Caroline, There’s Extra Food

Lyrics

[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