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i want my coconut tree
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let's keep the music sweet wind up your
wears and feel
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boy
i've come out of retirement but my feet
don't seem to have got the message you
know they're burning like they're on
fire you've been a lollipop man for five
minutes i've been a barber for thirty
years i mean walk from here to tim buck
to and back by now proving that all rust
lay to africa
and my feet are still holding up well
mine are not so much you look i want you
to come down and measure how many feet
per day i'm walking why
you're gonna make an extra charge for
footage come on cooper i don't know what
misses things in feet anymore my feet do
that's what's wrong with the world today
people keep changing things and it gets
confusing you know country is changing
the names men changing to women women
changing to men right here's my game i
think i'm going to see vanessa why
changing the man sure
you promised to spend a little more time
around the house joy and your half term
you remember yes mama remember sweep up
take the dustbin out have dinner with
the family yeah i remember okay okay i
hear you you hear me but do you obey me
obey you well come on mum this isn't the
victorian era anymore i mean obeying
surrendering your rights isn't it right
spot rights you're our son
i'm also a person i'm off will you speak
to your mother like that do you have to
sleep with one are you up here are you
ready
hello vicar
good morning
trouble with the broom oh nothing
nothing how nice to see you vicar oh
please call me godfrey
what can we do for your godfrey i
thought i might indulge in a haircut
stephanie
now what's it going to be short back and
sides
not much else you can do with it is
there
i'd rather hope you might have some hair
restorer
i know some things are supposed to be
very good stewed cassava roots and
ginger beer
don't you listen to him reverend godfrey
i put that stuff on my head every night
for a week
did it work it was a miracle
you were meant to eat it popeye
you know
i think there's only one thing left to
do about your hair vicar what's that
pray
excuse me
the appliance of science
uh hello
you're at the church already sir
i'll be there as soon as i can at the
key
it's under the dustbin
goodbye sir i'm sorry about that my
little indulgence will have to wait the
boss always visits on the third
wednesday of the month your boss visits
in person you mean you can speak with
them on the telephone just like that
welcome man i have a problem i can't
call him up you have a special number
i was talking to the bishop oh oh which
brings me to another reason why i'm here
he's very impressed with shirley's work
in the community and wants to know if
she would preach on sunday oh me preach
you're serious absolutely
we both think you'd be splendid
i bet my cats are on it oh what does my
wife know about preaching more than you
know about barbering
i know plenty i had to listen to my
father every day for over 20 years
listening and doing two entirely
different things back home women have
been preaching for years there's nothing
extraordinary about it absolutely and
now that they can be ordained that's
what i was saying men changing to women
women changing
which doesn't change the fact that
preaching is for preachers it's a man's
job not for you my little sugar flower
which means you think i should stick to
doing the flowers and teaching sunday
school yes
no look don't put words in my
emotionally that's not what i'm saying
but that's what you mean oh dear i
didn't mean to come between husband and
wife no you didn't vicar
all you did was remind me what a cook or
not head my husband can be
think about it oh lord
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that'll be 41p mike how much
but i only wanted one bottle of milk at
that price i could buy the whole cow and
milk it myself
too late i finished
boy i'm at you the shop is quiet this
morning just as well
that's the sourest face i've ever seen
oh he's just sucking because cheryl is
upstairs working on her sermon
i'm not a happy man
yeah well it's your own fault dad and
now thanks to you i'm lumbered with the
cooking on top of everything else stop
leaning on that broom and sweep up just
because you're at university don't think
i can make your eye water
you're gonna have to make my eye water
as well because i agree with shown
so do i sometimes your tongue is too
loose inside your mouth my friend
no you look dad if you hadn't told mom
that preaching was men's work she
wouldn't have given it a second full
that's right she should be down here
attending to the customers instead of
pacing up and down obsessed worrying
about what she's going to say i have to
agree with machu and sean and gloria
you know desmond that surely does not
want to walk away from a challenge you
remember back home when we were in
school and teacher ivy told us only the
boys were allowed to climb the big star
apple tree in the school yard surely she
needed right up to the top and took her
lips like a man she was a child and
she's a grown woman now then you should
treat her like one listen i never said
she couldn't preach oh well you wouldn't
dare dad it's just that i don't like all
this disruption she has not time to go
shopping the wash is piling up i have
got an iron shirt for days gloria's
attempting to do here meals reduce the
lettuce leaves arranged by sean she's
spending so much time on this sermon
it's like if you rewrite in the bible
how is shirley sermon getting on
does anybody know what she's preaching
about everyone's got a clue beverly tell
us a thing
and when we find out beverly you will be
the last to know
he is watching you desmond ambrose
withhold not good from them to whom it
is jew when it is in the power of thine
hand to do it proverbs chapter 3 verse
27.
