it whining,

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moaning, singing the blues?

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Ain't people's lives hard enough,
full of despair?

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Halie, when you ready
to come out that water...

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..you'll have
a special understanding.

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Your gift will tell you how to live,

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carry you anywhere you want to go

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long as you work hard enough.

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You got to deserve it.

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Now clean that stove.

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Yes, ma'am.

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Mahalia? Are you almost done?
The kitchen needs cleaning.

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Yes, ma'am. I'm comin'.

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♪ Oh

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♪ There are some things

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♪ I may not know

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♪ There are some places

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♪ Dear Lord, I cannot go

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♪ But I am sure of this one thing

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♪ That God is real

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♪ For I can feel Him in my soul

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Thank you, God! Hallelujah!

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♪ Yes, God is real, my Lord

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♪ He's real in my soul

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♪ Yes, God is real

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♪ For He has washed
and made me whole

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♪ His love for me

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♪ Is just like pure gold

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Hallelujah!

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♪ My God is real

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♪ For I can feel Him in my soul

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♪ Oh, oh, oh!

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♪ My God is real -
Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop!

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That twisting, that gyrating!
Get that jazz out of this church!

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B-But, Pastor,
this how we sing down South.

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I sang this song
the day I got baptised.

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It's blasphemous. You'll never
sing that way in this church.

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Blasphemous? This was my conversion.

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When I came up out the water, God
Himself put those words in my mouth!

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This is a church, Miss Jackson.

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Not a nightclub.

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I only sing in God's name.

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And David said,
"Make a joyful noise unto the Lord."

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Don't you read your Bible?

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Excuse me, Miss Jackson?

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Here you go. $4.

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I told the pastor he still needs
to pay you for the week.

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Huh.
It's in the Bible.

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Thank you... Miss, uh...?

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Estelle. Allen.

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I wish I could find the sheet music
for the way that you sing.

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Cos you're from down South, huh?

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I came up here to go to school,
become a nurse.

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Thought I'd make a little extra,
church singing,

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but that don't look
too possible now.

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If you'd like to know
how we sing in Chicago,
go see Professor Kendricks.

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He's a wonderful tenor
who gives voice lessons.

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How much do he cost?
$4.

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♪ It's me, it's me, it's me, O Lord

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♪ Standin' in the need of prayer

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♪ Not my father, not my mother

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♪ But it's me, O Lord...

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Oh...you're familiar already
with this material?

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Yes, sir.
Well, good. Let's begin.

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From the refrain.

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♪ It's me, it's me, it's me, O -
Slower.

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♪ It's me, it's -
Slow-er.

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♪ It's...
..me, it's me

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♪ It's me, O Lord

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♪ Standing in the need of prayer

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♪ It's me, it's me, it's me, O Lord

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♪ Standing in the need of prayer ♪

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Now, again...from the diaphragm.

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With dignity.

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Yes, sir.

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But can I please work my way
through the song a bit further?

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I'm a little nervous.

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Why, of course.

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♪ It's me, it's me, it's me, O, Lord

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♪ Standin' in the need of prayer

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All right.
# It's me, it's me, it's me, O Lord

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♪ Standin' in the need of prayer
Good, continue.

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♪ Not my father, not my mother

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♪ But it's me, O Lord
All right, that's enough.

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♪ Standin' in the need of prayer

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♪ Not my moth-
Young woman, stop that...yelling.

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That's no way to develop a voice.

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It's a discredit to the Negro race.

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White people
will never understand you.

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If you want to have a career,

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you'll have to be prepared
to work a long time...

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..to build a dignified voice...

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..that glorifies our people.

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Because that voice will never do.

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Miss, what you crying about?

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Somebody mistreat you?

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Miss, whatever it is,
he ain't worth it.

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God say, "Don't let no man
define you, steal your joy."

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Thank you.

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I needed that.
I'm hungry.

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Mm...yum!

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This your husband?
Yeah, that's Ike.

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He treats me good.

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Well, Miss, I believe, one day,
you gonna be famous in this world,
and walk with kings and queens.

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My aunt said that to me once.

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I told her, the only thing I wanna
walk with is a good pair of shoes.

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Now go on, get some more cornbread.

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It's open!

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Now get you three another plate
before all the food is gone.

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Hello! Hi, everybody.

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Wow, it looks like
a big family gathering.

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You could say that.
Oh?

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This is how I grew up.

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No matter how poor we were,
my Aunt Duke would feed anybody
that was hungry.

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But I trust you got enough to eat.

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Well, what's wrong, Mahalia?

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I just... I just came by
to see how your lesson went.

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I ain't studying no high-class stuff

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and I ain't singing
for white people.

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I'm singing in the church for God.

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And I ain't got no ambition
to be some high-class society Negro.

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You wrong.

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You think I don't know hungry?

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I grew up, every morning,
every night we was hungry.

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I didn't have no Aunt Duke
to feed me,

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so I stuck my ear to the radio,

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learned to speak this way so
I could make a better kind of life.

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Have a good evening, Miss Jackson.

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Hey, Estelle.

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You like ham hocks?
No.

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But I do like cornbread.

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"From the diaphragm."

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He was like,
"# It's me, it's me, it's me

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O Lord! #"
OK, Professor.

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I can't believe
you had me going to that man.

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I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

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But you know what? You really do...

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You really do belong on the stage.
Only if the stage belongs to God.

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What? You don't believe me?
Mm-mm.

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Honey, I been tested plenty.

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I had this one bandleader,

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he wanted me to sing the blues
so bad,

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he was willing to pay me $100...
a week.

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How in God's name did you say no
to that much money?

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Cos the "no" that I told him
was in God's name.

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So God told you
not to sing the blues?

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God say His words would give joy,
and bring others joy, too.

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Now, I could sing the blues
if I wanted to,

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but that ain't the life
I wanna live.

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I done lived way too much
of the blues already, growing up.

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You remember the Great Flu?

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When all them folks
was wearin' the masks?

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Mm-hmm.

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Well, my Aunt Duke, she took
them in, all the sick and suffering.

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Then my grandfather died,
and my mother...

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Anybody singing the blues
is alone and in a deep pit.

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But God's word... Oh!

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When you sing God's music,
I just feel so much hope.

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I can't stand to live
with any more pain.

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Happy Valentine's!

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Oh, you scared me!

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It ain't Valentine's Day, you fool.
Oh, yeah?

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Every day married to you...
it's a Valentine.

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We got company, Ike.

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Excuse me.

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Isaac Lane Grey Hockenhull.

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ROTC, Tuskegee Institute.
Fisk University.

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From Como, Mississippi,
by way of Pine Bluff, Arkansas.

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This is Estelle Allen.
Hello.

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Oh, yeah!
From that church that threw you out.

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Pleased to meet you.

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Estelle's gonna be
my new piano player.

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I... I am?

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I like Estelle!

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Don't know how she got you
to finally take singing lessons.

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I tell Mahalia all the time,
she should be an opera star.

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Well, how do you and God
feel about that?

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Oh, hell, no.

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♪ Elijah Rock, shout, shout

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♪ Elijah Rock, comin' up, Lord

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♪ Elijah Rock, shout, shout

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♪ Elijah Rock, comin' up, Lord

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Amen.

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♪ Elijah

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♪ Elijah

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♪ Elijah

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Amen.

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♪ Satan is a liar
and a conjurer, too

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♪ If you don't mind out,
he'll conjure you

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♪ If I could, I surely would

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♪ Stand on the rock
where Moses stood

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♪ Elijah Rock, shout, shout

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♪ Elijah Rock, comin' up, Lord

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Amen!
# Elijah Rock, shout, shout, shout

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♪ Elijah Rock, I'm comin' up, Lord ♪

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Hallelujah!
Praise him!

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Estelle?
Mm?

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I've been waitin' to tell you.
Oh! You're pregnant?

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No. But I do pray
for a big family one day.

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But we need money first.
So, Ike's mother,

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she's finally selling us
her cosmetic formula.

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We going into business
for ourselves!

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Oh, Halie, that's wonderful.
I got all her secrets
and everything.

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I think I might start cooking up
some beauty products tonight.

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I want to be your first customer.

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Well, magic skin cream
costs a dollar.

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Oh.

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There you go.

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Ike's so excited
to start this business,

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he quit his part-time job
at the post office.

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He did? Oh, well, that...
that could turn full-time.

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That's good, steady pay.

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Oh, Mahalia.

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I want you to meet
a student of mine, Mildred Falls.

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I think she could be good for you.
Ah, she's right.

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I'm almost in need
of a full-time piano player.

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Somebody that can come on time
and keep up.

252
00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:09,840
Can you keep up?
Oh. No. I'm -

253
00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:11,920
Mildred's been to hear you sing
many times.

254
00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:14,000
She's just never introduced herself.

255
00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:16,080
Well, can you get my bounce?

256
00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:18,920
Get my rhythm right?
I could learn.

257
00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:23,320
Well, come back to me when
you're confident you can bounce.

258
00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:25,440
I'm always in need of a piano player

259
00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:28,160
cos none of the good ones
are too reliable.

260
00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:31,680
That's because some of us can't
afford to lose our regular jobs

261
00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:33,960
travellin' over God's green Earth
with you.

262
00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:37,920
Well, God will provide
to those who commit to His demands.

263
00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:41,200
Now, I got to get home,
start cooking up my new wealth.

264
00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:44,480
Remember, Tuesday,
we got a funeral to play.

265
00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:49,000
Come early.
# I'll bring your magic skin cream

266
00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:51,960
That woman...

267
00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:54,600
she's hardly got a stitch
to her name...

268
00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:56,640
but she's a queen.

269
00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:02,240
Mahalia!
Where you been, Ike?

270
00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:05,800
Everything we've been waiting for -
good pay for singing.

271
00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:07,880
No nightclubs. No blues.

272
00:17:09,360 --> 00:17:13,280
"Federal... Theater...
Project presents..."

273
00:17:13,320 --> 00:17:14,840
The Hot Mikado.

274
00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:17,480
All-Negro cast,
a national tour, babe.

275
00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:21,800
I thought we were starting
a cosmetic business.
This is bigger!

276
00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:25,000
How come you start one thing
and you quick jump to another?

277
00:17:25,040 --> 00:17:28,760
Selling cosmetics
won't get us much further
than you hollering in churches.

278
00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:30,440
"Hollering"?

279
00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:34,400
You... You could reach the heights.

280
00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:38,360
We play this right,
our lives could be as big
and beautiful as your voice.

281
00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:41,560
I ain't no horse racing a track, OK?

282
00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:45,280
Look, why can't we live a life
as big as your college degree?

283
00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:47,960
Maybe in 100 years,
college will do a Negro good.

284
00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:51,640
Until then, the post office
is high as I'm able to climb.

285
00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:54,240
Look. Give this audition a try.

286
00:17:54,280 --> 00:17:56,960
Tomorrow,
I'll start selling cosmetics.

287
00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:02,640
All we need is a little scratch,
get us really going, huh?

288
00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:06,640
And then, we can finally start
that family.

289
00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:09,080
You think we ready?

290
00:18:09,120 --> 00:18:11,920
Let me prove to you
the best kind of man I can be.

291
00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:19,320
♪ Can you hear the sound
coming through the sky

292
00:18:19,360 --> 00:18:24,240
♪ Like a mighty trumpet
from the clouds on high?

293
00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:28,600
♪ It's the sound of triumph,
it's the sound of victory

294
00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:33,000
♪ It's the sign of hope
for you and for me ♪

295
00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:35,520
Ain't the auditions in there?

296
00:18:35,560 --> 00:18:37,360
They say there's no parts for kids,

297
00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:39,960
but I figure I sing loud enough,
they gotta put me in.

298
00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:42,360
Well, I figure about the same.

299
00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:53,600
Yes. You're in the right place.
Oh. I wasn't so sure.

300
00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:57,400
We need your name and a telephone
- number where we can reach you.
- OK.

301
00:18:59,960 --> 00:19:02,360
That's it. They're inside.
All right.

302
00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:04,480
Um...
Oh.

303
00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:06,720
Where's your music?
Oh.

304
00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:11,800
Oh, dear.
They won't want to hear that.

305
00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:14,560
You need some sheet music,
a regular song.

306
00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:16,800
There's a sheet music store -
Lyon

307
00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:18,840
at the corner of Jackson and Wabash.

308
00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:23,320
OK. Uh, well,
how much does a regular song cost?

309
00:19:23,360 --> 00:19:25,320
No more than 50 cents.

310
00:19:25,360 --> 00:19:27,120
Thank you, ma'am.
Mm-hmm.

311
00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:40,040
Here you go, Ma'am.
Mm-hmm.

312
00:19:42,040 --> 00:19:44,480
You ready?
Oh. Uh...

313
00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:55,800
Something wrong?

314
00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:57,720
Would you prefer a different key?

315
00:19:57,760 --> 00:19:59,160
No, it's...

316
00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:02,800
It's just I just don't recognise
the arrangement, that's all.

317
00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:05,320
Have you ever sung before?
Only in church.

318
00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:09,200
Great. One final try, then.

319
00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:19,360
Miss?
# Some...

320
00:20:20,360 --> 00:20:22,480
Miss, are you all right?

321
00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:31,120
♪ Sometimes I feel

322
00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:40,360
♪ Like a motherless child

323
00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:50,400
♪ Sometimes I feel

324
00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:59,040
♪ Like a motherless child

325
00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:06,600
♪ Sometimes I feel

326
00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:14,360
♪ Like a motherless child

327
00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:23,680
♪ A long way from home ♪

328
00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:30,240
Thank you.

329
00:21:45,120 --> 00:21:49,000
Miss? Did you get the part? Did you?
No, I don't think so.

330
00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:51,800
They ain't said nothing,
they just sat there.

331
00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:53,280
Oh, man!

332
00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:56,720
I was hoping you could introduce me
to the director.

