Original Broadway Cast of Caroline, or Change
The Twenty Dollar Bill
[NOAH]
The next day I go off to school
[ROSE]
Noah, darling, study hard
You should see his last report card, Papa
Everything C's and D's
[MR. STOPNICK, reading the paper]
Look at this
The hypocrites
Eulogizing, rhapsodizing
Kennedy, Kennedy
They hated him
They murdered him
Did him in
And now...
[ROSE]
Good morning, Caroline
[NOAH]
All day long
I sit at school
Drifting, dreaming in the classroom
Inattentive cause I'm bored
[ROSE, STUART, MR. STOPNICK]
Study, Noah, study hard
[NOAH]
Drawing doodles
Maccabees
Bumblebees
Christmas trees
And all the toys I plan to buy with
Buy with
Buy with
[GRANDMA AND GRANDPA GELLMAN]
Suddenly he sits up straight
Suddenly he can concentrate
Suddenly open go the eyes
[NOAH]
Suddenly I realize
[GRANDMA AND GRANDPA GELLMAN]
A dreadful blow he has been dealt
[NOAH]
Left my
Left my
[GRANDMA AND GRANDPA GELLMAN]
Chanukah Gelt
[NOAH]
All that money
Twenty dollars
[GRANDMA AND GRANDPA GELLMAN]
Twenty dollars
In your pocket
In the pocket of your pants
[NOAH]
In the pocket of my pants
There's still a chance
Maybe she hasn't the laundry
There's all that cleaning after a party
Oh, please, clock
Please, clock
Strike three now
[GRANDMA AND GRANDPA GELLMAN]
Tick, tock
Tick, tock
[NOAH]
Anyhow
She can't, it's mine
She can't have my money
I'll sue
Aw, come on, clock
[GRANDMA AND GRANDPA GELLMAN]
It's only two
[NOAH]
I'm plotzing with anxiety
[GRANDMA AND GRANDPA GELLMAN]
Alright, already
Now
It's
Three
[NOAH]
Finally
The second I hear the three o'clock bell
I'm a bat out of hell
I run down the street
Like a blur
And right away
The washing machine
[THE WASHING MACHINE]
Consequences unforeseen
I'm on
[NOAH]
In the basement
It's on
It's her
The spin cycle's already started to spin
She's down there
Wait, wait
Caroline
[CAROLINE]
What?
[NOAH]
Did you find?
[CAROLINE]
Yup, I did
And now it's mine