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Dotty and Caroline Lyrics by Chandra Wilson, Tonya Pinkins

Caroline, or Change (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

2004

[DOTTY, spoken]
Well, evening, Caroline
[CAROLINE, spoken]
Same to you
[DOTTY, spoken]
How you doing, how you been?
Ooh, it's warmish for November
Gettin' dark early, huh?
That bus better not be late
Mrs. Griffin been lettin' me off early these days
On account of night school
She like havin' a maid goin' to college
Make her feel sort of fancy
I say, it warmish for November
[DOTTY]
Listen to them frogs
Expecting the moon
I don't hardly ever take the bus now
I got a boyfriend
He gots a car
[DOTTY, spoken]
We never get to talk no more
[CAROLINE]
Knees hurt, wore out
Same as yesterday, same tomorrow
[CAROLINE, spoken]
Too tired to talk
[DOTTY, spoken]
Well, how Noah doing?
[CAROLINE, spoken]
Ain't my job to mind that boy
You wanna know how Noah do
Ask him yourself
[DOTTY]
Caroline, why you huff at me?
You never used to be that way
All a sudden so unfriendly
I ain't ever done no harm to you
[CAROLINE]
I don't like the way you do
You change
Gal your age wearin' bobby socks
And saddle shoes
Actin' like I don't know what-all
[DOTTY]
Everyone down to the college
Everyone wear these shoes
And I don't see that you got call to—
You the one that change
You change
[CAROLINE]
Plaid skirt, flipped hair
You's no kid and runs with men, never mind
Drinkin' too and smokin' cigarettes
And I don't know what-all
[DOTTY]
You's gettin' pinched and pruny
Like them ladies at your church
Think they come at God's suggestion
Judging this one, judging that one
'Fore you got yourself divorced
'Fore I told you I's goin' to night school
'Fore all that you wasn't hateful
Now you got all grim and gospel
Sorry you is sick and shame
Sorry you drinkin' misery tea
Sorry your life ain't what it should be
Don't see why you think it proper
To take it out on me
[CAROLINE]
Seeing as how you ain't ever seen
The inside of a church
I don't think you got perspective
On what the Gospel is
Dotty Moffett, high and mighty
Goin' to college every night
Leastest thing that they could teach you
Is not to talk on what you's wholly
Completely, abysmally
Ignorant of
[DOTTY, spoken]
Where's the moon?
Should be here
Them frogs is asking after it
[DOTTY]
Gibbous moon tonight
And it be warmish for November
Gibbous moon tonight
[THE MOON]
Moon change
[DOTTY, spoken]
Well, you heard on the TV yesterday?
[CAROLINE]
I ain't got a TV
[DOTTY]
That old copper statue
By the courthouse downtown
"Honorin' the brave Confederate Soldier
The South's Defender"
The Civil War
Ain't there no more
It ain't there no more
[CAROLINE, spoken]
What you talking about?
[DOTTY]
Last evening
Somebody heist the hateful thing
Unscrewed it
Carried it away
[CAROLINE, spoken]
Now, who wanna do a thing like that?
[DOTTY] [CAROLINE]
No witness
Don't got, don't got (It just mean trouble)
No one's name (It mean that trouble on the way)
Don't know, don't know (Don't want to hear that)
Who to blame
[DOTTY]
Standin' there one hundred year
Now, that statue, he just disappear
Things change everywhere, even here
Yeah, you want a smoke, Miz Piety and Rectitude?
Credits
Chandra Wilson

Chandra Wilson

Tonya Pinkins

Tonya Pinkins

About “Dotty and Caroline” by Chandra Wilson

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