Bobby Bare – The Wonderful Soup Stone (Guitar)

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I swear you could taste the chicken and tomatoes and the noodles and the marrow bone

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But it really wadn't nothin' but some water and potatoes

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And the wonderful wonderful soup stone

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Hangin' from a string in my momma's kitchen back in the hard time days

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Was a little ol' stone bout the size of an apple it was smooth and worn and gray

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There wadn't much food in my momma's kitchen so whenever things got tight

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Momma'd boil up some water put in the stone say let's have some soup tonight

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And I swear you could taste the chicken and tomatoes and the noodles and the marrow bone

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But it really wadn't nothin' but some water and potatoes

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And the wonderful wonderful soup stone

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It'd been in the family for a whole lotta years so we knew it was a nourishing thing

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And I remember momma as he stirred it in the water and we could all hear her sing

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It's a magical stone and as long as we got it we'll never have a hungry night

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Just add a little love to the wonderful soup stone and everything'll be all right

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And I swear you could taste the chicken and tomatoes and the noodles and the marrow bone

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But it really wadn't nothin' but some water and potatoes

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And the wonderful wonderful soup stone

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So it carried us all through the darkenin' days till finally the sunshine came

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And the soup stone started in a gatherin' dust but it hung there just the same

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But ever since then Lord the food's been plenty and ever now and then I find

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That momma in the kitchen and the wonderful soup stone drifts across my mind

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And again I'd taste the chicken and tomatoes and the noodles and the marrow bone

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But it really wadn't nothin' but some water and potatoes

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And the wonderful wonderful soup stone

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We were nourished by the wonderful soup stone oh the wonderful wonderful soup stone