Long Distance Lyrics

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Caroline, or Change the Musical - Long Distance Lyrics

ROSE:
Hello pa!
It's long distance,
It's your brand new southern daughter, it's Rose!
Oh everything's fine here,
I suppose.
How's the Hudson River?
I'm fine, just fine, I'm learning the lingo:
Magnolia, camellia, azalea, ya'll.
The temple'get this'has Sunday night bingo?
Just like the goyim.
Oy.
A long distance call!
So much to tell. The boy still hates me.
(I really shouldn't be talking so loud).
He leaves money in his pockets,
And that really grates me,
I tell him and tell him it's not allowed,
Just shucking your laundry?
You hear that? Shuck!?
I'm a southerner already'on to the floor;
Take the money out first,
God know we?re not poor,
But show respect for your father.
He worked hard for that buck?
Well, no, not a whole buck, he's a boy,
But loose change. Quarters. Those add up.
The negro maid, she's making bupkes,
How does that look, leaving change in his pockets?
Indifferent to money,
The kid's a little funny,
Spoiled and quiet sad, I guess.
I'm on a diet. I bought a new dress.
Stu's giving lessons, playing, doing fine:
The work is steady.
He still misses Betty.
I don't mind.
I miss her too.
She was my best friend.
I miss the city.
I miss the old crowd. What?
Because we haven't got?
We can't give her a raise!
Pa!
Pa!
We aren't rich, we're just plain folk,
we've only got bupkes ourselves?
we're broke.
Typical, you obsess about the maid
While your daughter's miserable.
No, not miserable I never said?
Well, it's not what I meant.
I'm just not?
Just not?
A hundred percent.
It's very hot, and very damp,
And out in the back yard there's a little swamp.
Full of noisy frogs. Last night I cried.
I miss you, pa.
I miss the Upper West Side.

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