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aaron copland - act 1 scene 3: remember the boy… (laurie, ma) lyrics

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(laurie picks up her books and heads towards the house.)

[ma]
that you? laurie?

(she comes out of the house.)

why are you so late?
grandpa’s almost home. you know how mad he gets
when you’re not here on time

[laurie]
please, mother, it was such a
summer afternoon

[ma]
you’ve been getting very dreamy lately
there’s better use for your time
than dreaming it away

[laurie]
but sometimes, don’t you wish
that you could get away
that you could leave us all bеhind
for just a summer’s day?
[ma]
you’re just as bad as beth

[laurie]
for just a summеr’s day?

[ma]
just don’t let grandpa catch you dawdlin’ `long the road

[laurie]
i don’t care what grandpa thinks anymore

[ma]
for shame, laurie!
he’s done so much to see you through school

[laurie]
i know all he’s done and
all you’ve done too
but both of you make such a fuss

[ma]
if only i’d had the chances you’d had…

[laurie]
grandpa loves me
but he doesn’t understand
he treats me as if i was still a little girl
like i don’t have a life of my own
[ma]
he loves you so

[laurie]
remember the boy that used to call
that worked at the store in town?
that boy that meant so much to me
that might have been my own
ma, i might have learned to love him
i hoped and prayed that grandpa could learn
to see the things that meant so much to me
but when i showed my heart that day
he turned and sent the boy away
he turned and sent him away
oh i was so ashamed!

[ma]
but laurie, that happened months ago
did it mean so much? grandpa couldn’t know

[laurie]
i’ll never forgive him!

[ma]
forgive him. he’s old
you’re all that he has. be kind to him
after tomorrow you’ll have your own life
i promise
[laurie]
as long as i live here
i’ll never have my own life
no matter what you promise

[ma]
i’ll see to it myself

[laurie]
you couldn’t get him to see

[ma]
i’ll talk to him

[laurie]
he wouldn’t understand you

[ma]
why do you say that when i’ve promised?

[laurie]
i know you’ll keep your promise
but you couldn’t make him understand
when you yourself don’t understand

[ma]
but i do, i do!

[laurie]
no you don’t, you don’t!
how could you when you’ve never had your own life?

(ma slaps laurie, then recoils.)

[ma] (crying)
i’m sorry, sorry
please, laurie
don’t upset your grandpa tonight
be ours for just tonight and tomorrow
promise me. won’t you, laurie?

(laurie goes to embrace her.)

[laurie]
i promise, i promise
i want to do right

(ma turns and goes into the house. laurie goes to follow, but hearing the approach of two strangers, she hides.)

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