Original Broadway Cast of Caroline, or Change
Noah and Rose
[ROSE]
Why do you leave
Change in your pockets?
Especially when I have asked you not to?
[NOAH, spoken]
I forget
[ROSE]
You've got to remember
Look, in the bleach cup
It's more than a dollar
Think of the things you can buy
For a dollar
Think of what Caroline thinks
In this basement
Working all day in this horrible basement
[NOAH]
Caroline likes it, the basement, it's hers
[ROSE]
Working for peanuts
And likes it?
[ROSE, spoken]
I doubt that
Don't be a baby
[ROSE]
She's poor
[NOAH]
She's not
[ROSE]
Oh, Noah, of course she is
She's poor, it's embarrassing
To have her find money
Just left in thе laundry
Think of the things she could do with thesе quarters
These nickels and pennies
[NOAH]
Caroline is king
And Caroline is queen
And Caroline is stronger than my dad
It isn't true
She doesn't hate it
She's a lot stronger