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A Prairie Home Companion Segment 5 for April 12, 2014
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RHUBARB (PALM SUNDAY)

.....brought to you by Beebopareebop Rhubarb Pie.

GK: It's Sunday morning, your day off, and you worked late last

night singing at the club, and now you're in your bathrobe

reading the Sunday paper (FN SIPS COFFEE) and enjoying a

vicious review of a concert by your ex-wife (FN CHUCKLING:

In O Mio Babbino Caro, she sounded like an ambulance stuck in

heavy traffic. FN CHUCKLES) and you go to warm up your

coffee and you see the clock on the coffeemaker (FN: WHAT?

Nine thirty!) You're supposed to sing at the ten o'clock Palm

Sunday service. (FN PANIC. FAST FOOTSTEPS. CRASH.

GLASS BREAKAGE. FN: Where's my music??? RUSTLE OF

PAPER.) You grab your music and dash to the car. (FAST

FOOTSTEPS. DOOR OPEN, CLOSE. RUNNING THROUGH

GRAVEL) You're in your pajamas and thank goodness for choir

robes. (CAR START. CAR REV. SQUEAL OF TIRES. CAR

RACES AWAY) And you take off. Church is six miles away.

(HORN. SWERVE. CAR ZOOMS PAST) And you go sailing

through stoplights (HORN PASSING, DOPPLER LIKE. FN:

Oh lord, get me there, just get me there.) and then suddenly

(BRAKES. CAR STOPS. FN: What am I thinking? That's the

Lutheran church. I'm supposed to sing at the Methodist! TIRES

BURN, U TURN, CAR SPEEDS THROUGH GEARS)

Methodist is in the opposite direction and you've got to cross the

river and (DISTANT BOAT HORN) oh no---- the bridge is

raising up----

CAR SPEEDS UP. FN: C'mon baby, you can make it, you can

make it, you can make it, you can---- (CAR FLIES OFF

BRIDGE. MID AIR.TIRES SQUEAL. FN: Made it! CAR

SPEEDS AHEAD.

GK: Now you're in the home stretch --- (CAR MISSES. FN: Oh

no. CAR COUGHS. FN: Out of gas???? CAR COUGHS) Thank

goodness it's downhill from here. But you don't dare stop at that

stoplight. (HORN HONK, TRUCK PASSES FAST. FN: Missed

me.) Here you are, at church. (BRAKES. CAR DOOR OPENS.

RUNNING FOOTSTEPS.) FN: Outta my way, outta my way,

people. (CROWD) FN: Soloist coming

through.....soloist.....lemme through, folks. DOOR OPEN,

CLOSE. FN: BREATHING HARD. I'll just grab a choir robe

here. (RIP) Whoops. Oh well. FAST FOOTSTEPS. BIG DOOR

CREAKS OPEN. ORGAN.) And there's the organist, waiting

for you. (FOOTSTEPS) That's your note, now where's your

music? Your Palm Sunday anthem? (RUSTLING PAPERS) FN:

Oh no.) You grabbed the wrong music. This isn't for Palm

Sunday. But it's all you have......

FN: My palms are sweating and my heart is faint

I'd like to be strong but I know that I ain't.

You make me crazy with that strong perfume.

Let's get a room, let's get a room.

(RHUBARB THEME) Wouldn't this be a good time for a piece

of Rhubarb Pie. Yes, nothing gets the taste of shame and

humiliation out of your mouth like Beebopareebop Rhubarb Pie.

GK (SINGS):

But one little thing can revive a guy,

And that is home-made rhubarb pie.

Serve it up, nice and hot.

Maybe things aren't as bad as you thought.

DUET:

Mama's little baby loves rhubarb, rhubarb,

Beebopareebop Rhubarb Pie.

Mama's little baby loves rhubarb, rhubarb,

Beebopareebop Rhubarb Pie.