I hate the ground you walk on

I hate the ground you walk on, little darlin'
For all them things that you have did to me;
You nagged me till you're hoarse,
So I'm suin' fer divorce;
Little darlin', I'll forget your memory.

This is the song that Shug Fisher sings just before the title character causes the train derailment. I know this is a something-for-everyone movie--greaser with a heart of gold, babe with a French accent, hot rods, a child with polio that everyone falls all over himself to help out, train wreck, creepy theramin soundtrack, and oh I think there's something about a giant reptile here, too--but for my part, they really could have left out all the music that the kids dig, and just left this one in. It's a nice, cynical moment in a movie that sometimes tries a little too hard to be heartwarming and socially responsible.

All through the first half of the movie, it bothered me, as it often does with minor character actors, that I knew Shug Fisher from somewhere, but couldn't quite place him. It was in this scene that it clicked: he appeared as Shorty Kellems in the TV series The Beverly Hillbillies, which came along some years later.
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"A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five."