Mother Maria

Intro:  Dm Dm   Am Am   Dm Dm   Dm Dm

G F Am Am
For everyone I loved and every road I've known
G F Am Am
For all the trash I won I celebrate... alone
G F Am Am
Sit up straight, stupid, bite your tongue
G F Am G
The best that I am is said and done

F F F F
Screams and whispers
Tell her I no longer hear her!

C G Dm Am
Mother Mary, she don't talk to me
C G Dm Am
Mother Mary, she don't talk to me
C G Bb F
"Give her my apologies"
"And tell her not to cry"
Dm Dm
Mother Maria

G F Am Am
I holler like a king trying to keep his throne
G F Am G
But chewing on a stone is the only thing I own

F F F F
Drugs and lovers
Nothing left under the covers

C G Dm Am
Mother Mary, she don't talk to me
C G Dm Am
Mother Mary, she don't talk to me
C G Bb F
"Give her my apologies"
"And tell her not to cry"
Am Am Dm Dm Am Am
Mother Maria

Dm Dm
Anything you want
Am Am
Anything you need
Dm Dm
I give it all I got
Am Am
Your attention please!
Dm Dm
You never want it me
Am Am
You never wanted me!

G G
Sleep with me
F F
Just for the bitter part
About me

Solo:  C Bb Dm Dm (x3)
           C Bb Dm C

Bb (x6)
Living's hardly
Living's hardly
Tell her I no longer want it

F C Gm Dm
Mother Mary, she don't talk to me
F C Gm Dm
Mother Mary, she don't talk to me
F C Gm Dm
"Give her all apologies"
F C Gm Dm
It's Mother Mary, she don't talk to me!
F C Gm Dm
I still don't hear her voice
I still can't hear her voice
F       C
I don't deserve her
Eb     Gm                  Eb  Gm
So tell her not to cry, tell her not to cry
Bb
Tell her not to cry!
F
Mother Maria