World in My Corner (1956) - full transcript
A scrappy fighter from Jersey City named Tommy Shea -- "born in a dump, educated in an alley" -- catches the eye of wealthy businessman, Robert Mallinson, who allows him to train at his Long Island estate. Shea soon falls for Mallinson's daughter, Dorothy, but fears he doesn't have the money to support her in proper style. To get this money, Shea decides to work with crooked fight-promoter Harry Cram, even though this means dropping his honest manager, Dave Bernstein. As the big fight approaches, however, Shea begins to have second thoughts.
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you
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you
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the last round coming up you're way
behind trams down there you understand
the making me look bad
I've seen better fights at the hockey
games
what am I wasting my time here for your
hair's not gonna watch it that way
you'll stay in condition into the drink
root beer sure Harry
hello mr. Bernstein clothes dress
remember plenty about we
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started to gas up we're worried the
first three rounds nothing's on my head
guess we struck out crams leaving
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with this your ring a gun
Harry when I saw you leaving a long way
over it's a long way back the gas fields
lata make me sick
like you and it Traver yours do hey I
don't like being called a [ __ ]
I thought he'd make a better show it he
was nervous cuz you were here you'll be
better next time Harry
the name is cram do yourself me a favor
forget it
hey where do you get off shoving people
around your timings off boy you're gonna
need a lot of experience come on
how are you Dave I thought you quit the
business it quit me who look mr. Crabb
I'm sorry to cause you all this trouble
but just give me a minute of your time
oh there's all sorts of ways like fit to
your setup I got a little neighborhood
you keep taking punches like tonight and
you won't have enough sense left to
untie your shoes what's it to you
nothing and we can suicide that's all
hasn't anybody ever told you that you
never get very far in the fight game
[ __ ] Harry cram you have to take that
kind of gas to get anywhere you can have
it well why'd you take this bar and
improve my social stance
mmm bro that's what Lakes wider good
fighters what they haven't got gets them
started and what they're afraid of going
back to keep them in the ring ain't for
fun you can say that again
we taught you to play they cast me
there's a fighter himself I know had a
perfect record lost every fight what
happened the night wasn't raised for he
just was taking about one thing can I
could be fun
we could be you can take a punch on your
game and I got a feeling you could hit
if he was learning right
I just learned campaka
yeah did a little better than that last
round how come and get this out bad
about the way I looked in me like a bomb
prides a good thing in the quarter yeah
I can see where it would help if you can
fight but after tonight I think I'll
just forget about I'll tell you
something
I never tried to talk nobody into it but
I got this much sickness left in me when
I see a boy who looks like you might
have something my telling but I don't
ask him that he should stay with fight
that's up to him you know what that's
for that was made for picking up things
not for hidden fees well if you got a
fight do it the right way
you ever see it that way that's where
you can find
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what's good Tommy going back to no man's
land Benny I just got laid off all right
too bad
don't let it get you down they will get
better yeah I've been hearing that ever
since I got out of the iron worker
coming through you
here's got to be paid that ain't easy on
an empty stomach
the old man made a good living in a
battery for a long time yeah
long enough to work himself to death
before it was 54 what even they make a
living what's it for
so you pay rent on a room and allow the
joint over there worms eye view the
wrong side of the river that ain't the
way I want to live sure Tommy
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you
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say today bernstein live here yes you'll
find him at the garage
thank
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anything I can do for you I was looking
for Dave Bernstein you're probably be
back soon oh wait what is this your
advantage i have put Bernstein get the
loot he doesn't know it just worked here
who does huh Randy Melanson you were
going to that yeah yeah you might say so
but be a pretty nice guy like to use all
equipment
say about all those places I saw on the
way up there like this one where do they
get I mean where the ice the kind of
money you take some inherited ever hear
the Melanson ball-bearing
that's what this little round on pieces
of steel
Oh
boy she's got it pretty isn't she and
I'd like to get close today yeah you
give an impression where does he fit in
the team his melanson's daughter
50,000 miles what I'm friend of mine
always said that when something's a long
way off you haven't got a prayer getting
close to it your friend is right must be
great having it made like this and the
day you're born she doesn't think so she
wants to be a writer which 300 the
father even got her job at a newspaper
she's a bright girl but she just can't
seem to make it he's breaking my heart
I know Dane went to work in grocery
store when she was 15 she's bright - but
she lose their jobs again worry about it
no swimming hello Bernstein
remember me I mean Kay sure remember you
I've been thinking about what you said I
want to go on fighting and I want you to
handle yeah well when I talked to you
the other night I guess I got a little
carried away I shouldn't have said it
I'm my little business you tell me to
look yet I know but you better forget it
you'll be way ahead packing all look
like good advice to me nobody asked you
to watch it so you don't look like a
fighter who you - no if I look like a
fighter watch what you're saying
sorry it's too Mallinson Malin Oh having
yourself some fun huh I just didn't want
to embarrass you okay yeah there's just
been a mistake all around sorry
well don't I'm sorry I stepped on your
grass a little younger I'd take a poke
at wait a minute will it make you feel
any better to take that punch at me you
know something it would get the gloves
Dave whoa are you kidding mr. Mallinson
yeah drop it pop you don't look like a
fighter
dawn died in college I was
intercollegiate Fighting champ I wanted
to be a fighter
my coach talked me out of it at the
first back alley champ I thought it like
me silly
don't think he was wrong get the gloves
be careful mr. Mallinson gets rough when
you pride sir don't worry I can add your
course was right purpose huh Kalam tick
stick real close to your knife softness
Shane where are you going I'm going
invent a better ball bearing put you out
of business
okay come here
do you still want to be a fighter yeah
but I ain't gonna make it hanging around
no fancy Fairgrounds like this it could
be wrong
Melanson wants me to train you ah Betty
does what's a gimmick this time why
don't you stop yappin and listen he
wants you to stay here he thinks you got
possibilities you can do odd jobs around
the place when you're ain't working with
me I don't get it
first I bailed him one and all of a
sudden he comes up with a big brother
right
what for while I taste waffles well how
about it well okay what do I got to lose
this might not be just bad a dress after
all say miss mallison
I'm sorry about that little hassle
upstairs don't be well I'm sorry
you think you punched yourself into
something pretty good don't you look I
didn't come out here to what scorchin
heard come on forget her that may not be
see now look before we start anything
you keep your nose clean around here you
want me to make a fighter out of the
you're going to do it my way okay
you're running the show now five is the
screw arm where's your hitting still
that alright now we switch the Orthodox
this is the way you're going to fight
Howard that it man out front closer to
your opponent simple as that but instead
of laying back waiting for an opening
your users all the time jabbing look
yeah well come on come on Ted all right
left to the body left of the head cross
with your right then
all right all right keep your eyes on me
all right stay with that left hook with
it crossing your right again
faster okay move around and cool off I
know what the doc stance looks better on
you every day it was like I was born
with it
I don't get it they've been three months
which me around me had a fight
when do we go I feel like I'm ready I
could use a few bucks
you don't poke your nose out I hear - I
give the word - many kids are pushed too
fast these days that ain't gonna happen
to you okay get your shower and then you
better clean up them cars hyah
no future ray say it's been a long time
yeah Pam's been keep me pretty busy up
and around how's it going with you hi
come you found your way out here I heard
you was working as a flunky one that I
elected now since I didn't steal 50
thousand miles well I hate to see him
mixed up with his burns King God you're
wasting your time even I gave up when
he's a fighter think I could be good
you've got to be better than good to get
any place in the fight game here for
thinking I didn't dare to get knocked
off
I've been crammed here talking about you
chum night and day
buzzing him like a fly you pick you are
doing what collects them from a few
bookies like I've been doing later on
maybe picking something be Oh dice right
I don't like crank you think I Larkin
it's got a personality like a LOX this
world don't pay off and like it
here's the fact of life coming it's a
crime we'll pay you a hundred a week no
better make it my own way
why can't you to me
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rod smallwood like a cards and fun
that's the sort of way you're honest you
get a minute
one hair like you just washed it looks
very nice I have I like it brought a day
you to bed with me do you really care
about the thing you'll probably get them
only way I'm going to got a jalopy like
this when they turn it in for junk
material things are really that
important yeah where I come from pop
have fun keep it under 100
yes who was that
yes scares me oh sure Mac no I know I
haven't been getting any engraved
invitation to come out here
how you doing with it don't you cut your
sights but a little too high or does she
