Memorable Quotes from Burton Gilliam
2 quotesA Clash of Musical Expectations
Lyle
When you was slaves, you sang like birds. Come on! How about a good old nigger work song?
[Taunting the mainly-black railworkers]
Bart
]-style, with fellow railworkers providing backing vocals] I get no kick from champagne... Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all... so why then should it be true?... that I get a belt - outta you... Some get a kick from ]...
[Crooning, [[w:Sammy Davis, Jr.|Sammy Davis, Jr.; the bullying supervisors look immensely confused and insulted; [w:cocaine|coca-yeai-yeaiiiinnnneee]
Lyle
Hold it, hold it! What the hell is that shit?! I meant a song! A real song! Something like "Swing low, sweet chariot"...
[singing]
Lyle
Don't know that one, huh. Well how about "De Camptown Ladies"?
Bart
De Camptown Ladies?
Railworkers
De Camptown Ladies?
Lyle
Oh, you know! "De Camptown ladies sing this song, doo-dah, doo-dah! Camptown Race Track five miles long, oh-de-do-da-dahy!
Taggart
What in the ] is a-goin on here? I hired you people to get some track laid, not to jump around like a bunch of Kansas City faggots!
[[w:ABC's Wide World of Sports|Wide World of Sports]
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Work Ethic and Overheating Concerns
Lyle
Come on, boys! The way you're lollygaggin around here with them picks and them shovels, you'd think it was a hundert an twenty degrees...! Can't be more than a hundert an fourteen! Dock that Chink a day's pay for napping on the job.
[A Chinese railroad worker collapses from heat exhaustion]
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