G6                     A7
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
D7                     G
Caught in a landslide; No escape from reality  
Em                   G7                  C      C/B
Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see      
Am                    D7
I'm just a poor boy,I need no sympathy, because I'm
G#    G    F#    G
Easy come,easy go 
G#       G    F#     G
A little high,little low
C          C/B        Bb°          D7              G
Anyway the wind blows,doesn't really matter to me... To me 

G         Em
Mama,just killed a man
      Am
Put a gun against his head 
          Am7              D
Pulled my trigger,now he's dead
G              Em
Mama, life had just begun
    Am7               Ab+           D7
But now I've gone and thrown it all away 
C    G/B Am   Dm
Mama oo- ooh, Didn't mean to make you cry 
   G             G7               C
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
      C/B      Am        Fm             C       G
Carry on,carry on, as if nothing really matters

G         Em
Too late, my time has come
      Am                            Am7            D
Sends shivers down my spine, Body's aching all the time   
G                       Em
Goodbye everybody; I've got to go
      Am              Ab+      C        D7
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth 
C    G/B Am   Dm
Mama oo- ooh; I don't want to die
  G                  G7                 C
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all 

( C/B  Am  Fm  G )

C    G/B Am   Dm
Mama oo- ooh; I don't want to die
  G                  G7                 C Bm C
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at a l  l