Clothes Line Saga lyrics

Capo 4th fret (sounding key E major)

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After a while we took in the clothes,

Nobody said very much.

Just some old wild shirts and a couple pairs of pants

Which nobody really wanted to touch.
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Mama come in and picked up a book

An` Papa asked her what it was.
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Someone else asked, `What do you care?`

Papa said, `Well, just because.`
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Then they started to take back their clothes,

Hang `em on the line.
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It was January the thirtieth

And everybody was feelin` fine.


The very next day everybody got up
Seein` if the clothes were dry.
The dogs were barking, a neighbor passed,
Mama, of course, she said, `Hi!`
`Have you heard the news?` he said, with a grin,
`The Vice-President`s gone mad!`
`Where?` `Downtown.` `When?` `Last night.`
`Hmm, say, that`s too bad!`
`Well, there`s nothin` we can do about it,` said the neighbor,
`It`s just somethin` we`re gonna have to forget.`
`Yes, I guess so,` said Ma,
Then she asked me if the clothes was still wet.

I reached up, touched my shirt,
And the neighbor said, `Are those clothes yours?`
I said, `Some of `em, not all of `em.`
He said, `Ya always help out around here with the chores?`
I said, `Sometime, not all the time.`
Then my neighbor, he blew his nose
Just as papa yelled outside,
`Mama wants you t` come back in the house and bring them clothes.`
Well, I just do what I`m told,
So, I did it, of course.
I went back in the house and Mama met me
And then I shut all the doors.