333
00:21:57,600 --> 00:21:59,560
Young man, who takes care of you?

334
00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:03,000
Sometimes, my aunt,
but mostly, I stay at the church.

335
00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:06,400
You ever eat a peppermint pickle?

336
00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:11,200
"Seek the Lord where he may be found

337
00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:13,560
and serve Him
the days of your youth,

338
00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:17,480
and when you grow old,
He may not depart from you."

339
00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:21,760
My grandfather taught me that
when I was around your age,

340
00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:24,840
after my mother passed.
What do you think he meant by that?

341
00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:28,080
That I should be praying every day?
Yes, and serving, too.

342
00:22:28,120 --> 00:22:32,480
You got to find God in all things.

343
00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:35,160
I found him, Miss Mahalia. Really.

344
00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:37,440
He in these peppermint pickles.

345
00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:43,440
God, this the best day of my life.

346
00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:46,160
Aw.
And mine too.

347
00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:48,520
Oh, good God, I love my wife.

348
00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:51,680
Which garden
did you steal these from?

349
00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:53,520
Mahalia's House of Flowers.

350
00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:56,840
See, one day, we gonna run
all kind of businesses together.

351
00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:00,640
All right.
Hello there. Who are you?

352
00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:03,720
Mr John Sellers, sir.

353
00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:05,280
Whose boy is he?

354
00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:07,600
I'm, uh, praying on that.

355
00:23:09,360 --> 00:23:11,280
Isaac Lane Grey Hockenhull.

356
00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:14,400
ROTC, Tuskegee Institute,
Fisk University.

357
00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:18,920
Proud husband of Mahalia Jackson,
the national stage star.

358
00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:20,800
What?
Mm-hmm.

359
00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:23,600
I got the call earlier.
You got the part!

360
00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:27,320
Yep. $60 a week.

361
00:23:27,360 --> 00:23:30,160
They wanted to tell you at
the audition, but you ran off.

362
00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:31,680
Can you get me a job, too?

363
00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:34,040
Yeah, yeah.
Uh, I'm gonna work on that.

364
00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:35,440
Hold on.

365
00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:40,320
Ike...

366
00:23:40,360 --> 00:23:41,840
I don't know.

367
00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:45,560
I got this feeling today
when I was on stage like...

368
00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:48,040
like I was carrying my mother
with me,

369
00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:50,600
and I barely knew her,
but she was there.

370
00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:53,040
And then I go outside,
and I find this boy,

371
00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:55,080
and he's without a mother, too.
Mm-hmm.

372
00:23:55,120 --> 00:24:00,960
Ike, if I sing Hot Mikado...
I got to live Hot Mikado too and...

373
00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:05,520
and singing about
fast livin' and raisin' Cain
ain't somethin' I believe in.

374
00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:10,840
But this boy, I feel like
this is God answering our prayers.

375
00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:13,800
Christ, Mahalia!
I'm so damn sick of this.

376
00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:16,880
Can't God answer BOTH our prayers?
Not if you don't deserve it!

377
00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:19,200
Not if you don't work for it.

378
00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:23,920
Racing form?

379
00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:26,600
So how was selling cosmetics
going today?

380
00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:28,600
I figured out
how to use my science degree -

381
00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:31,120
studying and testing
a new handicapping system.

382
00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:33,240
Ain't nobody doing this in racing.

383
00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:35,320
See? I'm using my degree.

384
00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:38,360
Now, please, can't you see
we need this?

385
00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:40,800
God is showing me
exactly what I need,

386
00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:43,760
and if I can't make a living
"hollerin'" in the church,

387
00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:48,200
then I'm gonna go back to school,
open a storefront - a real business.

388
00:24:50,360 --> 00:24:53,960
Come here, honey. Come here.
Please, don't give up this job.

389
00:24:54,760 --> 00:25:00,040
I am gonna find you a job
and I'm gonna make you a real home.

390
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:01,880
Just make sure you do better

391
00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:07,920
when the time come for you to prove
"the best kind of man" you can be.

392
00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:26,200
I got a Valentine's
- from Ike yesterday.
- Uh-oh.

393
00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:30,000
Say "even though we been apart
longer than we been together,"

394
00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:33,160
he still remember every minute.

395
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:37,120
He still remember
all them gambling minutes, too?

396
00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:39,360
Girl... I tried.

397
00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:41,280
John!

398
00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:44,040
Where'd you park my Buick?
I didn't see you drive by.

399
00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:47,480
Well, I got a good spot.
Oh! You got your licence!

400
00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:50,240
Congratulations, John.
Thank you, Miss Estelle.

401
00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:51,960
Are my tyres touching the kerb?

402
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:55,880
I just cleaned them whitewall tyres.
They better not
be touching the kerb.

403
00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:57,400
I can check.
Uh-uh-uh.

404
00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:04,640
You think your mama will ever let
you take that car out on a date?

405
00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:07,520
No time. As soon as school's out,
we have the revival circuit.

406
00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:10,920
When will that woman
ever be satisfied for one minute?

407
00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:13,880
She has a good business,
the only coloured person I know

408
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:17,000
that owns a whole building,
has three tenants paying rent!

409
00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:20,120
When will God tell her
she has enough?

410
00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:22,360
Well, Mama believes
He already did...

411
00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:26,480
..when her record at Decca flopped.

412
00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:31,040
How were the whitewalls?
Fine.

413
00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:33,080
But the rear's out way too far.

414
00:26:33,120 --> 00:26:35,960
Somebody take that corner tight,
tear off my bumper.

415
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:37,920
Move the car.
Bye, John.

416
00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:39,600
Bye, Miss Estelle.

417
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:43,200
Why are you still doing
them summer tent revivals?

418
00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:45,920
Between the shop
and all your engagements here,

419
00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:47,880
you're losing money
when you travel.

420
00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:50,920
It's cos I got to reach the people.
Especially them poor folks.

421
00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:53,560
That tent goin' up
is like Christmas for them,

422
00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:56,520
and that money, well,
it'll take care of itself.

423
00:26:56,560 --> 00:27:02,240
So long as I can bring something
to the people, I'm satisfied.

424
00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:04,800
Yeah, all right.
Except...

425
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:06,680
I need a piano player.
Oh, Lord.

426
00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:09,160
Come on,
I can pay your full salary now.

427
00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:11,720
And when you're not playing,
you can work here.

428
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:14,080
You know I hate
all that travelling around.

429
00:27:14,120 --> 00:27:16,160
Chicago's got everything I need.

430
00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:19,960
But I will keep an eye on the shop
for you while you're gone.

431
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,800
You know, I'm thinking
about going to beauty school.

432
00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:24,080
That's nice.
Mm-hmm.

433
00:27:24,120 --> 00:27:25,760
But I still need a piano player.

434
00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:28,920
Halie, I already
introduced you to one.

435
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:35,360
♪ Mm...

436
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:38,400
♪ Hallelujah, God is good

437
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:42,320
♪ Oh, hallelujah, God is good

438
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:46,680
All right, all right.
"Bounce" don't mean fast.

439
00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:48,960
Mildred...

440
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:50,720
why don't you try that again?

441
00:27:58,080 --> 00:27:59,480
♪ Mm...

442
00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:03,240
♪ Mm...
Now keep your eyes on Mahalia.

443
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:05,920
No matter how many times
you rehearse,

444
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:08,400
she'll never sing the song
the same way twice.

445
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:11,200
Oh, God.
# Oh, hallelujah

446
00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:12,960
♪ God is good

447
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:15,320
♪ Well...
Now give her that bounce
with the left.

448
00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:21,000
♪ Ooh
And with the right,
you gotta talk to her.

449
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:23,160
All right.

450
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,280
♪ Mm, mm, mm

451
00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:29,920
♪ Mm-mm, hey, hey-hey-hey

452
00:28:37,120 --> 00:28:38,920
She's got it...

453
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:41,040
but she ain't got it yet.
Mm.

454
00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:43,160
Look, I gotta get back to the salon.

455
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,800
You handle this.

456
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:53,640
You all right?

457
00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:57,120
She can be rough.
Thought I did OK at the end.

458
00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:59,600
She seemed happy.

459
00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:02,880
She... Honey, she's never gonna be
happy with your playing.

460
00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:06,520
That's what you have to accept
if you take the job.

461
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:08,040
I got it?

462
00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:09,440
Really?
Yes!

463
00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:10,840
You sure?
Yes.

464
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:13,200
Except, don't expect any praise.

465
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:16,360
Mahalia saves her praises for God.

466
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:19,280
Your real job...
help her find her voice.

467
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:23,280
When does she want me to start?
She's already packed.

468
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:26,120
We're travelling?
Yeah! I think you...

469
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:28,800
I think you start in Mississippi.
Mississippi?

470
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:31,200
Oh, you don't like Mississippi?

471
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:35,120
Well, I was born down there,
but I was a baby when we left.

472
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:39,200
I haven't touched the South since.

473
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:46,560
♪ Oh, my great...

474
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:50,280
Come on, sing with me, John.
# Oh, Lord...

475
00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:51,760
♪ Lord!
I know you got it.

476
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:55,440
♪ Sits up high and looks down low

477
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:57,360
♪ The Lord, I know... ♪

478
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:24,480
Why we stopping?

479
00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:28,320
Oh, go! Go, go, go!

480
00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:31,280
We need gas.
Well, let me do all the talking.

481
00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:39,360
How ya doin', sir?

482
00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:44,560
Y'all from Chicago?
- Yeah.
- Yeah.

483
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:47,920
Sorry, sir. Poor boy.

484
00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:51,880
He tired,
and we been driving for a long time.

485
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:57,200
We just poor missionaries on our way
to sing in a poor little ol' church.

486
00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:00,960
We'd be forever grateful
if we could just buy us, uh...

487
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:02,840
a little bit of gasoline.

488
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:06,040
Will you help us
do the Lord's work, sir?

489
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:14,440
You should know - Esso. Ess-o.

490
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:17,600
Every summer we come down here,
we only stop at an Esso station.

491
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:19,640
Get that through your thick head!

492
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:22,640
I didn't want to wake you.
Well, hell, I'm woke.

493
00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:30,920
You sure ain't no Southern girl.

494
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:32,920
No, I'm not.

495
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:36,240
You see how I got to talk
to the white folks
like I ain't got no sense.

496
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:38,560
Yeah, I understand why you did that.

497
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:41,560
There's a lot that you're
gonna learn, Mildred.

498
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:45,480
For one, when we get down
to our "little ol' church..."

499
00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:50,680
shoot, you gon' see
what the Holy Spirit is all about.

500
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:55,960
Clarksdale, Mississippi!

501
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:59,120
We're so glad to start
our revival with you here!

502
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:02,360
And the way I see it is I don't care

503
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:04,840
if a man is a gambler or a thief...
Uh-huh!

504
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:07,160
..a wino or a murderer.
All right!

505
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:10,680
Every man and every woman
has got to believe in something.

506
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:13,640
Something they can look up to. Amen!

507
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:17,400
We got to learn to show kindness
to others,

508
00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:21,680
especially to those
who don't believe in feeling love.

509
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:25,200
What can we do but help each other?
Yeah!

510
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:28,280
God don't need nothing from us
but to love each other,

511
00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:30,720
and to help each other. Amen!
Amen!

512
00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:32,640
We all his children! Hey!
Hey!

513
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:34,440
We all his children!

514
00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:36,440
Amen!

515
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:38,520
♪ Ohh...come on, children

516
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:41,960
♪ Sing about the goodness
of the Lord

517
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:43,640
♪ Come on, children, shout

518
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:46,360
♪ All about God's great reward

519
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:48,600
♪ Guide our footsteps every day

520
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:50,640
♪ Keep us walking in your narrow way

521
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:52,800
♪ Come on, children, let's sing

522
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:55,320
♪ Come on, children, let's shout

523
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:56,920
♪ Come on, children, let's sing

524
00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:59,720
♪ About the goodness of the Lord

525
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:07,720
♪ He has been my all and all

526
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:17,600
♪ And He, my Lord, will never,
mm-hmm, let me fall

527
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:19,840
♪ That is why I can sing

528
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:21,880
♪ That is why I can shout

529
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:26,240
♪ Because I know
what it's all about

530
00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:31,800
♪ The good goodness of the Lord

531
00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:33,840
♪ My Lord, O Lord

532
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:36,040
♪ Mm

533
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:37,960
♪ Hey

534
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:41,520
♪ I feel Him in my spirit
Do you feel Him in your spirit?

535
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:44,600
♪ Ohh

536
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:47,120
♪ Whoo!

537
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:51,600
♪ Yeah

538
00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:54,720
♪ Whoo!

539
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:57,880
Ain't this good, y'all?

540
00:33:57,920 --> 00:33:59,680
God is so good!

541
00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:01,520
Didn't He wake you up this morning?

542
00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:04,960
Didn't He put food on your table
and clothes on your back?

543
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:12,920
I can walk. I can walk!

544
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:16,360
Great God Almighty!
Praise the Lord!

545
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:18,720
I can walk and you did it!

546
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:20,480
It's the singing!
That wasn't me.

547
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:22,600
He ain't walked in 20 years!

548
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:24,960
You healed him!
No, no, no. That was God!

549
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,080
The power of God! It ain't me.

550
00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:29,160
That ain't me, sir!
Thank you, Jesus!

551
00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:31,760
Don't you feel Him?
In your spirit? Whoo!

552
00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:34,480
Come on, Mama.
Mama, it's all right.

553
00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:36,880
You heal!
I did not heal that man.

554
00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:39,960
No, Mama, I... I don't understand.

555
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,440
It was... It was the singing.
It was God!

556
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:46,520
It was the music
that made the miracle.
God was moving through me.

557
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:49,120
Ooh, and Mildred.
Did you feel that?

558
00:34:56,960 --> 00:35:00,920
I pray to make another record like
I pray to find another husband...

