Im The Only Hell My Mama Ever Raised

B
I can't sell my mama short on loving
 me

I guess that's why she let me go so 
far
E
Mama try to stopped me short of 
stealing
  B
I guess that's why I had to steal 
that car
B
She told me not to smoke it
                             E
But I did and it took me far away
    F#
And I turned out to be
                           B
The only hell my mama ever raised
B
Well, I rolled into Atlanta, stolen 
tags and almost out of gas
  E
I had to get some money, and lately 
I'd learned how to get it fast
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      B                            
Those neon lights was calling me 
and somehow I just had to get 
  E
downtown
     F#                         
So I reached into the glove box, 
                           B
another liquor store went down

[Chorus]
            B                      
And I sing 'Precious memories', 
                          E
take me back to the good ol' days
       F#                          
Let me hear mama singing, 'Rock of 
                B
ages' cleft for me
She tried to turn me on to Jesus, 
                               E
but I turned on to the devil's ways
    F#                             
And I turned out to be the only 
               B        C
hell my mama ever raised

[Verse 2]
          C
When they put them handcuffs on me, 
Lord how I fought to resist
    F
But agent clamped 'em tighter, 'til 
that metal bit into my wrist
             C                     
They took my belt and my billfold, 
my fingerprints, and the profile of 
   F
my face
G                                 
Then they locked away the only 
                    C
hell my mama ever ever raised

[Chorus]
            C                      
And I sing 'Precious memories', 
                          F
take me back to the good ol' days
       G                           
Let me hear mama singing, 'Rock of 
                C
ages' cleft for me
She tried to turn me on to Jesus, 
                               F
but I turned on to the devil's ways
    G                              
And I turned out to be the only 
               C      C#
hell my mama ever raised
             C#                  
She tried to turn me on to Jesus, 
                                F#
but I turned on to the devil's ways
    G#                             
And I turned out to be the only 
               C#
hell my mama ever raised