Mama, Don't Treat Your Daughter Mean chords by Ry Cooder
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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(Ry Cooder)
Verse 2
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Hey, mama, don't you treat
your daughter mean
Hey, mama, don't you treat
your daughter mean
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'Cause you treat her so mean and
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she's only sweet sixteen
Verse 3
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It was late last Friday evening,
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when everything was still
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I heard somebody calling my
name outside my window sill
I got up and I looked outside
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strainin' my eyes to see
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And my heart went wild when
I realized just who was calling me
Verse 4
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I hollered
Hey, mama, don't you treat
your daughter mean
Hey, mama, don't you treat your
daughter mean
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'Cause you treat her so mean and
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she's only sweet sixteen
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Now, her eyes were blazing up at me
Her hair was black as night
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And her naked skin shone like gold
Out in the pale moonlight
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She took my hand and she
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pulled me down
Where the grass had grown up tall
The she moved her body all around
Verse 6
Just like a cannon ball
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Hey, mama,
don't you treat your daughter mean
Hey, mama, don't you treat
your daughter mean
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'Cause you treat her so mean
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and she's only sweet sixteen
Verse 7
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Yonder comes your mama, girl,
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'cross the field
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Runnin' and a-shakin' like
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like an automobile
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Daddy's got a shotgun in his hand
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They just don't understand
The first time I seen that sweet girl
She was runnin' home from
Sunday school
And the next time I seen
that sweet little girl
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Was when she broke her mama's rule
But the last time I seen that sweet little girl
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She was filled with a strange desire
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Rollin' and tumblin' out on
the cold wet ground
Her skin burnin' up just like a cane fire
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She called my name a thousand ways
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The tears came streaming down her face
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But just when I was 'bout
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to blow my stack
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Her daddy came a-creepin' and
and a-crawlin' up up behind
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And he shot me in the back
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Mama, Don't Treat Your Daughter Mean
Ry Cooder
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