Rock Island - Eddie Korbich/Nick Alvino.mp3

[00:00.000] 作词 : Meredith Willson
[00:00.297] 作曲 : Meredith Willson
[00:00.595]River City Junction! River City next station stop! All aboard!
[00:06.458]You're crazy with the heat! Credit is no good for a notion salesman.
[00:10.178]Why not? What's the matter with credit?
[00:12.039]It's old fashioned. Charlie! You're an anvil salesman. Your firm give credit?
[00:16.014]No sir.
[00:16.559]Nor anybody else.
[00:18.684]River City next!
[00:20.277]Cash for the merchandise, cash for the button hooks
[00:26.136]Cash for the cotton goods, cash for the hard goods
[00:30.396]Cash for the fancy goods, cash for the soft goods
[00:33.581]Cash for the noggins and the piggins and the firkins
[00:36.245]Cash for the hogshead, cask and demijohn.
[00:38.901]Cash for the crackers and the pickles and the flypaper
[00:41.026]Look whatayatalk, whatayatalk, whatayatalk, whatayataalk, whatayatalk?
[00:44.206]Where do you get it?
[00:44.999]Whatayatalk?
[00:45.541]Ya can talk, ya can talk, ya can bicker, ya can talk
[00:47.655]Ya can bicker, bicker, bicker, ya can talk, ya can talk
[00:50.059]Ya can talk, talk, talk, talk, bicker, bicker, bicker
[00:52.449]Ya can talk all ya wanna, but is different than it was.
[00:54.573]No it ain't, no it ain't, but ya gotta know the territory.
[00:57.238]Shh shh shh shh shh shh shh
[00:59.358]Why it's the Model T Ford made the trouble,
[01:00.954]Made the people wanna go, wanna get, wanna get, wanna get up and go
[01:04.411]seven, eight, nine, ten, twelve, fourteen, twenty-two, twenty-three miles to the county seat
[01:08.683]Yes sir, yes sir
[01:09.735]Who's gonna patronize a little bitty two by four kinda store anymore?
[01:13.477]Whaddaya talk, whaddaya talk.
[01:14.807]Where do you get it?
[01:15.334]Not the Model T at all, take a gander at the store
[01:17.452]At the Modren store, at the present day store
[01:19.850]At the present day Modren departmentalized grocery store
[01:23.254]whatayatalk, whatayatalk, whatayatalk, whatayatalk, whatayatalk?
[01:26.163]Where do you get it?
[01:26.705]Whatayatalk, whatayatalk, whatayatalk?
[01:28.564]Where do you get it?
[01:29.090]Ya can talk, ya can bicker, ya can talk, ya can bicker
[01:31.219]Ya can talk, talk, talk, talk, bicker, bicker, bicker
[01:33.605]Ya can talk all ya wanna but is different than it was
[01:35.994]No it ain't, but you gotta know the territory
[01:38.121]Why it's a Uneeda biscuit made the trouble, Uneeda, Uneeda,
[01:41.042]Put the crackers in the package in the package
[01:42.907]The Uneeda biscuit in an airtight sanitary package
[01:45.821]Made the cracker barrel obsolete, obsolete
[01:47.696]Obsolete! Obsolete! Obsolete!
[01:50.092]Cracker Barrel went out the window with the mail pouch
[01:52.227]Cut plug chawin' by the stove
[01:53.822]Changed the approach of the traveling salesman, made it pretty hard
[01:57.019]No it didn't, no it didn't
[01:58.077]but you gotta know the territory
[01:59.676]Gone, gone!
[02:00.727]Gone with the hogshead cask and demijohn,
[02:03.123]Gone with the sugar barrel, pickle barrel, milk pan,
[02:05.266]Gone with the tub and the pail and the fierce
[02:08.642]Ever meet a fellow by the name of Hill?
[02:10.782]Hill?
[02:11.574]Hill?
[02:12.102]Hill?
[02:12.628]Hill?
[02:13.170]Hill?
[02:13.697]Hill?
[02:14.501]Hill?
[02:15.029]Hill?
[02:15.556]NO!
[02:16.611]Just a minute. Just a minute. Just a minute
[02:18.208]Never heard of any salesman Hill
[02:19.799]Now he doesn’t know the territory
[02:21.392]Doesn’t know the territory?!? What’s the fellows line?
[02:23.260]Never worries bout his line!
[02:24.591]Never worries bout his line?!?
[02:25.648]Or a cracker barrel bein' obsolete
[02:27.241]Or Uneeda biscuit in an airtight sanitary package
[02:30.172]Or the Model T Ford
[02:31.494]Just a minute. Just a minute. Just a minute
[02:33.089]Never worries 'bout his line?
[02:34.155]Never worries 'bout his line
[02:35.211]Or a doggone thing
[02:36.542]He's just a bang beat bell ringing big haul
[02:38.926]Great go, neck or nothing, rip roaring
[02:40.789]Ever' time a bulls eye salesman
[02:42.379]That's Professor Hill do, Harold Hill!
[02:44.242]Tell us what's his line?
[02:45.033]What's his line?
[02:45.578]He's a fake, and he doesn’t know the territory!
[02:47.717]Look, whaddayatalk, whaddayatalk, whaddayatalk, whaddaystalk?
[02:50.108]He's a music man
[02:51.443]He's a what?
[02:51.985]He's a what?
[02:52.514]He's a music man, and he sells clarinets to the kids in the town
[02:55.957]With the big trombones and the rat-a-tat drums,
[02:58.360]Big brass bass, big brass bass, and the piccolo,
[03:01.207]Piccolo with uniforms, too with a shiny gold braid on the coat
[03:04.669]And a big red stripe running. . .
[03:05.988]Well, I don't know much about bands
[03:07.852]But I do know you can't make a living selling big trombones, no sir!
[03:12.367]Mandolin picks, perhaps, and here and there a Jew's harp ...
[03:15.290]No, the fellow sells bands, boy’s bands.
[03:17.876]I don't know how he does it,
[03:19.407]But he lives like a king, and he dallies and he gathers and he plucks and shines
[03:22.855]And when the man dances, certainly boys, what else?
[03:25.781]The piper pays him!
[03:27.099]Yes sir, yes sir, yes sir, yes sir!
[03:32.344]When the man dances, certainly boys, what else?
[03:36.069]The piper pays him!
[03:37.929]Yessssir, Yessssir!
[03:40.843]But he doesn’t know the territory!