Dotty and Caroline

Evenin', Caroline

Same to you

How you doin'? How you been?

Sure is warmish for November

Getting dark early, huh?

That bus better not be late

Miz Griffin been letting me off early these days

On account of night school

She like having a maid goin' to college

Make her feel sorta fancy

Ah - I say, it's warmish for November

Listen to them frogs

Expectin' the moon

I don't hardly ever take the bus now

I got a boyfriend

He gots a car

We never get to talk no more

Knees hurt, wore out

Same as yesterday

Same tomorrow

Too tired to talk

Well, how Noah doin'?

Ain't my job to mind that boy

You wanna know how Noah do? Ask him yourself!

Caroline, why you huff at me?

You never used to be that way

All a sudden, so unfriendly

I ain't never done no harm to you!

I don't like the way you do

You change

Gal your age, wearing bobby socks and saddle shoes

Actin' like - I don't know what all

Everyone down to the college

Everyone wear these shoes

And I don't see that you got culture

You the one that changed

You changed!

Plaid skirt, flipped hair

You's no kid and runs with mens!

Never mind drinkin', too, and smokin' cigarettes

And I don't know what all

Uh-uh! You's gettin' pinched and prunin' like them ladies at your church

Think they come at God's suggestion

Judgin' this one, judgin' that one

Boy, you got yourself divorced

Boy, told you I's goin' to night school

For all that you wasn't hateful

Now you gone 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's proper to take it out on me

Seein' as how you ain't never seen the inside of a church

I don't think you got perspective on what the gospel is

Dotty Moffet

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

Where's the moon?

Should be here

Them frogs askin' after it

Gibbous moon tonight

And it be warmish for November

Gibbous moon tonight (moon change)

You heard on the TV yesterday? (I ain't got a TV)

That old copper statue

By the courthouse downtown

Honorin' the brave Confederate soldier

The South defender

The Civil War

Ain't there no mo'

It ain't there no mo' (Now what you talkin' about?)

Last evenin'

Somebody heist the hateful thing

Unscrewed it

Carried it away (Now, who'd want to do a thing like that?)

No witness, don't got (It just mean trouble)

Don't got no one's name (It mean that trouble on the way)

Don't know, don't know who to blame (Don't want to hear that)

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?