Sinners

Sammie Moore: They said you wanna talk. Smoke: Yeah. Seen your performance down there. Pretty damn good. Sammie Moore: Can't thank you enough for this. I mean, y'all the ones who put that guitar in my hand. Now this. Smoke: Well, you got the talent. That's for certain. But all this ain't no life for nobody. I know plenty of musicians I ain't never met a happy one. Yeah, it's cute now. But it get old. That ramblin'. Sammie Moore: I mean being with y'all today... Smoke, I feel like I'm flying. Well, today settled it. I'm headin' off on my own. Smoke: Where you goin'? Sammie Moore: I don't know. Maybe Chicago. Smoke: Hmm. One day our daddy beat Stack real bad. So we get in our minds that we need to run away. See, me, I wanna go to the next plantation over. But Stack, he figured we get to Mound Bayou. Small town. Right here in Mississippi. Founded by free slaves. And everything is Black-owned. Sammie Moore: That sound like a crock. Smoke: Yeah, well, I seen it. Sammie Moore: Why y'all ain'

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Sammie Moore: Mornin' Pop. Jedidiah: You're up awful early, son. Sammie Moore: Like you say, jump on the work don't let the work jump on you. Jedidiah: That's right. Sammie Moore: Finished my quota for the day. [Notices the guitar] Jedidiah: Yeah. I brought it in here. I want you to help me give my sermon tomorrow. First Corinthians, 10:13. Read. Sammie Moore: No temptation has overtaken you, except what is common to mankind. God is faithful. He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you're tempted he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it. Now, Pop if you don't mind, I'm gon' be late. Jedidiah: Late for what, boy? Where you gotta that's more important then being in the House of God? Sammie Moore: I've been workin' all week, Pop. Wanna be free of all this for a day. Jedidiah: To play music? For drunkards? Philanderers, who shirk their responsibilities to their families so they can sweat all over each other? Sammie Moore: I'll be back in time for s

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Smoke: You Hogwood? Hogwood: You boys twins? Stack: [Sarcastically] Nah, we cousins. Hogwood: Well. Here she is. He moved a ton of timber a month back in his heyday. Workers lived upstairs. Say, what are you fellas planning on doing with the place? Stack: Y'all wash these floors? Hogwood: Yeah. Smoke: What was on 'em? Hogwood: I thought y'all was dead set on buying the place. More time I spend with y'all, the less sure I am you boys are serious about it. Smoke: Ain't no "boys" here. Stack: Just grown men. With grown-men money. Smoke: And grown-men bullets Hogwood: I didn't mean nothin' by it. Just the way we talk down here. Smoke: We'll take it. The mill, the equipment, and the land that it's standing on. Hogwood: [looking at the briefcase full of money] Well, Damn! Smoke: Now, understand, it's the last dime you ever gonna to see from us. And if we see you, or any one of your Klan buddies cross our property line, we gonna kill 'em right where they stand. Hogwood: Shit. Klan don't exist

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Sammie Moore: Delta Slim. Delta Slim: Yeah, I thank you for your generosity. I guess that Chicago wind blew your black asses back down here, huh? Who the boy? Stack: This my little cousin. Preacherboy Sammie. Happens to be the finest blues player in all the Delta. Delta Slim: I got socks older than this here boy. What the hell he know about the blues? Sammie Moore: [Holding up his guitar] I can show you better than I can tell you. Delta Slim: Hold up, now. Put down that motherfucker... Stack: Put that away. Delta Slim: Now, this here my patch right here. Now, you wasn't his cousin and a young pup to boot. I'd cut your ass too thin to fry. Stack: And you threaten him again I'mma make your drunk ass swallow that harmonica. You still nice with them keys? Delta Slim: Depend on who you ask. Stack: I'll give you $20 to come play at our juke tonight. Delta Slim: Yeah, I wish I could. I'mma be at Messengers tonight same as I am every Saturday night. Stack: What they pay you? Delta Slim: For a

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Sammie Moore: [Stack, Delta Slim and Sammie are driving by a chain gang at work] Hey, you know some of them? Delta Slim: All of 'em. Sammie Moore: What happened? Delta Slim: Me and my buddy Rice, we was hustlin' back and forth up the delta, we got busted for vagrancy. Them white sheriffs take us down to the jailhouse... that was empty. I thought for sure they was gonna kill us that night. But they gave us our instruments back, and they tell us to play. Stack, we played. Preacherboy, we played, you hear me? Music was comin' out the windows. People on the street was stoppin' to come in. Next day, one of them sheriffs got the bright idea they gonna take us on the road now. They cover us and throw us in the paddy wagon. They take us to this big house. I mean, it's full of white folks. Pass around their hats and have us to play. See, them white folks we playin' for, they had real money. Sammie Moore: Had y'all playing them old ragtime songs? Delta Slim: We played a fair amount of blues too.

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Annie: What you come back for? Smoke: We bought that old sawmill. Yeah, we gon' patch it up, make it into a juke joint. Annie: A juke joint. This one of Stack's ideas? Smoke: Yeah, he figure tonight gonna be a grand opening. Annie: I thought y'all was done with the Delta. Last I heard, y'all were northern men. Smoke: Nah, we through with Chicago. Annie: Chicago through with y'all? Smoke: What you asking? Annie: Who you and Stack robbed to get enough money for them crackers to sell you a whole mill?

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