Mama Tried chords by The Everly Brothers

Chords with lyrics

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Mama Tried:The Everly Brothers.
Album - Roots - on WARNER Records
in 1968.

INTRO: E MajorE

#1.
E MajorE             A augmentedA
The first thing I remember knowin' was a
E MajorE        A augmentedA       E MajorE
lonesome whistle blowin' and a young'un's
            BB
dream of growing up to ride.
   E MajorE           A augmentedA    E MajorE
On a freight train leavin' town not knowin'
     A augmentedA     E MajorE
where I'm bound and no one could change my
BB       E MajorE
mind but Mama tried.

#2.
E MajorE         A augmentedA      E MajorE
One and only rebel child from a family meek
  A augmentedA    E MajorE
and mild, my Mama seemed to know what lay
  BB
in store.
      E MajorE       A augmentedA
In spite of all my Sunday learnin', towards
  E MajorE      A augmentedA      E MajorE
the bad I kept a-turnin', til Mama couldn't
BB     E MajorE
hold me anymore.

CHORUS:
E MajorE                    A augmentedA
And I turned twenty-one in prison doing life
    E MajorE
without parole.
  DbmDbm                BB
No one could steer me right but Mama tried,

Mama tried.
   E MajorE                A augmentedA
Mama tried to raise me better but her pleading
 E MajorE
I denied.
            BB         E MajorE
That leaves only me to blame, 'cause Mama tried.

#3.
E MajorE            A augmentedA       E MajorE
Dear old Daddy, rest his soul, left my Mom a
   A augmentedA
heavy load.
  E MajorE               BB
She tried so very hard to fill his shoes.
    E MajorE       A augmentedA      E MajorE
Working hours without rest, wanted me to have
  A augmentedA
the best.
  E MajorE         BB      E MajorE
She tried to raise me right, but I refused.

CHORUS:
E MajorE                    A augmentedA
And I turned twenty-one in prison doing life
    E MajorE
without parole.
  DbmDbm                BB
No one could steer me right but Mama tried,

Mama tried.
   E MajorE                A augmentedA
Mama tried to raise me better but her pleading
 E MajorE
I denied.
            BB         E MajorE
That leaves only me to blame, 'cause Mama tried.


OUTRO: E MajorE


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