Johnny Cash - Mama's Baby Chords

MAMA'S BABY
J.Cash
Recorded 8/8/58, Nashville, TN 

Key: Bb / Capo: 1 / Play: A

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(She said that she just couldn't leave her mother)

VERSE:
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I met a girl out in a town that tore all my resistance down
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I thought what a dream this oughta be
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I went with her a month or two and like any boy in love will do
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Asked her if she would marry me

CHORUS:
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But she was a mama's baby, mama's baby
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Though she loved me like she never loved another
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She was a mama's baby, mama's baby
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And she said that she just couldn't leave her mother

VERSE:
Then I said well then probably the only thing that's left for me
Is to go and come back in a year or so
A year passed away and then I tried to win her hand again
She even packed her clothes but she wouldn't go

CHORUS:
Cause she was a mama's baby, mama's baby
Though she loved me like she never loved another
She was a mama's baby, mama's baby
And she said that she just couldn't leave her mother

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VERSE:
Well I hung around till finally I persuaded her to marry me
Her mother said that it would be all right
We bought ourselves a little home and I finally got her off alone
But she stays with her mother every night

CHORUS:
Cause she was a mama's baby, mama's baby
Though she loved me like she never loved another
She was a mama's baby, mama's baby
And she said that she just couldn't leave her mother

TAG:
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Well she said that she just couldn't leave (leave, leave, leave her mother)