Laundry Quintet

Lyrics

[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?