(WESTERN THEME)
SS: THE LIVES OF THE COWBOYS....brought to you by Nylon Facial Stockings.....if you like to be left alone and not have to engage in small talk with strangers, try wearing a Nylon Facial Stocking. It really works. And now, today's story...
GK: (HUMS TUNE)
SS:nChin up and to the left.
GK: Okay. Gotcha.
(CAMERA SHUTTER, THREE SHOTS)
SS: Chin up a little more and eyes to the left.
GK: Yes, ma'am.n(HE HUMS)
SS:nWould you mind not humming?
GK: Sorry.
SS:nAnd don't smile.
GK: Okay.
SS:nI'm shooting photographs for a ad for skin moisturizer.
GK: Oh. Okay.
TR:nYou and me are representing what can happen if you don't use a skin moisturizer.
GK: Right.
SS:nAnd when you smile, people are going to see how bad your teeth are and they won't notice how bad your skin is.
GK: Oh.
TR:nYou just don't have an attractive smile, pardner.
GK:nSo how bad is it?
TR:nYou remember Lon Chaney Jr. in "Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man"? Sort of like that.
GK:nSo it looks like I'm snarling?
TR: Yep.
GK: So when I've smiled at people, I suppose that tended to drive them away?
TR:nEither that or inspire pity.
GK:nWell, that explains a lot, doesn't it. Huh.
SS:nChin up and look to the right. Thank you. (CAMERA SHUTTER, FIVE SHOTS)
GK:nKind of a painful realization coming so late in life, that when I was being friendly and approachable, I was actually repellant.
SS:nChin up.
GK:nI got my chin up.
SS:nLift up the other one. (CAMERA SHUTTER, THREE SHOTS)
GK: Wish you'd told me I looked so hideous.
TR:nI thought you knew.
GK:nNow I know why she dumped me.
TR:nWho?
GK:nNever mind. Woman I met.
TR:nThat waitress at the Golden Nugget named Emily Merlot?
GK: How'd you know her name?
TR: You talk in your sleep, Lefty.
SS:nKeep your chin up, please. Thank you.
TR: Guess you were serious about her at one time, huh.
GK:nWell, I'm over it now. Now that I know how repellant my smile is. I was in love but it takes more than one...(REVERB AND FADE) I was in love but it takes more than one. I was in love but it takes more than one. I was in love but it takes more than one.
SW: Hi.
GK: Hi.
SW:nSure is nice out here in the alley on a summer night. The wind blowing in the aspens. The stars in the sky.n
GK:nYeah... I see by your outfit that you are a waitress.
SW:nYeah.
GK:nYou mind if I set down here beside you?
SW:nBe my guest. Pretty smoky in there.
GK: You don't mind if I strum a guitar, do you?
SW: Not at all.
GK:nGood. (A LESTER FLATT LICK) What kind of music you like, Emily?
SW: How'd you know my name?
GK: Nametag. My name is Lefty.
SW: I know. It's right there on your beltbuckle.
GK:nKind of dangerous for a pretty young girl like you to be alone in a rough town like Yellow Gulch.
SW:nOh? Why do you say that?
GK: Somensweet-talking stranger could take advantage of your innocence and lead you down the garden path to a whole lot of grief and regret.
SW:nI doubt that he'd do it if he saw you sitting here ready to protect me.
GK: Probably not.
SW:nI heard you humming a tune when you walked in. My dad used to sing that tune to me.
GK: (SINGS)
Put your little foot, put your little foot, put your little foot right there
Put your little foot, put your little foot, put your little foot right there
SW ( GK (SING):
Take a step to the right, take a step to the left
Take a step to the rear but forever stay near
Put your arm around, put your arm around, your arm around my waist
Hold your arm around, hold your arm around, your arm around my waist
While the moon's shining bright and the music's just right
And you're holding me tight, we will dance through the night
(WHISTLING HALF VERSE)
Put your little foot, put your little foot, put your little foot with mine
With you little foot, with your little foot, with your little foot keep time
Charming tender melody, in my heart a memory
There you'll always be, varsouviana's part of me
GK: (HUMS LAST LINE, OVER AND OVER AND OVER, REVERB)
TR: Lefty---- Lefty----
GK: Huh?
TR: Wake up. You kind of zoned out there, pardner. We're done. She's done with the photographs.
GK: Oh.
SS: All done. What do you think?
GK: So that's us, huh?
TR:nWe look like death on a cracker.
GK: We look like weve been trampled by a herd of cattle and left out in the rain.
TR:nWe look like we been embalmed and it didn't quite take.
SS:nWell, I didn't say it was going to be flattering. It's photography, after all. Thanks for your time.
GK: Okay. What's that in the background? Looks like a woman standing there.
SS:nThat's a curtain.
GK:nLooks like a woman.
SS:nI don't see what you're talking about.
TR: I don't see it either.
GK: There's a woman standing there. Woman in a white apron. Dancing.
TR: I don't see it.
SS:nThe door's that way, boys. Thanks again. See you round.
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