The Dozens

CAPO: 4 C I had a few more questions G I never knew to ask F You were feeling downhearted C The last time we parted With the shock of the white hair G Life has changed a lot you know F And I'm kind of scared of that C It bottoms out in seconds flat You said you had a good friend G He died so needlessly F Knocked over by a garbage truck C They threw him down, then they picked him up And your son was back home again G Your little boy and his children F He's fighting off a mean disease C That's killing off his faculties [Refrão] G C Tell me a little joke G C Em F Let's play the dozens C Say something about my mama G In a veiled quadrille round C I'm just a white girl G C Em F From a segregated town C And I'm looking for some answers G C That I haven't found I remember Memphis G Like it was yesterday F And a Ford station wagon C So full of us, it was dragging With your books in our grasping hands G We heard you speak, we made our plans F To hoist the flag and rule the world C All the hopes we had unfurled [Refrão] G C Tell me a little joke G C Em F Let's play the dozens C Say something about my mama G In a veiled quadrille round C I'm just a white girl G C Em F From a segregated town C And I'm looking for some answers G C That I haven't found Bridge: G F C I want to be just like you G E C I want to love first, I do F Look people in the eye C Make them feel good F Then I'll make them think Dm G Just like you would C Y'all were off on a night stroll G Down the capitol boulevards F You were emboldening another son C Of this grand nation I would vote for you for president G But you're floating with the butterflies F Soaring with the seagulls C Or the eagle as he takes the skies Let's eat some democratic soup G And Eastern Market cheese F Meals with you and Cornelia C Were my most precious memories I don't know what the hell to do G Please give me a little tap F Tell me I can take it C That I won't bottom out in seconds flat