Caroline Herring

Caroline Herring - The Dozens lyrics

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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>

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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>

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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>

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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>

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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>

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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>

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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>

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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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