Caroline, There's Extra Food

Caroline, there's extra food

Sweet, stuffed cabbage

Cooked with brisket

It's nutritious iron

Vegetables

Bring it to your kids

Can't use none, Mrs. Gellman

My kids don't like it

They turn they noses up

The smell

Your mother smoked too many cigarettes

My father is a clarinet

You mean he plays the clarinet

I mean he plays the clarinet

My mama was a sad bassoon

They played duets

She smoked those packs of cigarettes

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 boil, iron beets

It makes them strong

Children should be strong and big

Big, strong children

Noah, Noah

He's so shy

His mother was shy

Ah, a hug could break him

Noah, darling

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

Cancer get people

When they poison, sick and angry

Or it just get them 'cause it get them

No reason

Took my momma, same as yours

God make cancer, Noah

Like he make the whole world

You, me and the wash machine

When cancer eat people, Noah

It God eatin' them

God sometimes eat people

Like a wolf

He make this whole world as a test

Cancer was your momma's test

And her death is your test

You been tested too

Did God make the dryer?

No!

Devil made the dryer

Everything else, God made

Everything else, God made