Dotty and Caroline

Lyrics

[DOTTY, spoken] Well, evening, Caroline [CAROLINE, spoken] Same to you [DOTTY, spoken] How you doing, how you been? Ooh, it's warmish for November Gettin' dark early, huh? That bus better not be late Mrs. Griffin been lettin' me off early these days On account of night school She like havin' a maid goin' to college Make her feel sort of fancy I say, it warmish for November [DOTTY] Listen to them frogs Expecting the moon I don't hardly ever take the bus now I got a boyfriend He gots a car [DOTTY, spoken] We never get to talk no more [CAROLINE] Knees hurt, wore out Same as yesterday, same tomorrow [CAROLINE, spoken] Too tired to talk [DOTTY, spoken] Well, how Noah doing? [CAROLINE, spoken] Ain't my job to mind that boy You wanna know how Noah do Ask him yourself [DOTTY] Caroline, why you huff at me? You never used to be that way All a sudden so unfriendly I ain't ever done no harm to you [CAROLINE] I don't like the way you do You change Gal your age wearin' bobby socks And saddle shoes Actin' like I don't know what-all [DOTTY] Everyone down to the college Everyone wear these shoes And I don't see that you got call to— You the one that change You change [CAROLINE] Plaid skirt, flipped hair You's no kid and runs with men, never mind Drinkin' too and smokin' cigarettes And I don't know what-all [DOTTY] You's gettin' pinched and pruny Like them ladies at your church Think they come at God's suggestion Judging this one, judging that one 'Fore you got yourself divorced 'Fore I told you I's goin' to night school 'Fore all that you wasn't hateful Now you got all grim and gospel Sorry you is sick and shame Sorry you drinkin' misery tea Sorry your life ain't what it should be Don't see why you think it proper To take it out on me [CAROLINE] Seeing as how you ain't ever seen The inside of a church I don't think you got perspective On what the Gospel is Dotty Moffett, high and mighty Goin' to college every night Leastest thing that they could teach you Is not to talk on what you's wholly Completely, abysmally Ignorant of [DOTTY, spoken] Where's the moon? Should be here Them frogs is asking after it [DOTTY] Gibbous moon tonight And it be warmish for November Gibbous moon tonight [THE MOON] Moon change [DOTTY, spoken] Well, you heard on the TV yesterday? [CAROLINE] I ain't got a TV [DOTTY] That old copper statue By the courthouse downtown "Honorin' the brave Confederate Soldier The South's Defender" The Civil War Ain't there no more It ain't there no more [CAROLINE, spoken] What you talking about? [DOTTY] Last evening Somebody heist the hateful thing Unscrewed it Carried it away [CAROLINE, spoken] Now, who wanna do a thing like that? [DOTTY] [CAROLINE] No witness Don't got, don't got (It just mean trouble) No one's name (It mean that trouble on the way) Don't know, don't know (Don't want to hear that) Who to blame [DOTTY] Standin' there one hundred year Now, that statue, he just disappear Things change everywhere, even here Yeah, you want a smoke, Miz Piety and Rectitude?