Clothes Line Saga Lyrics - The Basement Tapes - Bob Dylan

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 

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The next day, everybody got up 

Seein' if the clothes were dry 

The dogs were barking, a neighbor passed 

Mama, of cource, 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 nothing we can do about it," said the neighbor 

"It's just something we're gonna have to forget" 

"Yes, I guess so" said Ma 

Then she asked me if the clothes was still wet 

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I reached up, touched my shirt 

And the neighbor said, "Are those clothes yours?" 

I said, "Some of them, not all of them" 

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 to 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