let you splash around in her swimming
pool come on give me the lowdown Oh
knock it off
oh but that's how it is The Princess and
the pauper odd isn't any way to knock it
off right okay
worth wet-nursing abut reheat go ahead
you come to your senses again you look
me up I got a real girl for you drinks
like there's no tomorrow
lives like a skyrocket yeah remember
I'll be around so long no future
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and there's something you're submitted
to a magazine mm-hmm wait aren't you
curious no obviously they did it bad
self pity deadliest enemy of success
thank you
a little tired of attitude you know very
I sometimes think the reason you haven't
succeeded as a writer is because your
standards and tastes aren't ordinary I
like mine very high I just like
something in mine accepted pistol I know
that's why I tried to help you help me
you like things just as they are but
I've given you everything that you
wanted how could you know what I want
I'm just a possession like all the other
things you want a fixture on the
Melanson estate how do you care about it
but because what you want me to be
you've never tried to know me Know Who I
am
thank you I didn't see the shape waders
- you don't
yes what do you want I got some tickets
for you my fight tonight going in my
first main event against a pretty good
boy thought you might like to go like
sir
yeah Jersey sits across the George
Washington Bridge a few miles I'm afraid
that's a bit too far I'll come to see
you when you fight in New York Tarapur
good enough to make it oh me
I'm sorry don't be smelts and I have a
chance to get a lesson somebody with
real class Betty will do the same thing
to you again put myself in the same spot
again can you leave me what is it with
you what since I first came here you've
been trying to give me the evil always
telling me to get out why it is so
important to you never must forget it
I will oh man give me the chance to do
what I want to do besides like the view
his mouth and somebody like me gets
close enough to even look I've got a
ringside seat next to the things money
can buy you think that's everything
money number 1 with me maybe was enough
of it I can buy a girl like you pretty
stuck-up someone without the fear of
going hungry at arrive yeah that's what
I want
I just think got the price on the tag
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hey what do you think Barry I tell you
my boy was a comer was I right yeah
sometimes I think ever yours make sense
are you listening should listen to
myself I'm still
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CNRI here this good he opens that I
again I'm going to stop the pipe myself
remember what I told you
possum stay away from it what did I
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you
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listen to me you wouldn't got that I
chopped you gotta expect a few cuts
I'll let you fight the way I tell you
hello no future hi right so what are you
doing out of your eye every penthouse
plumbing hey the word is that on you
Tommy the worry is good cramming me just
saw the fight guy was no pushover you
look great
I haven't coming along come on along you
were arrived so I've been waiting on
your doorstep like an orphan I'm gonna
be taken in why don't you go back to
that cool room and slide down a cue
stick it's goes without taking a little
bit that on hey Bernstein wait a minute
I came down here to talk to you
let's sit down have a little meeting
what about my him my fighter your
fighter I'm still his manager and I I
figure I ought to be cut in for at least
50% no pay no attention to him date and
he can't rule out a guy for trying you
know what Tommy just that I want to see
you make it to the top we'll make it
where I ain't been catching into your
fights on a coast-to-coast hookup you
can't get nowhere it's grounding around
for nickels and dimes in the sticks like
this without cram the New York cries on
TV you might as well be fighting in a
closet tour Falk I ain't doing business
with crane you should what he's done for
all Corelli after he beat Steve Lin
you'll get a crack at the title forget
it right you know how I feel about cram
okay so you do business with me I mean
like I really would that's New York
punch I can get you any kind of deal you
want to make with Bernstein you're still
50,000 miles away with me it's easy
money
kind of living the quiet standards don't
try it the hard way
desire that they I better put her car
away
I want to take this one okay you sleep
late in the morning huh yeah
you going out again no are you all right
sure I want the try it looks terrible I
had a change then think you liked it the
way it was before may I ask you
something
sure go ahead why do you fight you're
not asking me something
you're asking me everything decide to
think tonight for life story alright
it's none of my business
hey wait a minute
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I had no right talking like I'm sorry
I'm gonna let you in on a state secret
tell you why I find I do it for money so
brutal
intense it makes me sick talk you never
the side of town in each other reading
and saying each other like animals
you saw me fight tonight so your old man
took you to the zoo to see the animals
would you call us huh
I would by myself why
come on tell me why
I don't know
and I'll tell you
I like you to like that guy from a flat
fighter
what are you crying about
oh yeah you didn't make the world I did
sector together with 15 clue
athletic
dad you shouldn't waste your time
worrying about guys like me
my
all you can say is why like a little
girl
in other words to tell you I guess I got
to show you
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beautiful time you're looking the wrong
way look over there no matter where I am
and then close my eyes that's what I see
victory against a college that you want
too scared to travel oh because they
don't take pictures of that kind of line
and smell
they're special in the winds rides in
the river but it's more than what you
smelled the what living there dust thank
you fighting to this barely stay alive
all the time wanted it worthy
wish I could write before you talk easy
all you have to do is be born in a dump
educated in an alley I learned
I know I know teach
to know something
speaking correctly it doesn't go with
see your strength like I feel when I'm
in your living the way I feel every time
I look at you
like all the other things that not
entitled
I think you're entitled anything you
want
whether I am or not I'm never coming
back to the nothing's here even if I
have to beat everybody's pretty crowd
the whole world my corner and on the
right on the cheek
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come on let's get out of here
commie noting things I want to tell you
about me not my mother she's in a
sanitarium she's no coholic
my father put her there he destroyed her
the way he destroyed everything that
doesn't fit the melons mold the way he's
going to destroy you which will let him
hey take it easy
Thomas Thank You way anybody copy I
can't I can't support you look I'm gonna
get though a lot of money I'm gonna try
to get it fast
got to give me a little time
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right guys married here sure find
yourself some trouble I didn't know you
was having a party maybe I better come
right back
friendly in here Tommy
under it's random you got a last name
Tommy Tommy I'm sure glad to see you hey
maybe I better connect another fan I
want to talk are you kidding
well you couldn't have picked a better
time I'm having a little bash in here
come on I want you to meet some of these
Buffalo you can start right here I
couldn't get any further than his first
place look I want to talk to you long I
wish she said that to me later doors go
play in that traffic over there before
you go look for how the under wanted to
run
quite a place you've got not a bad
mousetrap huh I'm in catching pretty
good lately yeah I noticed what's your
problem chump any money right sure
doors open how much you know the Tina
text I've gotta get him to the big mutt
I'm gonna talk to you about getting some
fight like now you are talk got a dump
Bernstein no I'm not I don't want any
said X nothing funny I won't play in the
dirt okay why not we'll play it straight
your worries are over no future you just
let me handle your case from now on in
I'll come up with a match for you be
like old times Donnie you and me
together again the way we'd always plan
gentlemen glad you dropped in ray you
were able to spare the time were you
Harry
all we don't make jokes Caitlin I had a
big breakfast it isn't settled yet I
hear you've been making a few
connections on your own playing it a
little sneaky maybe you forgot you're
supposed to be working for me
I just been building up a few contact
Harry those contacts been putting money
in your pocket not mine
here at wrong look I got a good deal for
you lots to say boys you've been looking
for a tune-up fight for Al here I got a
good boy Tommy Shay you saw him fighting
Jersey remember and we can get him cheap
under 5 grand ain't nothing you're wrong
now he's developed into real class Harry
he's just what you need
TV crowds crying for new faces Tommy's
got color he's loaded with personality
why don't you talk to the theater guild
no wait a minute ow that kid wasn't bad
is he willing to play along sure Harry
would I come to you with a guy didn't
want to go along he belongs to Bernstein
doesn't look he's fed up with Bernstein
he needs the dough he came to me it's
got to be a nice easy win for him
why all the steam over a clown like that
because I can't risk getting it cut up
before the title fight now look if I
give you this go I don't want any of
your fast shuffles well of course not
Harry this kid will do anything I tell
him
hey break it up
pride and I'm lightning just truck will
you here you'll be picking your eyes
above the floor I cut your match since
when have you had anything to say about
our fight
did you tell him tell me what Dave I
want to see ray because I've got to have
some bigger box I'm getting off this
train right now what am i some sort of
snake bite I got a great fight for you
ow
Corelli what do you think of that I
think that's Corelli yeah it's working
up till the point fight win for the time
wait a minute O'Reilly rah-rah me can't
be him who's this fella freedom what now
a great Johnny Tran don't think so we do
for this 5 grand thinking to be
introduced to you for doing what going
in the tank
hold on des you know I wouldn't go for
do you like that the fights on the level
