[THE DRYER]

Oh

[CAROLINE]

I got four kids

Four kids

Four kids

I got divorce

I had to

Four kids

Had to

Get divorce

[THE DRYER]

Oh

[CAROLINE]

Been twenty-two years of cleaning

For all them years I worked and prayed

Every day I doing laundry

Thirty-nine and still a maid

In 1963

I thought for sure by now I'd be

Better off than this

Thirty-nine year old

I should be somewhere

Being kiss by

Nat King Cole

[THE DRYER]

Hey!

Hey, hey, hey, ooh

Hey, hey, hey, ooh

[CAROLINE]

It 1963 and I

I wish every afternoon I die

Cook and clean and mind that boy

Doing housework, doing laundry

Sixteen feet below the sea

Thought for sure by now I'd be

Somеplace cooler, someplacе high

Someplace where there's something dry

Don't come from no 'lectric dryer

Doing something finer

Something not as meek

As getting hit

And turning cheek

Hit and turn the other cheek

Hit and turn the other cheek

Doing laundry under ground

For thirty dollars every week

Thirty dollars every week

And I am mean

And I am tough

[CAROLINE, THE WASHING MACHINE & THE DRYER]

But thirty dollars ain't enough

Thirty dollars ain't enough

[CAROLINE]

Nothing happen under ground

In Louisiana

'Cause there ain't no under ground

In Louisiana

There is only

Under water