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album cover
1943 was released on June 29, 2004 by Hollywood Records as a part of the album Caroline, or Change (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
BPM176
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy

Lyrics

You give into memories
1943 you married
Handsome boy
A Navy man
He go off to fight Japan
You stay home
Give birth to Larry
Then three years lonely waiting
Fearful prayers anticipating
1945 the Navy send you home
Your handsome man
Life is sunny, life is gravy
Thank you Jesus, thank you Navy
He is home now
Every limb is beauty, lovely like a tree
Fallin' deep in love with him
The handsome Navy man
Falling deep in love with him
Long and tall and sweet and slim
Even now, your hands can summon
How his neck, his belly feel
Shoulders, what his breath is like
Hands burn then with happy fire
Every inch of you, desire
Longing sets your skin aflame
Nurse the baby, sing his name (sing his name, sing his name)
Back in 1947
Ain't no work for Negro men
Yous both hangin' on to heaven
Emmie come
Shipyard close
Ammonia factory almost hire him
(Only white men's in that union)
He get drunk, he scared, he angry
Feelin' hopeless, I suppose
(He hit you)
Just once
(He break your nose)
Larry is gentle baby
Emmie fussy, never sleep
He get drunk
He broke my nose
(Even now your face can summon)
What his punch feel like, the pain
(Pain is white)
Remember pain
(Pain is white)
That is, its color
White as sunshine
Nighttime follow
Bitterness you drink and swallow
God, whose eye is on the sparrow
Please make Emmie go to bed
Folk'll stare tomorrow, Jesus
Please fix up my swollen head
Please a job, so he stop drinkin'
Please, he don't like diggin' sewers
(No one likes that, diggin' sewers)
Please give me a mop and bucket
Please some white folks' house to tend
Please some money, feed my babies
Choke his throat when he drink liquor
Make my sis help with my babies
Let him see he mess with me
After I have spent the day
Puttin' white folks' clothes away
Tell him, God, if he ever
Ever, ever hit me again
(Larry, Emmie, Jackie, Joe)
Other men find work (he don't)
Change come fast and change come slow
Other men need drink (he can't)
Ahead of time you're gettin' old
Care beatin' down on you
Then one day (then one day)
One bad day
He hit again
You beat him black and blue
Then he disappeared from view
And even now (even now)
Your hand can summon (your hand can summon)
What it like to beat his face in (what it like)
What his neck feel like (feel like)
His kiss (his kiss)
Even now (even now)
Your scar hand miss
The handsome boy (even now)
The Navy man
Oh, sorrow bleed you
Where is he? (You were sixteen)
Where is he? (you were sixteen)
Where is he? (sixteen, sixteen, sixteen, sixteen)
Caroline?
Written by: Jeanine Tesori, Tony Kushner
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