The Dozens-Caroline Herring

[ti:The Dozens] [ar:Caroline Herring] [al:Golden Apples of the Sun] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.11]The Dozens - Caroline Herring [00:01.27]I had a few more questions [00:03.92] [00:05.46]I never knew to ask [00:08.48] [00:09.18]You were feeling downhearted [00:11.70] [00:12.81]The last time we parted [00:15.49] [00:16.63]With a shock of white hair [00:19.20] [00:20.39]Life has changed a lot you know [00:23.60] [00:24.56]And I'm kind of scared of that [00:26.59] [00:28.26]It bottoms out in seconds flat [00:30.62] [00:35.78]You said you had a good friend [00:37.96] [00:39.36]He died so needlessly [00:42.46] [00:43.15]Knocked over by a garbage truck [00:45.43] [00:46.51]They threw him down [00:47.58]Then they picked him up [00:49.71] [00:50.49]And your son was back home again [00:53.08] [00:53.97]Your little boy and his children [00:57.03] [00:57.93]He's fighting off a mean disease [01:00.84] [01:02.00]That's killing off his faculties [01:04.47] [01:06.88]Tell me a little joke [01:09.75] [01:10.63]Let's play the dozens [01:14.78]Say something about my mama [01:17.58]In a veiled quadrille round [01:20.63] [01:21.86]I'm just a white girl from a segregated town [01:29.78]And I'm looking for some answers [01:32.26] [01:32.78]That I haven't found [01:36.42] [01:41.48]I remember memphis [01:43.13] [01:44.60]Like it was yesterday [01:48.26]And a ford station wagon [01:50.84] [01:51.78]So full of us it was dragging [01:54.62] [01:55.79]With your books in our grasping hands [01:59.36]We heard you speak [02:00.62]We made our plans [02:02.84] [02:03.57]To hoist the flag and rule the world [02:05.86] [02:07.31]All the hopes we had unfurled [02:10.58] [02:12.14]Tell me a little joke [02:14.59] [02:15.84]Let's play the dozens [02:20.01]Say something about my mama [02:23.03]In a veiled quadrille round [02:25.99] [02:27.08]I'm just a white girl from a segregated town [02:34.98]And I'm looking for some answers [02:38.15]That I haven't found [02:41.41] [02:43.91]I want to be just like you [02:50.06] [02:51.30]I want to love first I do [02:57.73] [02:58.42]Look people in the eye [03:00.51] [03:02.49]Make them feel good [03:04.21] [03:06.34]Then I'll make them think [03:08.02] [03:10.02]Just like you would [03:13.96] [03:18.40]Y'all were off on a night stroll [03:20.86] [03:22.08]Down the capitol boulevards [03:25.84]You were emboldening another son [03:28.83] [03:30.03]Of this grand nation [03:32.56] [03:33.70]I would vote for you for president [03:36.06] [03:37.33]But you're floating with the butterflies [03:39.90] [03:41.54]Soaring with the seagulls [03:43.68] [03:44.71]Or the eagle as he takes the skies [03:47.90] [03:52.88]Let's eat some democratic soup [03:55.42] [03:56.54]And eastern market cheese [03:59.65] [04:00.16]Meals with you and cornelia [04:02.24] [04:04.26]Were my most precious memories [04:06.44] [04:08.08]I don't know what the hell to do [04:10.17] [04:11.31]Please give me a little tap [04:14.49] [04:15.81]Tell me I can take it [04:17.36] [04:18.96]That I won't bottom out in seconds flat