think about it
i'll go and help sure
what do you think shelley's theme will
be lord knows this is the first time
since we've been married she's been so
secretive about anything you're losing
your touch desmond you should romance
her a little
i just blow into suzu's ear and she
tells me everything
can you believe it i do
that's because your head zips up the
back
surely so wrapped up in this whole thing
it's as if her life depended on it it
means more to her than you realize
desmond i guess you're right but i don't
see what's so difficult about writing a
sermon
perhaps if i was to offer her some help
did i hear the word help oh yes my dear
is there anything at all i can do for
you oh that's very kind of your desmond
look here's a list of things we need
from the supermarket oh
certainly my little sugar plum no sooner
said than done a beverly
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sean
what's the time
sorry ma
just right in the fridge
didn't get much in the way of supper
remember oh i haven't been the model mum
lately have i well if this is more
important
michonne what kind of parents have we
been
well how do you mean
well too tough too um
moralistic um too restrictive too nosy
too bossy to obsessive
oh dear
we haven't been that bad have we oh no
well you know we give you a hard time
because we're your kids isn't it
but at least you taught us right from
wrong you know set the boundaries in my
opinion you treat kids too much like
humans and you end up with wild animals
look who's target oh well it's true
anyway how's it going
well something's cooking but i don't
quite know what it is um that's what dad
says about my chili
i know i know what my father went
through
we had to put up with the devil all week
but come sunday there was the voice of
an angel
religion was very important to him
and he longed for someone to carry on in
his footsteps
he went in a son didn't he
yes he did
i used to worry about it
after susu was born my mother couldn't
have any more children
she used to help out at the local
orphanage
one day she brought this little boy home
rudy
she asked my father if he wanted to
adopt him
we asked her why
and she said
because you've always wanted a son
i failed you
that was the first time i ever saw him
embrace her
he told her how much he loved her and us
and that she could never feel him
i never ever worried about not being a
buyer after that
so this preaching thing it's not got to
do with proven anything then mum
that is a very good question sean
i'll have to think about it
i know it's old-fashioned to talk about
discipline
it's outer style with what is going on
in the world
but just look at what is going on
look at the effects of the liberal
attitude
it's easier to give in when your child
asks for something instead of explaining
why not
oh yes but no one ever said parenthood
would be easy or free of responsibility
unless we as today's parents young or
old
take the lead in setting standards of
behavior for our children who will
it's easy to blame other people
the schools the government the recession
but never mind who is to blame who can
put it
right we can
we all know that a child treated by
adults with affection and politeness
learns to respond in like manner
so there's the answer staring us right
in the face
it is up to us
the parents
well
that's it
that is all i've got to say
perhaps somebody up there could give me
a sign
if you think it was okay
who's
there
it's only me
oh you scared me after death
my poor feet told me to pop in here for
a little rest on the way home
i must have been sleeping when you came
in i heard your voice and i thought
i thought i was dreaming but then i
looked up from there you were in the
pulpit
your father would have been proud of you
shirley
you think so pogba
yeah
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it's that gorgeous one eh
and i believe i can run for decent
marathon
download
now
boy you get so little praise in here you
keep patting yourself on the head all
morning
come on dad i just want to look good all
right
you want to look good
change that tape
come on dad god doesn't care about the
color of my tie no but i do
you two got the best idea getting out of
mum's way she's trained her outfit at
least half a dozen times and your
bedroom looks like shawn's room i've
never seen us are nervous maybe if it
was to give her some advice no no dad
she learned that with a saucepan on her
head instead of a hat
no no while you're doing your nails
you're going to church not to a dance oh
you know saying dad you're a hypocrite
stop attending my regular church guys
cause we're only going today because
mum's preaching well just for today
let's look as if we regular church goes
yeah as long as it's just for today i
hate to think we have to go for this
every sunday yeah but supposing if she
does well i mean really well
well isn't that what you want yeah well
of course ted i mean suppose mum decides
to take it more seriously
you know go into the church get ordained
become a pretty stephen
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when i sing i saved the code
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i named this child
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do you take this woman
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ashes
to ashes
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yes one
you look really nice mom yeah you'll
knock him dead mum
right let's go
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shirley i've been thinking about what
you said since sunday
we don't have sermons like that at our
church all pastor lewis talk about is
sin and wickedness fire and damnation
brimstone and treacle
amen
but you talk sense
thank you jesus yes
listen to her that's the third lot of
women you're bringing here since sunday
and all crawling around shirley sister
shirley this sister surely does it's
most disconcerting i can't hear myself
study anymore what about my customers
seymour came here this morning took one
look at the women and left and you blend
in
of course not i mean you're going to
your barbies like going to your bathroom
you want peace quiet and privacy well he
wouldn't get it in here
let's listen to them the last time i
heard a powerful sermon like that was
when sister agatha visited our parish
church back home in
1962.
