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Duets: Gonna Pass Me a Law Lyrics by Tonya Pinkins, Harrison Chad

Caroline, or Change (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

2004

[NOAH]
President Caroline
President Caroline Thibodeaux
[CAROLINE]
Right here, right here
[NOAH]
What are you gonna do now
That President Kennedy's dead?
Now you're the only President in the United States
[CAROLINE]
Gonna pass me a law
That night last longer
Gonna pass me a law
Larry come home from Vietnam
Wherever that is
Gonna pass me a law
No woman can be my age
And not know enough
To read a map
Gonna pass me a law
That my heathen daughter
Don't never get hurt
Nor learn how to mind me
Nor learn how to mind
Nobody 'cept herself
Gonna pass me a law
Say Nat King Cole
Gotta come over my house
Come over my house
Come over every night
And stroke my soul
[NOAH]
Wish me good night?
[CAROLINE, spoken]
That not my job
[NOAH]
How come?
How come you're so sad
And angry all the time?
[CAROLINE]
That ain't your business
It just ain't your business
You's a nosey child
How come you like me? I ain't never nice to you
[NOAH]
That isn't true
The cigarette
[CAROLINE, spoken]
Right
The cigarette
[NOAH]
My mama liked you
I do too
You're implacable
Indestructible, Mama said
I'm always sad
I like it that you're always mad
And I can tell you like me, too
Credits
Tonya Pinkins

Tonya Pinkins

Harrison Chad

Harrison Chad

About “Duets: Gonna Pass Me a Law” by Tonya Pinkins

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"Duets: Gonna Pass Me a Law" appears on "Caroline, or Change (Original Broadway Cast Recording)" in 2004.

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