Johnny Cash - Mama's Baby guitar chord

MAMA'S BABY

J.Cash

Recorded 8/8/58, Nashville, TN

Album: The Fabulous Johnny Cash (CD bonus track; previously unreleased in the USA)

Key: Bb / Capo: 1 / Play: A

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(She said that she just couldn't leave her mother)

VERSE:

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I met a girl out in a town that tore all my resistance down

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I thought what a dream this oughta be

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I went with her a month or two and like any boy in love will do

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Asked her if she would marry me

CHORUS:

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But she was a mama's baby, mama's baby

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Though she loved me like she never loved another

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She was a mama's baby, mama's baby

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And she said that she just couldn't leave her mother

VERSE:

Then I said well then probably the only thing that's left for me

Is to go and come back in a year or so

A year passed away and then I tried to win her hand again

She even packed her clothes but she wouldn't go

CHORUS:

Cause she was a mama's baby, mama's baby

Though she loved me like she never loved another

She was a mama's baby, mama's baby

And she said that she just couldn't leave her mother

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VERSE:

Well I hung around till finally I persuaded her to marry me

Her mother said that it would be all right

We bought ourselves a little home and I finally got her off alone

But she stays with her mother every night

CHORUS:

Cause she was a mama's baby, mama's baby

Though she loved me like she never loved another

She was a mama's baby, mama's baby

And she said that she just couldn't leave her mother

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Well she said that she just couldn't leave (leave, leave, leave her mother)