Key: E minor
Verse 1
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She never said one word against him
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Not in the deepest black
of that angry night
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No, she never said a word against him
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Oh mama,
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why you holding back now?
We never knew who we were getting
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It all depended on what
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No, we never knew who we were getting
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But if it singled you out, buddy,
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you're on your own
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He'd often take me
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For two days a beer and
out on the weekend
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And through the hotel walls
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Oh mama, why are you holding back now?
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There was always some
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They would make small talk
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as I watched my toes
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Yeah, always one plate extra come on in
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Then she's back to her husband and away
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we'd go
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Mama's eyes followed him
to the bathroom
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Hungover and weary
him to the bathroom
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across the bathroom stones
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Oh mama, why you holdin' back now?
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I never raised one finger to help her
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I could have held him back,
but I always froze
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But I never raised a finger to help her
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What was stopping me, God himself,
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he don't know
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Not in the deepest black of that angry night
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No, she never said a
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word against him
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Oh, mama, mama,
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Oh, mama, why you holding back
Outro 1
now?
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ChordsE Em G D A
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