INTRO D5 D5 D5 D5 e | 0------0------1------1-------0------0------1------1--------------------- | B | --3------3------3------3-------3------3------3------3------------------- | G | ----2------2-------2-----2-------2------2------2------2----------------- | D | 0----------------------------0------------------------------------------ | A | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | E | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | VERSE 1 D5 F5 Bb5 Mamas put your babies to sleep, C5 Bb5 C5 story too cruelsome for them this is. D5 F5 Bb5 In Junior High she said goodbye, C5 Bb5 C5 to her parents and ran away with a boy. G5 F5 C5 D5 She left her family warm and kind, G5 F5 C5 D5 all of her friends said "You?re out of your mind". C5 D5 Life of her own she would find, G5 Bb5 A5 it?s Monday and she?s gotta grind. VERSE 2 D5 F5 Bb5 A job as a waitress she sure was to find, C5 Bb5 C5 beautiful face, mind of a child. D5 F5 Bb5 Boy got her pregnant, Mary-Lou cried, C5 Bb5 C5 "For this I am too young oh why did you lie?" G5 F5 C5 D5 You said "It?s okay if we do it today", G5 F5 C5 D5 I was so scared that you would go away. C5 D5 "Despite all the papers been signed, G5 F5 A5 mama take me back be so kind". CHORUS D5 C5 F5 Only a child, reckless and wild, Bb5 C5 D5 needs to come home again. C5 Bb5 F5 C5 D5 He promised the moon but won?t marry you. C5 F5 Nothing to do, eating for two, Bb5 C5 D5 he?s goin? out with someone new. C5 G5 Sunshine or rain, it?s all the same, F5 C5 D5 life isn?t gray oh Mary-Lou. VERSE 3 D5 F5 Bb5 Mamas do your children still sleep, C5 Bb5 C5 in the safe of their cradles so sweet. D5 F5 Bb5 Story I told you I have foreseen, C5 Bb5 C5 your little angel ain?t always so clean. G5 F5 C5 D5 Days to come aren?t easy to see, G5 F5 C5 D5 you can change ?em but it isn?t free. C5 D5 I see that you don?t believe, G5 F5 C5 D5 ooo-oo, but you will see. CHORUS x 1 SOLO Chorus x 2
