Mean Mother chords by
Etta James

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Key: E minor•

Intro 1

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Verse 1

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This

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here is a story about how it is growing up

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An d how life can make

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you turn and change

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But through it all you can rise above

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An d be strong and learn to be me

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One more child to

God

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Born to a family black

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Born in gray jail

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On the poor side of the tracks

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Hard enough money in the family

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To pay the rent

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Papa tells somebody it's weak to pay

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Because he knows it's

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already spent

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Mama do ing her best now

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To keep her children out of the street

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Taught us how to protect ourselves

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From the people that we might meet

So I knew right then

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I had to shape up

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Or my life was doomed

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So I got on up , yeah

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Got on out of that room

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F#m

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Now I'm a big mean mother

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Don't be mistreated by no other

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Don't take no wooden nickels

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for my time

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Cause if you do, you know

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your heart is mine

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I learned to live the hard way

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Don't let no fool now

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Behind my back

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You see where I grew up

Right there in the heart

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beat of the city

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Folks didn't give you no slack

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All day long people search

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ing for the dope man

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Cause they know he can

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take them to the sky

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All the big time hustlers taking

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folks for what they could

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Lord knows,

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I wouldn't tell you no lie

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F#m

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Made me a real mean mother

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I get respect from all others

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Ain't got time to weep and moan

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I'm too busy taking care

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of my own

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Oh, yeah, yeah

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F#m

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I'm a big fat mother,

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won't be misled by no other

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If you wanna deal with me,

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then treat me right

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Or I just might put out your life

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F#m

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Oh, cause I'm a real bad mother

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Won't be mistreated

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by no other

Don't take no wooden niggas

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from my time

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Cause if I do,

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you know you'll hide a smile

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Well, I'm a real mean mother

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Won't be misled by no other

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I'm a real bad mother

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Won't be misled by no other

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Mother, big, bad,

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mean

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Mother, big, bad, mother

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Real mean mother

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Big, bad, mean

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TunerE A D G B E

ChordsEm G A F#m D

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