Clothes Line — текст песни (Bob Dylan)

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.

Mama come in and picked up a book

An papa asked her what it was.

Someone else asked, "what do you care? "

Papa said, "well, just because."

Then they started to take back their clothes,

Hang em on the line.

It was january the thirtieth

And everybody was feelin fine.



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!"

"have you heard the news? " he said, with a grin,

"the vice-presidents gone mad!"

"where? " "downtown." "when? " "last night."

"hmm, say, thats too bad!"

"well, theres nothin we can do about it," said the neighbor,

"its just somethin were gonna have to forget."

"yes, I guess so," said ma,

Then she asked me if the clothes was still wet.



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? "

I said, "sometime, not all the time."

Then my neighbor, he blew his nose

Just as papa yelled outside,

"mama wants you t come back in the house and bring them clothes."

Well, I just do what Im told,

So, I did it, of course.

I went back in the house and mama met me

And then I shut all the doors.