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Dm               F         Bb
Mama's put your babies to sleep
C                        Bb        C
Story too cruelsome for them this is
Dm              F         Bb
In Junior high she said goodbye
          C                         Bb  C
To her parents and ran away with a boy

     Gm       F/A    C        Dm
She left her family warm and kind
Gm           F/A                C            Dm
All of her friends said "you´re out of your mind"
C                          Dm
Life of her own she would find
        C                   Bb     G/B  C
It´s monday and she´s gotta grind

Dm                       F           Bb
A Job as a waitress she sure was to find
C                Bb         C
Beautiful face, mind of a child
Dm 
Boy got her pregnant
F         Bb            C                   Bb           C
Mary-Lou cried," For this I am too young oh why did you lie"
    Gm         F/A        C        Dm
You said "it´s okay if we do it today"
Gm         F/A        C             Dm
I was so scared that you would go away
C                              Dm
"Despite all the papers been signed
C                      A4(9)  A/C#
Mama take me back be so ki - nd"

Dm      C                   F                   Bb       
Only a child, reckless and wild, needs to come home again
Dm                              Bb       F  C        
He promised the moon but won´t marry     you
Dm         C               F               Bb            
Nothing to do, eating for two, he´s goin´ out with someone new
Dm           C                  Bb               F      C
Sunshine or rain, it´s all the same, life isn´t gray oh Mary-Lou

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Dm              F             Bb
Mama's do your children still sleep
C                     Bb          C
In the safe of their cradles so sweet
Dm               F         Bb
Story I told you I have forseen
C                        Bb         C
Your little angel ain´t always so clean

Gm       F/A        C        Dm
Days to come aren´t easy to see
Gm        F/A          C         Dm
You can change ´em but it isn´t free
C                      Dm
I see that you don´t believe
C            A4(9)   A/C#
Ooo-oo, but you      will see

Dm      C                   F                   Bb       
Only a child, reckless and wild, needs to come home again
Dm                              Bb       F  C        
He promised the moon but won´t marry     you
Dm         C               F               Bb            
Nothing to do, eating for two, he´s goin´ out with someone new
Dm           C                  Bb               F      C
Sunshine or rain, it´s all the same, life isn´t gray oh Mary-Lou

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Dm      C                   F                   Bb       
Only a child, reckless and wild, needs to come home again
Dm                              Bb       F  C        
He promised the moon but won´t marry     you
Dm         C               F               Bb            
Nothing to do, eating for two, he´s goin´ out with someone new
Dm           C                  Bb               F      C
Sunshine or rain, it´s all the same, life isn´t gray oh Mary-Lou