Clothes line saga chords by Bob Dylan

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Verse 1
D 
 (D major) 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
G 
Mama  (G major) come in and picked up a book
An' Papa asked her what it was
D 
 (D major) Someone else asked,
"What do you care?"
Am 
Papa said, "Well, just because"  (A minor) 
A 
 (A major) Then they started to take
back their clothes
Hang 'em on the line
D 
It was  (D major) January the thirtieth

Verse 2
And everybody was feelin' fine
D 
 (D major) The next day, everybody got up
Seein' if the clothes were dry
The dogs were barking,
a neighbor passed
Mama, of course, she said, "Hi!"
G 
"Have you  (G major) heard the news?" he said,
with a grin
"The Vice- President's
gone mad!"
D 
"Where?"  (D major) "Downtown" "When?"
"Last night"
"Hmm, say, that's too bad!"
A 
"Well,  (A major) there's nothin' we can do
about it," said the neighbor
"It's just somethin' we're
gonna have to forget"
D 
 (D major) "Yes, I guess so," said Ma

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Verse 3
Then she asked me if the clothes was still wet
D 
 (D major) 
I reached up, touched my shirt
And the neighbor said,
"Are those clothes yours?"
I said, "Some of 'em, not all of 'em"
He said, "Ya always help out around
here with the chores?"
G 
I said,  (G major) "Sometime, not all the time"
Then my neighbor, he blew his nose
C 
D 
 (C major) Just  (D major) as Papa yelled outside
"Mama wants you t' come back in the
A 
house and bring them clothes"  (A major) 
Well, I just do what I'm told
D 
So, I did it, of course  (D major) 
I went back in the house and Mama
met me and then I shut all the doors