Chords for Don't Tell Mama

[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
I was headed north on highway 5 [Eb] on a start Sunday night _
[F] With a pickup truck moved by me out of [Bb] [C] control
As _ _ _ I watched in my [Bb] headlights he [Eb] turned left and then back right _
[F] He never hit the brakes as he [Bb] left the [C] road _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] I found him lying in the grass [Eb] among the steel and glass
[F] With an empty _ whiskey bottle by [Bb] his side _ _ _ _
[Fm] [Bb] And through the blood and tears he [Eb] whispers in my ear _
[F] A few last words just before [Bb] he dies
_ _ [F] _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ Don't tell mama I [Eb] was drinking
_ _ [A] _ [Eb] _ _
_ [Bb] Lord knows her soul will [F] never _ rest _ _ _
[Bb] I can't leave this world with [Eb] mama thinking
_ That _ [F] I met the Lord with whiskey on [Bb] my breath _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
I still think about that night [Fm] [Eb] and how that young man died
[F] And how others sometimes pay for [Bb] our mistakes _ _ _ _
The last thing on his mind _
[Fm] [Eb] as he left this world behind
[F] He was convinced someone else has [Bb] got the brakes _ _ _ _
[F] _ [Bb] _ _ Don't tell mama _ [Eb] I was drinking
_ _ _ Lord _ [Bb] _ _ knows her soul will never [F] _ rest _ _ _
_ [Bb] I can't leave this world with [Eb] mama thinking _ _ _ _
[F] That I met the Lord with whiskey _ [Bb] on my breath _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Don't tell mama I [Eb] was _ [Bb] drinking _ _ _
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