don't worry that even before I went to
see Claire I need you with me Dave
why sure he does if Tommy makes a good
show we're on our way we'll have every
sports writer in the country raving him
up I want this validate I need a month I
need it back and I should have better
sense maybe a weapon I'll let you if you
think
don't forget i'm Corelli's cute in
closing dirty u+ get low anything you
can get away with any lorraine we just
worry about Corelli we let him lead to
you keep that left foot work well cram
we're kind of busy in here relax I just
dropped in to wish you luck you got
nothing to worry about kid nobody's
gonna get hurt I was gonna let you make
good showing tonight he's gonna let keep
talking about a fix I can smell it from
here too cannot see wait a minute you
mean Carrie didn't tell you I don't talk
fights with nobody clean you better go
along with this kid you go tell Pirelli
this ain't gonna be no wolves be it okay
even if you loop through it you'll never
get another fight in this town we'll
talk about that after the fight cram I
got a boy this time that's straight all
the way you're not going to muddle in on
him like you did on this money-hungry
talk yeah
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we're stretch one of your boys yeah I
built him into a champion then cram got
his hands on him took him away from me
and he wound up dripping with scum
waiting a long time to square things
with cramp hey I can help I think I can
take her Ella for you day I think again
- knock Tommy if he was expecting a fix
he probably won't be in top shape to go
ten so he'll probably try to put you
away in a hurry so you just stay out of
trouble for the first few rounds work on
him downstairs soften them up you know
the rules boys you got your instructions
from the commissioners afternoon I want
a good clean fight shake hands now come
on fight I didn't know you were
interested in boxing OHA
don't be a headhunter bang away dead
body
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running a home early boy avoid the
traffic
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good play punches with not yet okay
you
well we're moving into the fourth round
Corelli has been doing most of the
scoring forcing the fight so far Jay has
given us only occasional flurries and
most of his attack has been to the body
I'm out of date can't make the move now
he's working on that belly I'll tell you
one Freddie he thrown Tauber me I mean
I'd be around when you're ready
you're gonna be pretty some good stuff
you better write out and go to sleep
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yeah
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okay
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did you hear me no spamming punch with
him not till I tell you well they keep
shooting off his face
I don't like we player [ __ ] remove your
heavy of chocolate abyss
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any grounds coming gonna get him in a
hurry I'm willing go tell him
he's ready go out beginning
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thank you
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you
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giggling Kurt keep on top of him
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you
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let's get rid of you got any poison
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what
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when I said everybody we had a real good
fight if you join us a bit late tonight
just to bring you up to date Tommy Shay
was knocked to the canvas in the fourth
round and al Corelli was knocked down
and round number II Corelli was the
aggressor most of the way but Tommy
Jalen does a better body blow
now let's get up to the ring announcer
jimmy lennon and gets the official
decision all right Jim take your
attention please
just arty walk scores it by around four
Carelli four rounds for Shay one round
even Mike sure sees it five wrong for
shave three rounds for Corelli's and two
rounds even
slippery Mel wondered scores at five
four and one even in favor of the winner
by majority vote Tommy Shay
well looks like I picked another winner
Tommy what happened to here he's got a
nerve showing even a face like that
around here
come on what did happen to craps boys
worked me over but don't worry about
that I'm okay
Tommy I tell you we're in you made a
great showing we're on our way
chump I don't like your wake as Mary all
right
why didn't you tell us I knew I wouldn't
go for cram setup that's right
I think it's nobody knew you had a
chance to be curly what you did I set it
up for you Graham had it figured right
you were giving him away me
look who's worried about crammed and
looks at you you ought to be that's not
what's worrying me I'm just wondering
when you're gonna sell us down the river
Tommy never we can shove too long
you like stealing from myself you'd do
that too you figure an angle all right
all right quit hollering on me oh man
great fight shave go the way you planted
or you think it was a fluke why of
course it was planned I will hand
trolley the same thing any time he steps
into the ring with looks like you got
into the ring with him yeah who'd you
fight tonight I had a slight accident on
the way to the fight yeah we all had an
accident the day he was born
never mind about me there's a great
story in this boy a real Cinderella
angle he's been fighting to better
himself ever since he was a kid in
Jersey
six months ago he comes back from the
Army in Korea goes back to the fight
racket fight and clean but not getting
any of the breaks then he discovered in
the ring by a millionaire named Allison
Robert team Allison balance ins ball
bearings that one that's the one he
takes Tommy here around out to his Long
Island estate Tommy's been training
there ever since in secret not a bad
yarn if it's true check it this is a
real ristar richest bit come out of
nowhere
bang he knocks over the top contender in
his class now he's ready for the
champion all right boy that's all we got
work to do
here hey put it up good huh fellas now
lots of color hi
morning morning don't move after the
fight last night I'm surprised you can
even move I did forget the next couple
thousand hotel me I'm off the veggie
water oh hey I just happen to have a
couple of theater tickets to a musical
here it's very good too
well I'm and I'm gonna be able to use
them I thought you might like to go well
say I've been wanting to see you we
planning on taking well maybe I'll take
a polo player
perhaps a spider on have in mind you
take the fight you look better with the
down-to-earth tight pants that y'all
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good evening mr. Mallen oh hello tell me
yeah they'd be right down I've just been
reading about Jim and myself wealthy
Long Island a developed sophistical chez
I'm sorry about that thing see this
friend of mine told him Alistair if I
known he was going quite all right
in fact I contributed a few of these
your details I was ambushed by reporters
when I went to luncheon to the club
today thinking sure ask a lot of
questions
i tawt occur early Friday night it
looked very good thank you sports
writers the saying you've got the
makings of a champion on Dave's then
most epic no I don't think so
didn't Tommy my attitude toward you up
until now must have seemed strange at
times like my refusing to see your early
fight unforgivable I had met a reason
but you seem like they're patronizing to
enjoy I might have robbed you of your
incentive this way stinging you on
occasion was helping what you've
accomplished you've done on your own you
should be quite proud of that
I hope you're gonna stay on here oh
thank you sir
so far it's worked out fine good -
that's how we
I'd like to talk to you about Dorothy
she's in love with you you know well it
needn't look so surprised I have noticed
things seeing you two together are you
in love with her yes I am I suppose
you've thought about asking her to marry
you can't afford to right now
oh that's realistic now are these very
naive about money she thinks she can
live without the things that I tried to
give her but there are other problems
due to her from completely different
worlds not that that's insurmountable no
people change and grow intellectually
and I'd like to help you that is if you
don't mind fine
why should i kitty huh Oh ready
following look beautiful you're right
dear your dress but it isn't it sure is
well shall we go nighty-night
he done where they're left to you come
over here
and better
got a message for you
and delivered probably my father talking
about got another message the old man's
in our corner I don't want him there
look what do you say let me do the
worrying huh you're playing right into
his hands he doesn't want us to be
together that's not what he said he
thinks I'm right for you
so that
you are now strong we believe in
yourself that's one of the things I like
most about you you're able to fight for
what you want Tommy my father isn't what
he seems to me he doesn't give he takes
they'll try to run your life between his
pattern polish off the rough edges the
many thrill there'll be nothing nothing
left to fight with therefore I want you
tested your honor I'm not going to
change a colleague listen look I'll keep
an eye on him until okay
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and I'm cubby holiday
what's an used to like that
hey the floor doesn't creak my mouth and
said in rural Africa no place for a
hungry fighter who wants to keep on
winning aren't way I'm still handy I
know they're a good nothing for nothing
common
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looks like Corelli all the way here
looks good you could take him again
Tommy I'd bet my last dollar
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you should have been there tonight
instead of karate the sports I to think
you're entitled the championship
they've been playing up big sports
writers don't sign contracts yeah yeah
we got crammed and Corelli's name on a
piece of paper they know max why don't
you talk to cram Dave isn't the some
kind of data cat Bank
I had my belly fillet his kind of deal
well what sort of plans do you have for
Tommy well like I told him I think we
should go on the road take bites all
over the country Somaly builds up a big
enough following crown we'll be forced
to give him a crack at the title why
don't you go on the road tell me now
what Dave's talking about take two or
three years money he'll does right here
