My Mothers Brisket chords by Rick Moranis

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: Am

🎸 Verse 1:
    Am                       E
The smell first hits me from five blocks away
Am
It’s Friday and I can’t stay away
Dm                          Am
The Blue Jays are playing but I won’t likely risk it
E                   E*
I’m here with a plan to binge on her brisket.



🎸 Verse 2:
            Am
My mother’s brisket
E

So moist and tender
E
Always sends me
Am
On another Shabbos bender
Dm                      E
The onions and carrots look nice
Am                    F7
I don’t need them and potatoes, no dice
E
There are only two things that suffice
F7             Am      Am*
My mother and her brisket.


🎸 Verse 3:
            Am
My mother’s brisket
E7
So silky smooth
E7
Whatever might happen all week
Am
There’s nothing quite like it to soothe
Dm                  E
Don’t need a forshpeis or any desserts
Am                       F7
I got no room, my stomach already hurts
E
On Monday I’m altering shirts
Am      Am*
Thanks to her brisket.


🎸 Verse 4:
          Dm       Dm7
I want to climb, climb
Am     Asus2  Am
Into her brisket
Dm    Dm7
I could cry, die
Am    Asus2 Am
At the thought of her brisket
Dm                                Dm7
I want to swim in her gravy and thrillingly flailing
Am       Am
I’ll whisk it
E                        E*
The judges will give all the gold
Am
To my mother’s brisket.


🎸 Instrumental:
Am  E
E  Am
Dm  Am
E  Am
Am*


🎸 Verse 5:
            Am
My mother’s brisket
         E
Strictly glatt
    E7
The butchers revere her
                         Am
Reserving the very, extraordinary, best cut
    Dm                                              Am
Her picture’s on the wall in between Schneerson and Yentl
    E                     E7                    Am     Am
Her brisket can make even flossing seem transcendental


🎸 Verse 6:
     Dm      Dm7
I’m alive, diving
Am     Asus2  Am
Into her brisket
Dm     Dm7
I swoon, spoon
Am    Asus2 Am
Her soft sweet brisket
Dm                 E
And if I really get lucky tonight
Am                       F7
Though it’s easy ’cause she loves to spoil
E
Shabbos candles will reflect their last light
Am   Am
In blessed tin foil.


🎸 Verse 7:
          Dm       Dm7
I want to climb, climb
Am     Asus2  Am
Into the tin foil
Dm          Dm7
I can’t wait to get home
E
With my tin foil.


🎸 Outro:
          Dm
I’m gonna run all the red lights
Am
Pull it over, stop it and frisk it
E                    E*
I want twenty-five years to life
Am     Dsus2/F#
With my mother’s brisket
Dm                       E*
Solitarily confined to every slice
Am     Am
Of my mother’s brisket.
Am6*




Playing Instructions:

Note:     * after chord means strike chord once and let it ring.


Chords:
Am6    x02212: