Key: B major
Intro 1
Eb
Verse 1
Eb
I can' tell my mama's
short on loving me
I guess that's why she let me go so far
Ab
Eb
Ab
Eb
Ab
Mama tried to stop me short of stealing
Eb
I guess that's why I had to steal that car
Verse 2
Eb
She told me not to smoke it
Ab
But I did and it took me far away
Bb
And I turned out to be
The only hell my mama ever raised
Eb
Verse 3
Well, I rolled into Atlanta,
stolen tags and almost out of gas
Ab
I had to get some money,
lately I'd learned how to get it fast
Eb
Those neon lights was calling me
Ab
and somehow I just had to get downtown
Bb
So I reached into the glove box,
Eb
another liquor store went down
Verse 4
Eb
And I said 'Precious memories', take
Ab
me back to the good ol' days'
Bb
Let me hear my men and sing,
Eb
'Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me'
She tried to turn me on to Jesus,
Ab
but I turned on to the devil's ways
Bb
And I turned out to be the only hell
Interlude 1
my mama ever raised
Eb
E
Verse 5
E
Well, they put them handcuffs on me,
Lord, how I fought to resist
A
But the agents clamped 'em tighter,
'til that metal bit into my wrist
E
They took my belt and my billfold,
A
my fingerprints, and the profile of my face
B
And then they locked away the only hell
my mama ever ever raised
E
Verse 6
And I'd sing 'Precious memories', take
A
me back to the good ol' days'
B
Let me hear mama singing,
E
'Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me'
She tried to turn me on to Jesus,
A
but I turned on to the devil's ways
B
And I turned out to be the only hell
E
F
my mama ever raised
She tried to turn me on to Jesus,
Bb
but I turned on to the devil's ways
C
And I turned out to be the only
hell my mama ever raised
F
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