From the recording Somewhere to Begin
This song was written for an environmental awareness event entitled “The Right to Dry: Celebrating Clotheslines!” Artists, poets, musicians displayed and performed original works that spoke to that theme. Sixty million Americans are banned from hanging their laundry out to dry! Check out Project Laundry List to explore this issue! http://laundrylist.org/index.html
Lyrics
Between the Clotheslines
Feel the warm sunshine
Everything’s fine
Breezes are blowin’
The sheets on the line
Shirt-tails flappin’ and flyin’
We’re laughin’ and cryin’
Tellin’ stories that only get told
Between the clotheslines
All the flags of the world cannot compare to the beauty there
Every color and style dance for awhile, aloft in the air
So if you’re not free, your flannel to fly
Pick up your pins, lift your lines high
Celebrate all your clothes on the line
And don’t pay the fine
If you choose the sunshine
To dry your nightgown
They say property value
Is sure to drop down
I’ve traveled this whole world round
I never have found
Any land where the laundry line
Didn’t light up the town
Shirttails flappin’ and flyin’
People laughin’ and cryin’
Tellin’ stories that only get told
Between the clotheslines
© 2010 Sara Thomsen