Showboat

Ladies and gentlemen, the Railroad Hour. And here comes our star studded show train. Tonight the Association of American Railroads brings you the world famous Jerome Kern Oscar Hammerstein II, Edna Ferber musical, Showboat starring Gordon MacRae and his celebrated guest Dorothy Kirsten.

Acquire as other direction of Norman Lubon, and our music is prepared and conducted by Carmen Dragon. Yes, tonight another great musical success is brought to you by the American railroads. The same railroads that bring you most of the food you eat, the clothes you wear, the fuel you burn, and all the other things you use in your daily life.

And now here is our star, Gordon McRae! Thank you, Marvin Miller and good evening ladies and gentlemen. Tonight Dorothy Kirsten will be the lovely Magnolia and I will be Gaylord Raminar. But the leading character in showboat isn't a lovely lady or a riverboat gambler.

He's a great old man who never speaks but tells a million stories. There's an old man called and Mississippi That's the old man that I want to be What does he care if the world's got troubles?

What does he care if the land ain't free? Don't look big for us from Let me go away from the Mississippi Let me go away from the white man, go Be that stream called the River Jordan That old something But don't say

And then what plants are most insane Body all eager and rack with pain One dead bar!

Little, little drunk! After the show that night, the showboat sat on the silent river, sleep in the moonlight.

All the lovely girls standing on the upper deck. Hello? Hello? Do you live here? No, I'm just a wafer along the river. So am I. Are you one of the actresses on the showboat? No, but I give anything if I could be.