Hey There (You with the Gun in Your Hand)

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Dean stared out at the crowd from the stage and asked, “How did all these people get in my room?”

Frank said, “Keep smilin’, Sam, so they can see you.”

Joey said to Frank and Dean, “Stop singin’ and tell the people all the good work the Mafia’s doin’.”

They moved around the stage like a well-oiled machine. The lines were old, but the crowd loved each and every one of them.

“Hurry up, Sam,” Frank said, “the watermelon’s gettin’ warm.”

Frank was the Leader, but Joey was the director. Not many people knew at the time that Joey wrote a lot of the jokes the Rat Packers did on stage.

Like Dean and Sammy saying in tandem, “If all the women in Texas were as ugly as yo’ momma, the Lone Ranger gon’ be alone for a loooong time.”

Or Dean picking Sammy up in his arms and saying, “I’d like to thank the NAACP for this award.”

Later I found out that the line was supposed to be, “I’d like to thank the B’nai B’rith …” but Dean couldn’t remember the line, so he kept saying “NAACP” and they finally left it in.

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