Key: D major
Verse 1
Gdim
G
hello mama it's me
Gdim
A
G
How you feeling mama?
Hm- hmm, that's alright
I've got something I want
to talk to you about
If you don't mind
And I ain't mad, mama,
Gdim
G
no, no no no
Wait a minute, listen mama
Verse 2
to my song,
G
Em
C
ma
C
D
Em
D
ma
G
A
The only thing I could do half right and now
C
D
G
it's turning out all wrong, mama
D
Bm
Look what they done to my song
D
G
Now listen if you please
Verse 3
Gm
G
Em
C
I'd like to live in the thing now
Gm
G
C
Wish I could find a good book,
G
A
If I could find a real good book,
you know I,
C
Em
I'd never have to come out and look
D
G
D
At what they done to
my song
G
Eb
Verse 4
Ab
Ab
Fm
C#
ma
you won't believe this, but it's true
Ab
Bb
C#
They picked it like a chicken bone and I'm- ah,
E
Ab
just about to go insane mama
Verse 5
Verse 6
Eb
Ab
Ils ont change ma chanson, ma
Fm
Db
(ooh, not bad)
Db
G
(uh- huh let me see here
Ab
Bb
{franglish gibberish})
C#
D
A
D
Ab
Ils ont change
Ab
E
(My French must be pretty bad,
Verse 7
A
F#m
D
ma
D
A
D
my song ma
A
B
Bm
D
Put it in a plastic bag and they turned
Interlude 1
D
A
Verse 8
D
right
But I tell ya
D
You know, the only thing I get to have right,
Adim
D
A
You can't believe what they've done to my song ma,
that I wrote myself
D
They put it in a plastic bag and they turned
Verse 9
Ebdim
Adim
D
I could find a good book,
out and look at, uh
D
Ebdim
D
What they trying to do to my brain
A
D
A
And I'm- ah just about to go insane
D
A
D
I'm insane, insane, mama
that's what it is
Verse 10
they done to my song
Verse 11
What they trying to do to me
A
D
You see, well they stole everything I had,
mama
And they made a million with
D
Adim
But oh, I'm gonna keep on
D
A
working on the building,
Just like you taught me, mama
Adim
D
A
Whoah, yes I will, yes I will,
Outro 1
yeah
A
Adim
D
A
D
A
A
Adim
D
Ebdim
D
A
D
A
D
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