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Hello, I'm Mr. Red.
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A horse is a horse, of course, of course, and no one can talk to a horse, of course,
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that is, of course, unless the horse is the famous Mr. Red.
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Go right to the source and ask the horse, he'll give you the answer that you endorse.
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He's always on a steady course, talk to Mr. Red.
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Stay there, Wilbur, I'll get it.
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Hello.
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This is Paul Fenton.
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Just a minute.
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Thank you very much.
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Mr. Fenton.
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Oh, thanks, Ed.
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I ought to teach you shorthand.
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I'd look silly sitting on your lap.
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Okay.
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Hello, this is Mr. Post.
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I'm Paul Fenton.
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I'm looking for an architect to design my new house, and my sister-in-law, Kay Addison,
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recommended you.
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Kay?
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Well, that's very nice of her.
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Ed, quiet, this is important.
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When can we get together, Mr. Fenton?
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Can you meet me in my office tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock?
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The address is 1040 North Sunset Boulevard.
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I got it.
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Yeah, I'll see you in the morning.
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Thank you.
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Well, that was nice of Kay, wasn't it, huh?
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Buddy boy.
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Yeah?
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How about some oats for your secretary?
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How about some more?
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I'm a growing horse.
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Keep pouring.
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Okay, I want to thank you for the recommendation.
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Your brother-in-law called me about his new house.
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Oh, you'll love Paul, he's a doll.
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Kay, is this the brother-in-law who owns that music publishing company?
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Yes, it's a very popular company.
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I have a father who owns it.
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I'm the father of such immortal garbage as,
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I call my mother father cause I never had a dad.
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Oh, and that other masterpiece of his,
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I'm all dressed up with a hole in my heart.
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Well, that sold over 200,000 copies.
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What fool would buy a thing like that?
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Wilbur bought a copy for me.
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Well, I got it free with a pound of prunes.
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When are you seeing Paul?
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At 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.
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Should either of you gentlemen tell me if Mr. Fenton is in?
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Oh, he's in, man.
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But he's gone.
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I mean, way out, man.
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You dig?
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Are you Post?
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No, you must be Post.
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Come on in.
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Say, Mr. Fenton, we've been on ice here for a week.
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Take five, boys.
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Come in my office, Mr. Post.
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Kay's been saying some wonderful things about you.
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Musicians, musicians, millions of musicians,
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but so few good songs, right?
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Well, I'd take a look at this, my biggest smash.
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I'm all dressed up with a hole in my heart,
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I've got a hole in my heart,
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I've got a hole in my heart,
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I've got a hole in my heart,
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I've got a hole in my heart,
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I've got a hole in my heart,
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I've got a hole in my heart,
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I've got a hole in my heart,
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I've got a hole in my heart,
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I've got a hole in my heart,
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I've got a hole in my heart,
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I've got a hole in my heart,
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I've got a hole in my heart,
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I've got a hole in my heart,
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I've got a hole in my heart,
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I've got a hole in my heart,
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you taking up another instrument?
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♪
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♪
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I happen to be Scottish
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and I'm very proud of the bagpipes.
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Honey, you're so puffed up.
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Maybe you'd better rest your face a while.
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You don't like the bagpipes, do you?
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Well...
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it sounds like a cat yelling for help.
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I'll overlook that.
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Honey, Paul Fenton asked me to try to remember this tune,
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and sometimes when you play an instrument,
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a forgotten melody comes back.
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I hate to say it, but I think you're scaring it away
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with that noise.
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-♪
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I'll get it.
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Oh, hello, Paul.
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Hi, Wilbur. I was just passing by when I...
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Oh, vacuuming the house?
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No, no, I'm trying to remember
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the rest of that little tune for you.
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Come on in. Oh, thanks very much.
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Carol, this is Paul Fenton. It's my wife, Carol.
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Hello, Mr. Fenton. My pleasure, Mrs. Post.
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I just happened to be in the neighborhood,
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well, not exactly in the neighborhood,
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about eight or ten miles away, and I, uh,
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I thought I'd drop in.
