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Caroline, There’s Extra Food Lyrics by Tonya Pinkins, Veanne Cox, Alice Playten, Reathel Bean, Harrison Chad

Caroline, or Change (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

2004

[ROSE]
Caroline, there's extra food
Sweet stuffed cabbage cooked with brisket
It’s nutritious! Iron! Vegetables!
Bring it to your kids
[CAROLINE, spoken]
I can't use none, Mrs. Gellman
My kids don't like it
They turn they noses up
The smell
[GRANDMA GELLMAN, to NOAH]
Your mother smoked too many cigarettes
[NOAH]
My father is a clarinet
[GRANDPA GELLMAN, spoken]
You mean he plays the clarinet
[NOAH]
I mean he plays the clarinet
My mama was a sad bassoon
They played duets
[GRANDPA GELLMAN]
She smoked those packs of cigarettes
[ROSE]
Tell them that cabbage is good for them
Make them eat what’s good for them
They'll get used to the smell
I did
Reminds me of home
A northern smell
Takes me back to
Ocean Parkway
They'll learn to love cabbage
I did, I did
Cabbage boiled, iron beets
It makes them strong
Children should be strong and big
Big, strong children
[ROSE, spoken]
Noah! Noah!
He's so shy
His mother was shy
A hug could break him
[ROSE]
Noah, darling
[GRANDPA GELLMAN]
Pack after pack of cigarettes
We warned her they'd harm her
She wouldn't listen
They killed her, she's dead
They killed her, she died
[CAROLINE, to NOAH, spoken]
Cancer get people when they poison, sick, and angry
Or it get 'em just ’cause it get ’em, no reason
Took my mama same as yours
God make cancer
Like He make this whole world
You and me and this wash machine
When cancer eat people
It God eating 'em
Sometime God eat people
Like a hungry wolf
He make this whole world as a test
Cancer was your mama’s test
And her death is your test
You been tested, too
[NOAH, spoken]
Did God make the dryer?
[CAROLINE, spoken]
No, the devil made the dryer
Everything else, God made
Credits
Tonya Pinkins

Tonya Pinkins

Veanne Cox

Veanne Cox

Alice Playten

Alice Playten

Reathel Bean

Reathel Bean

Harrison Chad

Harrison Chad

About “Caroline, There’s Extra Food” by Tonya Pinkins

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"Caroline, There’s Extra Food" is credited to Tonya Pinkins, Veanne Cox, Alice Playten, Reathel Bean, Harrison Chad. Songwriting credits may include additional writers listed on the release; check the credits section on this page for linked collaborators.

"Caroline, There’s Extra Food" appears on "Caroline, or Change (Original Broadway Cast Recording)" in 2004.

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