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Intro: D9 Dm

Dm        F      Bb    C
Mamas put your babies to sleep, story too cruelsome for
      Bb  C
them this is. 
Dm          F        Bb      C
In Junior high she said goodbye to her parents and ran
      Bb  C
away with a boy.
  Gm       F    C     Dm    Gm        F
She left her family warm and kind, all of her friends said
 C            Dm
"you're out of your mind".
C                Dm
Life of her own she would find, 
C                 Bb  C
it's monday and she's gotta grind.

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

Dm    C              F
Only a child, reckless and wild, needs to come
Bb Dm              C         Bb   F     C
home again. He promised the moon but won't marry you. 
Dm       C          F          Bb
Nothing to do, eating for two, he's goin' out with
    Dm          C            Bb              C
someone new. Sunshine or rain, it's all the same, life isn't gray
  A  Dm     D9
oh Mary-Lou.

Dm       F         Bb     C
Mamas do your children still sleep, in the safe of their
Bb       C    Dm            F        Bb  C
cradles so sweet. Story I told you I have forseen, Your little angel ain't
Bb     C     Gm        F    C     Dm    Gm      F
always so clean. Days to come aren't easy to see, You can change 'em but
C         Dm    C              Dm       A       Bb  A    Dm
it isn't free. I see that you don't believe, ooo-oo, but you will see.