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Wilbur, I hope you remember the rest of that tune.
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It's been driving me mad.
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Well, I'm trying to recapture it with my bagpipes.
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Is he gonna play it or milk it?
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I'm not sure myself.
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-♪
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We thought your horse was in pain.
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Oh, no.
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Hi there, Sister-in-law, you great big, gorgeous,
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beautiful thing you...
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How I esphynx.
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Hello, Paul.
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Come, Kay, we were just leaving.
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No, no, no, stick around.
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Be right back, Paul.
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I want to get that preliminary sketch for you.
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Kay?
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Maybe you can help us remember a certain tune.
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What tune?
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Well, that's the trouble, we don't know.
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Yeah, Wilbur hummed a piece in my office this morning
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that has all the makings of a great big hit.
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Just what the country needs,
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another record monstrosity.
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Please, Roger, don't try to tell me how to pick songs.
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I very rarely miss.
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Yeah?
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How about the time you turned down Easter Parade?
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It's my fault.
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I figured that song could be good for only one day
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and I didn't even think about it.
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I figured that song could be good for only one day a year.
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What about White Christmas?
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I gave that one a week.
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And don't mention September Song or I may kill myself.
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September Song.
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Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do,
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do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do,
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do, do, do, do, do, do, do.
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Shit.
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Where did you hear that?
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Hear what?
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That tune, the one you were just humming.
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Oh, that.
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Just a little something I composed once.
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You wrote a song?
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It wasn't hoagie.
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This is great.
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I've been trying to remember that tune all day.
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How does it go?
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Give me an A, Wilbur.
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An A, Wilbur.
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No, no, no, no, no, no.
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There must be a middle and an ending to this tune.
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Let's try it again.
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Sound like three wounded bumblebees.
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Kay, can you give me one good reason why you married him?
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I needed new shoes.
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That's good enough.
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Yeah, let's try it again.
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I got it.
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I got it.
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I remember the whole tune.
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Well, let's hear it, Wilbur.
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Let's hear it.
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Something I made up a long time ago.
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Wilbur.
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You made up a song?
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It wasn't hoagie.
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It's a mystery on my bagpipes.
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You'll excuse me.
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It's getting late.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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Wilbur, couldn't you just hum it?
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I'll let you build me a bigger house.
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Good, let's hear it.
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Paul, don't be so impatient.
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I'm trying to write the words to this tune.
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I'm working on it now.
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Oh, well, just a minute.
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He's here.
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I'll ask him.
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Paul wants to know if you want to invest some money in his company.
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He figures this song of mine's gonna be a hit and he wants...
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I don't think he's interested.
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No.
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Well, look, I'll call you back as soon as I finish the lyrics.
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Okay.
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Oh, Paul.
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Say, how do you like the plans for the house?
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Thanks.
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We're seeing ya.
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Moon, juice, boom, gloom, solo, spit tune.
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Please, I'm trying to write the lyrics for our tune.
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Our? When did I make you a partner?
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I didn't know it was so tough to write lyrics.
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Why don't you use mine?
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Please, Ed, I'm trying...
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You wrote words for your tune?
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Well, if Gershwin could, why can't I?
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Let's hear them. What's the title?
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Pretty Little Filly.
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Pretty Little Filly? That's cute.
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She thought so, too.
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She?
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Yeah, the little filly I was running around with at the time.
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Okay, Ed, let's hear the words.
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Well, sound your A.
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Okay.
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Close enough.
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I love it, Wilbur. I love the title, Pretty Little Filly.
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It's great for the teenagers.
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Now, let me hear the lyrics.
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The lyrics?
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Sure, Paul. He wants me to sing the lyrics.
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Well, you ruined my song.
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Better let me sing it.
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Hello, Paul.
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Look, there's a friend of mine here. He's gonna sing it.
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He's got a much better voice than I have.
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Are you listening?
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Good.
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Got to date a little later
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When the moon is on the trail
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With the cutest triple gator
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My pretty little filly with a ponytail
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It's beautiful.
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Just beautiful. It can't miss.
