Mother May I chords by Caro Kelley

• Capo on 1st

Tuning: Standard

Intro:

D    D/G    D/F#     A
D    D/G    D/F#     A
D
Mother may I,
D/G
mother may I
D/G   D/F#  A
Mother may I,

oh oh oh
D
Mother may I,
D/G
mother may I
D/G   D/F#  A
Mother may I,

oh oh oh

Verse 1:

G                         D    A
He wanted to be like Marco Polo
G
One foot on the rudder,
  D           A
the other on the shore
G                        D   A
    Now he’s been flying solo
            G
Everybody’s seen everything,
        D           A
nothing undiscovered anymore

Pre-Chorus:

          G
He got as far
         D
as Little Rock
A
Before his ship
  Bm
it sank and then he
G
Drove another
      D
couple thirty miles
A          Bm
On an empty tank
G         D
Maybe for some folks
        A
Oh it’s just the way
   Bm
it goes but he said
G       A
Not me mama,
         D
I’m coming home. He said

Chorus:

G            D         A
I don’t want memories to take
         Bm
the place of you
G      D               A
   If I forget the way I felt
        Bm
then maybe she will too
      G      D              A
So he, oh he called her on a payphone

Saying mother may
        D    D/G D/F# A
I come home

D    D/G    D/F#     A
D
Mother may I,
D/G
mother may I
D/G   D/F#  A
Mother may I,

oh oh oh
D
Mother may I,
D/G
mother may I
D/G   D/F#  A
Mother may I,

oh oh oh

Verse:

G
    He wanted to feel like
     D     A
he was someone
     G
He started out a little step forward
       D             A
with a compass in his pack
G                  D
And it wasn’t long before he
     A
wrote a postcard saying
G                             D     A
Mother may I take a little step back

Pre-Chorus:

          G           D
He got as far as Little Rock
  A           Bm
Before he hit eject and as he
G
Pulled the cord on
     D
his parachute thought
A                 Bm
Well what did I expect
G              D
Maybe for some folks
      A
it’s just the way
   Bm
it goes but he said
G      A
Not me mama,
          D
I’m coming home. He said

Chorus:

G            D
I don’t want memories
 A               Bm
to take the place of you
G      D                
If I forget the way
A              Bm
I felt then maybe she will too
      G
So he,
      D              A
oh he called her on a payphone
G   D
I don’t want memories to
A               Bm
take the place of you
G             D             A
   And if I forget the way I felt
         Bm
then maybe you will too
G          D              A
 And so he called her on a payphone
                          D
Singing mother may I come home

D             D/G
Mother may I, mother may I
D/G   D/F#  A
Mother may I, oh oh oh
D             D/G
Mother may I, mother may I
D/G   D/F#  A
Mother may I, oh oh oh

D    D/G    D/F#     A
D    D/G    D/F#        A
               Mother May I

Chords used in Mother May I by Caro Kelley:
D, D/G, D/F#, A, G, Bm