in New York and they doreen television
another way is time
club Dave the fight game is a business
just like any other business there's no
room for idealism they take my business
it's a competitor becomes a real threat
to what I have or what I want
I am alga mate with them that way
playing it smart nobody loses I ain't
that kind of smart I don't want to be
there's no need for that attitude dink
we both have Tommy's best interests at
heart but four years is a long time
radio can happen
why did Tommy move into the house and
obviously I asked him to he doesn't
belong here I sometimes think Darby with
yerba snob and his family Tommy and I
have been getting along just fine what
I've seen if you're in love with him
therapy you ought to realize but unless
he grows intellectually unless it
interest correspond with yours it
wouldn't work together we can make
something out of him like you've made
something of me dependence insecure not
quite measuring up make him willing to
compromise for the way of life you're
showing what money can buy well I won't
even watch it this time I'm getting out
for good
guys tell me wait a minute
what's the matter what happened she's
leaving leaving where's she going now
don't worry about it she'll be back
wait if you go after now you'll only
make matters worse there are these
disturbed about you moving into the
house why chief you're from interfering
in your life tell me the important thing
to you is to get financial independence
as soon as possible so I could give you
money but I don't want it that of course
you don't
the answer it seems to me is to get into
the big money and soon once you get it
your futures guaranteed then you'll have
time to go after that championship yeah
but how it seems to me that all the
business being done in this town is big
done with cramp they won't hold still
for that it's your life to me and
Dorothy
I've got to have a shot at the title I
need it now I can't even get my footing
crams office
couldn't we played along
you better give me that again I'm not
sure I heard it Who am I to change the
world
I need a stake a bit tell grandma give
credit and to wipe out that decision I
want anomic you'll pay for a shul
English boy you'd go in the tank I said
find out how much it'll be worth quite a
fistful feeding one so you could be the
favorite now we've been on Karelian and
you lose we could stand to make a pile I
want you to see glad I not just how much
you will pay
you'll go along I will I want you to
take care of Diomedes and put it on
correct
darling come in tell me give me
I'd like you to meet mrs. Malins this is
Tommy Shay how do you do how do you do
you're the prizefighter Dorothy has told
me about you
she said why don't you go up and rest
for a while but I'd like to talk about
thunder well well
I better take my purse with me I have
you seen on the couch where you left it
here
oh yeah so thank you thank you very well
it's been nice meeting you mr. Schmidt
Thank You mr. mouth
mrs. Melanson will be with us from now
on Tommy Oh fine I brought her home from
the sanitarium this morning they must be
careful with issues not completely well
yet I'd like to tell you something about
her Tommy thank you be interested she
came from a background something like
yours when I first met her she was
working in a department store I was
fascinated by her potentially I saw that
would help she could become gracious
charming lady but I didn't see the
contradictions in her personality
you see Tommy I tried to do for her what
I've done for you she couldn't get over
her background she didn't have your
strengths the weaknesses there she
always felt inferior but it's not the
time to talk about that now you look in
great shape to me everything going all
right yeah fine I guess good
hiding
let's try to explain it to you you don't
have to
I read print pretty good now there it is
black and white and between the lines
yellow
we've come a long way together yeah no
we're still want you with
I checked out when you mugged me using
crime as a club I ain't got time to even
look at you
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Alice I just came back glad you did I
came back because with my mother listen
darling after the fight I might have a
good chuckle money that's if they care
both of us you won't have to baby
anymore that's what you want
good luck channel
I hope you win but that's a q1
- yummy I'm gonna have the money no
matter what I win or not I know I think
you've made a call at six have you tell
me I'm gonna have that money that's all
that matters
when tribal to have it you said so
yourself
not this way anyway now it's what's
important when you want us to get
married in the next world whatever I'm
doing it's free to see them I wanted to
start out right the methyl bull they'll
never be enough that's the way my father
wants it you're like a child which is
nose against the window blinded by the
dazzling India's ever hand what you
don't see is that the only thing to come
blunt do it yourself to someone you love
and you don't belong to yourself anymore
Tommy or demean you belong to him or to
whoever by you whoever has the price on
the tag the way you once thought about
me it's funny
the thing I've had all my life money
it's always been in the way of anything
I really want
I'm ready dear
oh hello mr. are we wearing a minute
mother
goodbye Tommy goodbye
he's hosta bringing my mother here we
get new back but we're both leaving I'll
be able to knock some watching what he's
done to you was given me this print I
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chow mein Yura bleats I've been waiting
for you don't be with his ID to know oh
well that's fine I told you she'd come
back and then to this fight Tommy you're
going to have quite a large sum of money
you'll be able to give her everything
she wants just as you planned you mean
just as you planned
yes I I suppose you're right but
anything else you and Dorothy need from
now on I'm with you 100% you haven't got
enough balance look I made a six just
like you wanted me to I don't blame
anybody with myself but he was right I
had my nose against the window Tommy
Shay one of the one hundred neediest
cases taking a handout from you so you
could run my life tell me what to think
how to feel the only thing you ever had
I really wanted I lost because I
listened to that's your kind of a fixed
amount harder to figure out in the kind
clam makes the smells just as bad no
matter what happens to me from now and
you're not going to be any part of I'm
checking out this fancy graveyard
hello Harry I what's so important you
got to talk about it two o'clock in the
morning I'm not suing the site I don't
like your sense of humor Shae it does
nothing for me
what are you and this weasel cooked up
they had nothing to do with it
I've been trying to talk him into seeing
things our way Harry you better listen
to him it's gonna be on the level that's
it you stinking know Paulette stretch
this isn't the first Pig head I've ever
looked at he won't wise up so you want
to fight Corelli square okay we'll play
it your way but you won't like it
hiring
chump yeah I guess that's the word fly
well that's why she's a separate hanging
on with me now the only direction he can
go is down to a fault true
hey no future I got a little dough right
now to you to lose the Carelli fight I'm
sort of a chuff myself I hope we don't
collect I'm sticking with
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I'm gonna go down the lobby no how about
grandpa Jim no thanks
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thinking about Dave huh
yeah you want to have him with you Tommy
you won't come back
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and can I get home sleep good idea
I'm gonna take a little walk kind of
jittery you get that rest huh
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hey what is it in the wrist
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I wouldn't have gotten this mess in the
first place if he hadn't listened to
that Gabby yours ha get off my back
Tommy's playing it straight I try to
beat Corelli it's not what you want I'll
believe it when I heard from Tommy Tommy
you must still be sleeping Tommy
you're gonna let me call it off town
I'll be alright go up against Corelli
like this one more beating now and you
wind up on Dream Street and no you stay
them gonna fight be good to yourself
Tommy listen to me money ain't gonna do
you no good if you're walking around
punchy nothing in your head but birds
see I have to prove to prove there's
some things I won't do for money I've
got a beedi date
I'm tired yeah I think I'll go to bed
good night I hope you in this corner
wearing white trunks with a black stripe
weighing in at 146 and 3/4 pounds from
Jersey City New Jersey that sensational
young challenger Tommy Shay
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I'm now presenting on my left wearing
black trunks with a white stripe
weighing in at 145 pounds that popular
welterweight boxing champion of the
world
al Pirelli
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elderly you've got your instructions in
the commission of sacrimoni there eight
count is ways out this championship
fight
good luck to both you boys shake hands
now from our fight
the word is to keep working on his ribs
I'll push and clear through his back
give him away from over it anybody left
and move
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there
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I ribs date yeah I know you got
protectable
keep that left hand low and did but he
was upstairs with that right he fits him
tough yet keep moving to his left
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can't keep taking this around I'm gonna
stop the fight no daddy can't can't do
that our game alright then to listen to
it you got one chance in so long shot
switch back to your old style southpaw
first time you throw right keep it out
there started taking by surprise you
don't finish him off in this round I'm
gonna stop the fight
you got him now finish him off uh-uh
not yet I've got some kicks economy I'm
gonna carve him up like a turkey
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by Musco a noon welterweight champion of
the world Tommy hey
Obata top you can prevent shape the
ribcage I think it's true fighting crew
if you want my boy never again
tell me you know how to tell you read
that face it was pretty good no more
no more they don't matter Tommy you made
it you're a champion by me you always
will
the only real one I ever had
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tell me what are you doing here I think