559
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:03,240
but every time
I come close to either,

560
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:06,360
God chooses
a different prayer to answer.

561
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:09,240
Well, we may not be as big
and powerful as, say,

562
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:10,800
Columbia Records,

563
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:14,680
but once you sign,
we stay loyal to our artists.

564
00:35:14,720 --> 00:35:17,720
I believe Apollo Records
is the perfect home for you -

565
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:20,400
to feel comfortable, to branch out.

566
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:22,960
"Branch out"?

567
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,640
You see the variety of artists
we record?

568
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:27,480
I think you'd be wonderful.

569
00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:30,520
I think you could really sing
the hell out of the blues.

570
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:33,720
What Negro can't sing
the hell outta the blues?

571
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:36,680
That's what life's been
for most of us.

572
00:35:36,720 --> 00:35:41,600
See, Mrs Berman, I'm so tired of
getting so close to making a record

573
00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:44,760
only to find out that people want me
to sing some other kinda way.

574
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:48,160
Now, people don't understand,

575
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:50,120
that pain that you hear
in the blues,

576
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:52,880
it ain't got nowhere to go
once it's inside you.

577
00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:56,520
The blues can't guide you
how to live, like Gospel.

578
00:35:56,560 --> 00:36:00,560
Now, Gospel,
that's the cure for the blues.

579
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:04,720
I love your voice,
but I still got a bottom line.

580
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:08,320
Tell you what.

581
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:11,480
I can give ya...
two hours of studio time.

582
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:13,360
Two hours?

583
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:15,320
That's my best offer.

584
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:20,000
Gospel music, my people.

585
00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:22,280
Fine.

586
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:25,960
Do we have a deal?
Now, let's clarify these two hours.

587
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:29,640
You mean two hours from the time
that man push the button, two hours?

588
00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:32,840
Recording, right?
Yes, Miss Jackson.

589
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:35,360
You'll have a full two hours.

590
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:44,000
♪ I'm gonna move on up
a little higher

591
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:47,400
♪ I'm gonna meet Abraham and Isaac

592
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:52,160
♪ Yes, I'm gonna move on up
a little higher

593
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:55,480
♪ I'm gonna meet the prophet Daniel

594
00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:59,920
♪ Oh, I'm gonna move on up
a little higher

595
00:36:59,960 --> 00:37:03,560
♪ I'm gonna meet
the Hebrew children... ♪

596
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:06,000
Oh, oh, uh-uh-uh-uh!
No! What you got the light on?

597
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:09,320
I did not say push the button yet!
Lady, I can't be here all night.

598
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:12,280
Mrs Berman, you said two hours.
You didn't say which two hours.

599
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:15,200
Mahalia we've been here all day.
You made your point.

600
00:37:15,240 --> 00:37:16,880
I'm not trying to make no point.

601
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:19,480
I'm just trying to rehearse
so that we get it perfect.

602
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:21,520
That's it.
When's the next booking?

603
00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:25,880
Tomorrow, 10am.
We'll be done by then.

604
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:30,240
Why you so quiet?

605
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:32,760
So good to meet you. I am -
I know who you are.

606
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:34,520
Well, I'm honoured.

607
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:36,840
They got you here
to watch all the coloured folks,

608
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:40,320
but you need to watch
they don't gyp me on my time.
Oh, I don't work for...

609
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:43,800
Now, Mildred, they trying to make
you move faster, but don't worry.

610
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:46,560
You take your time, all right?
You don't need none of this.

611
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:48,640
Feel this in your heart and body.

612
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:51,200
If you ever feel lost,
you just keep your eyes on me -

613
00:37:51,240 --> 00:37:52,720
always keep your eyes on me,

614
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:56,160
cos we won't get another chance
like this again. All right.

615
00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:59,360
♪ Oh, I'm gonna move on up
a little higher

616
00:38:00,240 --> 00:38:03,600
♪ I'm gonna meet Brother Paul
and Silas

617
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:06,760
♪ Yes! I'm gonna move on up
a little higher...

618
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:10,160
You playin' all right, but you
playin' like a kindergartener.

619
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:12,400
And why you keep putting
this in your hand?

620
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:14,880
You gotta play from your gut
and your heart!

621
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:19,600
♪ I'm gonna meet
the Lily of the Valley

622
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:27,600
♪ 'Twill be always howdy, howdy

623
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:34,480
♪ 'Twill be always howdy, howdy
and never goodbye

624
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:37,800
♪ Ohh ! ♪

625
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:44,560
Uh, excuse me, ma'am? Excuse me.

626
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:48,680
Miss Jackson ready for the man
to press the button now.

627
00:38:48,720 --> 00:38:50,360
Something else...

628
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:53,320
What now?
You got my up-front money?

629
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:55,160
Mm-hmm.
In cash?

630
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:57,800
Then let's make a record.

631
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:06,560
Here you go, brother.
Get you some breakfast.

632
00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:08,960
See? We out by 10am.

633
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,720
And they say coloured folks
can't be on time.

634
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:13,440
I hope Mrs Berman don't fire YOU.

635
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:18,800
I don't think anyone could keep the
job of handling you, Miss Jackson.
I don't even know your name.

636
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:20,800
Reverend Russell Roberts.

637
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:22,960
Reverend?
Oh, I'm too tired for fooling.

638
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,240
Shiloh Baptist Church,
Atlantic City.

639
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:27,680
One of my parishioners
records with Apollo.

640
00:39:27,720 --> 00:39:31,520
I've heard about you
on the revival circuit for years,
wanted to hear you sing.

641
00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:34,360
Oh, Lord, you're serious?
When will your record come out?

642
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:36,920
Whenever Mrs Berman decide -
IF she decide.

643
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:40,440
It may never come out.
Your business is tough.

644
00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:42,720
So is yours, Reverend.
Russell.

645
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:45,320
Well, I truly don't know
what will come of this

646
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:47,280
other than none of us got any sleep.

647
00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:52,360
Nine years ago,
I cut my first record and...

648
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:54,520
only place it hit was the graveyard.

649
00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:58,640
If you read the liturgy closely,
you'll find reference throughout
the Bible, that faith requires -

650
00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:00,560
You don't have to school me
on the Word.

651
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:04,640
I know my Bible, even though
I didn't, uh, get to finish school.

652
00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:08,360
Most of my thoughts are unlearned
but I, um...

653
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:12,360
Then, to put it plainly,
"to she who knocks, it will open."

654
00:40:13,720 --> 00:40:16,120
My calling often brings me
to Chicago.

655
00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:20,520
Well, clearly,
I ain't hard to find, Reverend.

656
00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:24,400
Come on, Mildred.

657
00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:26,360
Lord knows, if I wasn't baptised,

658
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:30,400
I'd let that man dip me in the water
again and again.

659
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:37,160
Girl, get the phone,
it might be John.

660
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:39,760
That boy ain't called me
in over a week.

661
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:42,160
Hello! Mahalia's Beauty Salon.

662
00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:45,240
Is it John?
Hi, Estelle!

663
00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:47,080
How you doin'?

664
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:49,600
Wait...

665
00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:52,320
Wait, uh, uh...
What's that station again?

666
00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:57,160
What you runnin' for?

667
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:01,640
'# The Lily of the Valley

668
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:04,160
♪ 'Twill be always...'
Mildred.

669
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:07,320
'# ..howdy, howdy...'
Mahalia...it's us.

670
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:08,880
What Gospel show that on?

671
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:11,480
No, no, no.
It's some white man's show!

672
00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:13,840
Some white man's show?

673
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:17,360
Mildred! That's you playin'!
Yeah! That's you singing!

674
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:21,800
Since I heard this song the other
day, I can't stop playing it.

675
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:25,280
It's from a woman on the South Side
with a golden voice.

676
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:28,480
Her name is Mahalia Jackson...

677
00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:31,280
and if she were singing the blues,
she'd be another Bessie Smith.

678
00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:33,920
What she sings is called "Gospel".

679
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:38,800
I am not a religious man,
but I pray people buy this record.

680
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:42,520
Thank you! Thank you!

681
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:46,520
You said in Your Word You would
never leave me nor forsake me.

682
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:47,680
Oh...

683
00:41:49,720 --> 00:41:52,600
That was Chicago's
own Mahalia Jackson.

684
00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:54,880
Before this song became a hit,

685
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:59,200
the Holy Grail of Gospel sales
was 100,000 records,

686
00:41:59,240 --> 00:42:03,280
but since the release of Move On Up
A Little Higher two years ago,

687
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:06,480
it has sold over two million copies.

688
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:09,240
Now, tell us something
we don't know about you.

689
00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:10,760
Um...

690
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:13,680
"Mahalia" was the name
of one of my aunts.

691
00:42:13,720 --> 00:42:16,000
She was a girl of the slave days,

692
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:20,080
and she dreamt of jubilee
and better days to come.

693
00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:22,120
My mother gave me her name.

694
00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:24,240
And by "jubilee", you mean gospel?

695
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:30,000
Uh...jubilee is a burst of freedom,
and that's what I feel when I sing.

696
00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:34,880
Well, I, for one cannot wait for you
to deliver this glorious jubilee

697
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:37,440
to the cultural elite
of Carnegie Hall.

698
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:41,800
Ha! I don't believe my type of songs
belong there, Mr Terkel.

699
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:44,680
You can call me "Studs".
What? Don't you got a real name?

700
00:42:44,720 --> 00:42:47,760
That's the one I'm stuck with.
It's as real as it gets.

701
00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:51,600
But how real...is this news release?

702
00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:02,240
It don't matter what I said,
it matter what I sign,

703
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:05,720
and I didn't sign no contract
for no Carnegie Hall.

704
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:09,360
Well, stop the press releases.

705
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:13,600
I... I don't wanna hear
nothing else about Carnegie Hall!

706
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:17,560
I'd love to hear you sing
at Carnegie Hall.

707
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:21,240
I thought you hate travelling.
I'd travel for that.

708
00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:23,920
I think we should do that concert.

709
00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:26,120
I ain't studying no Carnegie Hall.

710
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:27,880
Now I got to get
to the grocery store,

711
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:30,200
cos Russell is in town tonight

712
00:43:30,240 --> 00:43:32,320
and I'm gonna cook him up
some gumbo.

713
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:33,720
Again?

714
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:36,160
Look, I'm tired of you
screwing up your face

715
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:37,960
every time I talk about the man.

716
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:40,520
It's been three years.
You don't get no vote!

717
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:42,200
I just don't think he's for you.

718
00:43:42,240 --> 00:43:47,120
Why? You don't think I deserve
a good, educated preacherman?

719
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:50,520
It's how you act.
Act?

720
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:53,640
You bend a little too much.

721
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:55,760
What are you getting at now?

722
00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:59,160
In his presence, you lower yourself.

723
00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:03,520
That's where you're wrong
cos I don't stoop for nobody
but God, and I...

724
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:06,160
Oh, God. Oh!

725
00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:08,640
Halie?
Oh...

726
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:10,320
Halie!

727
00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:15,560
I'm all right.

728
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:17,240
Go back to work! I'm fine.

729
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:26,920
Oh! Oh, no. Shoot!

730
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:30,000
Oh, Lord. Please, please...

731
00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:33,480
Can I help?

732
00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:36,520
Can you cook?
As well as I can sing.

733
00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:40,160
♪ Amazing grace... ♪

734
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:43,000
Oh, now you making my ears hurt.

735
00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:45,400
Dinner gonna be late.
Oh, this isn't like you.

736
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:47,680
How do you know?
You don't see me every day.

737
00:44:47,720 --> 00:44:52,360
I've had enough of your cooking
to know this burnin'
means something is wrong.

738
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:55,400
Well, they want me to sing
at Carnegie Hall!

739
00:44:55,440 --> 00:44:59,840
Oh! Mahalia Jackson
stepping into the Magic Circle!

740
00:44:59,880 --> 00:45:02,360
I don't belong in no Carnegie Hall.

741
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:03,880
Who do you think I am?

742
00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:07,000
♪ Victorio! #
Now, see? You laugh.

743
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:11,120
Look, Duke Ellington's played there.
That's because he's class.

744
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:13,920
Baby...
Russell, I'm scared.

745
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:16,920
I ain't no trained opera singer.
I don't belong there.

746
00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:18,600
Now, I ain't good enough.

747
00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:20,680
I ain't sophisticated,
I ain't educated.

748
00:45:20,720 --> 00:45:22,720
And what the heck
is the Magic Circle?

749
00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:25,120
Mahalia Jackson,
you are the smartest,

750
00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:28,000
the strongest of faith
God ever put on this planet.

751
00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:32,160
All you need is take one seed
of what you give others,

752
00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:33,800
plant it in yourself.

753
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:50,760
Why did you put me
at Carnegie Hall?

754
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:52,560
Lord, please...

755
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:55,480
please, let Mildred
be able to play tonight.

756
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:59,000
You know I'm not used to singing
with any other piano players.

757
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:02,920
What are we gonna do?

758
00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:05,760
Halie, Mildred said
she's able to play.

759
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:08,800
You have to trust her.
It was just food poisoning.

760
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:11,200
She's... She's... She's better now.

761
00:46:11,240 --> 00:46:14,720
Mildred knows my arrangements
like the back of her hand.

762
00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:21,600
Today, when we was rehearsing,
up on that stage without her...

763
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:25,960
it was like... I opened my mouth
and God just took away my gift.

764
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:28,040
I sounded like a bird!

765
00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:29,880
A little bird!

766
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:35,080
Well, if I'm gonna flop, then...

767
00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:38,160
..I'm gonna flop big.

768
00:47:04,520 --> 00:47:06,520
I'm comin'.

769
00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:38,720
Mildred? Come on in here, now.

770
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:41,520
♪ Amazing grace...

771
00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:45,160
Mm!

772
00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:47,800
Oh, what is this?

