Caroline Herring - The Dozens Chords

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