I've been coming here since I was a kid
I finally figured out what's been wrong
no matter what you've got a half that
doesn't mean anything you always looking
at it by yourself
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No
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you
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you
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the last round coming up you're way
behind trams down there you understand
the making me look bad
I've seen better fights at the hockey
games
what am I wasting my time here for your
hair's not gonna watch it that way
you'll stay in condition into the drink
root beer sure Harry
hello mr. Bernstein clothes dress
remember plenty about we
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started to gas up we're worried the
first three rounds nothing's on my head
guess we struck out crams leaving
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with this your ring a gun
Harry when I saw you leaving a long way
over it's a long way back the gas fields
lata make me sick
like you and it Traver yours do hey I
don't like being called a [ __ ]
I thought he'd make a better show it he
was nervous cuz you were here you'll be
better next time Harry
the name is cram do yourself me a favor
forget it
hey where do you get off shoving people
around your timings off boy you're gonna
need a lot of experience come on
how are you Dave I thought you quit the
business it quit me who look mr. Crabb
I'm sorry to cause you all this trouble
but just give me a minute of your time
oh there's all sorts of ways like fit to
your setup I got a little neighborhood
you keep taking punches like tonight and
you won't have enough sense left to
untie your shoes what's it to you
nothing and we can suicide that's all
hasn't anybody ever told you that you
never get very far in the fight game
[ __ ] Harry cram you have to take that
kind of gas to get anywhere you can have
it well why'd you take this bar and
improve my social stance
mmm bro that's what Lakes wider good
fighters what they haven't got gets them
started and what they're afraid of going
back to keep them in the ring ain't for
fun you can say that again
we taught you to play they cast me
there's a fighter himself I know had a
perfect record lost every fight what
happened the night wasn't raised for he
just was taking about one thing can I
could be fun
we could be you can take a punch on your
game and I got a feeling you could hit
if he was learning right
I just learned campaka
yeah did a little better than that last
round how come and get this out bad
about the way I looked in me like a bomb
prides a good thing in the quarter yeah
I can see where it would help if you can
fight but after tonight I think I'll
just forget about I'll tell you
something
I never tried to talk nobody into it but
I got this much sickness left in me when
I see a boy who looks like you might
have something my telling but I don't
ask him that he should stay with fight
that's up to him you know what that's
for that was made for picking up things
not for hidden fees well if you got a
fight do it the right way
you ever see it that way that's where
you can find
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what's good Tommy going back to no man's
land Benny I just got laid off all right
too bad
don't let it get you down they will get
better yeah I've been hearing that ever
since I got out of the iron worker
coming through you
here's got to be paid that ain't easy on
an empty stomach
the old man made a good living in a
battery for a long time yeah
long enough to work himself to death
before it was 54 what even they make a
living what's it for
so you pay rent on a room and allow the
joint over there worms eye view the
wrong side of the river that ain't the
way I want to live sure Tommy
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you
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say today bernstein live here yes you'll
find him at the garage
thank
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anything I can do for you I was looking
for Dave Bernstein you're probably be
back soon oh wait what is this your
advantage i have put Bernstein get the
loot he doesn't know it just worked here
who does huh Randy Melanson you were
going to that yeah yeah you might say so
but be a pretty nice guy like to use all
equipment
say about all those places I saw on the
way up there like this one where do they
get I mean where the ice the kind of
money you take some inherited ever hear
the Melanson ball-bearing
that's what this little round on pieces
of steel
Oh
boy she's got it pretty isn't she and
I'd like to get close today yeah you
give an impression where does he fit in
the team his melanson's daughter
50,000 miles what I'm friend of mine
always said that when something's a long
way off you haven't got a prayer getting
close to it your friend is right must be
great having it made like this and the
day you're born she doesn't think so she
wants to be a writer which 300 the
father even got her job at a newspaper
she's a bright girl but she just can't
seem to make it he's breaking my heart
I know Dane went to work in grocery
store when she was 15 she's bright - but
she lose their jobs again worry about it
no swimming hello Bernstein
remember me I mean Kay sure remember you
I've been thinking about what you said I
want to go on fighting and I want you to
handle yeah well when I talked to you
the other night I guess I got a little
carried away I shouldn't have said it
I'm my little business you tell me to
look yet I know but you better forget it
you'll be way ahead packing all look
like good advice to me nobody asked you
to watch it so you don't look like a
fighter who you - no if I look like a
fighter watch what you're saying
sorry it's too Mallinson Malin Oh having
yourself some fun huh I just didn't want
to embarrass you okay yeah there's just
been a mistake all around sorry
well don't I'm sorry I stepped on your
grass a little younger I'd take a poke
at wait a minute will it make you feel
any better to take that punch at me you
know something it would get the gloves
Dave whoa are you kidding mr. Mallinson
yeah drop it pop you don't look like a
fighter
dawn died in college I was
intercollegiate Fighting champ I wanted
to be a fighter
my coach talked me out of it at the
first back alley champ I thought it like
me silly
don't think he was wrong get the gloves
be careful mr. Mallinson gets rough when
you pride sir don't worry I can add your
course was right purpose huh Kalam tick
stick real close to your knife softness
Shane where are you going I'm going
invent a better ball bearing put you out
of business
okay come here
do you still want to be a fighter yeah
but I ain't gonna make it hanging around
no fancy Fairgrounds like this it could
be wrong
Melanson wants me to train you ah Betty
does what's a gimmick this time why
don't you stop yappin and listen he
wants you to stay here he thinks you got
possibilities you can do odd jobs around
the place when you're ain't working with
me I don't get it
first I bailed him one and all of a
sudden he comes up with a big brother
right
what for while I taste waffles well how
about it well okay what do I got to lose
this might not be just bad a dress after
all say miss mallison
I'm sorry about that little hassle
upstairs don't be well I'm sorry
you think you punched yourself into
something pretty good don't you look I
didn't come out here to what scorchin
heard come on forget her that may not be
see now look before we start anything
you keep your nose clean around here you
want me to make a fighter out of the
you're going to do it my way okay
you're running the show now five is the
screw arm where's your hitting still
that alright now we switch the Orthodox
this is the way you're going to fight
Howard that it man out front closer to
your opponent simple as that but instead
of laying back waiting for an opening
your users all the time jabbing look
yeah well come on come on Ted all right
left to the body left of the head cross
with your right then
all right all right keep your eyes on me
all right stay with that left hook with
it crossing your right again
faster okay move around and cool off I
know what the doc stance looks better on
you every day it was like I was born
with it
I don't get it they've been three months
which me around me had a fight
when do we go I feel like I'm ready I
could use a few bucks
you don't poke your nose out I hear - I
give the word - many kids are pushed too
fast these days that ain't gonna happen
to you okay get your shower and then you
better clean up them cars hyah
no future ray say it's been a long time
yeah Pam's been keep me pretty busy up
and around how's it going with you hi
come you found your way out here I heard
you was working as a flunky one that I
elected now since I didn't steal 50
thousand miles well I hate to see him
mixed up with his burns King God you're
wasting your time even I gave up when
he's a fighter think I could be good
you've got to be better than good to get
any place in the fight game here for
thinking I didn't dare to get knocked
off
I've been crammed here talking about you
chum night and day
buzzing him like a fly you pick you are
doing what collects them from a few
bookies like I've been doing later on
maybe picking something be Oh dice right
I don't like crank you think I Larkin
it's got a personality like a LOX this
world don't pay off and like it
here's the fact of life coming it's a
crime we'll pay you a hundred a week no
better make it my own way
why can't you to me
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rod smallwood like a cards and fun
that's the sort of way you're honest you
get a minute
one hair like you just washed it looks
very nice I have I like it brought a day
you to bed with me do you really care
about the thing you'll probably get them
only way I'm going to got a jalopy like
this when they turn it in for junk
material things are really that
important yeah where I come from pop
have fun keep it under 100
yes who was that
yes scares me oh sure Mac no I know I
haven't been getting any engraved
invitation to come out here
how you doing with it don't you cut your
sights but a little too high or does she
let you splash around in her swimming
pool come on give me the lowdown Oh
knock it off
oh but that's how it is The Princess and
the pauper odd isn't any way to knock it
off right okay
worth wet-nursing abut reheat go ahead
you come to your senses again you look
me up I got a real girl for you drinks
like there's no tomorrow
lives like a skyrocket yeah remember
