Take Your Mama Tab by Scissor Sisters
Intro 1
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When you
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Verse 1
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grow up
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living like a good boy ought to
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And your mama takes a shine to her best son
Something different
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all the girls, they seem to like you
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'Cause you're handsome
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like to talk, and a whole lot of fun
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Pre-chorus 1
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But now your girl has gone a- missing
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and your house has got an empty bed
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The folks'll wonder 'bout the wedding
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they won't listen to a word you said
We're gonna
Chorus 1
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take your mama out all night Yeah, we'll
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show her what it's all about We'll get her
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jacked up on some cheap champagne We'll let the
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good times all roll out And if the
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music ain't good,
well it's just too bad
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We're gonna sing along, no matter what
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Because the dancers don't mind
at the New Orleans
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If you tip 'em and they make a cut
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F/A
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Do it, take your mama out all night
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So, she'll have no doubt
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that we're doing all the best we can
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F/A
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We're gonna do it
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take your mama out all night
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You can stay up late, 'cause baby
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you're a full-grown man
Interlude 1
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It's a
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Verse 2
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struggle, living like a good boy oughta
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In the summer, watching all the girls pass by
When your mama
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heard the way that you'd been talking
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I tried to tell you that all she'd wanna do is cry
Pre-chorus 2
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Now we end up taking the long way home
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Looking overdressed
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wearing buckets of stale cologne
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So hard to see streets on a country road
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When your glasses in the garbage
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and your continental's just been towed
Chorus 2
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We're gonna take your mama out all night
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Yeah, we'll show her what it's all about
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We'll get her jacked up
on some cheap champagne
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We'll let the good times all roll out
And if the music ain't good,
well it's just too bad
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We're gonna sing along, no matter what
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Because the dancers don't mind
at the New Orleans
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If you tip 'em and they make a cut
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F/A
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Do it, take your mama out all night
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So, she'll have no doubt
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that we're doing all the best we can
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F/A
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We're gonna do it
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take your mama out all night
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You can stay up late, 'cause baby
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you're a full-grown man
Solo 1
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Chorus 3
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Do it, take your mama out all night
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So, she'll have no doubt
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that we're doing all the best we can
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F/A
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We're gonna do it
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take your mama out all night
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You can stay up late, 'cause baby
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F/A
you're a full-grown man
Bb
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