My Momma Said
07/23/12 - FtLd


My momma said
The mail came today
With the picture of a man
Who said that he would bring
Everything that we would ever need
So hold on
Hold on

My momma said
He came from far away
Crossed the mighty ocean
On a ship that nearly sank
When a mighty storm tore
All of its sails away
So hold on
Hold on

But my momma
You know she likes to dream
But this man he’s coming here
Just to take away one thing
That’s the little bit of money
That my momma she has saved
So when I meet this man
I’m gonna put him in his grave

My momma said
She knew this man so long ago
But that when people go to war
Sometimes they never do come home
And yet every so often
One of them still returns
So hold on
Hold on

My momma said
He’d be arriving on the train
And that when we were together
We’d be a family again
But I’d be damned to let a stranger
Have what he never earned
So hold on
Hold on

But my momma
You know she doesn’t mean
To hurt nobody
It’s just that she’s never seen
How a dog can lick you hand
Then tear your throat off clean
So I’ll just shoot that bastard down
Before he gets to close to me

My momma always said
Some how we would get by
So I grew up watching men
Just take her for a ride
They’d leave her bare
They’d leave her broke
Then they’d leave her in the night
So hold on
Hold on

But one day my momma said
I was the only one
Who ever stood beside her
Never cheated never run
And now that I’m a man
I could defend her with a gun
So hold on
Hold on

But my momma
You know she never seems
To understand a man can’t be
What he’s never been
So hidden in my coat
Is the revolver that I need
To cut that dog down where he stands
And bring him to his knees

So my momma said
You’d better hurry down them stairs
So we can get us to that platform
And be waiting for him there
It’s not right to make him wait no more
No it just wouldn’t be fair
So hold on
Hold on

My momma said
As we hurried on our way
Boy you just wait and see
If it ain’t true all that I said
You got his eyes you got his hair
And his temper’s in your head
So hold on
Hold on

But my momma
You know she screamed and wept
When that man stepped off that train
And I shot him in the chest...
Cause when my pappa went to war
He left us here with no defense
So hold on
Hold on

My momma said
The mail came today
With the picture of a man
And I knew right away


verse:
Amf2 (Bm) - Ef3 (G) - D - A
Em - G - D (or Bm) - A


chorus:
28.49.57 (Em) - 25.36.47.57 (A)
Amf2 (Bm) - Ef3 (G) - D - Em
Amf2 (Bm) - A


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