Bob Dylan – Clothes Line Lyrics  Share

From Bob Dylan's album: The Basement Tapes

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.
Mama come in and picked up a book
An^, Papa asked her what it was.
Someone else asked, "What do you care?"
Papa said, "Well, just because."
Then they started to take back their clothes,
Hang ^,em on the line.
It was January the thirtieth
And everybody was feelin^, fine.

The 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."
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"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.
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