773
00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:49,360
This ain't a funeral.

774
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:52,000
Baby, it's supposed to represent
the Magic Circle -

775
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:54,720
what it feels like when you step
on the stage at Carnegie Hall.

776
00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:58,320
Lord knows, I need all the magic
God can give me tonight.

777
00:47:58,360 --> 00:48:01,600
Oh, put it down.
I want you to meet my boy John.

778
00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:05,040
He calls himself "Brother John"
and he sings folk music and blues

779
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:06,640
at the Apollo Theater.

780
00:48:06,680 --> 00:48:09,160
It's good to meet you, sir.
You too.

781
00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:11,720
And this is my good friend, Estelle.
Hi.

782
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:14,440
She owns my beauty shop.

783
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:20,840
The only thing is
she don't know she own it yet.

784
00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:23,320
Halie...

785
00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:26,120
The shop's always been
something for me to lean on,

786
00:48:26,160 --> 00:48:29,040
but now it seems like
it's leaning on ME.

787
00:48:29,080 --> 00:48:32,040
I... I can't accept such a gift.

788
00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:35,080
Why does everybody think
I'm just giving all the time?

789
00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:38,160
I didn't ask to buy it.
I... I can't afford it.

790
00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:40,720
Well, give me a dollar.
Can you afford that?

791
00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:49,000
Thank you.

792
00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:54,920
John? Go tell the promoter to bring
up the rest of my money in cash.

793
00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:57,640
It's Carnegie Hall, Mama.

794
00:48:57,680 --> 00:48:59,840
I got to take me wherever I go.

795
00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:02,400
OK.

796
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:26,800
What's the words?
"How I got over..."

797
00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:28,440
No.

798
00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:31,040
"How I got..."

799
00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:33,600
♪ How I got over

800
00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:37,960
♪ How did I make it over?

801
00:49:39,720 --> 00:49:43,680
♪ You know my soul looks back
in wonder

802
00:49:43,720 --> 00:49:45,560
♪ How did I make it over?

803
00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:49,760
♪ Tell me how I got over

804
00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:54,200
♪ How did I make it over?

805
00:49:55,920 --> 00:49:59,120
♪ You know my soul looks back
in wonder

806
00:49:59,160 --> 00:50:01,280
♪ How did I make it over?

807
00:50:02,360 --> 00:50:04,480
♪ Mm

808
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:07,360
♪ Soon as I can see Jesus

809
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:11,240
♪ The man that died for me

810
00:50:12,240 --> 00:50:14,800
♪ Man that bled and suffered

811
00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:18,360
♪ Oh! Hung on Calvary

812
00:50:19,200 --> 00:50:21,120
♪ And I wanna thank Him

813
00:50:21,160 --> 00:50:23,200
♪ For how He brought me

814
00:50:23,240 --> 00:50:25,160
♪ And I wanna thank God

815
00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:27,360
♪ For how he taught me
Oh!

816
00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:30,560
♪ Thank my God how He kept me

817
00:50:30,600 --> 00:50:32,480
♪ Oh! Thank Him

818
00:50:32,520 --> 00:50:34,240
♪ He never left me

819
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:38,320
♪ And I'm gonna thank Him
for old-time religion

820
00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:42,360
♪ Oh! I'm gonna thank God
for giving me a vision

821
00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:46,600
♪ Oh, I'm gonna join
the heavenly choir

822
00:50:46,640 --> 00:50:50,280
♪ And I'm gonna sing
and never get tired

823
00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:53,520
♪ And I'm gonna sing
somewhere 'round the altar

824
00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:57,680
♪ Oh, I'm gonna shout
all my troubles over

825
00:50:57,720 --> 00:50:59,800
♪ Lord, I'm gonna thank You

826
00:50:59,840 --> 00:51:04,160
♪ Thank You for being so good to me

827
00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:05,720
♪ Yeah

828
00:51:05,760 --> 00:51:07,560
♪ How I made it over

829
00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:13,560
♪ Had a mighty hard time

830
00:51:13,600 --> 00:51:17,080
♪ You know my soul
looks back in wonder

831
00:51:17,120 --> 00:51:20,080
♪ How'd I make it over?

832
00:51:21,080 --> 00:51:25,200
♪ Comin' from the north,
south, east, and west

833
00:51:25,240 --> 00:51:28,920
♪ The only way to the land of rest

834
00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:32,280
♪ And I'm gonna join
the heavenly choir

835
00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:36,520
♪ And I'm gonna sing
and never get tired

836
00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:39,800
♪ And I'm gonna sing
somewhere 'round the altar

837
00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:43,760
♪ Oh! I'm gonna shout
all my troubles over

838
00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:45,640
♪ Lord, I'm gonna thank You

839
00:51:45,680 --> 00:51:51,880
♪ Thank You for being
so good to me, mm

840
00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:55,160
♪ I wanna thank You at this moment

841
00:51:55,200 --> 00:51:59,360
♪ Oh, I'm gonna thank You
at this moment

842
00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:03,200
♪ You said touch...in My name

843
00:52:03,240 --> 00:52:06,920
♪ You said touch in My name

844
00:52:06,960 --> 00:52:14,560
♪ Oh, I feel, I feel like running

845
00:52:14,600 --> 00:52:18,520
♪ Lord, I feel, I feel like running

846
00:52:18,560 --> 00:52:22,280
♪ I feel, I feel like runnin'

847
00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:24,320
♪ Oh! I wanna thank You

848
00:52:24,360 --> 00:52:36,160
♪ Thank you for bein'
so good to me, yeah ♪

849
00:52:38,240 --> 00:52:40,160
Thank you, God.

850
00:52:40,200 --> 00:52:42,000
Whoo.

851
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:54,680
Sister Jackson, you are truly
a living legend in your time.

852
00:52:54,720 --> 00:52:56,680
Incredible. Broke attendance.

853
00:52:56,720 --> 00:52:59,840
Columbia Records
wants to make you an offer.
Where's Mildred?

854
00:52:59,880 --> 00:53:02,040
We worked hard for the Lord tonight.
My slippers?

855
00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:05,200
Mama, that was
the most beautiful performance.
Thank you.

856
00:53:05,240 --> 00:53:07,440
I am so proud of you.
When's your next record out?

857
00:53:07,480 --> 00:53:09,920
Carnegie Hall will want you back.
We'll see.

858
00:53:12,120 --> 00:53:15,760
All right, thank you, everybody,
but Miss Jackson needs her rest.

859
00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:17,760
What's going on?
You're bleeding.

860
00:53:17,800 --> 00:53:20,480
We need to get you off your feet.
Can we get an interview?

861
00:53:20,520 --> 00:53:23,760
Thank you. Have a good night.
Excuse me.

862
00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:27,360
Go on, now. Thank you.
Thank you all for coming.
Have a good night.

863
00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:29,240
Let's just get you to the room, OK?

864
00:53:33,080 --> 00:53:34,640
Oh, my God.

865
00:53:34,680 --> 00:53:36,120
Hoo.

866
00:53:36,160 --> 00:53:38,520
Help me up. Help me up.
I got you.

867
00:53:41,760 --> 00:53:44,320
I ain't goin' to no doctor.

868
00:53:52,920 --> 00:53:57,600
Lord, I keep praying not to have
all this anger in my heart,
but it's so hard.

869
00:53:57,640 --> 00:54:00,280
Why, God? Why?
God's not the only one here for you.

870
00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:02,720
I wish you'd believe in me, too.
Russell, please!

871
00:54:02,760 --> 00:54:07,560
Now, you can tell the newspapers
it's bronchitis
but I know this is not bronchitis.

872
00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:11,600
Come on, now.
Tell me what happened.

873
00:54:12,320 --> 00:54:14,920
I hate doctors.
That's a strong word, baby.

874
00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:20,640
I know, but see, with doctors,
we like experiments to them.

875
00:54:20,680 --> 00:54:22,920
They don't care about
a coloured woman's health

876
00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:25,680
unless it's to teach 'em
how to fix up white folks.

877
00:54:26,360 --> 00:54:27,840
I had this one doctor...

878
00:54:27,880 --> 00:54:31,040
He all right, he's some kind
of specialist or something.

879
00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:35,240
..and he, uh...he got in a fight
with one of the other doctors

880
00:54:35,280 --> 00:54:36,800
and took over my case,

881
00:54:36,840 --> 00:54:40,760
and he said that I have something
called sarcoidosis.

882
00:54:41,560 --> 00:54:44,400
Is that...?
No. No, it's not cancer.

883
00:54:44,440 --> 00:54:48,080
But I had these fibroids
on my lymph nodes that were removed,

884
00:54:48,120 --> 00:54:50,720
and I had tumours, too...

885
00:54:51,960 --> 00:54:53,800
..and, uh...

886
00:54:55,680 --> 00:54:57,560
..they, uh...

887
00:55:04,200 --> 00:55:06,920
They took my insides out.
They took...

888
00:55:07,640 --> 00:55:10,080
You... You had a hysterectomy?

889
00:55:10,120 --> 00:55:12,640
And I feel...

890
00:55:12,680 --> 00:55:16,520
like everything that make me
a woman is gone.

891
00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:19,960
Empty.

892
00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:22,400
Broke in a way that can't be fixed.

893
00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:25,600
I feel this burning in my heart -

894
00:55:25,640 --> 00:55:27,560
I'm so sorry.

895
00:55:27,600 --> 00:55:30,600
And I got all these questions,
you know, like "why me"?

896
00:55:32,840 --> 00:55:35,960
Why can't I carry a child
like I've always hoped for?

897
00:55:36,640 --> 00:55:42,200
Why the one...one doctor that
I trust let this happen to me?

898
00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:47,000
It's like he took away this
opportunity for us to have a family.

899
00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:13,240
We will get through this.

900
00:56:14,920 --> 00:56:16,560
All I want is you.

901
00:56:18,880 --> 00:56:24,880
Family begins with you...
however, whatever, that looks like.

902
00:56:30,960 --> 00:56:35,160
So come on...step into
the Magic Circle with me.

903
00:56:37,920 --> 00:56:39,400
Now...

904
00:56:40,160 --> 00:56:42,800
..when are you gonna let me
carry you over that stoop?

905
00:56:42,840 --> 00:56:44,520
Ouch.

906
00:56:44,560 --> 00:56:46,960
Ah, don't make me laugh.

907
00:56:53,000 --> 00:56:55,800
Russell, you the one thing
I can decide on

908
00:56:55,840 --> 00:56:58,200
that I don't have to pray on.

909
00:57:03,240 --> 00:57:08,960
Dear Lord, You said be strong
and let your heart take courage.

910
00:57:10,080 --> 00:57:12,360
Well, I've been praying
over this contract,

911
00:57:12,400 --> 00:57:16,160
and You either want me to sign this
or convert to being a lawyer.

912
00:57:18,240 --> 00:57:22,560
Are You opening a new gate...
like in the Bible?

913
00:57:22,600 --> 00:57:25,040
"Behold, I'm doing a new thing..."

914
00:57:25,880 --> 00:57:30,200
..or is this really a deal
with the CBS devil?

915
00:57:43,960 --> 00:57:46,280
Is that one of the new songs
from Columbia?

916
00:57:46,320 --> 00:57:48,760
Yep! They confident she gonna sign.

917
00:57:48,800 --> 00:57:52,000
I don't know, it sounds different
than her other material.

918
00:57:52,040 --> 00:57:55,000
It's too pop.
It's a "sweetened water" song.

919
00:57:56,560 --> 00:58:00,000
If she sings this, I'll have
to fight to find its salvation.

920
00:58:00,040 --> 00:58:02,680
I'm gonna have them
put it in here

921
00:58:02,720 --> 00:58:07,200
that I ain't doing no radio show
unless you the writer, Studs.

922
00:58:07,240 --> 00:58:09,960
Now, CBS said you on the blacklist?

923
00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:12,800
Well, hell,
I'm on the "blacklist" too.

924
00:58:12,840 --> 00:58:15,280
I'm afraid you're mixing
with an agitator.

925
00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:17,880
But you do the show no matter what.
Don't worry about me.

926
00:58:17,920 --> 00:58:22,680
I ain't. I'm worried about being
in millions of white folks'
living rooms by myself.

927
00:58:22,720 --> 00:58:25,520
I need you!
I'd follow you anywhere...

928
00:58:26,240 --> 00:58:28,160
..as long as you don't try
to redeem me.

929
00:58:28,200 --> 00:58:32,000
Ooh! If I could get you saved,
we'll be all right!

930
00:58:32,040 --> 00:58:35,560
She's been playing one of those
new "sweetened-water songs".

931
00:58:36,360 --> 00:58:40,880
John, don't tell the man
ALL our secrets.

932
00:58:40,920 --> 00:58:43,720
Now, if you want some sweet water...

933
00:58:43,760 --> 00:58:46,520
Uh, no, thanks, Mahalia.
I don't like that Southern tea.

934
00:58:46,560 --> 00:58:49,040
I ain't getting you tea!

935
00:58:49,080 --> 00:58:51,120
I take it
you don't want her to sign.

936
00:58:51,160 --> 00:58:53,160
Columbia don't know our music.

937
00:58:53,200 --> 00:58:55,680
Mama will lose the audience
that brought her up.

938
00:58:55,720 --> 00:58:58,680
They'll wanna add symphonies
and big bands.

939
00:58:58,720 --> 00:59:01,360
And probably, first thing,
they'll fire Mildred.

940
00:59:01,400 --> 00:59:03,880
Ain't nobody ask you
about no Columbia Records.

941
00:59:03,920 --> 00:59:06,760
And ain't nobody gonna fire Mildred.

942
00:59:06,800 --> 00:59:08,920
Here you go, Studs.

943
00:59:08,960 --> 00:59:12,360
Oh! I... I didn't think
you drank whiskey.

