00:30Sonata recording, take three.
01:00If you are but a dream, I hope I never will wake up.
01:14It's more than I could dare to find that I'm forsaken.
01:23If you're a fantasy, then I'm content to be in love with lovely you.
01:41And pray my dream comes true.
01:47I long to kiss you, but I would not dare.
01:57I'm so afraid that you may vanish in the air.
02:09So darling, if our romance should break up, I hope I never wake up.
02:25If you are but a dream.
02:37That was a good one, Frankie.
02:50Just give me five minutes and I'll have the other number ready.
02:53I'll get a smoke.
02:54Next number, boys.
02:55Somebody in for a lickin'?
02:56You bet.
02:57We're gonna smear him.
02:58Yeah, but ten against one.
02:59That's not very fair.
03:00Ah, come on.
03:01Come on.
03:02What's it all about?
03:03None of your business.
03:04Scared to tell me?
03:05No, I'm not as scared.
03:06I'll fight you even.
03:07Not if I can help it.
03:17I just want to know why the gang war?
03:18We don't like him.
03:20We don't want him in our neighborhood or going to our school.
03:24I've been living here as long as you.
03:26What's he got?
03:27Smallpox or something?
03:28We don't like his religion.
03:30His religion?
03:31Look, Miss...
03:33Guys, let me know you came off.
03:34Hope you don't know my life.
03:36Look, mister, he's a dirty...
03:38Ah, hold on.
03:40I see what you mean.
03:42You must be a bunch of those Nazi werewolves I've been reading about.
03:45Mister, are you screwy?
03:47Not me, I'm an American.
03:49Well, what do you think we are?
03:51Nazis.
03:52Don't call me a Nazi. My father's a sergeant in the army.
03:55He's been wounded even.
03:57Wounded, huh? Say, I bet he got some of that blood plasma.
04:00He was wounded so bad he had to get it three times.
04:03Son, anybody in your family ever go to the blood bank?
04:05Sure, my mother and my father both.
04:08Uh-huh.
04:09You know what?
04:10I bet you maybe his father's blood helped save your dad's life.
04:14That's bad.
04:15What's bad about it?
04:16Well, don't you see?
04:17Your father doesn't go to the same church as his father does.
04:20That's awful.
04:22Do you think maybe if your father knew about it in time he would rather have died
04:26than to take blood from a man of another religion?
04:29Would you have wanted him to die?
04:31Would your mom want him to die?
04:33No.
04:34Look, fellas. Religion makes no difference.
04:38Except maybe to a Nazi or somebody as stupid.
04:41Why, people all over the world worship God in many different ways.
04:46God created everybody.
04:48He didn't create one people better than another.
04:51Your blood's the same as mine. Mine's the same as his.
04:55Do you know what this wonderful country is made of?
04:58It's made up of a hundred different kinds of people.
05:01And a hundred different ways of talking.
05:03And a hundred different ways of going to church.
05:06But they're all American ways.
05:08Wouldn't we be silly if we went around hating people because they combed their hair different than ours?
05:13Wouldn't we be a lot of dopes?
05:15You're crying.
05:16My dad came from Italy.
05:17But I'm an American.
05:19But should I hate your father because he came from Ireland or France or Russia?
05:23Wouldn't I be a first class fat head?
05:25You guys remember Pearl Harbor?
05:27Why, that Jap socked us so it looked like we could never do anything about it.
05:32But a couple of days later something very important happened.
05:35Close your eyes and let me tell you about it.
05:38Go on, go on.
05:39Close your eyes.
05:40All of you.
05:41I want you to imagine it.
05:42There was a Jap battleship.
05:44The Haruna.
05:45And one of our planes spotted it.
05:47Do you know what a time a battleship?
05:49It takes guts and know-how and teamwork.
05:52And our boys sure needed plenty of it.
05:55Because that Jap was throwing up enough flak to get out and walk home on.
05:58But the pilot had only one thing on his mind.
06:01To get over that ship.
06:03And he did.
06:04And then the bombardier pushed a button and a 500 pound tomato smacked that Jap right in the middle.
06:13Yep.
06:14They sank it.
06:15And every American threw his head back and felt much better.
06:18The pilot of that ship was named Colin Kelly.
06:22An American and a Presbyterian.
06:24And you know who dropped the bombs?
06:26Meyer Levin.
06:27An American and a Jew.
06:29You think maybe they should have called the bombing off because they had different religions?
06:33Think about that, fellas.
06:36You as your good American heads.
06:39Don't let anybody make suckers out of you.
06:41Well, how to go to work?
06:43What do you work?
06:44I sing.
06:45Oh, you're a kid.
06:46Come here.
06:47Now you all stand here.
06:48And no hissing allowed.
06:50What is America to me?
06:51A name, a map, or a flag I see.
06:53A certain word, democracy.
06:57What is America to me?
07:03What is America to me?
07:06Or a flag I see
07:09A certain word
07:12Democracy
07:14What is America
07:20To me
07:22A house I live in
07:30A plot of earth
07:33A street
07:34The grocer and the butcher
07:37And the people
07:39That I meet
07:41The children
07:43In the playground
07:44The faces
07:46That I see
07:49All races
07:51And religions
07:53That's America
07:56To me
07:59The place
08:03I work in
08:04The worker
08:06At my side
08:08The little town
08:11Or city
08:11Where my people
08:13Lived and died
08:16The howdy
08:18And the handshake
08:20The air of feeling free
08:23And the right
08:25To speak my mind out
08:28That's America
08:30That's America
08:30To me
08:32The things I see
08:35About me
08:36The big things
08:38And the small
08:39The little corner newsstand
08:43And the house
08:44A mile tall
08:46The wedding
08:47And the churchyard
08:49The laughter
08:51And the tears
08:52The dream that's been a-growing
08:56For a hundred and fifty years
09:01The town I live in
09:07The street
09:09The house
09:10The room
09:12The pavement of the city
09:16Or a garden
09:18All in bloom
09:20The church
09:22The school
09:23The clubhouse
09:25The million lights
09:27I see
09:29But especially
09:31The people
09:33That's America
09:40America
09:42To me
09:50So long, men
09:56So long, men
09:57So long, so long
09:58So long, so long
09:59So long, so long
10:00Things that need to zwealy
10:04There is almost
10:06AROUND
10:06That is
10:07Well, I've arrived
10:07To me
10:07Well, I've lost
10:08Let's dole
10:09I've tried
10:09To me
10:10It fits
10:10To me
10:11You
10:11It fits
10:13So long, so long
10:15The world
10:15That moves
10:16To me
10:17By the way
10:18To me
10:19And out
10:19I'll travel
10:20To me
10:21I'll travel
10:21You
10:22Have a
10:24To me
10:25I'll travel
10:26Be
10:26I'll travel
10:28I'm
10:28So long, so long
10:29interview
10:30You
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