Goin' South

Oh!

Oh, you, Rio Grande!

Get in there!

Come on, Speed!

Viva Mexico!

Oh, oh!

Yee-haw! Haha!

Viva Mexico!

This here's Mexican dirt!

You can't touch me!

Oh!

You thought you'd get the old man in the moon?

You Texas clown buzzards is a disgrace to the confederacy.

Speed, this ain't no time to let me down.

Get up!

Come on, Speed!

Goddamn it, Speed!

You can't do this!

This is Mexican territory!

I don't believe it!

He got across the river and his horse faints on him!

I can't believe it!

It's a goddamn foreign country here!

This ain't fair, goddamn it!

This ain't fair!

This ain't fair!

They're stringing up old Speed.

I have here a very fine animal

once owned by the hombre we're about to hang.

What am I offered?

Hey, I still own that horse.

When we want to hear from you, amigo,

we'll rattle your cage.

Is that the horse that fainted?

- Yeah, he fainted, but he got up, didn't he?

What?

What?

Oh!

Towfield, I told you

to keep these buzzards out of here!

Take it easy, Moon.

You're lucky you're getting a decent hanging.

I'd have done it out there on a scrub oak.

Goddamn vultures hanging around here all morning.

- They just wanted to take a gander at the man of the hour.

Yeah.

Well, I'm flattered as hell.

You're a real card, Moon.

I'm gonna miss you.

Your family's here.

Make it short.

Boys!

Brother Abe,

Jimmy, Gussie, and everybody.

Dumbass deputy.

He thought you was really my family.

That's how I figured.

You look pretty as a painting, honey.

How you doing, Henry?

Well.

Roll it out.

Nothing like that, Henry.

We just come to see you off.

See me off?

- Doesn't look like you did too goddamn good

on your own, Henry, did you?

Now, you should have stuck with us,

'cause we was going places, goddamn it!

What do you mean "was"?

All you got to do is spring me.

- If we tried anything, we'd only get ourselves --

Yeah, but that's without my plans.

Ah, cut that out.

- Big Abe, they're gonna send me to the bone orchard.

- If you got anything you wanna give away, Henry,

now's the time.

Say your goodbyes, boys.

Nice knowing you.

Yeah, Coogan, sure.

You know, it just ain't right.

Just for cutting a few horses and robbing a few banks.

The law's got to be changed, Henry,

Come on, now, Clyde.

So long, Moon.

Adios.

Oh.

- Well, honey, least we had some good old times together.

You was the best I ever had.

Except for maybe that circus feller.

Why does that always upset you so?

- What the hell did you bring a thing like that up

at a time like this for, Hermine?

Shit! - Henry!

Henry!

Don't you worry none, Moon.

I'll take care of this girl like she's my very own.

Come on, now.

Oh, Henry!

Henry!

Mr. Moon?

It's about that time.

What about my last meal?

You're smoking it.

Hands behind your back, Mr. Moon.

He ain't for you, Serene.

I wouldn't take you to a dogfight

if you was the defending champ.

You oughtn't have done that, Mr. Moon.

- Well, why don't you keep me in jail for it?

You tell him about the ordinance?

No.

Why not?

I don't like him

and people I don't like, I don't tell nothing.

Goddamn it, Towfield.

What ordinance?

What ordinance?

Sheriff Pile?

Kyle.

We got this ordinance here.

It was passed after the civil war,

on account of a lot of our boys didn't come home

and the women was beginning to chew up the grass.

I feel sorry for the grass.

I feel sorry for the women.

Anyhow, this ordinance states

that any man short of being a murderer can be saved

from the gallows by any property-holding female,

providin' she decides to marry him.

They done that in Roman times, too, as I recollect.

Sweet Jesus H. Christ almighty!

Ma'am!

I think -- I think there's a couple of things about me

that I'd like -- I'd like for you to consider.

I don't need your insults.

Oh, I agree with you completely,

but you got to take into consideration

a man can get a little irritated,

and he can act like the dickens

when he's about to pull hemp.

Buzzards, huh?

Well, buzzards can fly,

and they keep the desert clean.

I cook!

I cook like a son of a bitch!

I mean, like the dickens!

Oh!

Hello, son.

Go to hell.

I understand.

- Be quiet! - Shh!

Henry Lloyd Moon,

you've been found guilty of horse thievery

and sentenced to be hanged.

Do you have any final last words?

Just this.

I wanna tell you good people of Longhorn...

Especially you lovely ladies... that the old saying,

"You can't judge a book by its cover," it's true.

It's true.

Some books is all scruffed up on the outside,

but when you -- you turn around and look inside,

why, the words is

just wonderful.

Is that it, Moon?

- Well, isn't there anybody else got anything to say?

"The Lord is my shepherd.

I shall not want."

Aw.

- "He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.

He leadeth me beside the still waters.

He restoreth my soul."

That's not right.

"The Lord is my shepherd.

I shall not want.

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.

He restoreth my soul.

He leadeth me beside the still waters."

"Yea, though I walk

through the valley

Of the shadow of death."

I'm a veteran of the great civil war!

The only reason why I turned to crime

is there wasn't no jobs, not one single job

for a man that risked his life for the country!

- "Thou anointest my head." - And the confederacy!

This one's dumb.

He'll swing for sure.

He's better off.

- "And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever."

Bullshit!

He's ready to go!

Stop!

I'll take him.

Florence?

Don't you think that you're a mite too elderly

to be taking on a responsibility like this?

- I've got a good feeling about him, Andrew.

The boy's a veteran.

He deserves a second chance,