she must have had about 20 converts that
sunday
oh
think of the souls you could save
sister surely saving soul for jesus amen
i don't think i'm into saving souls but
you don't know your own power
relax
let the holy spirit speak through you
amen
we made a delegation and went to have a
word with your vicar
what a nerd for we want to hear you
preach again
beverly you had no right to do that now
you're talking sensually tell these
women to take our amen women and get out
here
you had one sermon in you and you
preached it
is that what you think eh you're saying
i couldn't do it again that's exactly
what i'm saying one sermon does not make
a preacher
well if that is the attitude you're
going to take i think i should have to
give some serious thought to what
beverly is saying
preaching more often looking into the
possibility of becoming who knows
ordained yes you should
in the gambia we'll be proud to have a
human saturday in our community we would
honor you encourage you to abandon all
earthly things and become a bride of
christ have you gone mad this is my
friend and she got to scare my bride
look on the positive side desmond think
of the reflected glory there's an old
african saying if you walk in the shade
of an elephant you never get a sunstroke
think about it
are you calling my wife an elephant
i don't think so dead man what why is
everybody taking sides against me you
look take your books
please
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now who is first
well you know desmond i really didn't
come for a haircut that's all right bart
the usual vince did i said i wanted a
haircut
i'm just telling birth oh you come to
see me but it's nice all you can drop it
anytime you feel like it and have a chat
i didn't exactly come to see you desmond
well what exactly did you come for bert
you're sure you'll make the man get ugly
kevin i'd like to have a watered sister
surely hey man
i think all these years those two have
been coming to my shop to see me
before you know it everyone's going to
be calling me mr shirley
you better watch yourself you could soon
be out of the job you don't know how
right you are
only one person came to my surgery this
morning surgery your doctor as well as a
vicar i didn't know
i give daily meetings for my
parishioners they're called surgeries
i suppose in a way i am a sort of doctor
the doctor of the soul
excuse me
many are called
helen
good morning mrs fitzgerald
yes it's a lovely morning
what seems to be the problem
who
mrs ambrose
no
she doesn't live with me
no i don't have a number with me but i
know a man who does
why don't you come and see me later we
can
oh i see
i'm sorry i can't be of help then
goodbye
um
why did that person want my wife's
number mrs fitzgerald has a problem she
can only discuss with a woman
her doctor is a man her vicar is a man
her husband is a man
that's a point
why anyone ever thought that male priest
could have all the answers is beyond me
look i don't want to appear selfish
but please don't ask my wife to preach
again i really must apologize desmond
things do seem to have got a little out
of hand well
if you want a wife in the pulpit
get one of your own
maybe i should death
but i'd have to have a word with the
boss first
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enjoyed that mum it was really nice yes
it's first time in weeks that we've all
sat down together and remember the
family that eats together stays together
yeah as long as show nightmare cook
what was in that chili you don't want to
know
i'm sure john did the best that he could
i appreciated his help so did i
shirley you're my favorite cook my
favorite wife is his favorite preacher
she please don't say that
the sooner this whole episode passes
into the realms of history the better
you mean you want to forget about it
don't you mom no i just want to
wrap it up and put it away until the
next day who knows it was a great sermon
mum yeah you really made me think well
there's a first time for everything
if granted had heard that he definitely
wouldn't have wanted a son anymore i'll
drink to that
i'm official
oh um will you be laid back sean no
no i'll be back before you can say amen
me and ron you're going to the pictures
tonight see you later sister shirley
once upon a time she said may i go to
the pictures with ronnie
and once upon a time she believed in
father christmas
she's a grown woman now
we did all right didn't we um
they were proud of you
they believed in you oh i'll tell you
something
there were times when i didn't
when i just wanted to give up on the
whole idea
but you didn't
how could i understand i told you so
yes
i tell you something else
you were right
i had one sermon in me
and i preached it praise the lord
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