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Reporters: Where'd you come from? Billy (as Roxie): Mississippi Reporters: And your parents? Billy (as Roxie): Very wealthy. Reporters: Where are they now? Billy (as Roxie): Six feet under. Billy: But she was granted one more start Billy (as Roxie): The convent of the sacred heart! Reporters: When'd you get there? Billy (as Roxie): 1920 Reporters: How old were you? Billy (as Roxie): Don't remember Reporters: Then what happened? Billy (as Roxie): I met Amos And he stole my heart away Convinced me to elope one day Mary Sunshine: A convent girl! A run-away marriage! Oh, it's too terrible. You poor, poor dear. Reporters: Who's Fred Casely? Billy (as Roxie): My ex-boy friend. Reporters: Why'd you shoot him. Billy (as Roxie): I was leavin'. Reporters: Was he angry? Billy (as Roxie): Like a madman! Still I said, "Fred, move along." Billy: She knew that she was doin' wrong Reporters: Then describe it Billy (as Roxie): He came toward me. Reporters: With a pistol? Billy (as Roxie): From my bureau Reporters: Did you fight him? Billy (as Roxie): Like a tiger Billy: He had strength and she had none Billy (as Roxie): And yet we both reached for the gun Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes we both Oh yes, we both Oh yes, we both reached for The gun, the gun, the gun, the gun Oh yes, we both reached for the gun For the gun. Billy and Reporters: Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes they both Oh yes, they both Oh yes, they both reached for The gun, the gun, the gun, the gun Oh yes, they both reached for the gun For the gun. Billy: Understandable, understandable Yes, it's perfectly understandable Comprehensible, comprehensible Not a bit reprehensible It's so defensible! Reporters: How you're feeling? Billy (as Roxie): Very frightened Reporters: Are you sorry? Roxie: Are you kidding? Reporters: What's your statement? Billy (as Roxie): All I'd say is Though my choo-choo jumped my track I'd give my life to bring him back Reporters: And? Billy (as Roxie): Stay away from Reporters: What? Billy (as Roxie): Jazz and liquor Reporters: And? Billy (as Roxie): And the man who Reporters: What? Billy (as Roxie): Play for fun Reporters: And what? Billy (as Roxie): That's the thought that Reporters: Yeah! Billy (as Roxie): Came upon me Reporters: When? Billy (as Roxie): When we both reached for the gun! Mary Sunshine: Understandable, understandable Billy and Mary Sunshine: Yes, it's perfectly understandable Comprehensible, comprehensible Not a bit reprehensible It's so defensible! Billy: Reporters: Let me Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes they both Hear it! Oh yes, they both Oh yes, they both reached for The gun, the gun, the gun, The gun Oh yes, they both reached For the gun A little louder! For the gun. Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes they both Oh yes, they both Oh yes, they both reached For the gun, the gun, Now you got it! The gun, the gun Oh yes, they both reached For the gun For the gun. Billy and reporters: Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes they both Oh yes, they both Oh yes, they both reached for The gun, the gun, the gun, the gun Oh yes, they both reached for the gun. Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes they both Oh yes, they both Oh yes, they both reached for The gun, the gun, the gun, the gun, The gun, the gun, the gun, the gun, The gun, the gun, the gun, the gun, The gun, the gun, the gun, the gun. Billy: Both reached for the...gun Reporters: The gun, the gun, the gun, the gun The gun, the gun, the gun, the gun The gun, the gun, the gun, the gun The gun, the gun, the gun, the gun Both reached for the gun. |