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Mac Sledge: [to Rosa Lee] I don't know why I wandered out to this part of Texas drunk, and you took me in and pitied me and helped me to straighten out, marry me. Why? Why did that happen? Is there a reason that happened? And Sonny's daddy died in the war, my daughter killed in an automobile accident. Why? See, I don't trust happiness. I never did, I never will.
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Woman with Groceries: Hey, mister, were you really Mac Sledge?
Mac Sledge: Yes, ma'm, I guess I was.
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Mac Sledge: How was school?
Sonny: All right.
Mac Sledge: You learn anything?
Sonny: Not much. What are doin' down here?
Mac Sledge: Thinkin'.
Sonny: About what?
Mac Sledge: Things.
Sonny: Good things or bad things?
Mac Sledge: Some of both.
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Reporter: Are you Mac Sledge, the singer?
Mac Sledge: I mean - I was a singer, I mean. I mean, I am Mac Sledge.
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Mac Sledge: I don't know if I was what you call rich, but I had a few dollars.
Sonny: How'd you get it?
Mac Sledge: Writin' songs.
Sonny: And how do you get money for that?
Mac Sledge: Hell, if people are crazy enough to pay for it, they do it.
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Sonny: What happened to your money?
Mac Sledge: I lost it.
Sonny: How?
Mac Sledge: How? Too much applejack.
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Sonny: You think you'll ever be rich again?
Mac Sledge: Well, I tell you what, Sonny. I don't lay awake nights worryin' about it. Now, look. There's a D, right? D as in dog. Now watch me. I'll call 'em out.
Mac Sledge: [singing] I've decided to leave
Mac Sledge: G.
Mac Sledge: [singing] Here forever
Mac Sledge: Not really.
Mac Sledge: [singing] Let me know if you're stayin' behind
Mac Sledge: That's A7th.
Mac Sledge: [singing] Otherwise, I'll be gone in the mornin'
Mac Sledge: D as in dog.
Mac Sledge: [singing] Let me know if you're staying behind
Mac Sledge: Now you can play a covered chord or a rhythm chord.
Mac Sledge: [singing] Let me know
Mac Sledge: That's a G.
Mac Sledge: [singing] If you always will want me, Or if you'll wander into another's arms
Mac Sledge: A or A7th. G.
Mac Sledge: [singing] Let me know what you decide dear, Then let me rest
Mac Sledge: A.
Mac Sledge: [singing] My head for awhile, I've decided to leave here forever
Mac Sledge: D as in dog.
Mac Sledge: [singing] Let me know if you're comin' along, Otherwise, I'll be gone in the mornin'
Mac Sledge: D.
Mac Sledge: [singing] Let me know if you're stayin' behind
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Dixie: [singing] We can't afford good wine or pink champagne, We ain't got no open fireplace flame, But we celebrate the happiness we've found, Every night in the best bedroom in town...
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Dixie: [singing] I'll gladly be a fool, In love again, If there's a chance that you might see me, Touch me, want me never leave me, 'Cause I'm still goin' crazy over you, I'm never gettin' over you..
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Rosa Lee: I love you, you know? And every night when I say my prayers and I thank the lord for his blessings and his tender mercies to me, you and Sonny head the list.
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Mac Sledge: Well, what do you think?
Harry: I don't think it's no good either.
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Sue Anne: There was a song you used to sing to me when I was little, I think. It was somethin' about a dove. Mama said she never heard you sing it to me, but - I think it went somethin' about a "on the wings of a snow-white dove, he sends his somethin'-somethin' love."
Mac Sledge: I don't remember that. I don't.
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Mac Sledge: [singing] When Jesus went down, To the waters that day, He was baptized, In the usual way, When it was done, God blessed his soul, He sent him his love, On the wings of a dove, On the wings of a snow-white dove, He sends his pure sweet love, A sign from above, On the wings of a dove...
Tender Mercies Quotes
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