Brooks Garth - Papa Loved Mama 2 guitar tab

Papa Loved Mama by Garth Brooks (Live Version) (with a rock beat)

Intro: (bar D, slide to E, hold)

E(once)

Papa drove a truck nearly all his life

A(sustain)

You know it drove mama crazy being a trucker's wife

B(sustain)

The part she couldn't handle was the being alone

C(sustain) B(sustain)

I guess she needed more to hold than just a telephone

E(sustain)

Papa called mama each & every night

A(sustain)

Just to ask her how she was, and if us kids were alright

B(sustain)

Mama would wait for that call to come in

C(sustain) B(sustain) E E - F# - G öAb - A

But when daddy'd hang up, she was gone again

CHORUS 1:

A

Mama was a looker, Lord how she shined

E

Papa was a good'n, but the jealous kind

A A-A-A-A-A-A

Papa loved mama, mama loved men

E(once) B(once) E

Mama's in the graveyard, papa's in the pen

E

Well it was bound to happen, one night it did

A

Papa came home, when it was just us kids

B

He had a dozen roses, and a bottle of wine,

C B

If he was looking to surprise us, he was doing fine

E

I heard him cry for mama up and down the hall

A

Then I heard a bottle break against the bedroom wall

B

That olâ diesel engine made an eeerie sound

C B E E - F# - G öAb - A

When papa fired it up, and headed into town

CHORUS 2:

A

Oh, the picture in the paper showed the scene real well

E

Papa's rig was buried in the local motel

A A-A-A-A-A-A

Desk clerk said he saw it all real clear

E(once) B(once) E E ö F ö F# - G ö Ab - A

He never hit the brakes, and he was shifting gears

REPEAT CHORUS 1

Instrumental: A E (4 X, end on fourth time)