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CAROLINE
Nothing happens underground
in Louisiana. Cept in this house,
cept here, cept here:
At nine-thirteen Saint Anthony Street
in Lake Charles Louisiana:
This house got
a basement.
THE WASHING MACHINE
This house got
a basement.
True.
No other house round here gots one.
This one
this one
this one
do.
CAROLINE
Ain?t very deep for a basement but still
it planted in the swampy soil,
sunk in the mud and the marsh and the mire,
down with the snakes and the snails and the bracken,
root to the bayou
root to the ooze?
THE RADIO
?singing them sediment topsoil blues,
alluvial delta-silt saltwater ooze.
THE WASHING MACHINE
Hum hum hum hum
round and round I agitates
while them what does the clothes awaits,
they contemplates and speculates,
in the peace my one-horsepower
lectric motor?s hum creates:
RADIO AND WASHING MACHINE
What shall be? What lies in store
in nineteen-sixty-three? or ?four?
Last Update: June, 10th 2013
Caroline, or Change Lyrics
- Disc 1:
- 16 Feet Beneath the Sea
- The Radio
- Laundry Quintet
- Noah Down The Stairs
- The Cigarette
- Laundry Finish
- The Dryer
- I Got Four Kids
- Caroline, There's Extra Food
- There Is No God, Noah
- Rose Stopnick Can Cook
- Long Distance
- Dotty and Caroline
- Moon Change
- Moon Trio
- The Bus
- That Can't Be
- Noah And Rose
- Inside/Outside
- JFK
- Duets: No One Waitin'
- Duets: 'Night Mamma
- Duets: Gonna Pass Me A Law
- Duets: Noah Go To Sleep
- Noah Has A Problem
- Stuart And Noah
- Quarter In The Bleach Cup
- Caroline Take My Money Home
- Roosevelt Petrucius Coleslaw
- Disc 2:
- Santa Comin' Caroline
- Little Reward
- 1943
- Mr. Gellman's Shirt
- Ooh Child
- Rose Recovers
- I Saw Three Ships
- The Chanukah Party
- Dotty And Emmie
- I Don't Want My Child To Hear That
- Mr. Stopnick And Emmie
- Kitchen Fight
- A Twenty Dollar Bill And Why
- I Hate the Bus
- Moon, Emmie And Stuart Trio
- The Twenty Dollar Bill
- Caroline And Noah Fight
- Aftermath
- Sunday Morning
- Lot's Wife
- Salty Teardrops
- Why Does Our House Have A Basement?
- Underwater
- Epilogue