It’s time to eat. Hurry and finish.
Bud (alone—loudly)
“I wouldn’t marry a yellow gal,
Tell you the reason why—
She’d blow her nose in yellow corn-bread
An’ call it punkin’ pie!”
Boys and Girls
“Rock, rock, ole Joe Clark—”
Miss Meredith (sharply)
Quit it! Quit it! (The chorus stops.) That’s no way to act! Those verses are not very nice, Bud Bickel.