Roots (Modern Plays) by Wesker Arnold

Author:Wesker, Arnold [Wesker, Arnold]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2013-11-20T18:30:00+00:00

Mrs Bryant What song’s that?

Beatie A coalmining song.

Mrs Bryant I tell you what I reckon’s a good song, that ‘I’ll wait for you in the heavens blue’. I reckon that’s a lovely song I do. Jimmy Samson he sing that.

Beatie It’s like twenty other songs, it don’t mean anything and it’s sloshy and sickly.

Mrs Bryant Yes, I reckon that’s a good song that.

Beatie (suddenly) Listen Mother, let me see if I can explain something to you. Ronnie always say that’s the point of knowing people. ‘It’s no good having friends who scratch each other’s back,’ he say. ‘The excitement in knowing people is to hand on what you know and to learn what you don’t know. Learn from me,’ he say, ‘I don’t know much but learn what I know.’ So let me try and explain to you what he explain to me.

Mrs Bryant (on hearing a bus) There go the half-past-eleven bus to Diss – blust that’s early. (Puts spuds in saucepan on oven and goes to collect runner beans, which she prepares.)

Beatie Mother, I’m talking to you. Blust woman it’s not often we get together and really talk, it’s nearly always me listening to you telling who’s dead. Just listen a second.

Mrs Bryant Well go on gal, but you always take so long to say it.

Beatie What are the words of that song?

Mrs Bryant I don’t know all the words.

Beatie I’ll tell you. (Recites them.)

I’ll wait for you in the heavens blue

As my arms are waiting now.

Please come to me and I’ll be true

My love shall not turn sour.

I hunger, I hunger, I cannot wait longer,

My love shall not turn sour.

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