INTRO

  D4          Dm             D4          Dm
  
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

Dm             F         Bb
Mamas put your babies to sleep, 
C                    Bb        C
story too cruelsome for them this is. 
Dm             F           Bb
In Junior High she said goodbye, 
C                  Bb         C
to her parents and ran away with a boy. 
    Gm       F      C        Dm
She left her family warm and kind, 
Gm         F                    C           Dm
all of her friends said "You?re out of your mind". 
C                    Dm
Life of her own she would find, 
     Gm                     Bb     A
it?s Monday and she?s gotta grind. 



VERSE 2

Dm                    F           Bb
A job as a waitress she sure was to find,
C            Bb        C
beautiful face, mind of a child.
Dm                  F        Bb
Boy got her pregnant, Mary-Lou cried,
C                      Bb              C
"For this I am too young oh why did you lie?" 
    Gm         F          C     Dm
You said "It?s okay if we do it today", 
Gm       F               C        Dm
I was so scared that you would go away.
C                       Dm
"Despite all the papers been signed, 
Gm                      F         A
mama take me back be so kind". 



CHORUS

Dm     C                   F
Only a child, reckless and wild, 
              Bb    C     Dm
needs to come home again. 
                C              Bb    F    C    Dm
He promised the moon but won?t marry you.
           C              F
Nothing to do, eating for two, 
           Bb           C   Dm
he?s goin? out with someone new. 
            C                  Gm
Sunshine or rain, it?s all the same, 
           F       C    Dm
life isn?t gray oh Mary-Lou. 



VERSE 3

Dm            F              Bb
Mamas do your children still sleep, 
C                 Bb         C
in the safe of their cradles so sweet. 
Dm                 F       Bb
Story I told you I have foreseen,
C                  Bb        C
your little angel ain?t always so clean. 
Gm      F           C       Dm
Days to come aren?t easy to see, 
Gm      F              C        Dm
you can change ?em but it isn?t free. 
C                     Dm
I see that you don?t believe, 
Gm          F   C    Dm
ooo-oo, but you will see.


CHORUS x 1

SOLO

Chorus x 2