Mr. Stopnick And Emmie Lyrics > Caroline, or Change
Mr. Stopnick And Emmie Lyrics
MR. STOPNICK
Yes I know it worked just dandy
for that Indian Mister Ghandi
but with respect for Martin Luther King?
EMMIE
I think it?s a negro thing,
a southern thing,
a Christian thing;
mister, you don?t understand
how Dr. King has got things planned.
MR. STOPNICK
Oh Jews can be nonviolent too.
There?s nothing meeker than a Jew!
Listen girlie, we have learned:
nonviolence will get you burned.
EMMIE
No I?m sorry that ain?t so.
Listen to the radio.
What we?re trying?s already working!
Segregation?s already dying!
MR. STOPNICK
I been on the earth a while?
ROSE
Papa, this is Emmie
Emmie this is Mr. Stopnick, he--
MR. STOPNICK
?your optimism makes me smile.
Good for you you?re optimistic!
But I think it ain?t realistic.
EMMIE
I?d like to know how you come to feel
you know so much about what is real,
sitting safe and high and pretty,
way up north in New York City?
I?d like to know!
CAROLINE
Emmie!
EMMIE
Mama?
CAROLINE
I said quit!
EMMIE
He the one that started it!
ROSE
You know I was reading in the paper just the other day?
EMMIE
I?d like to know how
some guy just off a plane
marchin in to explain,
guess you seen it all plain
from the air?
It our
affair
Now our resistance
start to make a difference
here come your ?assistance.?
MR. STOPNICK (with Emmie)
Is that so?
Why?s it so impossible to know,
white or Jew or negro
if the boss?s boot?s in your face
what do you do? Shed a tear?
Keep lying there?
A face knows it?s no footrest
regardless of religion or race!
CAROLINE
Child you hear me?! Hush your mouth!
March that tray back to the kitchen!
MR. STOPNICK
Lady, please, since I come south,
she?s my first real conversation.
Let her stay!
CAROLINE
It?s past her bed.
ROSE
It?s good that she?s high-spirited!
CAROLINE
Yes?m. Thank you. We?ll start cleaning
in the kitchen, then go home.
Last Update: June, 10th 2013
Caroline, or Change Lyrics
- Disc 1:
- 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
- Duets: No One Waitin'
- Duets: 'Night Mamma
- Duets: Gonna Pass Me A Law
- Duets: Noah Go To Sleep
- Noah Has A Problem
- Stuart And Noah
- Quarter In The Bleach Cup
- Caroline Take My Money Home
- Roosevelt Petrucius Coleslaw
- Disc 2:
- Santa Comin' Caroline
- Little Reward
- 1943
- Mr. Gellman's Shirt
- Ooh Child
- Rose Recovers
- I Saw Three Ships
- The Chanukah Party
- Dotty And Emmie
- I Don't Want My Child To Hear That
- 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