Chords for Lonesome River Band - Mama Tried

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_ _ _ _ ♪ First thing I ever know
♪ Was a lonesome whistle blowin'
♪ In a youngin's dream
♪ Growing up [B] to drive
♪ [E] On a freight train to leave town
♪ Not knowing where I'm bound
♪ No one could change my mind
♪ But my mother tried
♪ One and only [A] _ _ [E]
me
♪ Can't mouth my mama
♪ Seem to know [B] what they're for
♪ In [E] spite of all my Sunday learning
♪ Toward the band I kept on turning
♪ Till mama [B] couldn't hold me [E] anymore
♪ I turned 21 in prison
♪ Doing life without parole
♪ [C#m] No one could steer me right
♪ But mama [B] tried
♪ Mama tried
♪ [E] Mama tried to raise me better
♪ But her pleading I denied
♪ Leaves only me to blame
♪ Mama tried _ _
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♪ Dear old daddy rest his soul
♪ Left my mama heavy load
♪ She tried very hard to fill [B] his shoes
♪ Working [E] hours without rest
♪ Wanting me to have the best
♪ She tried to raise me right
♪ But [E] I refused
♪ I turned 21 in prison
♪ Doing life without parole
♪ No [C#m] one could steer me right
♪ But mama [B] tried
♪ Mama [E] tried
♪ Mama tried to raise me better
♪ But her pleading I denied
♪ Leaves only [B] me to blame
♪ Mama [E] tried
♪ That leaves only [B] me to blame
_ ♪ [E] Cause mama tried _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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