C
                   C                 C
Your mother's only son. If she had-a had one,         
             F                           C
If she had-a had one. Your mother's only son.
                  C                    C
My sisters born together. Whispering soldier. 
                F                       C
Winters getting colder, winters getting colder.

G                                   F
          Yeah you watch me getting older.
C

                     C                          C 
It was not a lonely summer. Absence love is manufactured. 
                   F                                  C
I was ready to be captured. Oh but hearts are made to fracture. 
                     C                          C
I was waiting by the phone. For July Talk conversation. 
                       F                            C
Oh my love you were so patient. Running still intoxication.

                   G                       F
Your mother's only son. She's not the only one. 
                       G                          F
That watched me tell a lie. No, he's not the only one.

           C     E7    Am
That would leave me to die. 
           C     E7    Am  
           Leave me to die. (By the river side) 
           C     E7    Am
           Leave me to die. 
Am                                 F
           Make your little sister cry.
 

There was romance in the waiting. Short phone calls understated. 
Secrets created. We made our homes in different places. 
Ecstasy ain't hard to come by. I met her in the month of May. 
Time came you went away. History remain. 

                   G                       F
Your mother's only son. She's not the only one. 
                       G                          F
That watched me tell a lie. No, he's not the only one.

           C     E7    Am
That would leave me to die. 
           C     E7    Am  
           Leave me to die. (By the river side) 
           C     E7    Am
           Leave me to die. 
Am                                 F
           Make your little sister cry.

           C     E7    Am
That would leave me to die. 
           C     E7    Am  
           Leave me to die. (By the river side) 
           C     E7    Am
           Leave me to die. 
Am                                 F
           Make your little sister cry.