944
00:59:12,400 --> 00:59:14,760
I ain't gonna say
if I do or if I don't,

945
00:59:14,800 --> 00:59:18,160
but there will always be
a bottle in my home for you, Studs.

946
00:59:18,200 --> 00:59:23,080
Without you, I would've sold
a couple million less records,

947
00:59:23,120 --> 00:59:25,640
and Mildred'd still be poor.

948
00:59:25,680 --> 00:59:27,800
Don't give her none.

949
00:59:27,840 --> 00:59:31,040
So, if we gon' do this,
how's it gonna work?

950
00:59:31,720 --> 00:59:35,440
I figure it will go like our other
interviews only more in-depth.

951
00:59:35,480 --> 00:59:39,800
I'll ask questions
about the background of the songs,
you know, where do they come from?

952
00:59:39,840 --> 00:59:43,080
We'll do an episode on your
relationship with Thomas Dorsey,

953
00:59:43,120 --> 00:59:47,640
and one of you growing up
in New Orleans and another
about your travels in the South.

954
00:59:49,880 --> 00:59:55,600
So you want me to say how,
when I go up in a department store
in the South,

955
00:59:55,640 --> 00:59:59,360
how I can't get a sandwich,
or a bottle of pop?

956
00:59:59,400 --> 01:00:01,160
How I can't even get a cab?

957
01:00:01,200 --> 01:00:04,600
Or when I'm driving in a nice car,
how I got to play the "Mammy"

958
01:00:04,640 --> 01:00:07,720
when the police pull me over,
call me a "nigger woman",

959
01:00:07,760 --> 01:00:09,760
and shake me down for my money?

960
01:00:12,480 --> 01:00:13,960
That's what you want?

961
01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:15,960
You want me to air the truth, right?

962
01:00:16,000 --> 01:00:18,080
I do, Mahalia. But...

963
01:00:18,120 --> 01:00:20,080
I know, baby.

964
01:00:20,120 --> 01:00:22,760
We both blacklisted.

965
01:00:23,560 --> 01:00:25,640
Only difference...

966
01:00:25,680 --> 01:00:28,200
I can't never get off that list.

967
01:00:30,440 --> 01:00:34,200
'CBS is very proud to bring you,
live from our studio in Chicago,

968
01:00:34,240 --> 01:00:36,360
the Mahalia Jackson Show.'

969
01:00:36,400 --> 01:00:38,400
'(PIANO PLAYS)'

970
01:00:38,440 --> 01:00:45,240
'# I sing because I'm happy...'

971
01:00:45,280 --> 01:00:48,680
Imagine, there's millions
of people listening.

972
01:00:49,760 --> 01:00:51,920
Millions.

973
01:00:51,960 --> 01:00:53,520
Listening to our Halie.

974
01:00:53,560 --> 01:00:55,560
'# And I sing because I'm free...'

975
01:00:55,600 --> 01:00:57,800
Mama's like the loaves
and the fishes -

976
01:00:58,840 --> 01:01:02,760
..splitting herself
into a million pieces,
trying to feed everybody.

977
01:01:04,960 --> 01:01:07,040
But I wonder, once...

978
01:01:07,760 --> 01:01:09,920
..once this miracle is over...

979
01:01:11,080 --> 01:01:13,480
..what's gonna be left
of Mahalia Jackson?

980
01:01:20,000 --> 01:01:22,440
Ike came by last night.

981
01:01:22,480 --> 01:01:24,240
What, to give you a Valentine?

982
01:01:24,280 --> 01:01:26,280
To see the new house.

983
01:01:27,080 --> 01:01:29,680
How much you "loan" him this time?
I know.

984
01:01:29,720 --> 01:01:32,240
I know the man ain't never
gonna pay me back,

985
01:01:32,280 --> 01:01:35,000
but I gotta keep giving, anyway.

986
01:01:35,040 --> 01:01:37,200
God made the marriage.

987
01:01:37,240 --> 01:01:40,800
We supposed to be together
for a lifetime of somethin'.

988
01:01:41,560 --> 01:01:43,720
Now, Ike...

989
01:01:43,760 --> 01:01:45,880
Ike ain't no partner, like Russell.

990
01:01:47,720 --> 01:01:50,680
We supposed to build
a temple together.

991
01:01:50,720 --> 01:01:53,840
Well, I do hope you and Russell
find time to get married,

992
01:01:53,880 --> 01:01:56,400
as crazy and busy
as your life is getting.

993
01:02:01,800 --> 01:02:03,440
Halie?

994
01:02:03,480 --> 01:02:05,480
What's on your mind?

995
01:02:09,120 --> 01:02:12,480
It's like the people
either love me or hate me.

996
01:02:13,280 --> 01:02:16,120
And they feel so strong,
it's overwhelming.

997
01:02:16,920 --> 01:02:20,480
Like, I get all this fan mail
then I got a letter and it said,

998
01:02:20,520 --> 01:02:22,960
"Please don't be a Beulah.

999
01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:26,160
For the sake of our race,
talk as intelligent as you sing."

1000
01:02:26,200 --> 01:02:28,480
Mm-hmm.
Then all these white folks,

1001
01:02:28,520 --> 01:02:31,760
they come to my concerts,
and they tell me how wonderful I am,

1002
01:02:31,800 --> 01:02:34,520
then they get mad when I buy
a home in their neighbourhood

1003
01:02:34,560 --> 01:02:36,320
and shoot out my picture window.

1004
01:02:36,360 --> 01:02:38,320
I told you not to move
to Chatham Village.

1005
01:02:38,360 --> 01:02:41,960
Isn't a dream home supposed to be
wherever you dream?

1006
01:02:43,160 --> 01:02:45,360
Did you get that window fixed?

1007
01:02:45,400 --> 01:02:47,960
I got that repairman
to put up something else, too.

1008
01:02:49,240 --> 01:02:52,680
"Dear Lord, in this house,
you are wanted and welcome."

1009
01:02:52,720 --> 01:02:56,480
Now, that's for God's protection.
Don't you think an armed guard
would be better?

1010
01:02:56,520 --> 01:02:59,360
I got one of them, too,
thanks to Mayor Daley.

1011
01:02:59,400 --> 01:03:02,400
Well, who's gonna get close enough
to see this plaque?

1012
01:03:02,440 --> 01:03:06,240
Oh, the people,
they gather out here sometimes

1013
01:03:06,280 --> 01:03:08,880
while I'm rehearsing inside.

1014
01:03:08,920 --> 01:03:11,520
It reminds me
of when I was a little girl,

1015
01:03:11,560 --> 01:03:13,800
singing with them Victrola records.

1016
01:03:13,840 --> 01:03:17,240
All the people would gather
outside my aunt's to hear me sing.

1017
01:03:18,440 --> 01:03:21,520
Are you ever gonna sing
some Bessie Smith for me?

1018
01:03:21,560 --> 01:03:23,800
Oh, now, Studs,
if you my true friend,

1019
01:03:23,840 --> 01:03:27,400
you don't ever want me to get
to where I got to sing the blues.

1020
01:03:32,160 --> 01:03:35,560
♪ O Holy Night
I love the house.

1021
01:03:35,600 --> 01:03:38,920
I am so happy for you.
But three Christmas trees?

1022
01:03:38,960 --> 01:03:42,080
Yeah. One for the Father,
the Son and the Holy Spirit.

1023
01:03:42,120 --> 01:03:44,880
I figure,
why not give 'em all their own tree?

1024
01:03:47,840 --> 01:03:49,840
I can't take this, Mahalia.

1025
01:03:49,880 --> 01:03:52,440
Yes, you can. If it fits.

1026
01:03:54,640 --> 01:03:57,600
How can I represent the people,
looking this fancy?

1027
01:03:59,280 --> 01:04:01,120
Speaking of representing the people.

1028
01:04:01,160 --> 01:04:05,640
I got a call the other night
on behalf of a young reverend -
Martin Luther King.

1029
01:04:05,680 --> 01:04:10,640
Says he wants me to sing at one
of his rallies for his bus boycott.

1030
01:04:10,680 --> 01:04:12,440
Asked me my fee.

1031
01:04:12,480 --> 01:04:15,680
You heard of him?
Course I heard of him.

1032
01:04:15,720 --> 01:04:18,280
What you think?
What'd you say your fee was?

1033
01:04:18,320 --> 01:04:20,440
Aw, hell, Studs.

1034
01:04:21,680 --> 01:04:24,720
You know I don't charge
the walkin' people.

1035
01:04:24,760 --> 01:04:26,520
You be careful.

1036
01:04:26,560 --> 01:04:28,280
They play rough down there.

1037
01:04:31,600 --> 01:04:35,640
The Bible tells us we are made
of both a natural body
and a spiritual body.

1038
01:04:35,680 --> 01:04:38,040
Mm-hmm.
And I believe, Sister Mahalia,

1039
01:04:38,080 --> 01:04:40,520
that through your voice,
you are able to connect

1040
01:04:40,560 --> 01:04:43,520
the natural and the spiritual
in a way people need today.

1041
01:04:43,560 --> 01:04:45,520
Well, thank you, Dr King,

1042
01:04:45,560 --> 01:04:48,680
but people need food
more than they need singin'.

1043
01:04:48,720 --> 01:04:51,760
Mahalia's always
cooking up food for people.

1044
01:04:51,800 --> 01:04:55,080
Well, I hope for the opportunity
to taste Mahalia's cooking one day.

1045
01:04:55,120 --> 01:04:56,600
Mm, that's right -

1046
01:04:56,640 --> 01:05:00,920
get a person's stomach full, and
then you can talk about salvation.

1047
01:05:04,080 --> 01:05:06,040
I apologise, Dr King.

1048
01:05:06,880 --> 01:05:08,960
I'm a little nervous.

1049
01:05:09,000 --> 01:05:11,320
Mildred don't like
coming down to the South.

1050
01:05:11,360 --> 01:05:13,560
Dr Abernathy told us

1051
01:05:13,600 --> 01:05:16,680
how they bombed that church
near his house last week.

1052
01:05:16,720 --> 01:05:20,240
Yes, they assumed it was his church,

1053
01:05:20,280 --> 01:05:22,960
but they bombed
the Methodists instead.

1054
01:05:23,840 --> 01:05:25,720
Oh, Lord.

1055
01:05:29,640 --> 01:05:31,920
I don't know
if you been drinking lately,

1056
01:05:31,960 --> 01:05:34,400
but your playing been slipping.

1057
01:05:34,440 --> 01:05:37,080
I'm starting to feel all alone,
up there singing,

1058
01:05:37,120 --> 01:05:39,320
like I don't know who you are.

1059
01:05:39,360 --> 01:05:41,960
And I got a lot on my mind,
cos, with Russell

1060
01:05:42,000 --> 01:05:46,040
getting all these medical tests,
I don't know what's going on.

1061
01:05:47,960 --> 01:05:50,560
Even though I know
you don't like the man.

1062
01:05:51,960 --> 01:05:54,120
It's not that I don't like the man.

1063
01:05:54,160 --> 01:05:56,600
It's how you act around him.

1064
01:05:57,520 --> 01:06:00,880
You shouldn't believe
that you're inferior to any man.

1065
01:06:05,200 --> 01:06:07,360
That's why I left my husband.

1066
01:06:08,400 --> 01:06:10,720
Never felt like I was
good enough for him.

1067
01:06:10,760 --> 01:06:12,720
Hold on. You were married?

1068
01:06:12,760 --> 01:06:14,520
To a preacher.

1069
01:06:14,560 --> 01:06:17,480
I was still married
when I started playing for you.

1070
01:06:17,520 --> 01:06:19,360
Why wouldn't you tell me that?
Mm.

1071
01:06:19,400 --> 01:06:22,560
Didn't want you to know that I had
any other concerns in my life.

1072
01:06:22,600 --> 01:06:27,200
You kept getting rid of piano
players for being too unreliable.

1073
01:06:27,240 --> 01:06:29,760
So are you saying
I ended your marriage?

1074
01:06:29,800 --> 01:06:31,920
No.

1075
01:06:31,960 --> 01:06:35,040
Being a preacherman's wife
ended my marriage.

1076
01:06:40,080 --> 01:06:44,720
I'm embarrassed you came back
after singing like that tonight
and started cooking.

1077
01:06:45,560 --> 01:06:48,800
Well, Coretta didn't give up
her kitchen easy.

1078
01:06:54,080 --> 01:06:57,080
Oh, I believe this pie's
nearly as great as your voice.

1079
01:06:57,120 --> 01:06:59,480
Mm.

1080
01:07:02,800 --> 01:07:06,200
Dr King...
Please. My Christian name.

1081
01:07:07,160 --> 01:07:08,720
Martin...

1082
01:07:09,840 --> 01:07:14,320
..how do we hold on to faith
when times are so bad?

1083
01:07:16,920 --> 01:07:22,920
Mahalia, faith is something
you can't hold or keep.

1084
01:07:24,960 --> 01:07:27,760
The things most important to us
are invisible -

1085
01:07:28,840 --> 01:07:33,840
freedom, hope, love, God.

1086
01:07:35,160 --> 01:07:38,200
They're all ideas based on faith.

1087
01:07:38,240 --> 01:07:43,040
Living requires faith,
whether you accept it or not.

1088
01:07:43,080 --> 01:07:44,200
Mm.

1089
01:07:44,240 --> 01:07:47,800
So the big question we all face
is not whether to believe or not,

1090
01:07:47,840 --> 01:07:49,400
but what to believe.

1091
01:07:49,440 --> 01:07:54,960
So, if God is personal,
we each alone in our faith?

1092
01:07:56,720 --> 01:08:00,640
Well...like your sweet potato pie...

1093
01:08:01,560 --> 01:08:04,120
..it's going to taste different
to each of us,

1094
01:08:04,160 --> 01:08:06,840
but it's something there
for all to share.

1095
01:08:06,880 --> 01:08:09,680
God made enough for everybody.
Mm.

