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Pop: You don't usually buy your wisdom with a walk in the park. Your heart - has to explode.
Granny: Mr. Philosopher. And when did your heart ever explode?
Pop: That time I saw you in those brown stockings.
Granny: Holy God.
[laughs]
Granny: I remember that. It took me half the day just staining my legs brown with the tobacco water. Then our Annie took half the night to draw the seam up the back of me legs with a pencil. You couldn't understand why you couldn't get your hands round them. You thought it was magic.
Pop: It was magic. When you've gray hair, people think your heart never skipped.
Granny: Did yours ever skip?
Pop: Aye, it danced a bloody jig every time you walked in the room.
Granny: Nah. You were full of it then, and you're full of it now
Granny: Mr. Philosopher. And when did your heart ever explode?
Pop: That time I saw you in those brown stockings.
Granny: Holy God.
[laughs]
Granny: I remember that. It took me half the day just staining my legs brown with the tobacco water. Then our Annie took half the night to draw the seam up the back of me legs with a pencil. You couldn't understand why you couldn't get your hands round them. You thought it was magic.
Pop: It was magic. When you've gray hair, people think your heart never skipped.
Granny: Did yours ever skip?
Pop: Aye, it danced a bloody jig every time you walked in the room.
Granny: Nah. You were full of it then, and you're full of it now
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Yeah well you don't usually buy your wisdom
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with a walk in the park
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Your heart has to explode
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Mr Philosopher
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And when did your heart ever explode
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That time I saw you in those brown stockings
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Holy God
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Aye I remember that
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It took me half the day
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just staining my legs brown with the tobacco water
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Then our Annie took half the night
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to draw the seam up the back of my legs with a pencil
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You couldn't understand why
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you couldn't get your hands round them
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You thought it was magic
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It was magic
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When you've gray hair people think your heart never skipped
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Did yours ever skip
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Aye it danced a bloody jig
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every time you walked in the room
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Nah
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You were full of it then and you're full of it now
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Movie Summary
A young boy and his working-class Belfast family experience the tumultuous late 1960s.
