Caroline or Change - Dotty and Emmie Lyrics

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Caroline, or Change the Musical - Dotty and Emmie Lyrics


DOTTY:
What I tell you?
That courthouse statue,
Confederate soldier?
You see the TV News last night?

EMMIE:
We ain't got a TV.

DOTTY:
Found the headless body in Choo Choo Bayou,
Wrapt 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:
Dang!

DOTTY:
Oh uh huh. The whole shebang.
Bloodhounds bayin, makin noise?
They say it was 'hoodlums' done it.
They mean colored boys.

EMMIE:
But they ain't said who?

DOTTY:
Nope. Not a clue.
Tell you what: whoever did it?
Good for them!
I hope 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:
My eye they ain't.
They'll keep lookin.
Some of them is vexed as snakes 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:
OK, go!
Time to bring them pancakes out!
They dips them in the applesauce.
Take the tray out, don't be spillin.
Carve the goose and let's be trekkin.


 

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Caroline or Change lyrics Dotty and Emmie


Caroline, or Change the Musical Lyrics

SYNOPSIS
16 Feet Beneath The Sea
The Radio
Laundry Quintet
Noah Down The Stairs
The Cigarette
Laundry Finish
The Dryer
I Got Four Kids
Caroline, There's Extra Food
There Is No God, Noah
Rose Stopnick Can Cook
Long Distance
Dotty and Caroline
Moon Change
Moon Trio
The Bus
That Can't Be
Noah and Rose
Inside / Outside
JFK
No One Waitin
Night Mamma
Gonna Pass Me A Law
Noah, Go To Sleep
Noah Has A Problem
Stuart and Noah
Quarter In The Bleach Cup
Caroline Takes My Money Home
Roosevelt Petrucius Coleslaw
Santa Comin' Caroline
Little Reward
1943
Mr. Gellman's Shirt
Ooh Child
Rose Recovers
I Saw Three Ships
The Chanukah Party
Dotty and Emmie
Mr. Stopnick and Emmie
Kitchen Fight
A Twenty Dollar Bill and Why
I Hate The Bus
Moon, Emmie and Stuart Trio
The Twenty Dollar Bill
Caroline and Noah FIght
Aftermath
Sunday Morning
Lot's Wife
Salty Teardrops
Why Does Our House Have A Basement?
Underwater
Epilogue