1096
01:08:11,720 --> 01:08:16,720
I always dreamt of one day
building my own temple...

1097
01:08:17,480 --> 01:08:19,520
..a place of learning.
Mm.

1098
01:08:19,560 --> 01:08:23,120
Because I always believed
that everybody deserves

1099
01:08:23,160 --> 01:08:25,000
a chance at an education.

1100
01:08:25,040 --> 01:08:27,560
That's a beautiful dream, Mahalia.

1101
01:08:28,520 --> 01:08:31,720
My Aunt Duke took me outta school
in the fourth grade...

1102
01:08:33,280 --> 01:08:36,320
..so I never felt
like I got to study...

1103
01:08:37,160 --> 01:08:39,640
..or learn how to read music.

1104
01:08:39,680 --> 01:08:43,160
Well, maybe God doesn't know
how to read music either.

1105
01:08:47,800 --> 01:08:49,720
Back from a world tour,

1106
01:08:49,760 --> 01:08:51,960
please welcome the queen of Gospel,

1107
01:08:52,000 --> 01:08:54,920
Grammy-winner Mahalia Jackson!

1108
01:08:54,960 --> 01:08:57,880
You make me feel like a star!

1109
01:09:02,920 --> 01:09:06,080
It's midnight...and it's raining...

1110
01:09:06,120 --> 01:09:10,000
but it's Sunday mornin'...
and we gonna have church!

1111
01:09:20,840 --> 01:09:23,400
♪ Didn't it rain, children?

1112
01:09:23,440 --> 01:09:25,000
♪ I'm talkin' 'bout rain

1113
01:09:25,040 --> 01:09:26,360
♪ Oh, my Lord

1114
01:09:26,400 --> 01:09:28,680
♪ Didn't it? Didn't it?

1115
01:09:28,720 --> 01:09:31,480
♪ Didn't it?
Oh, oh, my Lord

1116
01:09:31,520 --> 01:09:33,920
♪ Didn't it rain?

1117
01:09:33,960 --> 01:09:36,720
♪ Didn't it rain, children?

1118
01:09:36,760 --> 01:09:38,960
♪ I'm talkin' 'bout rain
Oh, my Lord

1119
01:09:39,000 --> 01:09:41,920
♪ Didn't it? Didn't it?

1120
01:09:41,960 --> 01:09:44,600
♪ Didn't it? Oh, oh, my Lord

1121
01:09:44,640 --> 01:09:46,920
♪ Didn't it rain?

1122
01:09:46,960 --> 01:09:50,440
♪ Well, it rained 40 days, 40 nights
without stoppin'

1123
01:09:50,480 --> 01:09:53,200
♪ Noah was glad
when the rain stopped droppin'

1124
01:09:53,240 --> 01:09:55,400
♪ Knock at the window,
a knock at the door

1125
01:09:55,440 --> 01:09:58,440
♪ Crying, "Brother Noah,
can't you take no more?"

1126
01:09:58,480 --> 01:10:00,920
♪ Noah cried,
"No, no, you're full of sin

1127
01:10:00,960 --> 01:10:03,280
God got the key
and you can't get in"

1128
01:10:03,320 --> 01:10:05,800
♪ Just listen that rainin'

1129
01:10:05,840 --> 01:10:08,440
♪ Will you listen that rainin'?

1130
01:10:08,480 --> 01:10:10,960
♪ Just listen that rainin'

1131
01:10:11,000 --> 01:10:13,080
♪ All day, all night

1132
01:10:13,600 --> 01:10:16,120
♪ All night, all day

1133
01:10:16,160 --> 01:10:18,840
♪ Just listen, it's rainin'

1134
01:10:18,880 --> 01:10:21,120
♪ Just listen, it's raining

1135
01:10:21,160 --> 01:10:23,680
♪ Will you listen? It's raining

1136
01:10:23,720 --> 01:10:26,360
♪ Some moanin', some groanin'

1137
01:10:26,400 --> 01:10:28,920
♪ Some groaning, some praying

1138
01:10:28,960 --> 01:10:31,520
♪ Well, oh...

1139
01:10:38,840 --> 01:10:41,920
♪ Didn't it rain, children?

1140
01:10:41,960 --> 01:10:43,880
♪ Rain all night long

1141
01:10:43,920 --> 01:10:46,200
♪ Didn't it? Didn't it?

1142
01:10:46,240 --> 01:10:52,720
♪ Didn't it?
Oh, oh, my Lord, didn't it rain? ♪

1143
01:10:52,760 --> 01:10:55,560
My!

1144
01:10:55,600 --> 01:10:57,440
My, my.

1145
01:11:00,800 --> 01:11:02,280
Look at the rain!

1146
01:11:03,480 --> 01:11:05,040
Now it's stopped.

1147
01:11:06,240 --> 01:11:08,680
"To many,
Mahalia Jackson's appearance

1148
01:11:08,720 --> 01:11:11,200
eclipsed all other performances
that night.

1149
01:11:11,240 --> 01:11:15,760
Hers was the set that made everyone
stop and catch their breath."

1150
01:11:15,800 --> 01:11:18,600
Now that's too much.
And this.

1151
01:11:18,640 --> 01:11:22,840
"Miss Jackson's bursts of power
and Southern rhythmic drive

1152
01:11:22,880 --> 01:11:26,240
builds to a pitch that leaves you
unprepared to listen afterwards

1153
01:11:26,280 --> 01:11:29,120
to any but the greatest
of musicians."

1154
01:11:32,520 --> 01:11:34,080
There's more?
Oh, yeah.

1155
01:11:34,120 --> 01:11:38,240
"Mahalia Jackson has a rapturous
quality unparalleled on records.

1156
01:11:38,280 --> 01:11:40,440
The accompaniment
hardly counts, so -"

1157
01:11:40,480 --> 01:11:43,520
"The accompaniment hardly counts?"
Wait.

1158
01:11:46,240 --> 01:11:47,720
Read here.

1159
01:11:48,880 --> 01:11:51,400
"Mildred Falls...

1160
01:11:51,440 --> 01:11:54,800
the supreme gospel pianist..."

1161
01:11:54,840 --> 01:11:58,720
How do you like that, Miss Jackson?
Well, you still got ME to please.

1162
01:12:02,840 --> 01:12:06,120
Hello? Mahalia's Big Wig Salon.

1163
01:12:07,720 --> 01:12:09,560
Oh, you think that's funny?

1164
01:12:09,600 --> 01:12:10,720
Mama.

1165
01:12:10,760 --> 01:12:14,440
If you don't stop
singing in them clubs, I'll stop
putting you on my programme.

1166
01:12:14,480 --> 01:12:17,240
And Miss Mildred
need to stop with her poor taste.

1167
01:12:17,280 --> 01:12:20,560
She a reflection of me.
Mama, you are getting too high.

1168
01:12:20,600 --> 01:12:22,160
How I'm "getting too high"?

1169
01:12:23,000 --> 01:12:24,600
Mahalia?

1170
01:12:26,320 --> 01:12:29,160
Did you know this was bone cancer?
I thought it was bronchitis.

1171
01:12:29,200 --> 01:12:32,600
Why would you keep this from me?
Mahalia. Mahalia, I'm joking.

1172
01:12:32,640 --> 01:12:35,120
As soon as I found out,
I told them to call you.

1173
01:12:35,160 --> 01:12:37,560
Well, when you start treatment?

1174
01:12:47,800 --> 01:12:49,160
My God.

1175
01:12:49,200 --> 01:12:52,240
They say, at this stage,
the chemo would kill me faster.

1176
01:12:52,280 --> 01:12:54,480
Well, look, my Aunt Duke
had remedies,

1177
01:12:54,520 --> 01:12:57,280
like herbs liquids, powders -
we can try it all.

1178
01:12:57,320 --> 01:12:59,960
I done seen miracles happen.
I have, too.

1179
01:13:00,720 --> 01:13:02,800
Like when we first met...

1180
01:13:02,840 --> 01:13:04,960
up all night
in that recording studio,

1181
01:13:05,000 --> 01:13:07,000
and all the people
that song reached?

1182
01:13:07,040 --> 01:13:09,760
But more than your voice,
I love your spirit.

1183
01:13:10,840 --> 01:13:14,000
How you know about life
in ways most people can't see.

1184
01:13:15,480 --> 01:13:18,000
I'm scared I'm gonna lose that.

1185
01:13:18,040 --> 01:13:23,280
Russell, you helped me more than God
when I was up in that hospital

1186
01:13:23,320 --> 01:13:27,480
and I ain't never relied on anybody
like...like that before.

1187
01:13:27,520 --> 01:13:29,200
Hold on there.

1188
01:13:29,240 --> 01:13:30,840
You all right.

1189
01:13:30,880 --> 01:13:33,360
Breathe. You all right, baby.

1190
01:13:33,400 --> 01:13:35,280
You all right.

1191
01:13:39,680 --> 01:13:41,320
You know, my prayers...

1192
01:13:41,360 --> 01:13:43,480
they're feeling
more like wishes now.

1193
01:13:44,760 --> 01:13:49,480
I used to pray
that we'd build a family together...

1194
01:13:51,040 --> 01:13:54,560
..have little Mahalias and Russells
just running around.

1195
01:13:56,160 --> 01:13:58,240
Would've been beautiful.

1196
01:14:00,720 --> 01:14:02,520
You know...

1197
01:14:02,560 --> 01:14:05,240
I could be the one
to carry YOU across that stoop.

1198
01:14:09,000 --> 01:14:11,280
You know I could!
I know you could.

1199
01:14:19,720 --> 01:14:35,960
♪ I've been 'buked

1200
01:14:36,000 --> 01:14:44,200
♪ And I've been scorned

1201
01:14:44,240 --> 01:14:55,040
♪ And I've been 'buked

1202
01:14:55,440 --> 01:15:04,400
♪ And I've been scorned

1203
01:15:04,440 --> 01:15:15,480
♪ I've been 'buked

1204
01:15:17,160 --> 01:15:33,120
♪ I've been talked about,
sho' you're born ♪

1205
01:15:49,720 --> 01:15:52,480
Tell 'em about the dream, Martin!

1206
01:15:54,480 --> 01:15:57,440
Tell 'em about the dream.
Go on! Tell 'em!

1207
01:16:13,200 --> 01:16:16,480
Come on now, Mildred!
You off again.

1208
01:16:17,280 --> 01:16:19,080
Golly!

1209
01:16:19,120 --> 01:16:23,280
What you doing to my voice?
I gotta go home. I'm... I'm tired.

1210
01:16:23,320 --> 01:16:26,040
I'm tired, too,
but we gotta rehearse. Come on.

1211
01:16:26,080 --> 01:16:29,120
I know you pushing hard,
and this your way of mourning.

1212
01:16:29,840 --> 01:16:32,520
I'm so sorry about Russell,
I truly am.

1213
01:16:32,560 --> 01:16:34,720
But I can't work any more tonight.

1214
01:16:34,760 --> 01:16:36,600
We don't get this right,

1215
01:16:36,640 --> 01:16:40,840
I ain't putting you on television
in them cheap-ass cotton dresses.

1216
01:16:40,880 --> 01:16:42,920
Yeah, I said it.

1217
01:16:42,960 --> 01:16:46,320
I don't like
how you letting yourself go.
Night, Mahalia.

1218
01:16:46,360 --> 01:16:48,880
This got to do with that extra
$100 a week, don't it?

1219
01:16:48,920 --> 01:16:51,000
That's why you ain't working hard.

1220
01:16:51,040 --> 01:16:53,960
Look, it ain't my fault you don't
know how to manage your money.

1221
01:16:54,000 --> 01:16:57,040
Well, it's a sickness!
And that drinking, too.

1222
01:16:57,080 --> 01:16:58,720
Yeah, I'm drinking.

1223
01:16:58,760 --> 01:17:00,680
I ain't perfect either.

1224
01:17:00,720 --> 01:17:03,200
But the reason
I can't get my money straight

1225
01:17:03,240 --> 01:17:05,840
is cos you too much in charge.

1226
01:17:05,880 --> 01:17:08,320
Why do all my cheques go to you?

1227
01:17:09,080 --> 01:17:10,560
What you getting at?

1228
01:17:11,280 --> 01:17:14,440
How come everybody pay you my money,
and then you pay me?

1229
01:17:14,480 --> 01:17:16,360
Why I ain't paid directly?

1230
01:17:16,400 --> 01:17:18,040
I hire you!

1231
01:17:18,080 --> 01:17:20,760
You my piano player.
I ain't your singer.

1232
01:17:20,800 --> 01:17:23,680
You been paying me the same money
the past five years

1233
01:17:23,720 --> 01:17:27,720
while your fees,
they just keep growing bigger,
bigger than your wigs!

1234
01:17:27,760 --> 01:17:30,320
Now you countin' my pockets.
You slipping.

1235
01:17:30,360 --> 01:17:32,720
I don't even recognise
who you are any more.

1236
01:17:32,760 --> 01:17:34,880
That's cos you're not looking at me.

1237
01:17:34,920 --> 01:17:37,640
You always think
about yourself first.

1238
01:17:37,680 --> 01:17:42,080
How could you even fix your mouth
to say somethin' like that?

1239
01:17:42,120 --> 01:17:43,960
All the people I feed?

1240
01:17:44,000 --> 01:17:46,680
All the scholarships
that I raise money for?

1241
01:17:46,720 --> 01:17:49,720
Hell, what would you be without me?

1242
01:17:50,560 --> 01:17:52,720
The real reason
I'm never good enough,

1243
01:17:52,760 --> 01:17:55,760
the reason nobody
is ever good enough,

1244
01:17:55,800 --> 01:17:59,120
is cos you don't feel good enough
yourself.

1245
01:17:59,160 --> 01:18:02,120
Get out. Go on. Get out.

