Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)

Peggy Lee: Rose Hopkins

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Quotes 

• Pete Kelly : Did you ever sing before?

  Rose Hopkins : Sometimes in clubs and one time for a road show. That's when I met him. I was singing.

  Pete Kelly : Were you any good?

  Rose Hopkins : Couple of people said I was.

• Rose Hopkins : [singing]  Sugar, I call my baby my sugar, I never maybe my sugar, That's why my baby is so confectionary, Funny, I never plead for his money, Cause when I feed him on honey, I get my needs every time, I'd make a million trips to his lips, If I were a bee, Because they are sweeter than any candy to me...

• Rose Hopkins : Is there a place called Coffeyville?

• Rose Hopkins : [singing]  He needs me, He doesn't know it, but he needs me, And so no matter where he goes, Though he doesn't care, He knows that I'm there...