[THE INTERLOCUTOR, spoken]
And what happened to the boys in the short years that followed? Ladies and gentlemen, the grand finale of our minstrel show!

[ALL]
Ev’ry member of society
Celebrates our notoriety
Step right up and meet the Scottsboro Boys
Ev’ry communist throughout the land
Wants to volunteer to lend a hand
They all wanna kiss the Scottsboro Boys
Since they heard we’re such a wow
MGM is calling now
Zanuck’s also on the phone
And the many Warner Brothers won’t leave us alone

Hey, little boy
Go be a star
Big swimming pool
Cadillac car

Johnny Barrymore and Fanny Brice
Think they’ve stumbled into paradise
When they stop and greet the Scottsboro Boys

[ANDY, spoken]
When the first four got out, Leibowitz put ‘em in vaudeville. He hoped people wouldn’t forget about the rest of us in jail. But guess what, they already had
[ALL]
The Scottsboro Boys

[WILLIE, spoken]
But me? I could never forget!

[OLEN, spoken]
I kept hopin’ my life would begin

[EUGENE, spoken]
I kept hopin’ my nightmares would stop

[ROY, spoken]
One day, I gave up hopin’. I shot myself

[ALL]
The Scottsboro Boys

[CHARLIE, spoken]
I was paroled in ‘43

[CLARENCE, spoken]
Ozie and me got paroled in ‘46. Did we finally get justice?

[CHARLIE, spoken]
A black man with a record?
[CLARENCE, spoken]
Hell, we couldn’t even get jobs. Isn’t that right, Ozie?

[ALL]
Social ladies in New York
Men who use a pickled fork
All they ever ask of you
Is “tell me, do you like it with one lump or two?”

[HAYWOOD, spoken]
After twenty-two years, twenty-two, I died in jail. I wrote it all down in a book. I told the truth. There’s nothin’ more I can do

[ALL]
Read the morning papers ev’ry day
Read what all the gossip columns say
Hey, hey, hey, hey
Join in the merriment
Come on, make some noise
Hey, hey, say goodbye to the Scottsboro Boys

[THE INTERLOCUTOR, spoken]
A happy ending, just like I promised, everyone’s favorite, the cakewalk!

Dance break

Gentlemen be seated. Gentlemen be seated! Be seated! Gentlemen! Be seated!
Lady, you can’t there. Move to the back of the bus. Colored in the back of the bus. Move to the back!

[A LADY, spoken]
No. Not anymore. I’m gonna sit here and rest my feet