Key: G major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I had a reason,
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I had an excuse
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my head was in the news.
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What did mother mom say?
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What did mother mom say?
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What did mother mom say?
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What did mother mom say?
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Mother
Mom said,
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Mother
Mom said,
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Mother
Mom said,
Mother
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Don't go.
Mother
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Mom said.
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a chicken winged coup.
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I had it all spelled out for me, in my alphabet soup,
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and those soup cans and pop bottles dancing in the new.
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And the nervous radio played forgotten songs,
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that only an orphan could remember.
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And then everything fell apart, then everything came together,
and there were shoelaces there
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a million miles long, and I was gone.
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What did mother mom say?
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What did mother mom say?
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What did mother mom say?
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Well, what did mother mom say?
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Mother mom said, mother mom said, mother mom said,
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mother mom said, don't go, please don't
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go.
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Elma says it happened to her son,
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Elma says it happened to her son.
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Elma says.
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Elma says.
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Elma says.
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El ma told my mom.
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Ela told my mom,
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Don't go, please don't go
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Please don't go
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Please don't go
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ChordsG D F C
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