Robert Duvall credited as playing...
Mac Sledge
- Mac Sledge: [to Rosa Lee] I don't know why I wandered out to this part of Texas drunk, and you took me in and pitied me and helped me to straighten out, marry me. Why? Why did that happen? Is there a reason that happened? And Sonny's daddy died in the war, my daughter killed in an automobile accident. Why? See, I don't trust happiness. I never did, I never will.
- Mac Sledge: [singing] When Jesus went down, To the waters that day, He was baptized, In the usual way, When it was done, God blessed his soul, He sent him his love, On the wings of a dove, On the wings of a snow-white dove, He sends his pure sweet love, A sign from above, On the wings of a dove...
- Mac Sledge: How was school?
- Sonny: All right.
- Mac Sledge: You learn anything?
- Sonny: Not much. What are doin' down here?
- Mac Sledge: Thinkin'.
- Sonny: About what?
- Mac Sledge: Things.
- Sonny: Good things or bad things?
- Mac Sledge: Some of both.
- Sonny: What happened to your money?
- Mac Sledge: I lost it.
- Sonny: How?
- Mac Sledge: How? Too much applejack.
- Mac Sledge: I don't know if I was what you call rich, but I had a few dollars.
- Sonny: How'd you get it?
- Mac Sledge: Writin' songs.
- Sonny: And how do you get money for that?
- Mac Sledge: Hell, if people are crazy enough to pay for it, they do it.
- Reporter: Are you Mac Sledge, the singer?
- Mac Sledge: I mean - I was a singer, I mean. I mean, I am Mac Sledge.
- Sonny: You think you'll ever be rich again?
- Mac Sledge: Well, I tell you what, Sonny. I don't lay awake nights worryin' about it. Now, look. There's a D, right? D as in dog. Now watch me. I'll call 'em out.
- Mac Sledge: [singing] I've decided to leave
- Mac Sledge: G.
- Mac Sledge: [singing] Here forever
- Mac Sledge: Not really.
- Mac Sledge: [singing] Let me know if you're stayin' behind
- Mac Sledge: That's A7th.
- Mac Sledge: [singing] Otherwise, I'll be gone in the mornin'
- Mac Sledge: D as in dog.
- Mac Sledge: [singing] Let me know if you're staying behind
- Mac Sledge: Now you can play a covered chord or a rhythm chord.
- Mac Sledge: [singing] Let me know
- Mac Sledge: That's a G.
- Mac Sledge: [singing] If you always will want me, Or if you'll wander into another's arms
- Mac Sledge: A or A7th. G.
- Mac Sledge: [singing] Let me know what you decide dear, Then let me rest
- Mac Sledge: A.
- Mac Sledge: [singing] My head for awhile, I've decided to leave here forever
- Mac Sledge: D as in dog.
- Mac Sledge: [singing] Let me know if you're comin' along, Otherwise, I'll be gone in the mornin'
- Mac Sledge: D.
- Mac Sledge: [singing] Let me know if you're stayin' behind
- Sue Anne: There was a song you used to sing to me when I was little, I think. It was somethin' about a dove. Mama said she never heard you sing it to me, but - I think it went somethin' about a "on the wings of a snow-white dove, he sends his somethin'-somethin' love."
- Mac Sledge: I don't remember that. I don't.