Raggedy Man

Raggedy Man
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Directed by	Jack Fisk
Written by	William D. Wittliff
Produced by	Terry Nelson Burt Weissbourd William D. Wittliff
Starring	Sissy Spacek Eric Roberts Sam Shepard
Cinematography	Ralf Bode
Edited by	Edward Warschilka
Music by	Jerry Goldsmith
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	1981
Running time	94 min.
Country	U.S.A.
Language	English

Raggedy Man is a 1981 film starring Sam Shepard and Sissy Spacek. It was filmed in Lockhart, Texas.

The story is about people in a small Texas town during World War II.

Additional cast members

• R.G. Armstrong
• Eric Roberts
• William Sanderson
• Henry Thomas
• Tracey Walter

Novel

Raggedy Man is the title of a novel by William D. Wittliff and Sara Clark, published in 1979, on which the movie of the same title is based.

Other Uses

The Raggedy Man is also the name of a poem written in 1890 by James Whitcomb Riley.

                      

THE RAGGEDY MAN
                  

By James Whitcomb Riley

 

O THE Raggedy Man!  He works fer Pa;

An' he's the Goodest man ever you saw!
He comes to our house every day,
An' waters the horses, an' feeds `em hay;
An' he opens the shed---an' we all ist laugh
When he drives out our little old wobble-ly calf;
An' nen---ef our hired girl says he can---
He milks the cow fer `Lizabuth Ann.---
    Ain't he a' awful kind Raggedy

Man?
        Raggedy! Raggedy! Raggedy Man!

 

W'y, The Raggedy Man---He's ist so good

He splits the kindlin' an' chops the wood;
An' nen he spades in our garden, too,
An' does most things `at boys can't do.---
He clumbed clean up in our big tree---
An' shooked a' apple down fer me---
An' nother'n too, fer `Lizabuth Ann---
An' nother'n, too, fer The Raggedy Man.---
    Ain't he a' awful kind Raggedy Man?

        Raggedy! Raggedy! Raggedy Man!

 

An' The Raggedy Man, he knows most rhymes
An'n

tells `em ef I be good, sometime;
Knows `bout Giunts, an' Griffuns, an' Elves,
An' the Squidgicum-Squees `at swallers therselves!
An', wite by the pump in our pasture-lot,
He showed me the hole `at the Wunks is got,
`At live `way deep in the ground, an' can
Turn into me, er `Lizabuth Ann!
    Ain't he a funny old Raggedy

Man?
        Raggedy! Raggedy! Raggedy Man!

 

The Raggedy Man---one time when he
Was makin' a

little bow-'n-'orry fer me,
Says, "When you're big like your Pa is,
Air you go' to keep a fine store like his---
An' be a rich merchunt---an' wear fine clothes?---
Er what air you go' to be goodness knows!"
An'nen he laughed at `Lizabuth Ann,
An' I says, "`M go' to be a Raggedy Man!
    I'm ist go' to be a nice Raggedy

Man!"
        Raggedy! Raggedy! Raggedy Man!

External link

• Raggedy Man at IMDb
• Raggedy Man at AllMovie