Key: F major•
Verse 1
A
F
Mother
G
Once
C
F
Had a
Lovely
Daughter
F
a lovely daughter
Bb
F
The mother was a actress on the stage
She travelled with a
C
F
troupe of well -trained lions
Dm
G
And each night she went in the
Now, now.
F
C
One day the daughter had a premonition
not go right.
A
C
Would not go right.
D
G
That day she told her mother in the kitchen,
D
G
please don't go in the lion's
No, not tonight
Eb
F
D
Don't go in the cage tonight,
Gm
mother darling
C
F
For the lions look ferocious and may bite
Bb
Bdim
They may tear you all to bits
F
G
C
F
So don't go in the lion's cage tonight
C
F
The mother heeded not the daughter's warning,
C
F
C
F
Poo -poo, I think I ought to know what I am doing,
Dm
G
C
when I'm around the lions all feel blue.
They all feel blue.
in the lion's cage,
Eb
Bb
The lions thought that they
Would like to eat.
D
Gm
And as they bit the darling mother's head off,
her so pure and sweet,
C
D
C
So pure and sweet.
F
D
So go in the lion's cage tonight, mother darling,
F
D
And when they get their angry fits,
Bb
Bdim
they may tear you all to bits.
Db
F
C
So we don't go in the
F
C
lion's cage to night
F
Db
F
No, not tonight
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsF G C Bb Dm...
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