Clothes Line Saga - Cowboy Junkies&Garth Hudson

[03:31.0]After a while we took in the clothes
[03:31.0]Nobody said very much
[03:31.0]Just some old wild shirts and a couple pairs of pants
[03:31.0]Which nobody really wanted to touch
[03:31.0]Mama come in and picked up a book
[03:31.0]And Papa asked her what it was
[03:31.0]Someone else asked, "What do you care?"
[03:31.0]Papa said, "Well, just because"
[03:31.0]Then they started to take back their clothes
[03:31.0]Hang them on the line
[03:31.0]It was January the thirtieth
[03:31.0]And everybody was feelin' fine
[03:31.0][Verse 2
[03:31.0]The next day everybody got up
[03:31.0]Seeing if the clothes were dry
[03:31.0]The dogs were barking, a neighbor passed
[03:31.0]Mama, of course, she said, "Hi"
[03:31.0]"Have you heard the news?" he said with a grin
[03:31.0]"The Vice-President's gone mad!"
[03:31.0]"Where?" "Downtown" "When?" "Last night"
[03:31.0]"Hmm, say, that's too bad"
[03:31.0]"Well, there's nothing we can do about it," said the neighbor
[03:31.0]"It's just something we're gonna have to forget"
[03:31.0]"Yes, I guess so," said Ma
[03:31.0]Then she asked me if the clothes were still wet
[03:31.0][Verse 3
[03:31.0]I reached up, touched my shirt
[03:31.0]And the neighbor said, "Are those clothes yours?"
[03:31.0]I said, "Some of them, not all of them"
[03:31.0]He said, "Ya always help out around here with the chores?"
[03:31.0]I said, "Sometime, not all the time"
[03:31.0]Then my neighbor, he blew his nose
[03:31.0]Just as Papa yelled outside
[03:31.0]"Mama wants you to come back in the house and bring them clothes"
[03:31.0](Woo-hoo)
[03:31.0]Well, I just do what I'm told
[03:31.0]So, I did it, of course
[03:31.0]I went back in the house and Mama met me
[03:31.0]And then I shut all the doors