Clothes Line Saga lyrics

Capo 4th fret (sounding key E major)



C



C

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.

F

Mama come in and picked up a book



An` Papa asked her what it was.

C

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.

C

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.