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Both Reached For The Gun

[REPORTERS]
Where'd you come from?

[BILLY (as
Roxie)]
Mississippi

[REPORTERS]
And your
parents?

[BILLY (as Roxie)]
Very
wealthy.

[REPORTERS]
Where are they now?

[BILLY (as
Roxie)]
Six feet under.

[BILLY]
But she was granted one
more start

[BILLY (as Roxie)]
The convent of The Sacred
Heart!

[REPORTERS]
When'd you get here?

[BILLY (as
Roxie)]
1920

[REPORTERS]
How old were
you?

[BILLY (as Roxie)]
Don't
remember

[REPORTERS]
Then what happened?

[BILLY (as
Roxie)]
I met Amos
And he stole my heart away
Convinced me to elope
one day

[MARY SUNSHINE (spoken)]
A convent girl! A run-away
marriage!
oh, it's too terrible. You poor, poor
dear.

[REPORTERS]
Who's Fred Casely?

[BILLY (as
Roxie)]
My ex-boyfriend.

[REPORTERS]
Why'd you shoot
him?

[BILLY (as Roxie)]
I was
leavin'.

[REPORTERS]
Was her angry?

[BILLY (as
Roxie)]
Like a madman
Still I said, Fred, move
along.

[BILLY]
She knew that she was doin'
wrong.

[REPORTERS]
Then describe it.

[BILLY (as
Roxie)]
He came toward me.

[REPORTERS]
With a
pistol?

[BILLY (as Roxie)]
From my
bureau.

[REPORTERS]
Did you fight him?

[BILLY (as
Roxie)]
Like a tiger.

[BILLY]
He had strength and she
had none.

[BILLY (as Roxie)]
And yet we both reached for the
gun
Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes we both
Oh yes we both
Oh yes, we both
reached for
The gun, the gun, the gun, the gun
Oh yes, we both reached for
the gun
For the gun.

[BILLY AND REPORTERS]
Oh yes, oh yes,
oh yes they both
Oh yes, they both
Oh yes, they both reached for
The
gun, the gun, the gun, the gun,
Oh yes, they both reached for the gun
for
the gun.

[BILLY]
understandable. understandable
Yes, it's
perfectly understandable
Comprehensible. Comprehensible
Not a bit
reprehensible
It's so defensible!

[REPORTERS]
How're you
feeling?

[BILLY (as Roxie)]
Very
frightened

[REPORTERS]
Are you
sorry?

[ROXIE]
Are you
kidding?

[REPORTERS]
What's you're statement?

[BILLY
(as Roxie)]
All I'd say is
Though my choo-choo jumped the
track
I'd give my life to bring him
back

[REPORTERS]
And?

[BILLY (as Roxie)]
Stay
away from

[REPORTERS]
What?

[BILLY (as
Roxie)]
Jazz and
liquor

[REPORTERS]
And?

[BILLY (as Roxie)]
And
the men who

[REPORTERS]
What?

[BILLY (as
Roxie)]
Play for fun

[REPORTERS]
And
what?

[BILLY (as Roxie)]
That's the thougt
that

[REPORTERS]
Yeah

[BILLY (as Roxie)]
Came
upon me

[REPORTERS]
When?

[BILLY (as
Roxie)]
When we both reached for the gun!

[MARY
SUNSHINE]
Understandable, understandable

[BILLY AND MARY
SUNSHINE]
Yes, it's perfectly understandable
Comprehensible,
comprehensible
Not a bit reprehensible
It's so
defensible!

[BILLY (spoken)]
Let me
Hear it!

[REPORTERS]
Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes, they both
Oh yes, they
both
Oh yes, they both reached for
The gun, the gun, the gun,
The
gun
Oh yes, they both reached
For the gun

[BILLY
(spoken)]
A little louder!

[REPORTERS]
For the
Gun.
Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes, they both
Oh yes, they both
Oh yes, they
both reached
For the gun, the gun,

[BILLY (spoken)]
Now
you got it!

[REPORTERS]
The gun,the gun
Oh yes. They both
reached
For the gun
For the gun.

[BILLY AND REPORTERS]
Oh
yes, oh yes, oh yes, they both
Oh yes, they both
Oh yes, they both reached
for
The gun, the gun, the gun,the gun
Oh yes, they both reached for the
gun.

Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes, they both
Oh yes, they both
Oh yes,
reached for
The gun, the gun, the gun,the gun
The gun, the gun, the
gun,the gun
The gun, the gun, the gun,the gun
The gun, the gun, the
gun,the gun.

[BILLY]
Both reached for
the...gun

[REPORTERS]
The gun, the gun, the gun,the gun
The
gun, the gun, the gun,the gun
The gun, the gun, the gun,the gun
The gun,
the gun, the gun,the gun
Both reached for the gun.