And where was I while this was going on? Folks, I'm ashamed to tell you. I was asleep.

Jiminy Cricket (Cliff Edwards)

7 seconds sound clip from the Pinocchio (1939) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:15:43 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- What are those down the street?

- Oh, those. They are your schoolmates... girls and boys.

- Real boys?

- Of course. They're going to school.

- Now, here's an apple for your teacher. And you are ready to go. Now, run along.

- Goodbye, Father!

- Goodbye, son!

- Well sir, there he went, off to school.

- And where was I while this was going on? Folks, I'm ashamed to tell you. I was asleep.

- A fine conscience I turned out to be. I should have been right with him.

- You see, I'd heard about a couple of bad characters around that town - one fellow by the name of Honest John, and say, was he a bad one.

- He was as sharp as a fox. Yes sir. Looked like a fox, too. Kind of a long face like a fox and... say, come to think of it, I guess he was a fox.

- And, well you see this Honest John had a stooge by the name of Gideon, a dumb alley cat.

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