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Transcription: [00:39:46]
{SPEAKER name="Willie"}
And then he would say, "Hah, come on now then, everybody gettin' settled. Now get in line. So now, ladies and gentlemen," cause it was night time, "we had a matinee this afternoon.
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And we had matinee tickets, but they went off at five 'o clock, it's not seven. So we gon' do somethin' for just three minutes."
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"Alright, ticket sellers, put away your doll -- your three dollar tickets and take up the dollar and a half tickets." They put 'em away.
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"So now, ladies and gentlemen, if you fast enough and quick enough, in the next three minutes, you all come back and say the man said,
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'Get in line, you can get in for half price.' You're lines at the ticket box here, and a ticket box there."
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"So you get in line. So long as you're in line," and you say, "If you don't like the show, you come right back out to this ticket box and ask for your money back.
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So now come right back and ask for your money back. You won't get it back, but we'll have hell of a time talkin' it over."
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[[Willie laughs]]
[[audience laughs]]
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{SPEAKER name="Willie"}
And then that show gone off. Now, later on, the [[mess?]] up there, Carnival Show, was different from the Minstrel Show. The Minstrel Show would have a late concert.
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The Carnival Show, I know lot of ya'll heard, of a Midnight Ramble. Anybody heard of the Midnight Ramble?
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Well that late show be The Midnight Ramble. You hear the barker come on out and say, "Now ladies and gentlemen, I know you been in here on the weekend, ya' see, but tonight is The Midnight Ramble.
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No children. you must be over the age 18 and under the age of 80.
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The reason for that, if you're under the age of 18, you wouldn't understand it; if you're over the age of 80, God knows you couldn't stand it."
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[[audience laughs]]

{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
So then you'll say, "Well now ladies, now this time, we gon' bring Kitty from Kansas City out. The way she shakes it is a pity."
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{SPEAKER name="Willie"}
"That's right. Now ladies and gentlemen, if you can't stand nothing hot, let's go on down to midway and get you some popcorn and ride the Merry Go 'Round and go home, and say you had a good time.
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"This is for the broad minded ladies and gentlemen. That time ladies and gentlemen, this time we gon' bring Long Tall Sally doin' a dance called 'Duck Back In The Alley'."

[[shout from audience]] Woah!
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{SPEAKER name="Willie"}
"They gon' bring her up. Now, no, she not gon' do the dance she did today. She'll pull off a little here and a little here, and a little here yonder."
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And then you'll say, "Alright now. This time ladies and gentlemen, the last dancer we gon' bring out, she don't pull off anything.
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Now I know she don't pull off anything, because she won't have on nothin' to pull off. But that's the ramble, with no children for that one. That's it, that's it."
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Transcription Notes:
First man speaking is "Willie", continuing from the previous tape. He was the 2nd speaker on previous tape which we named "Willie". Speaker 1 is the moderator for the show.