Taking Your Life In Your Hands

Intro:  Ab Gm Eb  Ab Gm Eb  Gm  Ab  Eb

Eb                   Cm      Ab7      Bb
The children are all leaving school today
Eb               F7                  /A  Bb
Mama said, don't worry, I'll be back one day
    Eb          Cm      Ab7                  Bb   
The blue men in uniform smiled and waved goodbye
Eb      F7                    /A  Bb    Intro  
She was hiding those tears in her eyes

Eb          Cm             Ab7      Bb
Roll up the history books, burn the chairs
Eb          F7                 /A     Bb
Set fire to anything, set fire to the air
        Gm                  Fm  
They're riding to begin and running at the end
       Gm                       Fm           Bb
'Cause mama said, you take your life in your hands

Taking your life, your life in your hands
But don't take your life in your hands like I did
  Am            Bb       Bm          C            Cm  
I don't feel so bad, and always look forward with hope
            Bb					    Eb      Intro 
Forward and hope that the children will always be there

Cancel the day, cancel the night
Cancel the day, cancel the night
'Cause who could be watching when she steals and runs away
Full of hysterical laughter, and say

Mama, mama, I've left school today
I hope I get to see you in that funny school far away
But those gentle men in blue, and those in grey
Say I'll never, never see mama again

           Eb         Cm           F 
'Cause she took those lives in her hands
     Eb                 Cm           F
Yes, she took all those lives in her hands
         Eb         Cm           F
Yes, she took those lives in her hands
    Ab						  Eb   
But let me wonder, what was there left in those hands?





by: José Duarte
jtduarte1@gmail.com