Mother Knows Best
Mother Knows Best

Mother Knows Best easy guitar chords by Richard Thompson

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    • Verse 1
    So 
    you 
    think 
    you 
    know 

    How 
    to 
    wipe 
    your 
    own 
    nose 

    You 
    think 
    you 
    know 

    How 
    to 
    button 
    your 
    clothes 

    You 
    don't 
    know 
    shit 

    If 
    you 
    hadn't 
    already 
    guessed 

    You're 
    just 
    a 
    bump 
    on 
    the log 
    of 
    life, 

    Cause 
    mother 
    knows 
    best 

    Verse 2
    She 
    tells 
    everybody 

    She 
    was 
    born 
    in a 
    ditch 

    She 
    back- 
    combs 
    her 
    hair 

    Till 
    she 
    looks 
    like 
    a witch 

    Wolves 
    in her 
    train, 

    Ser
    pents 
    suckle 
    at 
    her 
    breast 

    Don't 
    forget 
    to 
    wash 
    behind 
    your 
    ears, 

    Cause 
    mother 
    knows 
    best 

    Interlude 1



    Verse 3
    O 

    you 
    lost 
    your 
    job, 

    Well 
    ain't 
    that a 
    shame 

    You 
    got 
    nobody 
    but 
    your
    self 
    to 
    blame 

    You 
    de
    serve 
    everything 
    you 
    get 

    For such 
    a care
    lessness 

    And 
    don't 
    eat 
    your 
    peas 
    off 
    the knife, 

    Cause 
    mother 
    knows 
    best 

    Verse 4
    So 
    your 
    baby's 
    hungry, 

    so 
    your 
    baby's 
    sick 

    Don't 
    make 
    babies, 
    that'll 
    do 
    the trick 

    Put 
    an
    other 
    string 
    of 
    barbed 
    wire 

    In 
    your 
    little 
    love 
    nest 

    It's 
    better 
    than 
    a cardboard 
    box, 

    Cause 
    mother 
    knows 
    best 

    Interlude 2




    Verse 5
    She 
    got 
    a 
    zombie 
    army 
    to serve 
    her 
    well 

    She 
    got a 
    thousand 
    bloodhounds 

    From 
    the gates 
    of hell 

    She 
    got 
    a 
    hundred 
    black 
    horses 

    With 
    sulfur 
    and 
    coal 
    on 
    their 
    breath 

    And 
    she rides 
    the 
    unbelievers 
    down, 


    Mother 
    knows 
    best 

    Verse 6
    She 
    says 
    "Bring 
    me 
    your first- 
    born, 

    And I'll 
    suck 
    their 
    blood 

    Bring 
    me 
    your poor, 

    I can 
    trample 
    in the 
    mud 

    Bring 
    me 
    your 
    visionaries, 

    I can 
    put 
    out 
    their 
    eyes 

    And 
    bring 
    me 
    your 
    scholars, 

    I'll have 
    them 
    all 
    lobotomized, 

    Outro 1
    Cause 
    mother 
    knows 
    best 




















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