INTRO



  Dsus          Dm             Dsus          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.





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