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It's got to be a hit, Wilbur. It's got to be a hit.
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Paul seems like such a nice fellow. Why doesn't Roger like him?
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I don't think Addison's ever forgiven him for what he did at our wedding.
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Oh? What was that?
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Paul is very emotional.
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And when the minister pronounced his man and wife,
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he rushed up and kissed me before Addison.
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But I think that's terribly funny.
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You do?
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Yes.
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What's so funny, Carol?
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Kenny was just telling me something funny that happened to her at the beauty parlor.
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Good news! Good news!
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I just gave Paul my lyrics and he says
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that Pretty Little Filly is gonna be his first big hit of the season.
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That big lyric?
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First big hit of the season.
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That big loud mouth couldn't be first at anything.
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He was at your wedding.
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Paul told me what happened at the ceremony.
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I hate a man who kisses and tells.
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Hello?
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Oh, yes, Paul.
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What?
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A 40-piece orchestra?
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That's right. I'm setting up a recording date.
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Oh, and tell your friend to keep himself available.
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What friend?
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The fellow with the deep voice. I want him to sing the song.
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But does it have to be him?
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Of course it has to be him!
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He has just the right sound.
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You don't understand, Wilbur.
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He's the one who's going to make us rich.
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Doesn't that make you happy?
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Wilbur, say something.
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No.
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Ed, stop saying no.
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No.
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Stop it.
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Fenton wants the same voice he heard on the phone to make the record.
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Did you tell him I'm a horse?
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Not yet.
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Well, let's keep it that way, buddy boy.
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But Ed!
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You know I only talk in front of you.
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I'm not asking you to talk. I'm asking you to sing.
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You're quibbling.
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I don't want to pressure you, Ed.
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But if you don't make this record,
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Fenton is liable to cancel a deal to build his house.
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Hi, fellas. Is Mr. Fenton in?
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Gee, man, I don't know.
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We've only been here a month.
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Wilbur, come on in.
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Thank you.
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Won't be long, boys.
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Now, now, now. Sit down, Wilbur.
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Make yourself comfortable.
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What's it going to be, Wilbur?
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Something to eat, drink?
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I know, champagne. I'll order the works.
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My friend can't sing the song.
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Operator, get...
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Can't sing the song?
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We'll have to get somebody else.
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Wilbur, I don't want anybody else.
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I want the fellow with the deep voice.
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He's got a quality that just fits me.
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That just fits, pretty little filly.
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Well, I'm sorry, but he isn't available.
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Ah, he's out of town.
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No, he's in my barn.
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In that case, we get nothing.
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He's in your barn?
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Paul, my horse wrote the song.
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Your horse wrote...
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Ha! Ha!
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What a sense of humor!
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For a minute, you had me fooled.
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Your horse wrote the song.
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Ha, ha, ha, what a gig!
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Wait till I tell the boys down at the club about this.
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That's the funniest thing I've...
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Wilbur, you're not laughing.
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My horse really did write the song.
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Wilbur, I'll get you a cold towel.
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Look, he would tell you himself,
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only he won't talk to anybody but me.
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He won't... the horse.
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He wrote the song?
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Yeah.
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He wrote the lyrics, too?
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He just sat down at the piano and knocked off the tune?
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A horse can't play the piano.
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Of course not, his hooves are too big to get on the keys.
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He has a harmonica.
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Wilbur, let's face it.
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You don't want me to have the song.
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You want to sell it to a bigger company.
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That is not true.
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Aha! I know what it is, it's that Addison.
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He's the one who's responsible for this whole thing.
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Instead of kissing her at the wedding,
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I should have shot him.
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Paul, about the house...
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maybe you'd like to get another architect.
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Please, please.
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How can I think about that now?
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I still don't know why you won't tell us who your singer is.
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What's the difference? He won't sing.
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It's a shame.
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I just talked to my sister,
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and she says that Paul is just heartbroken.
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Shake hands with your new partner.
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Partner?
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That song of yours kept running through my mind,
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and I said to myself, this is going to be a hit.