I'll be around so long no future
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and there's something you're submitted
to a magazine mm-hmm wait aren't you
curious no obviously they did it bad
self pity deadliest enemy of success
thank you
a little tired of attitude you know very
I sometimes think the reason you haven't
succeeded as a writer is because your
standards and tastes aren't ordinary I
like mine very high I just like
something in mine accepted pistol I know
that's why I tried to help you help me
you like things just as they are but
I've given you everything that you
wanted how could you know what I want
I'm just a possession like all the other
things you want a fixture on the
Melanson estate how do you care about it
but because what you want me to be
you've never tried to know me Know Who I
am
thank you I didn't see the shape waders
- you don't
yes what do you want I got some tickets
for you my fight tonight going in my
first main event against a pretty good
boy thought you might like to go like
sir
yeah Jersey sits across the George
Washington Bridge a few miles I'm afraid
that's a bit too far I'll come to see
you when you fight in New York Tarapur
good enough to make it oh me
I'm sorry don't be smelts and I have a
chance to get a lesson somebody with
real class Betty will do the same thing
to you again put myself in the same spot
again can you leave me what is it with
you what since I first came here you've
been trying to give me the evil always
telling me to get out why it is so
important to you never must forget it
I will oh man give me the chance to do
what I want to do besides like the view
his mouth and somebody like me gets
close enough to even look I've got a
ringside seat next to the things money
can buy you think that's everything
money number 1 with me maybe was enough
of it I can buy a girl like you pretty
stuck-up someone without the fear of
going hungry at arrive yeah that's what
I want
I just think got the price on the tag
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hey what do you think Barry I tell you
my boy was a comer was I right yeah
sometimes I think ever yours make sense
are you listening should listen to
myself I'm still
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CNRI here this good he opens that I
again I'm going to stop the pipe myself
remember what I told you
possum stay away from it what did I
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you
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right
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I
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listen to me you wouldn't got that I
chopped you gotta expect a few cuts
I'll let you fight the way I tell you
hello no future hi right so what are you
doing out of your eye every penthouse
plumbing hey the word is that on you
Tommy the worry is good cramming me just
saw the fight guy was no pushover you
look great
I haven't coming along come on along you
were arrived so I've been waiting on
your doorstep like an orphan I'm gonna
be taken in why don't you go back to
that cool room and slide down a cue
stick it's goes without taking a little
bit that on hey Bernstein wait a minute
I came down here to talk to you
let's sit down have a little meeting
what about my him my fighter your
fighter I'm still his manager and I I
figure I ought to be cut in for at least
50% no pay no attention to him date and
he can't rule out a guy for trying you
know what Tommy just that I want to see
you make it to the top we'll make it
where I ain't been catching into your
fights on a coast-to-coast hookup you
can't get nowhere it's grounding around
for nickels and dimes in the sticks like
this without cram the New York cries on
TV you might as well be fighting in a
closet tour Falk I ain't doing business
with crane you should what he's done for
all Corelli after he beat Steve Lin
you'll get a crack at the title forget
it right you know how I feel about cram
okay so you do business with me I mean
like I really would that's New York
punch I can get you any kind of deal you
want to make with Bernstein you're still
50,000 miles away with me it's easy
money
kind of living the quiet standards don't
try it the hard way
desire that they I better put her car
away
I want to take this one okay you sleep
late in the morning huh yeah
you going out again no are you all right
sure I want the try it looks terrible I
had a change then think you liked it the
way it was before may I ask you
something
sure go ahead why do you fight you're
not asking me something
you're asking me everything decide to
think tonight for life story alright
it's none of my business
hey wait a minute
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I had no right talking like I'm sorry
I'm gonna let you in on a state secret
tell you why I find I do it for money so
brutal
intense it makes me sick talk you never
the side of town in each other reading
and saying each other like animals
you saw me fight tonight so your old man
took you to the zoo to see the animals
would you call us huh
I would by myself why
come on tell me why
I don't know
and I'll tell you
I like you to like that guy from a flat
fighter
what are you crying about
oh yeah you didn't make the world I did
sector together with 15 clue
athletic
dad you shouldn't waste your time
worrying about guys like me
my
all you can say is why like a little
girl
in other words to tell you I guess I got
to show you
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beautiful time you're looking the wrong
way look over there no matter where I am
and then close my eyes that's what I see
victory against a college that you want
too scared to travel oh because they
don't take pictures of that kind of line
and smell
they're special in the winds rides in
the river but it's more than what you
smelled the what living there dust thank
you fighting to this barely stay alive
all the time wanted it worthy
wish I could write before you talk easy
all you have to do is be born in a dump
educated in an alley I learned
I know I know teach
to know something
speaking correctly it doesn't go with
see your strength like I feel when I'm
in your living the way I feel every time
I look at you
like all the other things that not
entitled
I think you're entitled anything you
want
whether I am or not I'm never coming
back to the nothing's here even if I
have to beat everybody's pretty crowd
the whole world my corner and on the
right on the cheek
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come on let's get out of here
commie noting things I want to tell you
about me not my mother she's in a
sanitarium she's no coholic
my father put her there he destroyed her
the way he destroyed everything that
doesn't fit the melons mold the way he's
going to destroy you which will let him
hey take it easy
Thomas Thank You way anybody copy I
can't I can't support you look I'm gonna
get though a lot of money I'm gonna try
to get it fast
got to give me a little time
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right guys married here sure find
yourself some trouble I didn't know you
was having a party maybe I better come
right back
friendly in here Tommy
under it's random you got a last name
Tommy Tommy I'm sure glad to see you hey
maybe I better connect another fan I
want to talk are you kidding
well you couldn't have picked a better
time I'm having a little bash in here
come on I want you to meet some of these
Buffalo you can start right here I
couldn't get any further than his first
place look I want to talk to you long I
wish she said that to me later doors go
play in that traffic over there before
you go look for how the under wanted to
run
quite a place you've got not a bad
mousetrap huh I'm in catching pretty
good lately yeah I noticed what's your
problem chump any money right sure
doors open how much you know the Tina
text I've gotta get him to the big mutt
I'm gonna talk to you about getting some
fight like now you are talk got a dump
Bernstein no I'm not I don't want any
said X nothing funny I won't play in the
dirt okay why not we'll play it straight
your worries are over no future you just
let me handle your case from now on in
I'll come up with a match for you be
like old times Donnie you and me
together again the way we'd always plan
gentlemen glad you dropped in ray you
were able to spare the time were you
Harry
all we don't make jokes Caitlin I had a
big breakfast it isn't settled yet I
hear you've been making a few
connections on your own playing it a
little sneaky maybe you forgot you're
supposed to be working for me
I just been building up a few contact
Harry those contacts been putting money
in your pocket not mine
here at wrong look I got a good deal for
you lots to say boys you've been looking
for a tune-up fight for Al here I got a
good boy Tommy Shay you saw him fighting
Jersey remember and we can get him cheap
under 5 grand ain't nothing you're wrong
now he's developed into real class Harry
he's just what you need
TV crowds crying for new faces Tommy's
got color he's loaded with personality
why don't you talk to the theater guild
no wait a minute ow that kid wasn't bad
is he willing to play along sure Harry
would I come to you with a guy didn't
want to go along he belongs to Bernstein
doesn't look he's fed up with Bernstein
he needs the dough he came to me it's
got to be a nice easy win for him
why all the steam over a clown like that
because I can't risk getting it cut up
before the title fight now look if I
give you this go I don't want any of
your fast shuffles well of course not
Harry this kid will do anything I tell
him
hey break it up
pride and I'm lightning just truck will
you here you'll be picking your eyes
above the floor I cut your match since
when have you had anything to say about
our fight
did you tell him tell me what Dave I
want to see ray because I've got to have
some bigger box I'm getting off this
train right now what am i some sort of
snake bite I got a great fight for you
ow
Corelli what do you think of that I
think that's Corelli yeah it's working
up till the point fight win for the time
wait a minute O'Reilly rah-rah me can't
be him who's this fella freedom what now
a great Johnny Tran don't think so we do
for this 5 grand thinking to be
introduced to you for doing what going
in the tank
hold on des you know I wouldn't go for
do you like that the fights on the level
don't worry that even before I went to
see Claire I need you with me Dave
why sure he does if Tommy makes a good
show we're on our way we'll have every
sports writer in the country raving him
up I want this validate I need a month I
