The Dozens chords by Caroline Herring

Chords with lyrics

Caroline Herring - The Dozens


CAPO: 4th Fret


         C majorC
I had a few more questions
    G+G
I never knew to ask
           FF
You were feeling downhearted
         C majorC
The last time we parted

With the shock of the white hair
          G+G
Life has changed a lot you know
        FF
And I'm kind of scared of that
         C majorC
It bottoms out in seconds flat

You said you had a good friend
      G+G
He died so needlessly
         FF
Knocked over by a garbage truck
                C majorC
They threw him down, then they picked him up

And your son was back home again
            G+G
Your little boy and his children
          FF
He's fighting off a mean disease
            C majorC
That's killing off his faculties


CHORUS:
G+G        C majorC
Tell me a little joke
G+G       C majorC E minorEm  FF
Let's play the dozens
            C majorC
Say something about my mama
           G+G
In a veiled quadrille round
      C majorC
I'm just a white girl
G+G      C majorC E minorEm FF
From a segregated town
             C majorC
And I'm looking for some answers
    G+G    C majorC
That I haven't found

I remember Memphis
      G+G
Like it was yesterday
          FF
And a Ford station wagon
           C majorC
So full of us, it was dragging

With your books in our grasping hands
            G+G
We heard you speak, we made our plans
           FF
To hoist the flag and rule the world
         C majorC
All the hopes we had unfurled


CHORUS:
G+G        C majorC
Tell me a little joke
G+G       C majorC E minorEm  FF
Let's play the dozens
            C majorC
Say something about my mama
           G+G
In a veiled quadrille round
      C majorC
I'm just a white girl
G+G      C majorC E minorEm FF
From a segregated town
             C majorC
And I'm looking for some answers
    G+G    C majorC
That I haven't found


BRIDGE:
G+G      FF     C majorC
I want to be just like you
G+G       E MajorE    C majorC
I want to love first, I do
   FF
Look people in the eye
C majorC
Make them feel good
FF
Then I'll make them think
DmDm    G+G
Just like you would


          C majorC
Y'all were off on a night stroll
         G+G
Down the capitol boulevards
           FF
You were emboldening another son
       C majorC
Of this grand nation

I would vote for you for president
               G+G
But you're floating with the butterflies
         FF
Soaring with the seagulls
          C majorC
Or the eagle as he takes the skies


Let's eat some democratic soup
      G+G
And Eastern Market cheese
           FF
Meals with you and Cornelia
           C majorC
Were my most precious memories

I don't know what the hell to do
         G+G
Please give me a little tap
       FF
Tell me I can take it
              C majorC