"Now I lay me down to sleep..." My mother says, "What are you covering up your chin for?"...
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Betty:
When I was four, just four years old, I went to my mother and I said, "What's this hole in my chin?" - I saw this dimple in my chin in the mirror, and didn't know what it was. And my mother said - get what my mother says - she says, "When you're born, you go on a assembly line past God, and if He likes you, He says, [grabs her cheeks with both her hands] Betty:
"You cute little thing!" and you get dimples there. And if He doesn't like you, He goes, [presses one finger on her chin] Betty:
"Go away." So about six months later, my mother found me saying my prayers, and I was going, [holds one hand over her chin] Betty:
"Now I lay me down to sleep..." My mother says, "What are you covering up your chin for?" And I said, "Because if I cover up the hole, maybe He'll listen to me."
When I was four, just four years old, I went to my mother and I said, "What's this hole in my chin?" - I saw this dimple in my chin in the mirror, and didn't know what it was. And my mother said - get what my mother says - she says, "When you're born, you go on a assembly line past God, and if He likes you, He says, [grabs her cheeks with both her hands] Betty:
"You cute little thing!" and you get dimples there. And if He doesn't like you, He goes, [presses one finger on her chin] Betty:
"Go away." So about six months later, my mother found me saying my prayers, and I was going, [holds one hand over her chin] Betty:
"Now I lay me down to sleep..." My mother says, "What are you covering up your chin for?" And I said, "Because if I cover up the hole, maybe He'll listen to me."
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Okay When I was four just four years old
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I went to my mother and I said What's this hole in my chin
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I saw this dimple in my chin in the mirror and didn't know what it was
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And my mother said Guess what my mother says
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She says When you're born you go on an assembly line past God
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And if he likes you he says 'You cute little thing ' and you get dimples there
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And if he doesn't like you he goes 'Go away '
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So about six months later my mother found me saying my prayers
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and I was going Now I lay me down to sleep
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My mother says What are you covering up your chin for
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Movie Summary
A drop-out from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil-rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.
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Betty
