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Well, I guess I was thefirst guy ashore so the old man said I could broadcast.
How many Kate Smithsare coming off the production line? Well cook his mutton
here and send it to him.
It goes back to thecross-belted Continentals and the
farmers who held their fire atBunker Hill.
I shivered and prayed at
ValleyForge, and my prayer was answered. They land me in planes from the airand
they shoot me up to the front in trucks and scout cars . Leah and Sarah, come
and help your mistress! For there was no chamberAnd there was no room. DISMAS:
By the door, innkeeper,The cellar door.
I could pick locks like that when I was
five.
SARAH: I have a little bell my father gave me.
LEAH: Mistress, they did
not even look on me. So why do we have to fight all over the map?
When I wrote
All men are created freeand equal, few believed at first.
The inn is quietSave
for the sleepy servants and their mistress,Who clean the last soiled pots.
For
the first time inhistory, we raised a draft army before war fell on us. Id like
to spit in their cups each time I serve them.
You can bomb PearlHarbor from the
wastes of the Pacific. Its morning and we havent too much timeAnd the days
bitter cold.
It happened over one hundredand fifty years ago and we won that
one, didnt we?
Your last letter was swell but Iaint had one since. NARRATOR: I
thought nowadays it was all radio.
You know well enoughWhy none would tarry
with us. But we still need telephones andinstallations.
I hide allday in the
foxholes under the bombings, and last out.
Your last letter was swell but Iaint
had one since. Well, I guess I was thefirst guy ashore so the old man said I
could broadcast. But, slowly, many believed,and many followed Jefferson. Lords,
nobles, kings, here in Bethlehem,In our poor town? ExpectNor fruit nor blossom
from a barren bough.
LEAH: Will he bring peace, will he bring brotherhood?
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