Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" is a line from the 1939 film "Gone with the Wind" starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh. The line is spoken by Rhett Butler (Gable), as his last words to Scarlett O'Hara (Leigh), in response to her tearful question: "Where shall I go? What shall I do?" Scarlett clings to the hope that she can win him back. This line is also partially spoken by Rhett Butler in Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind", published in 1936, from which the film is derived.
We Don't Give a Damn "We Don't Give a Damn" is set to the melody of the American folk song "The Old Gray Mare". The song dates back at least to the 1890s and was used in multiple variations and contexts. In 1896, a group of Cornell alumni gathered in Chicago and sang a song with the following lyrics: "We don't give a ---- For the whole State of Michigan; We're from Illinois." During the 1907 World Series, fans of the Chicago Cubs celebrated their team's victory by running onto the field and singing: "We don't give a rap for the whole State of Mich-i-gan,