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