Ma? Hmm? Why don't you want Pa to have a new barn? I'd like him to have a new barn,...
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Selma Jacobson: Ma?
Bruna Jacobson: Hmm?
Selma Jacobson: Why don't you want Pa to have a new barn?
Bruna Jacobson: I'd like him to have a new barn, Selma. I'd like anything that makes your pa happy. But, new barns aren't easy. Sometimes they take too much out of a man like your father.
Selma Jacobson: But if you'd like him to have a new barn, why do you always talk like you didn't?
Bruna Jacobson: Well, what you'd like people to have and what people are able to have - those are two different things. Right now your pa's out in the barn mendin' harness when he ought to be here with us gettin' some rest. With the old barn, he works more than any man should. To pay for a new one, he'd be workin' longer; he'd never be able to stop for a minute. He's growin' old and dreamin' at night of his debts. Oh, it's better Selma - it's better never to have a thing than to have it and be afraid. Some of these days when you're older, you...
[hears rustling movement and discreetly shushes their conversation]
Bruna Jacobson: ... That's your pa, isn't it?
Bruna Jacobson: Hmm?
Selma Jacobson: Why don't you want Pa to have a new barn?
Bruna Jacobson: I'd like him to have a new barn, Selma. I'd like anything that makes your pa happy. But, new barns aren't easy. Sometimes they take too much out of a man like your father.
Selma Jacobson: But if you'd like him to have a new barn, why do you always talk like you didn't?
Bruna Jacobson: Well, what you'd like people to have and what people are able to have - those are two different things. Right now your pa's out in the barn mendin' harness when he ought to be here with us gettin' some rest. With the old barn, he works more than any man should. To pay for a new one, he'd be workin' longer; he'd never be able to stop for a minute. He's growin' old and dreamin' at night of his debts. Oh, it's better Selma - it's better never to have a thing than to have it and be afraid. Some of these days when you're older, you...
[hears rustling movement and discreetly shushes their conversation]
Bruna Jacobson: ... That's your pa, isn't it?
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Why don't you want pa to have a new barn
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I'd like him to have a new barn Selma
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I'd like anything that makes your pa happy
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But new barns aren't easy
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Sometimes they take too much out of a man
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like your father
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But if you'd like him to have a new barn
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why do you always talk like you didn't
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Well
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What you'd like people to have
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and what people are able to have
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those are two different things
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Right now
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your pa's out in the barn mending harness
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when he ought to be here with us
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getting some rest
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With the old barn
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he works more than any man should
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To pay for a new one
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he'd be working longer
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He'd never be able to stop a minute
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Just growing old
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and dreaming at night of his debts
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No it's better Selma
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It's better never to have a thing
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than to have it and be afraid
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Some of these days when you're older
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you
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Shh
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It's your pa isn't it
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Well that's done
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Why don't you sit here Martinius hmm
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No Bruna
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This'll be all right
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Ahh
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You ever see so many stars
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Pa do people live on the stars
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They do if you want them to
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Movie Summary
A Norwegian farmer lovingly raises his daughter in rural World War II-era Benson Junction, Wisconsin.
