The Friends Of Mr. Cairo

Okay, this is the picture Johnny's been hurt, he's been hurt
 Look, we can't leave him here, we can't Look, he's in a pool of blood, he's gonna die, I know it
 We've gotta leave him here, honey.
 We gotta
 He won't talk, I promise you that!
 Will you Johnny?
 FI don't care whether he talks or not, I just can't leave him like this
 Listen, leave me here.
 I, I, I can, I can handle it
 Oh, no, Johnny, no
 The cops are outside
 Luke's in the car
 Come on, let's get the hell outta this joint
 Frankie, when they get here wer're gonna be dead, I know we are!
 We don't have a gun!
 Listen. we got three million, listen
 We got three million in the can, here
 We can't look after him, I'll send the bird to his mother
 Come on, let's just get out of this place, we can do it!
 Oh, no, Johnny, no
 Okay now, just lean up against that door When I give the word "go" we just, we just go through it and blast at the same time
 She came, as in the book, mickey spillane
 That saturday night dark masquerade
 Had filled his friend with lead, the same, sweetheart
 But then, as nothing happens quite the same
 Investigation is the game
 He had to check her story right away-he dead
 Sam spade his buddy archer first to go he got it
 She spelt it out, how could they know the 'fatman' got it - he dead
 Her sister didn't really live at all-confusion - he dead
 His chase led to the fatman, to face the friends of Mr. Cairo
 Hey, there's a really terrific dress shop
 Can we stop this raid while I buy a new gown?
 I'll buy you the whole factory, sweetheart, don't worry
 That night, the double crosser got it right
 Pretending he was really dim
 He slipped to sam a double gin (Mickey Finn)
 He woke, the boys had gone, but not his gun
 They'd left a note to lead him on
 The chase to find the Maltese falcon - you bet
 Early thirties gangster movies
 Set to spellbind population
 From Chicago to Hongkong
 Via Istanbul the talking tong
 Dirty rats thru' prohibition
 Money flowed thru gangsterism
 Acting out this fantasy
 In Hollywood's vicinity
 The best part for the best rendition
 Al Capone he sent to prison
 Citizen Kane came fast and quickly
 Conquering ol' New York city
 Poking fun at superstition
 Media became television give me Cagney anyday
 Or Jimmy Stewart for president
 Or Edward 'G' and all those guys
 Who always shoot between the eyes
 Between the eyes
 Between the eyes
 Ha, ha, well done mr. Cairo, and what do you have to say about that, my friend?
 Allright, so you've got me in it
 What about her?
 Don't worry about me, I'm okay
 Very magnanimous, sir
 Very magnanimous indeed, ha, ha, ha
 You mean, you won't make us an offer we... we can't refuse
 Father love do you work, do you work for mother
 Chances could call, and accept that, be no other
 Science as it might, disappear correspond with colour
 Chance is the fruit, will outlive, what is now the brother
 Call for total wealth to distribute like a picture
 In black and white, give it joy, give it, let it hit you
 Spoil our existence by extreme gift to population
 Father love do you work, do you work for mother
 Tell me straight be the godfather be no other
 Media kings give us now, give us total movie
 Straight right now, give it clear, give us total movie
 Now being here, being now, being here believing
 I don't know which words to put in there sweetheart, you know
 I can't do it
 Pretty kind of useless, though, don't you think so Mary?
 Come with me to the far lands of Baghdad
 Oh, if only i could
 That's what i want more than anything in the world, but it could never be
 Of course it can
 But my father would find us wherever we went
 Yes, he has forbidden me to... to even speak to you
 If he finds me now, I don't know what he'd do
 But he doesn't know that I'm... I'm a prince
 Before, I was the thief of Baghdad now
 It doesn't matter
 Then follow me, darling, follow me now to the ends of the earth
 One on one to talk to you
 Like film stars they get close to you
 You've mirrored his appeal
 He wants you so, he wants to be beside you
 Then you pass by giving him the other side of you
 Like the mystics do
 So that every time he moves, he moves for you
 Soul and light can always see
 The meeting of true love and she
 This silent night and i
 I guess a lonely mind might see
 I've seen love on the screen
 I've seen a screen goddesss and me-oh
 How often this, how often, this the power of you
 And so, I must confess
 Whatever I see
 I'm meant to be there with you
 With you with you
 Silent golden movies, talkies, technicolour, long ago
 My younger ways stand clearer, clearer than my footprints
 Stardom greats I've followed closely closer than the nearest heartbeat
 Longer that expected-ther were great-
 Oh love oh love just to see them
 Acting on the silver screen, oh my
 Clark gable, fairbanks, maureen o'sullivan
 Fantasy would fill my life and I love fantasy so much
 Did you see in the morning light
 I really talked, yes i did, to gods early dawning light
 And I was privileged to be as I am to this day
 To be with you. to be with you
 Listen, I have arranged this display for
 For all of you people to, to come here this evening
 And I, I know you have been searched
 But, what you, you don't realize is
 Is that in the back of the Maltese Falcon, I have it