Caroline Herring - The Dozens

      
 
 CAPO: 4th Fret
 
                  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
 
 CHORUS:
 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
 
 CHORUS:
 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