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Dotty and Emmie Lyrics by Chandra Wilson, Anika Noni Rose, Tonya Pinkins

Caroline, or Change (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

2004

[DOTTY]
What I tell you?
That courthouse statue
Confederate soldier
You see the TV news last night?
[EMMIE, spoken]
We ain't got a TV set
[DOTTY]
Found the headless body
In Choo Choo Bayou
Wrapped in a flag
In the muddy Stars and Bars
[EMMIE]
Anybody said
What happened to the head?
[DOTTY]
Can't find the head, they's agitated
"Johnny Reb's decapitated!"
Dredged the bayou, lakefront, too
Trawlers, spotlights, minesweepers—
[EMMIE, spoken]
Dang
[DOTTY]
Oh, uh-huh, the whole shebang
Bloodhounds bayin'
Makin' noise
They say it was "hoodlums" done it
They means colored boys
[EMMIE, spoken]
But they ain't said who?
[DOTTY, spoken]
No, not a clue
I tell you what
Whoever did it?
Good for 'em
[DOTTY]
I hopes they burnt it
In a trash incinerator
Fed it to an alligator
Ugly thing, ugly thing
The South's Defender
Hey, Cracker Joe
Lee surrendered!
The thing is over, baby! Dead!
Don't cry
And kiss that huge ugly head
Goodbye
[EMMIE]
Yeah, let it be, for goodness sakes
Heads go missin', them's the breaks
Stakes ain't high—
[DOTTY, spoken]
My eye they ain't
They gon' keep lookin
Some of them as vexed as snakes
[DOTTY]
And trouble comin'
[EMMIE]
And someone gone and killed that man
That crazy man who killed the President
Right on TV
Saw that picture
In the paper
Shot by a bullet
Look like it hurt
We ain't got a TV set, not yet
We only got a radio
[CAROLINE]
Okay, go
Time to bring them pancakes out
They dips them in the applesauce
Take the tray, don't be spillin'
Carve the goose
Let's be trekkin'
Credits
Chandra Wilson

Chandra Wilson

Anika Noni Rose

Anika Noni Rose

Tonya Pinkins

Tonya Pinkins

About “Dotty and Emmie” by Chandra Wilson

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