Steamboat Round the Bend (1935)

Stepin Fetchit: Jonah

Quotes 

• Jonah : Ain't nobody in here.

  Sheriff Rufe Jeffers : Thunderation!

  Jonah : Ain't nobody in here, white folks.

• Doctor John Pearly : What's your name?

  Jonah : Well, I was baptized David Begat Solomon, but...

  Doctor John Pearly : David Begat what?

  Jonah : David Begat Solomon. But I changed it to George Lincoln Washington.

  Doctor John Pearly : Well, now, listen. lf you're goin' with me, we're gonna stick right to the Bible. You're Jonah.

  Jonah : Yes, suh. But I can't swim.

• Jonah : Yes, suh, I works here. I play the banjo and the mouth organ and the calliope.

• Doctor John Pearly : Gentlemen, General Robert E. Lee.

  Jonah : [singing]  Look away, look away, Look away, Dixieland

  Townsman : Attention!

  Jonah : [singing]  I wish I was in Dixie, I say, I say, A-way down South. A-way, a-way, A-way down south in Dixie, A-way, a-way, A-way down south in Dixie. I wish I was in the land of cotton. Old times there is not forgotten. Look a-way, look a-way, Look a-way, Dixieland. I wish I was...