At Home in Spearfish

Sung by Ma—reprising the tune of Wild Wild West Cue: “But I figure you’ll want to know what became of us in later years.” Well, Bessie made her home right here; she never missed the travelin’ thrills but in Spearfish, with her pen and ink, was Poet Laureate of the lovely Black Hills! And Rosie enrolled at the normal school to be a teacher of piano and voice, guided Spearfish town in the melodious arts... (spoken) and took up with one of these here band boys... (band members look awkwardly at each other for a moment... shrug and move on) Yep, the reasons we call Spearfish home could fill a seven hundred fifty page tome. She’s where the trout stream flows and the orchards grow and the Lookout rises ‘bove the clapboard homes, she’s the Queen City valley and a star of the West, She’s the place we love the best... (Vamp from Deadeye Dan theme begins under Ma’s next monologue) Ma – And Dan? Well I hired him to do odd jobs at the hotel, to help with the back- breaking, fingers worn to the bone work. One thing led to another, as is often the case with kindred spirits, and, well, we got married, Dan and me. Ran the first Ma and Pa hotel in the country.