Clothes Line Saga Lyrics

Clothes Line Saga

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."
G7
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.