need it back and I should have better
sense maybe a weapon I'll let you if you
think
don't forget i'm Corelli's cute in
closing dirty u+ get low anything you
can get away with any lorraine we just
worry about Corelli we let him lead to
you keep that left foot work well cram
we're kind of busy in here relax I just
dropped in to wish you luck you got
nothing to worry about kid nobody's
gonna get hurt I was gonna let you make
good showing tonight he's gonna let keep
talking about a fix I can smell it from
here too cannot see wait a minute you
mean Carrie didn't tell you I don't talk
fights with nobody clean you better go
along with this kid you go tell Pirelli
this ain't gonna be no wolves be it okay
even if you loop through it you'll never
get another fight in this town we'll
talk about that after the fight cram I
got a boy this time that's straight all
the way you're not going to muddle in on
him like you did on this money-hungry
talk yeah
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we're stretch one of your boys yeah I
built him into a champion then cram got
his hands on him took him away from me
and he wound up dripping with scum
waiting a long time to square things
with cramp hey I can help I think I can
take her Ella for you day I think again
- knock Tommy if he was expecting a fix
he probably won't be in top shape to go
ten so he'll probably try to put you
away in a hurry so you just stay out of
trouble for the first few rounds work on
him downstairs soften them up you know
the rules boys you got your instructions
from the commissioners afternoon I want
a good clean fight shake hands now come
on fight I didn't know you were
interested in boxing OHA
don't be a headhunter bang away dead
body
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running a home early boy avoid the
traffic
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good play punches with not yet okay
you
well we're moving into the fourth round
Corelli has been doing most of the
scoring forcing the fight so far Jay has
given us only occasional flurries and
most of his attack has been to the body
I'm out of date can't make the move now
he's working on that belly I'll tell you
one Freddie he thrown Tauber me I mean
I'd be around when you're ready
you're gonna be pretty some good stuff
you better write out and go to sleep
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yeah
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okay
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did you hear me no spamming punch with
him not till I tell you well they keep
shooting off his face
I don't like we player [ __ ] remove your
heavy of chocolate abyss
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any grounds coming gonna get him in a
hurry I'm willing go tell him
he's ready go out beginning
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thank you
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you
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giggling Kurt keep on top of him
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you
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let's get rid of you got any poison
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what
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when I said everybody we had a real good
fight if you join us a bit late tonight
just to bring you up to date Tommy Shay
was knocked to the canvas in the fourth
round and al Corelli was knocked down
and round number II Corelli was the
aggressor most of the way but Tommy
Jalen does a better body blow
now let's get up to the ring announcer
jimmy lennon and gets the official
decision all right Jim take your
attention please
just arty walk scores it by around four
Carelli four rounds for Shay one round
even Mike sure sees it five wrong for
shave three rounds for Corelli's and two
rounds even
slippery Mel wondered scores at five
four and one even in favor of the winner
by majority vote Tommy Shay
well looks like I picked another winner
Tommy what happened to here he's got a
nerve showing even a face like that
around here
come on what did happen to craps boys
worked me over but don't worry about
that I'm okay
Tommy I tell you we're in you made a
great showing we're on our way
chump I don't like your wake as Mary all
right
why didn't you tell us I knew I wouldn't
go for cram setup that's right
I think it's nobody knew you had a
chance to be curly what you did I set it
up for you Graham had it figured right
you were giving him away me
look who's worried about crammed and
looks at you you ought to be that's not
what's worrying me I'm just wondering
when you're gonna sell us down the river
Tommy never we can shove too long
you like stealing from myself you'd do
that too you figure an angle all right
all right quit hollering on me oh man
great fight shave go the way you planted
or you think it was a fluke why of
course it was planned I will hand
trolley the same thing any time he steps
into the ring with looks like you got
into the ring with him yeah who'd you
fight tonight I had a slight accident on
the way to the fight yeah we all had an
accident the day he was born
never mind about me there's a great
story in this boy a real Cinderella
angle he's been fighting to better
himself ever since he was a kid in
Jersey
six months ago he comes back from the
Army in Korea goes back to the fight
racket fight and clean but not getting
any of the breaks then he discovered in
the ring by a millionaire named Allison
Robert team Allison balance ins ball
bearings that one that's the one he
takes Tommy here around out to his Long
Island estate Tommy's been training
there ever since in secret not a bad
yarn if it's true check it this is a
real ristar richest bit come out of
nowhere
bang he knocks over the top contender in
his class now he's ready for the
champion all right boy that's all we got
work to do
here hey put it up good huh fellas now
lots of color hi
morning morning don't move after the
fight last night I'm surprised you can
even move I did forget the next couple
thousand hotel me I'm off the veggie
water oh hey I just happen to have a
couple of theater tickets to a musical
here it's very good too
well I'm and I'm gonna be able to use
them I thought you might like to go well
say I've been wanting to see you we
planning on taking well maybe I'll take
a polo player
perhaps a spider on have in mind you
take the fight you look better with the
down-to-earth tight pants that y'all
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good evening mr. Mallen oh hello tell me
yeah they'd be right down I've just been
reading about Jim and myself wealthy
Long Island a developed sophistical chez
I'm sorry about that thing see this
friend of mine told him Alistair if I
known he was going quite all right
in fact I contributed a few of these
your details I was ambushed by reporters
when I went to luncheon to the club
today thinking sure ask a lot of
questions
i tawt occur early Friday night it
looked very good thank you sports
writers the saying you've got the
makings of a champion on Dave's then
most epic no I don't think so
didn't Tommy my attitude toward you up
until now must have seemed strange at
times like my refusing to see your early
fight unforgivable I had met a reason
but you seem like they're patronizing to
enjoy I might have robbed you of your
incentive this way stinging you on
occasion was helping what you've
accomplished you've done on your own you
should be quite proud of that
I hope you're gonna stay on here oh
thank you sir
so far it's worked out fine good -
that's how we
I'd like to talk to you about Dorothy
she's in love with you you know well it
needn't look so surprised I have noticed
things seeing you two together are you
in love with her yes I am I suppose
you've thought about asking her to marry
you can't afford to right now
oh that's realistic now are these very
naive about money she thinks she can
live without the things that I tried to
give her but there are other problems
due to her from completely different
worlds not that that's insurmountable no
people change and grow intellectually
and I'd like to help you that is if you
don't mind fine
why should i kitty huh Oh ready
following look beautiful you're right
dear your dress but it isn't it sure is
well shall we go nighty-night
he done where they're left to you come
over here
and better
got a message for you
and delivered probably my father talking
about got another message the old man's
in our corner I don't want him there
look what do you say let me do the
worrying huh you're playing right into
his hands he doesn't want us to be
together that's not what he said he
thinks I'm right for you
so that
you are now strong we believe in
yourself that's one of the things I like
most about you you're able to fight for
what you want Tommy my father isn't what
he seems to me he doesn't give he takes
they'll try to run your life between his
pattern polish off the rough edges the
many thrill there'll be nothing nothing
left to fight with therefore I want you
tested your honor I'm not going to
change a colleague listen look I'll keep
an eye on him until okay
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and I'm cubby holiday
what's an used to like that
hey the floor doesn't creak my mouth and
said in rural Africa no place for a
hungry fighter who wants to keep on
winning aren't way I'm still handy I
know they're a good nothing for nothing
common
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looks like Corelli all the way here
looks good you could take him again
Tommy I'd bet my last dollar
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you should have been there tonight
instead of karate the sports I to think
you're entitled the championship
they've been playing up big sports
writers don't sign contracts yeah yeah
we got crammed and Corelli's name on a
piece of paper they know max why don't
you talk to cram Dave isn't the some
kind of data cat Bank
I had my belly fillet his kind of deal
well what sort of plans do you have for
Tommy well like I told him I think we
should go on the road take bites all
over the country Somaly builds up a big
enough following crown we'll be forced
to give him a crack at the title why
don't you go on the road tell me now
what Dave's talking about take two or
three years money he'll does right here
in New York and they doreen television
another way is time
club Dave the fight game is a business
just like any other business there's no
room for idealism they take my business
it's a competitor becomes a real threat
to what I have or what I want
