Chords for Ian Hunter/Mick Ronson - I WISH I WAS YOUR MOTHER

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_ _ _ _ This is a song that I wrote around about 1972.
I was with a different band then.
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This is a song [C] off an album [E] called, [Dm] the Mott album.
[C] This is called _ I Wish I Was Your Mother.
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_ [F#m] _ _ [A] _ _ _ I scream at you for sherry.
[D] _ [A] I curse you just for carry.
_ I hate the clothes you're [Bm] wearing.
_ I was there [E] so good.
_ _ _ _ _ [A] And I tell you not [D] to feel me.
[A] And I tell you not to see [D] me.
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I'd make your life [Bm] a drag.
You knew I [E]
would.
_ _ _ _ _ [A] Cause I watch you walk [D] all day then.
_ [A] And I watch your sparkles [D] fading.
_ [A] Oh I realize [Bm] you're failing.
_ [E] Cause you're too good.
_ _ _ _ _ [A] Now I don't mean to upset [D] you.
_ [A] But there's so much crime to [D] get through.
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If I could make it [Bm] easier _ [E] than I would.
_ _ _ _ _ [A] I wish I [D] was your mother.
_ [A] I wish I was your [D] father.
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And then I could have [Bm] seen you.
[D] Could have been you as a [E] child. _ _ _ _
_ [Bm] _ _ [A] Played houses [D] with your [Bm] sisters.
_ [A] _ Wrestled with all [D] your brothers.
[Bm] [A] And then who knows [B] I might have found a [D] _ family for a [E] while.
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_ _ It's no use me [D] pretending.
_ _ [A] You give, I do all [D] the spending.
_ [A] Is there a happy [Bm] ending?
_ I don't [E] think so. _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] Cause even if I [D] make it.
[Bm] _ [A] I'll be too far out to take it.
[D] _ [A] You'll have to try and [Bm]
shake my [E] hand. _ _ _
_ _ [A] I wish I was [D] your mother.
_ [A] I wish I was [D] your father.
_ [A] And then I could have [Bm] seen you.
Could [D] have been you as a [E]
child.
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Played houses [D] with your sisters.
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Wrestled with all your [Bm] brothers.
[A] And then who knows [Bm] I might have found [D] a family for a [E] while.
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mother.
_ [A] I wish I [D] was your father.
_ [A] And then I could have [Bm] been you.
[D] Could have seen you as a [E] child. _ _
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[D] Played houses with your sisters.
_ _ [A] Wrestled with all [D] your brothers.
_ [A] And then who knows [Bm] I might have found [D] a family for a [E] _
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