Say that, buddy. What's your name? My name is John Henry. What's your name? My name is Mack Bride. Mack Bride? Yeah. Old man Mack Bride's boy.
Boy, where you live at, John Henry? I live down here on Calhoun Street. That's mighty funny. I live on Calhoun myself. I ain't never seen you around. No, and I ain't never seen you neither. What number you lives on? I lives at number 38, Calhoun. No, man, you must be 138. No, just plain old 38.
Well, I lives at number 38, Calhoun. I don't believe that's no apartment house.
No, man, ain't but one family lives there. John Henry, what's your wife's name? My wife's name's Bessie. Not Bessie Mae. That's it, Bessie Mae. Got red curly hair. Yeah, and snaggle tooth.
You know my wife's name, Bessie Mae, she look just like that. Something sound kind of fishy to me. John Henry, I believe you mean you close skin. Yeah, it is beginning to sound that way.
You gotta hook up some hunk in her. Lookin' you got any chillin'? Chiller, man, I got ten heads of chillers. Boys or girls? Half and half. Five and five.
I got that same outfit, boy. Me and you make a pretty good team. Just the way it's beginnin' to sound. John Henry, where you work at? I works down here at the Sawmill. Now, that a lumber sawmill. Yeah, that's it, the lumber sawmill.
I work down there too. I don't never see you or watch you while you're down there lookin'. It's worryin', pass merate, pass merate, pass merate. Bee from out there, baby, that
ship he works well i work from dinner time today till 12 o'clock tomorrow what time you work
i work from 12 o'clock tomorrow till dinner time today well look like i'll meet you because you
just come on right time i get off sure do john henry i believe if we check around here close
we close again and we realize
well we ain't nothing but husband-in-law
well we ain't nothing but husband-in-law
but we won't ever
have a real
as long as we
work on a different shelf
i don't know what we're gonna do about this here how long you been mad at my wife
i've been mad at that old gal about 10 years
you sure is dumb john henry
you're mad at my wife that long