Mama chords by Erwin Keiles

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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About ten years old,
hide -and -seek,
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I found me in the closet.
Ready or not, I stumbled on
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and opened up that box of yearbooks,
letters, black -and -whites,
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a hundred, maybe more.
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Next thing I know my
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brothers and me
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got them scattered on the floor
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Yeah It was one of her flippin' a bird
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sittin' on a Harley
And if you was some hairy hippie dude
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turns out his name was Charlie
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Her hair, her clothes, her drinkin',
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smokin' had us boys confused
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I'll never forget the day us
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nosy kids  got introduced
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To Mama, for she was Mama
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In a string bikini and Tijuana
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Won't admit she smoked marijuana
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But I saw Mama, for she was Mama
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We put that box right where it was
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and never said a word
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But growin' up got hard
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just tryin' not to picture her
In anything but aprons, dresses,
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minivans and church
Oh, and Daddy woulda whooped our butts
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for diggin' up that dirt
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My own mama, before she was mama
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In a string bikini and Tijuana
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She won't admit she
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smoked marijuana
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But I saw mama,
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before she was mama
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We laugh and hang it over her head,
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right above her halo
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Her face turns red
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when we bring up that tie
-dyed Winnebago
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She runs and hides and still denies
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that hip -high rose tattoo
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She burned that box of forgive -me -nots
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when she found out we knew
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About momma, for she was momma
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In a string bikini in Tijuana
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Won't admit she smoked marijuana
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But that was momma,
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for she was momma
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And there's that one down
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in the Bahamas
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Oh, but that was Mama,
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oh, she was Mama
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Yeah, it's all written here you