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The Chocolate Soldier

Railroad Hour · October 17, 1949 · 26 min · 1,551 words

The transcript of “The Chocolate Soldier”, an episode of Railroad Hour first broadcast October 17, 1949. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). All Mixed Up plays Railroad Hour free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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The two-footed lights are all both terrible, From the landing-manning battle, The courage must be rattled, From the landing-manning battle. Lock your window very carefully, Dejina. They say an enemy spy is in the neighborhood. He has not seen, stated spies, Handsome and restless, and wouldn't hesitate for a moment to climb into anybody's window.

I better rush right in and lock my window. Yes, my, erm, Handsome, Handsome. What am I rushing for? Oh, the war will be over soon and father will be coming home to you, mother. Well, after a year, I'll even be happy to see your father, the old lovers.

My mother! Aw, just look at this picture of Alexia, my hero. In the handsome... My mother is my fiancé, besides your father, too interested in uniforms. Oh, it's not the uniforms here. everything they put inside.

Well my next year wrote me the single handed. He won the battle of fluency. Oh, my hero. Will I ever be worthy of him? His courage? His noble nature? Why am I saying, why am I?

Last time I looked in a mirror. Where am I?

You are in a l'Budwar of an unmarried lady. Thank heaven, oh husband. What do you want? Beautiful one. Will you hide me? Hide you, my enemy. No enemy. I'm Swiss, Lieutenant Boomerly. That makes no difference. Leave the way you came.

I'm much too tired. I'd only fallen, break my neck. I don't care what happened to your neck. My neck cares. My head would be very unhappy if anything happened to my neck. And besides, I'm starving. There's not a chocolate drop left in my cotton bag.

A chocolate drop? In your coffee bag? Well, where do you carry your bullets? Bullets! Oh, I never use bullets. You know, people can get killed from bullets. And all you get in chocolate is a stomachache.

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