No One Waitin Lyrics

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Caroline, or Change the Musical - No One Waitin Lyrics

RADIO:
No one waitin to warm the dark,
No one hopin that I'll wear red,
No one wantin to spark my spark,
No one needin needin to share my bed.

CAROLINE:
Don't break promises, Emmie,
Do like you say you do.
Don't give yourself options.
Most folks lives without em.
Most folks does without.

EMMIE:
Lost track of time, mama,
Sorry, Aunt Claudia
Say she'd mind the children,
Say she don't mind minding them.
Sorry mama, I was out;
Being shiftless, having fun.

RADIO: (under CAROLINE/EMMIE dialogue)
Nobody's arm to cradle my head,
To talk about news, talk about views,
Talk about change,
About the President dead,
About how the day went,
Or how time flown,
Or life been spent,
Or I'm all alone?

CAROLINE:
What kind of fun?

EMMIE:
You remember fun, mama;
Out at the parking lot,
Longside the A&W,
Buncha us talking,
Dancing to the radio.

CAROLINE:
The President's dead.

EMMIE:
I know, the radio play music anyway!
Just some old white man sent Larry off to Vietnam.
Sorry he dead.
I ain't killed him.

CAROLINE:
I'm too tired to fight.
You don't do me right.
I can't do with no daughters shiftless as you.

EMMIE:
Just some old white man
Don't care about the black man?

CAROLINE:
Emmie Thibodeeaux! Since when you say 'black man'?
You say colored or negro like you was raised up to.

EMMIE:
Say he do stuff for us,
Get our vote, he just ignore us,
same old story, mama, same tired old lie.
If you got to do it mama go ahead and cry.
I ain't got no tears to shed for no dead white guy.

RADIO:
Free, free, lonesome and free!
No one pacin the floor for me.
Flower don't need no honey bee.
If free mean misery, that's what I be.
Ain't nobody's baby,
Ain't property,
Got nothing I own cept being alone free and lonely?

CAROLINE:
Go on an get yourself to bed, girl,
whoever put a mouth like that on you?
I know I didn't do it, and God didn't do it,
And somedays I don't know what I'm gonna do?

EMMIE:
How your knees today?

CAROLINE:
They fine, go on asleep.
Don't wake up the baby,
Say prayers for us all,
Give your mama a kiss,
Pologize to God for being such an unholy priss,
And a caution and a sass
Fore your mama whups your?

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