Thunder Road (1958)

Keely Smith: Francie Wymore

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• Francie Wymore : [singing]  Won't you come home, my baby? Won't you come home? I miss you day and night, You have my promise, baby, From this day on, I swear I'll treat you right...

• Lucas Doolin : How about that rain, huh?

  Francie Wymore : I like the rain - except when you're driving in it. Then it scares me.

• Francie Wymore : It's like we're running out of time. Time's all we've got. And my time is yours. I'd just like a little more of you. That's all.

  Lucas Doolin : Well, honey, it's like we're standing behind the clock with our thumbs just ready for the starter's gun. We can't talk till the race is over. This we've got - we've got this hour, this night, this rain, this music. Honey, things aren't so bad as they actually are if we just accept them.

• Francie Wymore : I just wanna be normal people. I just wanna *be* somebody.

  Lucas Doolin : You are, honey. That's the big trouble. You are somebody - and I'm a whisky man.

• Lucas Doolin : No, honey. Don't say anything. Just sing. Find some words to that pretty music.

  Francie Wymore : [singing]  While all alone, Beneath the tree, Where once you pledged your love to me, My lonely heart cries out to you, The whippoorwill, Is crying too...