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

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

And the wonderful wonderful soup stone



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

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

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

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

And I swear you could taste...



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

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

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

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

And I swear you could taste...



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

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

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

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

And again I'd taste taste...

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