This content is a comedic dialogue between two characters, Cotton and Maggie, where Cotton's naive and literal interpretations lead to humorous misunderstandings, particularly concerning job applications and a proposed role as a lion tamer.
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maggie murphy's home and now two quiet
people cotton watts and chicks [Music]
[Music]
let that be a lesson to you what's the
matter with you boys shooting up that
man's hen house i'll shoot any chicken
trying to follow me home
well why don't you get a job and go to
work no
more lend me a job this morning where i
went down to the post office that that
man couldn't let me have one of them
jobs as a letter total no cotton you
mean a mail carrier and the man said
would you give me a situation you'd have
to put me through a simple self-examination
self-examination
no stupid you mean a civil service
examination well a man can hand me in a
little room and sat me down and started
asking me a gang of questions well what
did he ask you first thing the man asked
me is how far is it from the sun to the
moon he asked you how far it was from
the sun to the moon yeah that's what the
man asked me what would you tell him i
told him he was gonna give me that route
i didn't want to join
well tell me how would you like to go to
work for me yeah
ma'am how much you gonna pay me i hope
well let's see now
i'll pay you all your worth no
ma'am i gotta have some money
you know cotton i'm making a picture
called the lion tamer the lion tamer
uh-huh name of one kind of line i'll
mess with what kind's that oh that's
what dandelion [Music]
[Music]
now all i want you to do is meet me at
the zoo in the morning at nine o'clock
yeah with the rest of the monkeys with
the rest of the monkey yeah i'll bring
my grandfather with me
i want to get a moving picture of you in
the lion's cage well if you ever do get
a picture of me in a lion's kid you'll
be moving all right oh cotton the lion
can't hurt you yeah and me my nobody
made me hurt myself why the lion's tame
he'll eat right off your head eat off
your hands and over your legs you i know
them cats
but you don't understand cotton the lion
was raised on milk raised on milk i was
too but i eat poor jobs now
why i can't bite you no how come he came
back he hasn't got a tooth in his head
well i know but he didn't go me to death
i don't want him
on me
now all i want to do is snap you as you
enter the lion's cage you just want to
snap me as i enter yes well you better
snap me as i ever cause you will never
be able to focus me when i start out
cause i'm alabama bound
bound [Music]
[Music] [Applause]
oh [Applause]
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