Steamboat Round the Bend (1935)
Stepin Fetchit: Jonah
Quotes
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Jonah : Ain't nobody in here.
Sheriff Rufe Jeffers : Thunderation!
Jonah : Ain't nobody in here, white folks.
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Doctor John Pearly : What's your name?
Jonah : Well, I was baptized David Begat Solomon, but...
Doctor John Pearly : David Begat what?
Jonah : David Begat Solomon. But I changed it to George Lincoln Washington.
Doctor John Pearly : Well, now, listen. lf you're goin' with me, we're gonna stick right to the Bible. You're Jonah.
Jonah : Yes, suh. But I can't swim.
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Jonah : Yes, suh, I works here. I play the banjo and the mouth organ and the calliope.
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Doctor John Pearly : Gentlemen, General Robert E. Lee.
Jonah : [singing] Look away, look away, Look away, Dixieland
Townsman : Attention!
Jonah : [singing] I wish I was in Dixie, I say, I say, A-way down South. A-way, a-way, A-way down south in Dixie, A-way, a-way, A-way down south in Dixie. I wish I was in the land of cotton. Old times there is not forgotten. Look a-way, look a-way, Look a-way, Dixieland. I wish I was...