Standard tuning, capo 7th.


G5              C5    G5
Mother, Try to do right by you

To do what you asked me to
       D5         G5
I did wrong and I knew.

Mother I tried to behave for you 
Now I?m a digging a grave for you 
It was all I could do. 

D5                              C5
Find a way back home, Make everything new 
              G5
But I wish it was true.

Father, well I?ll give my soul to you
I came in blind folded for you 
It was all that I knew.

Open your arms and I?ll fly out of hell up to you
I wish it was true.

A5                   C5
Boy come on out from the cold
                          G5
Your lost outside there don?t you know
                         D5
It?s not what you say it was you do
                          A5
Just keep wishing your wishes are true
                         C5
Well your dreams there reality now
                      G5
There?s no pain there?s no misery
                        D5
Just polish the blood and the bruise
                        C5
For there?s just no way you can lose.
              G5
But I wish it was true.

Country, I was a solider for you
I did what you asked me to 
It was wrong and you knew.

Country, now I?m just a stranger to you
A number a name it?s true
Throw me away when you?re through.

D5                                      C5
Home of the brave and free the, the red white and blue
              G5
But I wish it was true.