1246
01:18:02,160 --> 01:18:05,160
I can have any piano player
I want in the world.

1247
01:18:05,200 --> 01:18:06,840
I'm Mahalia Jackson.

1248
01:18:06,880 --> 01:18:09,360
And I don't need no Mildred Falls!

1249
01:18:10,240 --> 01:18:13,640
You want perfect
but you sure don't give it.

1250
01:18:13,680 --> 01:18:15,760
Ain't nobody perfect!

1251
01:18:15,800 --> 01:18:18,600
God accepts our imperfections!

1252
01:18:18,640 --> 01:18:21,360
Why can't you, "Mahalia Jackson"?

1253
01:18:25,320 --> 01:18:26,920
Mildred!

1254
01:18:27,640 --> 01:18:29,920
Mildred, hey!

1255
01:18:29,960 --> 01:18:32,480
Oh, God...

1256
01:18:41,680 --> 01:18:43,480
Oh, God.

1257
01:18:44,280 --> 01:18:46,040
Where you at?

1258
01:18:49,480 --> 01:18:51,360
Oh...

1259
01:18:59,080 --> 01:19:00,680
Oh...

1260
01:19:01,840 --> 01:19:06,040
♪ Hello...heartbreak...

1261
01:19:09,600 --> 01:19:12,360
I'm saying this for the last time.

1262
01:19:14,720 --> 01:19:16,240
♪ Don't...

1263
01:19:17,080 --> 01:19:20,640
♪ Won't let you take me
down that road again?

1264
01:19:22,040 --> 01:19:24,320
♪ Hello, heartbreak

1265
01:19:26,440 --> 01:19:32,200
♪ Why have you left me...
feeling this way?

1266
01:19:33,280 --> 01:19:36,160
♪ Dazed and confused

1267
01:19:38,720 --> 01:19:41,520
♪ Now all I can do is sing...

1268
01:19:44,560 --> 01:19:46,280
♪ ..sing the blues ♪

1269
01:19:50,400 --> 01:19:52,920
'The wedding of Gospel singer
Mahalia Jackson

1270
01:19:52,960 --> 01:19:56,520
to salesman-musician
Minters Galloway
came as a complete surprise.

1271
01:19:56,560 --> 01:19:58,840
She has sung before queens
and presidents,

1272
01:19:58,880 --> 01:20:01,800
stunned musicologists, overflowed
such world-renowned music halls

1273
01:20:01,840 --> 01:20:05,040
as the State Opera in Vienna
and Albert Hall in London,

1274
01:20:05,080 --> 01:20:08,920
and five times faced a standing-room
only audience in Carnegie Hall.'

1275
01:20:10,600 --> 01:20:12,440
How is my wife feeling today?

1276
01:20:12,480 --> 01:20:13,840
Married.

1277
01:20:13,880 --> 01:20:16,000
I love you, too.

1278
01:20:17,560 --> 01:20:19,360
I'll toast to that.

1279
01:20:38,120 --> 01:20:40,920
It's New Year's Eve.
Can't we serve more than punch?

1280
01:20:40,960 --> 01:20:43,160
I'm gonna punch you
if you say another word.

1281
01:20:45,440 --> 01:20:47,400
I'm kinda thirsty.

1282
01:20:47,440 --> 01:20:49,480
Would anybody else
like a real drink?

1283
01:20:49,520 --> 01:20:51,160
I'll take one.

1284
01:21:05,200 --> 01:21:07,240
Did you kiss Martin goodbye?

1285
01:21:07,280 --> 01:21:10,560
I'm gonna kiss YOU goodbye the next
time you embarrass me like that.

1286
01:21:10,600 --> 01:21:12,520
Now, what you need
to go get that beer for?

1287
01:21:12,560 --> 01:21:15,960
Well, I can drink in my own house.
Your house?

1288
01:21:16,000 --> 01:21:18,360
Woman, is this not my house?

1289
01:21:19,760 --> 01:21:21,680
Of course, it is, dear,

1290
01:21:21,720 --> 01:21:26,120
but ministers should only
be served coffee.

1291
01:21:26,160 --> 01:21:29,840
Come on, baby. This is Chicago,
not some backwoods town.

1292
01:21:29,880 --> 01:21:33,000
Most of those ministers drink
and you know it.

1293
01:21:33,040 --> 01:21:34,840
You disrespectful.

1294
01:21:34,880 --> 01:21:38,680
So, if I'm gonna drink in my house,
then I'm gonna need to offer it...

1295
01:21:39,440 --> 01:21:42,080
..otherwise what sort of manners
would that be?

1296
01:21:47,000 --> 01:21:49,000
Mahalia?

1297
01:21:56,200 --> 01:21:58,200
Stop messing around.

1298
01:22:00,280 --> 01:22:02,280
Mahalia?

1299
01:22:12,080 --> 01:22:13,600
Hey, Martin.

1300
01:22:13,640 --> 01:22:16,520
I'm in town for the day,
Mr Galloway.

1301
01:22:16,560 --> 01:22:19,040
I've come to see Mahalia.
She's not feeling well.

1302
01:22:19,080 --> 01:22:20,680
That's why I've come.

1303
01:22:21,600 --> 01:22:25,120
She needs her rest, Reverend King.
Son, open the door.

1304
01:22:27,000 --> 01:22:29,200
I'm going to see Mahalia now.

1305
01:22:43,360 --> 01:22:45,280
It's...

1306
01:22:45,320 --> 01:22:48,240
easier when we have the devil
to point to,

1307
01:22:49,160 --> 01:22:52,480
like the devil Bull Connor
with his police and their dogs,

1308
01:22:52,520 --> 01:22:55,120
but now the work's getting harder.

1309
01:22:55,160 --> 01:22:56,640
Mm.

1310
01:22:56,680 --> 01:22:59,960
The hate against us is still there,
but it's more hidden.

1311
01:23:01,320 --> 01:23:06,240
It's not the devil outside,
but the devil within I fear.

1312
01:23:07,280 --> 01:23:08,800
That's where I struggle.

1313
01:23:08,840 --> 01:23:11,200
It's where I struggle, too, Martin.

1314
01:23:12,520 --> 01:23:17,480
Except for your visits...
I feel so alone.

1315
01:23:18,480 --> 01:23:21,360
It don't even feel like
God's listening any more.

1316
01:23:23,040 --> 01:23:26,960
My boy, John, won't speak to me,
says I've gotten too high.

1317
01:23:27,000 --> 01:23:31,120
And Minters says I've gotten
too low, too selfish.

1318
01:23:33,080 --> 01:23:35,960
He wants my temple money
to build a hotel.

1319
01:23:37,520 --> 01:23:39,680
I don't know what to do.

1320
01:23:39,720 --> 01:23:43,560
That man gives you so little
for all the big taking he does.

1321
01:23:44,320 --> 01:23:47,640
He may look like Russell,
but he ain't nothing like Russell.

1322
01:23:47,680 --> 01:23:51,480
He do look like him, don't he?

1323
01:23:52,480 --> 01:23:56,320
People been saying that, but when
you say it, it feel so true.

1324
01:23:56,360 --> 01:24:01,080
Hm.
Oh, Lord...what have I done?

1325
01:24:02,560 --> 01:24:05,880
It's like I've been so busy
spreading the gospel,

1326
01:24:05,920 --> 01:24:08,040
I done forgot how to live it.

1327
01:24:08,080 --> 01:24:09,840
Mm.

1328
01:24:09,880 --> 01:24:11,560
Russell...

1329
01:24:12,720 --> 01:24:14,920
I shoulda married him,

1330
01:24:14,960 --> 01:24:17,320
had a couple of good years together.

1331
01:24:17,360 --> 01:24:18,880
But you did.

1332
01:24:18,920 --> 01:24:20,840
You had the love
you were supposed to,

1333
01:24:20,880 --> 01:24:22,880
but now you gotta ask
if you've strayed.

1334
01:24:22,920 --> 01:24:25,520
No, I pray every day.
I've never stopped praying.

1335
01:24:25,560 --> 01:24:27,760
But, Mahalia, are you listening?

1336
01:24:27,800 --> 01:24:30,160
Can you still hear what He's saying?

1337
01:24:31,240 --> 01:24:33,000
I don't know.

1338
01:24:33,680 --> 01:24:39,200
The first time God spoke,
when I came up out that water,

1339
01:24:39,240 --> 01:24:42,240
the joy in my faith
ain't never been greater.

1340
01:24:42,280 --> 01:24:45,520
It's that feeling that you know.
That you know, that you know.

1341
01:24:45,560 --> 01:24:47,920
That you know 100% in your body.

1342
01:24:47,960 --> 01:24:51,560
I don't tell people this, but I was
once driving home to Atlanta

1343
01:24:51,600 --> 01:24:54,240
when God spoke,
and I found myself, for two hours,

1344
01:24:54,280 --> 01:24:58,120
floating up above the road,
hovering up over everything.

1345
01:24:58,800 --> 01:25:00,720
Did you feel His voice?

1346
01:25:01,440 --> 01:25:04,480
Like, um...like a burning bush?

1347
01:25:04,520 --> 01:25:06,320
You know. You understand.

1348
01:25:07,280 --> 01:25:12,360
One night, in Mississippi,
God healed a man through my music.

1349
01:25:12,400 --> 01:25:15,360
I mean, the man just jumped up
out of his wheelchair.

1350
01:25:15,400 --> 01:25:17,280
It happened.
I believe you.

1351
01:25:17,320 --> 01:25:20,600
God's always talking to all of us,
but it's...

1352
01:25:21,440 --> 01:25:23,440
..so hard to listen.

1353
01:25:25,760 --> 01:25:27,640
How are YOU doing, baby?

1354
01:25:30,480 --> 01:25:32,480
I've missed you.

1355
01:25:34,800 --> 01:25:36,520
When I come beside you,

1356
01:25:36,560 --> 01:25:40,320
I don't feel the dread
I feel every other day of my life.

1357
01:25:41,120 --> 01:25:42,600
What's troubling you?

1358
01:25:43,400 --> 01:25:45,320
I get this feeling...

1359
01:25:46,440 --> 01:25:49,040
..God wants something from me

1360
01:25:49,080 --> 01:25:52,040
and I don't know
if I have the strength to give it.

1361
01:25:53,600 --> 01:25:55,600
I just want to go home.

1362
01:25:56,880 --> 01:25:59,440
But I don't know
where that is any more.

1363
01:26:02,800 --> 01:26:05,080
If I go before you...

1364
01:26:06,640 --> 01:26:09,240
..will you sing our song
at the funeral?

1365
01:26:09,280 --> 01:26:11,680
Don't you dare
leave me here by myself.

1366
01:26:11,720 --> 01:26:14,760
You will never be alone
when you use your gift right.

1367
01:26:17,280 --> 01:26:18,960
Sing it for me now?

1368
01:26:21,320 --> 01:26:23,920
Only if you sing it with me.

1369
01:26:26,440 --> 01:26:30,080
♪ Precious...

1370
01:26:30,120 --> 01:26:32,160
♪ Lord

1371
01:26:33,440 --> 01:26:37,880
♪ Take my hand

1372
01:26:39,440 --> 01:26:44,760
♪ Lead me on, oh

1373
01:26:45,600 --> 01:26:49,840
♪ Let me stand

1374
01:26:50,520 --> 01:26:53,600
♪ I'm tired...

1375
01:26:55,280 --> 01:26:59,440
♪ Lord knows I'm weak

1376
01:27:00,440 --> 01:27:05,720
♪ And I am worn

1377
01:27:06,560 --> 01:27:13,080
♪ Through the storm

1378
01:27:13,120 --> 01:27:16,720
♪ Through...

1379
01:27:16,760 --> 01:27:20,320
♪ Through the night

1380
01:27:21,280 --> 01:27:25,080
♪ Lord, take my hand, Lord

1381
01:27:25,760 --> 01:27:29,960
♪ Guide me to the light

1382
01:27:31,680 --> 01:27:35,240
♪ Take, take my hand

1383
01:27:35,280 --> 01:27:38,320
'The Reverend Dr Martin Luther
King, 39 years old...'

1384
01:27:38,360 --> 01:27:42,040
♪ Precious Lord

1385
01:27:42,080 --> 01:27:44,440
'..Civil Rights Movement,
was assassinated in Memphis.'

1386
01:27:44,480 --> 01:27:48,640
♪ And lead me home

1387
01:27:50,680 --> 01:28:03,880
♪ When my way grows drear

1388
01:28:05,560 --> 01:28:13,600
♪ Precious Lord

1389
01:28:13,640 --> 01:28:19,440
♪ I need you to linger, linger near

1390
01:28:19,480 --> 01:28:33,400
♪ When my life is almost gone

1391
01:28:34,080 --> 01:28:39,120
♪ Hear my cry

1392
01:28:39,160 --> 01:28:43,320
♪ Ooh...

1393
01:28:43,880 --> 01:28:50,800
♪ Hear my call

1394
01:28:52,000 --> 01:29:02,640
♪ Hold my hand, Lord, lest I fall

1395
01:29:03,560 --> 01:29:08,920
♪ Take my hand

1396
01:29:08,960 --> 01:29:17,000
♪ Precious Lord

1397
01:29:17,640 --> 01:29:24,360
♪ And lead, Lord, Lord, Lord

1398
01:29:24,400 --> 01:29:30,400
♪ Lead me home

1399
01:29:35,400 --> 01:29:37,520
For my main man.

1400
01:29:38,640 --> 01:29:42,000
James Baldwin, Dinah Shore,
Jesse Jackson -

1401
01:29:42,040 --> 01:29:45,000
they're all turning up for your
comeback celebration tomorrow.

1402
01:29:45,040 --> 01:29:46,960
I ain't been nowhere, but...

1403
01:29:47,000 --> 01:29:52,440
sick, broke, and divorced...again.

