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Laundry Quintet Lyrics by Tonya Pinkins, Tracy Nicole Chapman, Marva Hicks, Ramona Keller, Capathia Jenkins

Caroline, or Change (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

2004

[CAROLINE]
Nothing happen under ground
In Louisiana
'Cept in this house
'Cept here, 'cept here
At nine-thirteen Saint Anthony Street
Lake Charles, Louisiana
This house got
A basement
[THE WASHING MACHINE]
This house got
A basement
True
No other house round here gots one
[CAROLINE]
No other house round here gots one
[THE WASHING MACHINE]
This one
This one
This one do
[CAROLINE]
This one
This one
This one
[CAROLINE & THE WASHING MACHINE]
Ain't very deep for a basement but still (Hum, hum)
It planted in the swampy soil (Hum)
Sunk in the mud and the marsh and the mire (Round and round)
Down with the snakes and the snails and the bracken (I agitates)
[THE RADIO & THE WASHING MACHINE]
Singing them sediment topsoil blues (Root to the bayou, root to the ooze)
Alluvial delta-silt saltwater ooze (Root to the bayou, root to the ooze)
[THE WASHING MACHINE]
Round and round I agitates
While them what does the clothes awaits
They mm, contemplates and mm, speculates
In the peace my one-horsepower
'Lectric motor's hum creates
[THE RADIO & CAROLINE]
Tough and dreary and all dishevel (While them what does the clothes awaits)
Sixteen feet below sea level (They contemplates and speculates)
[THE RADIO & THE WASHING MACHINE]
What shall be? What lies in store
In 1963? Or -four?
Credits
Tonya Pinkins

Tonya Pinkins

Tracy Nicole Chapman

Tracy Nicole Chapman

Marva Hicks

Marva Hicks

Ramona Keller

Ramona Keller

Capathia Jenkins

Capathia Jenkins

About “Laundry Quintet” by Tonya Pinkins

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"Laundry Quintet" is credited to Tonya Pinkins, Tracy Nicole Chapman, Marva Hicks, Ramona Keller, Capathia Jenkins. Songwriting credits may include additional writers listed on the release; check the credits section on this page for linked collaborators.

"Laundry Quintet" appears on "Caroline, or Change (Original Broadway Cast Recording)" in 2004.

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