Chapter 8 - The Peanuts Ease on Down Towards Home
Fade back to the executive office, Duck wipe the sweat off his forehead with a cloth as J.R. Excitedly asked what happened next.
J.R.: Yeah, yeah, what happened next?
Duck: Okay, Okay... eh... Page 30. While Snow White and her bird friends are busy tidying up the cottage, somewhere in a mine within the seven mountains, we find seven familiar faces digging for copper and gold.
J.R.: What are their names?
Duck: Oh, yes, their names.
Fade to the mine, Duck name each one peanut as the latters are busy working.
Duck [voice over: Their names are Charlie Brown, Lucy van Pelt, Sally (she waved at the viewer), Schroeder (playing at his piano), Linus, Peppermint Patty, and finally... Snoopy. They dig for copper and gold in the mine where they keep the good ones where they keep half for themselves and the other half they shipped off to neighboring kingdoms, and the bad ones they throw away which the beagle sweeps up and throws it out of the mountain.
Charlie Brown to Schroeder and asked him to play something "peppy" on the piano.
Charlie Brown: Hey Schroeder, how about you play something peppy on that piano.
Schroeder: Anything particular?
Peppermint Patty: I don't know, surprise us.
Everyone: Yes, surprise us.
Schroeder hit the keyboard of his piano and to everyone shock and amazement the Beethoven frantic plays "Dig it" from Disney's Holes.
The peanuts work with the beat and as they work. Everyone sing to the song Schroeder playing.
Schroeder:
You've got to go dig those holes,
With broken hands and withered souls.
Emancipated from all you know,
You've got to go dig for copper and gold.
All:
Dig it up, oh, oh (Dig it)
Dig it up, oh, oh (Ohh)
Dig it up, oh, oh (dig it)
Dig it up, oh, oh (Ohh)
Charlie Brown:
Two suits, two tokens in hand,
I got no respect 'cause I'm the new man.
Got my shovel, shoes full of sand,
Check out the tag--the name's Caveman, uhh.
All:
Dig it up, oh, oh (Dig it)
Dig it up, oh, oh (Ohh)
Dig it up, oh, oh (dig it)
Dig it up, oh, oh (Ohh)
Linus:
Take a bad boy, make him dig five feet,
The dirt in these shovels will give us a beat.
Okay you gotta find suin' neva found before,
If not, we'll just have to dig some more.
Na na na na na na na na (x3)
Na na na na (ohh)
All:
Dig it up, oh, oh (Dig it)
Dig it up, oh, oh (Ohh)
Dig it up, oh, oh (dig it)
Dig it up, oh, oh (Ohh)
Dig it up, oh, oh (Dig it)
Dig it up, oh, oh (Ohh)
Dig it up, oh, oh (dig it)
Dig it up, oh, oh (Ohh)
Lucy:
Your hands may blister,
Your muscles stay sore.
You wanna break,
Knock on the warden's door.
Uh huhh, uh huhh.
All:
Dig it up, oh, oh (Dig it)
Dig it up, oh, oh (Ohh)
Dig it up, oh, oh (dig it)
Dig it up, oh, oh (Ohh)
Peppermint Patty:
A-R-M P-I to the T,
What is that you smellin', dawg, that's me.
I don't take showers and I don't brush my teeth,
That's all I do - is dig holes, eat, and sleep.
Linus:
There is no lake, there is no shade,
There is no place to hide.
So just sit and wait to fry.
Schroeder:
You've got to go dig those holes
All:
Dig it up, oh, oh (Dig it)
Dig it up, oh, oh (Ohh)
Dig it up, oh, oh (dig it)
Dig it up, oh, oh (Ohh)
(chorus continues simultaneously)
Linus: Take a bad boy, make him dig five feet.
Charlie Brown: Got my shovel, shoes full of sand.
Linus: The dirt in these shovels will give us a beat.
Charlie Brown: Check out the tag - the name's Caveman.
Sally:
Wake up in the mornin' before the sun,
Keep diggin' that hole till the day is done.
Wake up in the mornin' and before the sun,
Keep diggin' that hole till the day is done.
Schroeder: You got to go dig those holes (x2)
(chorus, fades out)
Cut to the clock, it reads 5 pm on the nose. And at that moment the clock chime five times indicating that the work day is done and it's time to go home.
The peanuts stopped working and put their tools away and walked in single file as "Ease on Down The Road" is playing. As the gang leaving the mine for the day Charlie Brown with a lantern lead the group as Sally, Schroeder, Linus, Lucy, Peppermint Patty, and Snoopy followed behind. Despite being hungry and tired from their day's work they sang a song while heading home.
Charlie Brown:
Come on and ease on down, ease on down the road
Come on and ease on down, ease on down the road
Don't you carry nothing that might be a load
Come on, ease on down, ease on down, down the road
Come on, ease on down, ease on down the road
All:
Come on, ease on down, ease on down the road
Don't you carry nothing that might be a load
Come on, ease on down, ease on down, down the road
Sally:
Pick your left foot up when your right one's down
Come on, legs keep movin', don't you lose no ground
You just keep on keepin' on the road that you choose
Don't you give up walkin' 'cause you gave up shoes
All:
Come on, ease on down, ease on down the road
Come on, ease on down, ease on down the road
Don't you carry nothing that might be a load
Come on, ease on down, ease on down, down the road
Schroeder:
'Cause there maybe times when you think you lost your mind
Linus:
And the steps you're takin' leave you three, four steps behind
Peppermint Patty:
'Cause the road you're walking might be long sometimes
Lucy:
You just keep on steppin', and you'll be just fine, yeah
All:
Ease on down, ease on down the road
Ease on down, ease on down the road
Don't you carry nothing that might be a load
Come on, ease on down, ease on down, down the road
Sally:
Oh there maybe times
When you wish you wasn't born.
Charlie Brown:
And you wake one morning
Just to find your courage gone.
Peppermint Patty:
But just know that feelin'
Only lasts a little while,
All:
You stick with us
And we'll show you how to smile!
Ease on down, ease on down the Road!
Come on ease on down, ease on down the road!
Ease on down, ease on down the road
Don't you carry nothin'
That might be a load...
Come on, ease on down,
Ease on down the road!
Ease on down, ease on down the road!!!
The Peanuts ease on down the mountain as the singing begins to fade in the distance while Snoopy keep to keep up the others.
Chapter 8 ended.