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I walked into Paul's office and said,
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now Paul, forget about my personal feeling towards you,
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this is business.
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This song of Wilbur's can't miss,
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and I want to get in on the process.
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Well, he just looked at me, didn't say a word.
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Just pocketed my check,
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and why are you all staring at me?
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Come, doll, I'll make you some cocoa and put you to bed.
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But I don't want to go to bed.
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You will after you hear the news.
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Well, we just lost a neighbor.
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Oh, no, honey, don't say that.
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Why, Roger is a very intelligent man,
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and when Kay explains to him what happened...
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Oh, no!
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Oh!
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What were you saying?
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We just lost a neighbor.
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All right, getting late.
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We better turn in.
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Oh, honey, look.
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All that fencing. He just won't give up.
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Wilbur.
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Paul, you're a good man.
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You're a good man.
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Paul, it's useless.
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Wilbur, please talk to your friend.
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Beg him to sing Pretty Little Filly for us.
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It's a bright song, a happy song,
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and the country could use a little cheering up now.
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Don't ask me, ask him.
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All right.
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Still sticking to the same old story.
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Our country needs my song, and you turn him down.
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Me?
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You'll benedict Arnold.
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You mean you'll sing Pretty Little Filly?
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On one condition.
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One condition? What is it?
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Now, listen.
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You don't have to...
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Morning, fellas.
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No, no! Don't jump!
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What jump? I was just fixing the Venetian blind.
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Paul, I'm gonna record that song for you.
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You?
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Yeah. I'm the fellow with the deep voice.
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That was me you heard on the phone.
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Oh, come on. Now Wilbur, a joke's a joke.
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Yeah, it's true.
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It's just that when I sing in front of people,
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I get nervous and my voice changes completely.
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It's sort of like Jekyll and Hyde.
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Jekyll and Hyde.
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Jekyll sings high, and Hyde is the low one.
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Well, I'll tell you what I'll do.
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I'll get you a small recording studio.
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No, no, no. No studio.
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We'll record in my barn.
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Barn?
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The acoustics are just great.
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You did say barn.
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Well, where am I gonna put the orchestra?
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No 40-piece orchestra. Just a small combo.
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Man, we've cut records in some weird places before,
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but this is the wildest.
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Imagine.
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Married to a man and I never even knew he could sing.
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I was married to Addison for 10 years
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before I found out he could wiggle his ears.
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Give us a wiggle, doll.
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Here he comes.
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Excuse me, friends. It's showtime.
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Oh, Wilbur.
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Are you sure you want that horse in the same stall with you?
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He's liable to make some noise.
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Well, I hope he doesn't.
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I don't know.
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I don't know.
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He's liable to make some noise.
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Well, I hope so.
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I mean, he's my good luck piece.
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Thor horseshoes?
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All right, fellas, stand by.
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All right, men.
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One, two.
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Got to date a little later
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When the moon is on the trail
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With the cutest triple gator
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My pretty little filly with a ponytail
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Got a bag of oats to call with
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Hey, I'll bring her by the bale
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Want to share a double stall
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With the pretty little filly with a ponytail
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Gee, if she would just agree
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She'd be mine today
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But no matter when I ask
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The answer's always nay, nay, nay, nay
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If she'd name that day of wedlock
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I would be there without fail
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Got the ring made for her fatlock
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The pretty little filly with a ponytail
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Ponytail
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Well, Ed, what do you think of our song?
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It's a gas, sir.
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Gas, gas, gas, gas, gas, gas
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A horse is a horse, of course, of course
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And no one can talk to a horse, of course
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That is, of course, unless
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The horse is the famous Mr. A
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Go right to the source and ask the horse
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He'll give you the answer that you'll endorse
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He's always on a steady course
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Talk to Mr. A
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Heeple-yackity-yack a streak
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A day, a day, a day, a day
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But Mr. Ed will never speak
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Unless he has something to say
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A horse is a horse, of course, of course
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And this one will talk to his voice, his horse
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You never heard of a talking horse?
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Well, listen to this
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I am Mr. Ed
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This has been a Filmways television presentation
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