Rocket Racket

Here's Frank Sinatra transcribed as Rocky Fortune Frank Sinatra starring as that footloose and fancy-free young gentleman Rocky Fortune With a tabloids whispering about unemployment and 24 point headlines a guy out of work gets the feeling he should grab anything that comes along So when the kind lady at uncles employment service hands me a pink slip for an interview I say yes before I read it

And after I read it, I'm not so sure Adventurous young man with no family connections, desirous of serving mankind. Exceptional opportunity, unusual pay. Zenith Foundation, 45 Mugman Street. Experimental work, highly dangerous. I locate 45 Mugman Street, which is a shabby little building and a shabby part of town, and I haul myself up five rickety flights to an office with a glass door.

Is this the Zenith Foundation? It could be. I got a slip, this habit. Fortune, huh? Rocky Fortune. No family? None to speak of. Turn around. What for? Because I say so. Anything you say, pal?

They got you wallet and toss it here. Oh, is that kind of dodge, huh? There's only three bucks in here. Hey, kid, easy. You have to check it. Okay, you're holding the artillery. Let's have a look.

No pictures. Home address. 55 Leekman Street. What kind of place? Roman house. I know about this charge from the army. Sweet citations. Where? Anzio. Health girl. The health good terrible but I ignore it. The average license, chauffeur's license, hack, steam-fitter's union, maritime card, truckers, you drift to, huh?

Yeah, I've been around a lot. How come? I get restless. I was born that way. You go away for a long time, ever? Yeah, three, four months. So nobody had missed you particularly. Not particularly.