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I Got Four Kids Lyrics by Tonya Pinkins, Chuck Cooper, Capathia Jenkins

Caroline, or Change (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

2004

[THE DRYER]
Oh
[CAROLINE]
I got four kids
Four kids
Four kids
I got divorce
I had to
Four kids
Had to
Get divorce
[THE DRYER]
Oh
[CAROLINE]
Been twenty-two years of cleaning
For all them years I worked and prayed
Every day I doing laundry
Thirty-nine and still a maid
In 1963
I thought for sure by now I'd be
Better off than this
Thirty-nine year old
I should be somewhere
Being kiss by
Nat King Cole
[THE DRYER]
Hey!
Hey, hey, hey, ooh
Hey, hey, hey, ooh
[CAROLINE]
It 1963 and I
I wish every afternoon I die
Cook and clean and mind that boy
Doing housework, doing laundry
Sixteen feet below the sea
Thought for sure by now I'd be
Somеplace cooler, someplacе high
Someplace where there's something dry
Don't come from no 'lectric dryer
Doing something finer
Something not as meek
As getting hit
And turning cheek
Hit and turn the other cheek
Hit and turn the other cheek
Doing laundry under ground
For thirty dollars every week
Thirty dollars every week
And I am mean
And I am tough
[CAROLINE, THE WASHING MACHINE & THE DRYER]
But thirty dollars ain't enough
Thirty dollars ain't enough
[CAROLINE]
Nothing happen under ground
In Louisiana
'Cause there ain't no under ground
In Louisiana
There is only
Under water
Credits
Tonya Pinkins

Tonya Pinkins

Chuck Cooper

Chuck Cooper

Capathia Jenkins

Capathia Jenkins

About “I Got Four Kids” by Tonya Pinkins

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"I Got Four Kids" appears on "Caroline, or Change (Original Broadway Cast Recording)" in 2004.

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