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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

  1. Disc 1:
  2. 16 Feet Beneath the Sea
  3. The Radio
  4. Laundry Quintet
  5. Noah Down The Stairs
  6. The Cigarette
  7. Laundry Finish
  8. The Dryer
  9. I Got Four Kids
  10. Caroline, There's Extra Food
  11. There Is No God, Noah
  12. Rose Stopnick Can Cook
  13. Long Distance
  14. Dotty and Caroline
  15. Moon Change
  16. Moon Trio
  17. The Bus
  18. That Can't Be
  19. Noah And Rose
  20. Inside/Outside
  21. JFK
  22. Duets: No One Waitin'
  23. Duets: 'Night Mamma
  24. Duets: Gonna Pass Me A Law
  25. Duets: Noah Go To Sleep
  26. Noah Has A Problem
  27. Stuart And Noah
  28. Quarter In The Bleach Cup
  29. Caroline Take My Money Home
  30. Roosevelt Petrucius Coleslaw
  31. Disc 2:
  32. Santa Comin' Caroline
  33. Little Reward
  34. 1943
  35. Mr. Gellman's Shirt
  36. Ooh Child
  37. Rose Recovers
  38. I Saw Three Ships
  39. The Chanukah Party
  40. Dotty And Emmie
  41. I Don't Want My Child To Hear That
  42. Mr. Stopnick And Emmie
  43. Kitchen Fight
  44. A Twenty Dollar Bill And Why
  45. I Hate the Bus
  46. Moon, Emmie And Stuart Trio
  47. The Twenty Dollar Bill
  48. Caroline And Noah Fight
  49. Aftermath
  50. Sunday Morning
  51. Lot's Wife
  52. Salty Teardrops
  53. Why Does Our House Have A Basement?
  54. Underwater
  55. Epilogue

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