I am alga mate with them that way
playing it smart nobody loses I ain't
that kind of smart I don't want to be
there's no need for that attitude dink
we both have Tommy's best interests at
heart but four years is a long time
radio can happen
why did Tommy move into the house and
obviously I asked him to he doesn't
belong here I sometimes think Darby with
yerba snob and his family Tommy and I
have been getting along just fine what
I've seen if you're in love with him
therapy you ought to realize but unless
he grows intellectually unless it
interest correspond with yours it
wouldn't work together we can make
something out of him like you've made
something of me dependence insecure not
quite measuring up make him willing to
compromise for the way of life you're
showing what money can buy well I won't
even watch it this time I'm getting out
for good
guys tell me wait a minute
what's the matter what happened she's
leaving leaving where's she going now
don't worry about it she'll be back
wait if you go after now you'll only
make matters worse there are these
disturbed about you moving into the
house why chief you're from interfering
in your life tell me the important thing
to you is to get financial independence
as soon as possible so I could give you
money but I don't want it that of course
you don't
the answer it seems to me is to get into
the big money and soon once you get it
your futures guaranteed then you'll have
time to go after that championship yeah
but how it seems to me that all the
business being done in this town is big
done with cramp they won't hold still
for that it's your life to me and
Dorothy
I've got to have a shot at the title I
need it now I can't even get my footing
crams office
couldn't we played along
you better give me that again I'm not
sure I heard it Who am I to change the
world
I need a stake a bit tell grandma give
credit and to wipe out that decision I
want anomic you'll pay for a shul
English boy you'd go in the tank I said
find out how much it'll be worth quite a
fistful feeding one so you could be the
favorite now we've been on Karelian and
you lose we could stand to make a pile I
want you to see glad I not just how much
you will pay
you'll go along I will I want you to
take care of Diomedes and put it on
correct
darling come in tell me give me
I'd like you to meet mrs. Malins this is
Tommy Shay how do you do how do you do
you're the prizefighter Dorothy has told
me about you
she said why don't you go up and rest
for a while but I'd like to talk about
thunder well well
I better take my purse with me I have
you seen on the couch where you left it
here
oh yeah so thank you thank you very well
it's been nice meeting you mr. Schmidt
Thank You mr. mouth
mrs. Melanson will be with us from now
on Tommy Oh fine I brought her home from
the sanitarium this morning they must be
careful with issues not completely well
yet I'd like to tell you something about
her Tommy thank you be interested she
came from a background something like
yours when I first met her she was
working in a department store I was
fascinated by her potentially I saw that
would help she could become gracious
charming lady but I didn't see the
contradictions in her personality
you see Tommy I tried to do for her what
I've done for you she couldn't get over
her background she didn't have your
strengths the weaknesses there she
always felt inferior but it's not the
time to talk about that now you look in
great shape to me everything going all
right yeah fine I guess good
hiding
let's try to explain it to you you don't
have to
I read print pretty good now there it is
black and white and between the lines
yellow
we've come a long way together yeah no
we're still want you with
I checked out when you mugged me using
crime as a club I ain't got time to even
look at you
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Alice I just came back glad you did I
came back because with my mother listen
darling after the fight I might have a
good chuckle money that's if they care
both of us you won't have to baby
anymore that's what you want
good luck channel
I hope you win but that's a q1
- yummy I'm gonna have the money no
matter what I win or not I know I think
you've made a call at six have you tell
me I'm gonna have that money that's all
that matters
when tribal to have it you said so
yourself
not this way anyway now it's what's
important when you want us to get
married in the next world whatever I'm
doing it's free to see them I wanted to
start out right the methyl bull they'll
never be enough that's the way my father
wants it you're like a child which is
nose against the window blinded by the
dazzling India's ever hand what you
don't see is that the only thing to come
blunt do it yourself to someone you love
and you don't belong to yourself anymore
Tommy or demean you belong to him or to
whoever by you whoever has the price on
the tag the way you once thought about
me it's funny
the thing I've had all my life money
it's always been in the way of anything
I really want
I'm ready dear
oh hello mr. are we wearing a minute
mother
goodbye Tommy goodbye
he's hosta bringing my mother here we
get new back but we're both leaving I'll
be able to knock some watching what he's
done to you was given me this print I
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chow mein Yura bleats I've been waiting
for you don't be with his ID to know oh
well that's fine I told you she'd come
back and then to this fight Tommy you're
going to have quite a large sum of money
you'll be able to give her everything
she wants just as you planned you mean
just as you planned
yes I I suppose you're right but
anything else you and Dorothy need from
now on I'm with you 100% you haven't got
enough balance look I made a six just
like you wanted me to I don't blame
anybody with myself but he was right I
had my nose against the window Tommy
Shay one of the one hundred neediest
cases taking a handout from you so you
could run my life tell me what to think
how to feel the only thing you ever had
I really wanted I lost because I
listened to that's your kind of a fixed
amount harder to figure out in the kind
clam makes the smells just as bad no
matter what happens to me from now and
you're not going to be any part of I'm
checking out this fancy graveyard
hello Harry I what's so important you
got to talk about it two o'clock in the
morning I'm not suing the site I don't
like your sense of humor Shae it does
nothing for me
what are you and this weasel cooked up
they had nothing to do with it
I've been trying to talk him into seeing
things our way Harry you better listen
to him it's gonna be on the level that's
it you stinking know Paulette stretch
this isn't the first Pig head I've ever
looked at he won't wise up so you want
to fight Corelli square okay we'll play
it your way but you won't like it
hiring
chump yeah I guess that's the word fly
well that's why she's a separate hanging
on with me now the only direction he can
go is down to a fault true
hey no future I got a little dough right
now to you to lose the Carelli fight I'm
sort of a chuff myself I hope we don't
collect I'm sticking with
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I'm gonna go down the lobby no how about
grandpa Jim no thanks
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thinking about Dave huh
yeah you want to have him with you Tommy
you won't come back
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and can I get home sleep good idea
I'm gonna take a little walk kind of
jittery you get that rest huh
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hey what is it in the wrist
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I wouldn't have gotten this mess in the
first place if he hadn't listened to
that Gabby yours ha get off my back
Tommy's playing it straight I try to
beat Corelli it's not what you want I'll
believe it when I heard from Tommy Tommy
you must still be sleeping Tommy
you're gonna let me call it off town
I'll be alright go up against Corelli
like this one more beating now and you
wind up on Dream Street and no you stay
them gonna fight be good to yourself
Tommy listen to me money ain't gonna do
you no good if you're walking around
punchy nothing in your head but birds
see I have to prove to prove there's
some things I won't do for money I've
got a beedi date
I'm tired yeah I think I'll go to bed
good night I hope you in this corner
wearing white trunks with a black stripe
weighing in at 146 and 3/4 pounds from
Jersey City New Jersey that sensational
young challenger Tommy Shay
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I'm now presenting on my left wearing
black trunks with a white stripe
weighing in at 145 pounds that popular
welterweight boxing champion of the
world
al Pirelli
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elderly you've got your instructions in
the commission of sacrimoni there eight
count is ways out this championship
fight
good luck to both you boys shake hands
now from our fight
the word is to keep working on his ribs
I'll push and clear through his back
give him away from over it anybody left
and move
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there
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I ribs date yeah I know you got
protectable
keep that left hand low and did but he
was upstairs with that right he fits him
tough yet keep moving to his left
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can't keep taking this around I'm gonna
stop the fight no daddy can't can't do
that our game alright then to listen to
it you got one chance in so long shot
switch back to your old style southpaw
first time you throw right keep it out
there started taking by surprise you
don't finish him off in this round I'm
gonna stop the fight
you got him now finish him off uh-uh
not yet I've got some kicks economy I'm
gonna carve him up like a turkey
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by Musco a noon welterweight champion of
the world Tommy hey
Obata top you can prevent shape the
ribcage I think it's true fighting crew
if you want my boy never again
tell me you know how to tell you read
that face it was pretty good no more
no more they don't matter Tommy you made
it you're a champion by me you always
will
the only real one I ever had
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tell me what are you doing here I think
I've been coming here since I was a kid
I finally figured out what's been wrong
no matter what you've got a half that
doesn't mean anything you always looking
at it by yourself
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No