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Roxie is the latest arrival on murderer’s row in Cook County Jail.
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God will take ca-are of you Through all the day
O'er all the way,
He will take ca-are of you God will take ca-are of you!
Roxie [casually, as she hands Mrs. Morton another paper to clip]: Then yesterday must have been His day off.
Matron [puzzled]: What?
Roxie: I just said God wasn't on the job at the inquest or I wouldn't have landed here.
[The music starts up again. ] Say, does that keep up all day?
Matron: Just an hour or so. It's the Salvation Army--- the men likes to hear 'em. I'll have 'em close the doors. [Gets up and goes to the door. ]
Roxie: With them squawkin', and the radio upstairs tunin' in to Y.M. meetin's, health talks and ser- mons. .. . [As Matron is out of earshot.] This 1s a helluva joint: Sunday here and not a drop uh liquor in the house!
Velma [looks up in ready
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