1404
01:29:55,520 --> 01:29:58,240
I see you was in the paper
this morning,

1405
01:29:58,280 --> 01:30:00,600
being interviewed
instead of the other way around.

1406
01:30:00,640 --> 01:30:03,480
Everybody thinks I discovered you,
and to tell you the truth,

1407
01:30:03,520 --> 01:30:06,400
for some stupid moments,
I believed them, too.

1408
01:30:06,440 --> 01:30:08,720
So you finally believe?

1409
01:30:08,760 --> 01:30:13,680
You understand
that only God discovered me?

1410
01:30:13,720 --> 01:30:16,320
No. I mean the people
on the South Side,

1411
01:30:16,360 --> 01:30:20,320
especially the ones
in that little storefront church
where you started out.

1412
01:30:20,360 --> 01:30:24,440
They're the real people
that discovered you.
Don't start worshipping me.

1413
01:30:24,480 --> 01:30:26,640
You gotta put your faith in God.

1414
01:30:26,680 --> 01:30:28,920
You're the truest person I know.

1415
01:30:34,600 --> 01:30:36,400
I ain't perfect.

1416
01:30:37,560 --> 01:30:39,760
I got my demons.

1417
01:30:39,800 --> 01:30:42,440
Yes, Mahalia, we all do.

1418
01:30:42,480 --> 01:30:44,640
But you never quit
fighting for yours.

1419
01:30:44,680 --> 01:30:47,520
You never quit trying
to live up to your beliefs.

1420
01:30:47,560 --> 01:30:51,400
I hear the joy in your voice
and also the struggles.

1421
01:30:51,440 --> 01:30:54,400
We ain't any of us perfect...

1422
01:30:55,360 --> 01:30:59,520
..but when you sing, oh, Lord,
it feels like we could be.

1423
01:31:05,880 --> 01:31:10,160
I mean, without these wigs, I don't
think the people gonna recognise me.

1424
01:31:10,200 --> 01:31:12,720
Hold still.
I know what I'm doing.

1425
01:31:12,760 --> 01:31:15,120
Been doing this longer
than you ever did.

1426
01:31:15,160 --> 01:31:18,120
Sometimes, I wonder, if I'd just
kept running the hair salon,

1427
01:31:18,160 --> 01:31:20,520
and not let everything else
get so big...

1428
01:31:20,560 --> 01:31:23,080
Uh-huh.
What's so funny?

1429
01:31:23,120 --> 01:31:25,880
Halie, nothing about you
has ever been small,

1430
01:31:25,920 --> 01:31:28,920
even when you didn't have
a stitch to your name.

1431
01:31:28,960 --> 01:31:31,600
You've been on a mission
since I met you. Stop it!

1432
01:31:33,680 --> 01:31:36,680
Remember when I sent you to that...
that music lesson?

1433
01:31:36,720 --> 01:31:38,520
Mm-hmm.

1434
01:31:38,560 --> 01:31:42,320
You tried calling me a...a...
A "high-society Negro".

1435
01:31:42,360 --> 01:31:45,000
Said how you never
were gonna learn how to sing

1436
01:31:45,040 --> 01:31:46,680
to "please white people".

1437
01:31:46,720 --> 01:31:48,640
What, you saying I'm a hypocrite?

1438
01:31:48,680 --> 01:31:50,680
Mm-mm. Not at all.

1439
01:31:50,720 --> 01:31:53,520
See, all them white folks,
they came to you.

1440
01:31:53,560 --> 01:31:57,200
They the ones that changed, not you.

1441
01:32:00,760 --> 01:32:03,920
That...is what I wish
you could see.

1442
01:32:03,960 --> 01:32:06,320
Why do I feel like
something's missing?

1443
01:32:06,360 --> 01:32:09,680
Well, you have lost
a lot of people in your life.

1444
01:32:14,000 --> 01:32:16,520
Thank God you still here.

1445
01:32:16,560 --> 01:32:19,000
That's because I quit
playing piano for you.

1446
01:32:20,360 --> 01:32:25,720
Lord help anybody that
come between your singing and God.
What's that supposed to mean?

1447
01:32:25,760 --> 01:32:28,000
That, at your best,

1448
01:32:28,040 --> 01:32:30,680
God wasn't the only one
up on that stage with you.

1449
01:32:33,400 --> 01:32:36,000
After all these years,

1450
01:32:36,040 --> 01:32:38,440
you ever think about
reaching out to Mildred?

1451
01:32:38,480 --> 01:32:41,080
Well, I hear
she's not doing too well.

1452
01:32:41,120 --> 01:32:45,960
Well, unless you blind,
hearing ain't the same as seeing.

1453
01:32:50,880 --> 01:32:52,640
Ike.
Hello, there!

1454
01:32:53,360 --> 01:32:56,240
Look what the cat done dragged in.
Mm-hmm.

1455
01:32:56,280 --> 01:32:58,000
You look good, Mahalia.

1456
01:32:58,040 --> 01:33:00,920
Your comeback, it brought me luck.
Oh, Lord.

1457
01:33:00,960 --> 01:33:03,760
I took the purse at the Hawthorne
in the second.

1458
01:33:03,800 --> 01:33:05,600
Talk about a beauty.

1459
01:33:05,640 --> 01:33:07,960
Ike. You're like a bad penny.

1460
01:33:08,000 --> 01:33:09,760
How you doing, Estelle?

1461
01:33:09,800 --> 01:33:11,560
How you keep looking so young?

1462
01:33:11,600 --> 01:33:15,000
I pay my debts.
Well, then...here.

1463
01:33:15,040 --> 01:33:17,960
Ah, you old fool,
it ain't Valentine's.

1464
01:33:18,000 --> 01:33:22,000
Well, ain't no telling if we both
still here by next Valentine's.

1465
01:33:25,280 --> 01:33:28,760
Ike, you ain't never
paid back before.

1466
01:33:30,680 --> 01:33:33,160
You trying to make a comeback, too?

1467
01:33:33,200 --> 01:33:35,800
Nah. We too late for that.

1468
01:33:36,560 --> 01:33:40,040
I guess I'm still trying to prove
the best kind of man I can be.

1469
01:33:40,080 --> 01:33:42,680
The best of my life
was spent with you.

1470
01:33:42,720 --> 01:33:44,960
I remember every minute
we had together.

1471
01:34:02,680 --> 01:34:04,320
I like your hair.

1472
01:34:04,360 --> 01:34:07,000
Figure about time to quit the wigs.

1473
01:34:07,800 --> 01:34:09,520
Come on in.

1474
01:34:22,000 --> 01:34:24,560
Don't you have somewhere
you need to be tonight?

1475
01:34:24,600 --> 01:34:26,600
Not for a few hours, and, well,

1476
01:34:26,640 --> 01:34:28,960
how am I gonna
make a comeback when...

1477
01:34:30,440 --> 01:34:34,080
..half of my best voice is you?

1478
01:34:35,520 --> 01:34:37,720
This time,
I'll get the money right, too.

1479
01:34:40,600 --> 01:34:42,520
Oh, Mildred.

1480
01:34:44,720 --> 01:34:47,240
I heard you was on hard times,
but...

1481
01:34:47,280 --> 01:34:50,360
Arthritis.
How long you been suffering?

1482
01:34:52,480 --> 01:34:54,240
Is...

1483
01:34:54,280 --> 01:34:56,760
This is why you were drinking?

1484
01:34:57,560 --> 01:34:59,280
I'm sorry.

1485
01:34:59,320 --> 01:35:01,360
I never told you.

1486
01:35:01,400 --> 01:35:03,320
It's my fault.

1487
01:35:07,400 --> 01:35:09,440
Damn.

1488
01:35:09,480 --> 01:35:12,440
It's so good to see you, Halie.

1489
01:35:12,480 --> 01:35:15,360
Well, hell,
it's good to see me, too.

1490
01:35:17,920 --> 01:35:20,440
It's good to see you, too.

1491
01:35:22,280 --> 01:35:24,280
I wish you well tonight.

1492
01:35:24,320 --> 01:35:26,360
Why don't you come up with me?

1493
01:35:26,400 --> 01:35:29,600
Oh, I would love to have you
on that stage.

1494
01:35:29,640 --> 01:35:34,560
You don't have to play!
No, I ain't stepping on no stage
I ain't playing on.

1495
01:35:34,600 --> 01:35:39,160
Besides, I don't think
I ever played perfect for you.

1496
01:35:39,200 --> 01:35:41,880
I never sang perfect either.

1497
01:35:42,600 --> 01:35:45,360
But the closest I've ever been...

1498
01:35:49,440 --> 01:35:51,160
..was with you.

1499
01:35:53,280 --> 01:35:54,520
Oh.

1500
01:35:54,560 --> 01:35:58,040
Wish God would let us play together
one more time.

1501
01:36:02,000 --> 01:36:04,280
I got the perfect place.

1502
01:36:09,200 --> 01:36:11,280
Oh, my!

1503
01:36:35,560 --> 01:36:38,360
How you all doin'?
Oh, we're doing good!

1504
01:36:38,400 --> 01:36:40,400
Amen! Amen!
Welcome.

1505
01:36:41,200 --> 01:36:43,800
Well, the first time I sang
at Carnegie Hall...

1506
01:36:44,920 --> 01:36:47,040
..I was so scared,

1507
01:36:47,080 --> 01:36:49,840
I forgot the words
to the opening number.

1508
01:36:52,160 --> 01:36:54,760
And I had to look to Mildred
for help.

1509
01:36:54,800 --> 01:36:58,320
She's been my mouthpiece
for 20-some years.

1510
01:36:59,160 --> 01:37:03,080
So...what are the words tonight,
Mildred?

1511
01:37:03,120 --> 01:37:04,840
Of what?

1512
01:37:04,880 --> 01:37:06,760
Of the song we gonna sing.

1513
01:37:08,360 --> 01:37:11,040
Go on now! What you wanna play?

1514
01:37:22,640 --> 01:37:24,680
Let us pray.

1515
01:37:25,480 --> 01:37:27,760
Dear Lord, I always thought

1516
01:37:27,800 --> 01:37:31,440
You demanded perfection
to deserve Your love.

1517
01:37:31,480 --> 01:37:35,080
I didn't understand that You
didn't need nothing from us

1518
01:37:35,120 --> 01:37:38,400
but to love each other,
and to help each other.

1519
01:37:38,440 --> 01:37:39,680
That's right.

1520
01:37:39,720 --> 01:37:42,800
Your gift wasn't my voice.

1521
01:37:42,840 --> 01:37:46,440
Your gift was my purpose...

1522
01:37:46,480 --> 01:37:47,840
Amen.

1523
01:37:47,880 --> 01:37:50,080
..a purpose
that I couldn't find alone,

1524
01:37:50,120 --> 01:37:54,480
so I thank you, Father,
for Mildred Falls,

1525
01:37:54,520 --> 01:37:58,720
for all them years,
being the other side of me.

1526
01:37:58,760 --> 01:38:02,640
And I thank you, God, for the music.

1527
01:38:02,680 --> 01:38:06,000
It's like You let me come up
out the water again.

1528
01:38:06,040 --> 01:38:08,360
Hallelujah! Amen!
Amen.

1529
01:38:08,400 --> 01:38:10,160
Amen!
Amen.

1530
01:38:10,200 --> 01:38:12,040
I found my purpose

1531
01:38:12,080 --> 01:38:15,480
and it's singing God's words
like He's right here next to me.

1532
01:38:15,520 --> 01:38:18,720
And Mildred helped me,
cos she known all along

1533
01:38:18,760 --> 01:38:20,840
that her purpose
was to bang them keys

1534
01:38:20,880 --> 01:38:23,560
like they ain't never been heard.
Yes!

1535
01:38:25,080 --> 01:38:27,800
And you all have purpose, too.
Yes!

1536
01:38:27,840 --> 01:38:32,200
Yes.
God's gift is for everybody.

1537
01:38:32,240 --> 01:38:33,600
Yes! Amen.

1538
01:38:33,640 --> 01:38:35,640
There ain't no shortcuts.

1539
01:38:51,480 --> 01:38:58,680
♪ I'm gonna live the life
I sing about in my song

1540
01:39:01,240 --> 01:39:08,600
♪ I'm gonna stand for right
always showin' the wrong

1541
01:39:11,240 --> 01:39:14,920
♪ If I'm in a crowd, if I'm alone

1542
01:39:15,520 --> 01:39:19,960
♪ On the street or in my home

1543
01:39:20,680 --> 01:39:28,000
♪ I'm gonna live the life
I sing about in my song

1544
01:39:28,960 --> 01:39:38,840
♪ Well, I'm gonna live the life
I sing about in my song

1545
01:39:39,440 --> 01:39:48,520
♪ I'm gonna stand for right
always showing the wrong, my Lord

1546
01:39:48,560 --> 01:39:53,120
♪ If I'm in a crowd, if I'm alone

1547
01:39:53,160 --> 01:39:58,200
♪ On the street or in my home

1548
01:39:58,240 --> 01:40:05,600
♪ I'm gonna live the life
I sing about in my song

1549
01:40:06,240 --> 01:40:08,120
♪ Well...

1550
01:40:08,160 --> 01:40:12,480
♪ Mm, oh, mm, ah

1551
01:40:12,520 --> 01:40:16,600
♪ Mm, oh, mm, oh, Lord!

1552
01:40:17,560 --> 01:40:21,080
♪ Mm, oh, mm

1553
01:40:21,120 --> 01:40:24,800
♪ Oh, oh, ho, mm

1554
01:40:25,680 --> 01:40:30,240
♪ If I'm in a crowd,
if I'm all alone

1555
01:40:30,280 --> 01:40:34,720
♪ On the street or in my home

1556
01:40:34,760 --> 01:40:48,640
♪ I'm gonna live the life
I sing about in my song ♪

1557
01:41:28,800 --> 01:41:32,720
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