Green Onions

Speech by

Elwood:All right people.

The rest of the hard working all star

Blues Brothers aregonna be out here in a minute, including my little brother

Jake. But rightnow,

I'd like to talk a little bit about this tune you're hearing.

This isofcourse the

Green Onions tune.

It was a very big hit in the early sixties inthis country.

And ofcourse it was composed and recorded in

Memphis, Tennessee,right here in the

United States

Of America.

You know, people,

I believe thatthis tune can be acquinted with the great classical music around the world.

Now you go to

Germany, you've got your

Bach, your

Beethoven, your

Brahms...Here in

America you've got your

Fred McDowell, your

Irving Berlin, your

GlennMiller, and your

Booker T &

The MG's, people.

Another example of the greatcontributions in music and culture that this country has made around theworld.

And as you look around the world today, you see this country spurned.

You see backs turned on this country.

Well people,

I'm gonna tell yousomething, this continent,

North America, is the stronghold!

This is wherewe're gonna make our stand in this decade!

Yeah, people,

I've got something tosay to the

State Department.

I say Take that archaic

Monroe Doctrine, and that

Marshall Plan that says we're supposed to police force the world, and throw'em out!

Let's stay home for the next ten years people!

Right here in

NorthAmerica and enjoy the music and culture that is ours.

Yeah, I got one morething to say.

I'm just talking about the music, people, and what it does tome.

And that is, as you look around the world, you go to the

Soviet Union or

Great Britain or

France, you name it, any country...

Everybody is doing flipsand twists just to get into a genuine pair of

American blue jeans!

And to hearthis music and we got it all here in

America, the land of the

Chrysler 440cubic inch engine!