The Music Man movie - Rock Island lyrics

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1st salesman: Cash for the merchandise, cash for the button hooks<br>

3rd salesman: Cash for the cotton goods, csh for the hard goods<br>

1st Salesman: Cash for the fancy goods<br>

2nd salesman: cash for the noggins and the piggins and the frikins<br>

3rd Salesman: Cash for the hogdhead, cask and demijohn. Cash for the crackers and the pickels and the flypaper<br>

4th Salesman: Look whatayatalk. whatayatalk, whatayatalk, whatayataalk, whatayatalk?<br>

5th Salesman: Weredayagitit?<br>

4th Salesman: Whatayatalk?<br>

1st Salesman: Ya can talk, ya can talk, ya can bicker ya can talk, ya can bicker, bicker bicker ya can talk all ya want<br>

but is different than it was.<br>

Charlie: No it ain't, no it ain't, but ya gotta know the territory.<br>

Rail car: Shh shh shh shh shh shh shh<br>

3rd Salesman: Why it's the Model T Ford made the trouble, made the prople wanna go, wanna get, wanna get up and go<br>

seven eight , nine, ten, twelve, fourteen, twent-two, twenty-three milew to the county seat <br>

1st Salesman: Yes sir, yes sir<br>

3rd Salesman: Who's gonna patronize a little bitty two by four kinda store anymore?<br>

4th Salesman: Whaddaya talk, whaddaya talk.<br>

5th Salesman: Where do you get it?<br>

3rd Salesman: Gone, gone<br>

Gone with the hogshead cask and demijohn, gone with the sugar barrel, pickel barrel, milk pan, gone with the tub and<br>

the pail and the fierce<br>

2nd Salesman: Ever meet a fellow by the name of Hill?<br>

1st Salesman: Hill?<br>

Charlie: Hill?<br>

3rd Salesman: Hill?<br>

4th Salesman: Hill?<br>

1st Newspaper Hill?<br>

2nd Newspaper: Hill?<br>

5th Salesman: Hill?<br>

2nd Salesman: Hill?<br>

All but Charlie and 2nd Salesman: NO!<br>

4th Salesman: Never heard of any salesman Hill<br>

2nd Salesman: Now he dosen't know the territory<br>

1st Salesman: Dosen't know the territory?!?<br>

3rd Salesman: Whats the fellows line?<br>

2nd Salesman: Never worries bout his line<br>

1st Salesman: Never worries bout his line?!?<br>

2nd Salesman: Or a doggone thing. He's just a bang beat, bell ringing, Big haul, great go, neck or nothin, rip roarin,<br>

every time a bull's eye salesman. Thats Professor Harold Hill, Harold Hill<br>

3rd Salesman: What's the fellows line?<br>

5th Salesman: Whats his line?<br>

Charlie: He's a fake, and he dosen't know the territory!<br>

4th Salesman: Look, whaddayatalk, whaddayatalk, whaddayatalk, whaddaystalk?<br>

2nd Saleman: He's a music man<br>

1st Salesman: He's a what?<br>

3rd Salesman: He's a what?<br>

2nd Salesman: He's a music man and he sells clarinets to the kids in the town with the big trombones and the rat-a-tat<br>

drums, big barass bass, big brass bass, and the piccolo, the piccolo with uniforms, too with a shiny gold braid <br>

on the coat and a big red stripe runnin . . . <br>

1st Salesman: Well, I don't know much about bands but I do know you can't make a living selling big trombones, no sir.<br>

Mandolin picks, perhaps and here and there a Jew's harp ...<br>

2nd Salesman: No, the fellow sells bands, Boys bands. I don't know how he does it but he lives like a king and he dallies<br>

and he gathers and he plucks and shines and when the man dances, certinely boys, what else? The piper pays him! Yes sir ,yes<br>

sir,yes sir, yes sir, when the man dances, certinely boys, what else?The piper pays him! Yessssir, Yessssir <br>

Charlie: But he dosen't know the territory!<br>

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