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Mama Tried by Merle Haggard - Guitar Chords

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            [Verse]

D                          G
The first thing I remember know-in'
      D                 G
was a lonesome whist-le blow-in,
      D                    G             A
And a young-on's  dream of grow-in up to ride,
     D                     G
On a freight train leav-in town,
    D                 G
not know-in where I'm bound,
       D                   A               D
And no one could change my mind, but Ma-ma tried.

D                    G
One and on-ly reb-el child,
       D                G
From a fam-ily meek and mild,
   D               G                A
My ma-ma seemed to know what lay in store,
       D             G
Spite all my Sun-day learn-in'
            D             G
towards the bad I kept on turn-in,
    D               A            D
Til Ma-ma could-n't hold me an-y-more.


[Chorus]
D                                        G
And I turned twenty-one in pris-on do-in life with-out
   D     G                  D               A
pa-role, No one could steer me right but Ma-ma tried,
                  D
Mama tried. Ma-ma tried to raise me bet-ter,  but her
G           D                               A
plead-ing I de-nied, That leaves only me to blame,
            D
cause Ma-ma tried.


[Verse]

D                         G
Dear ol' Dad-dy, rest his soul,
        D            G
left my mom a heav-y load,
    D             G                A
She tried so very hard to fill his shoes,
        D               G
Work-in hou-rs with-out rest,
        D              G
Want-ed me to have the best,
    D                 A              D
She tried to raise me right but I re-fused


[Chorus]
D                                       G
And I turned twenty-one in prison do-in life with-out
   D        G                  D               A
pa-role, No one could steer me right but Ma-ma tried,
                  D
Mama tried. Ma-ma tried to raise me bet-ter,  but her
G           D
plead-ing I de-nied,
                       A
That leaves only me to blame cause Ma-ma tried.. 
        

We also have 31 songs by Merle Haggard

• A Place To Fall Apart
• Are The Good Times Really Over
• Big City
• Branded Man
• Daddy Frank
• Hungry Eyes
• I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am
• I Think Ill Just Stay Here And Drink
• If I Could Only Fly
• If We Make It Through December
• Im A Lonesome Fugitive
• Kern River
• Mama Tried
• Misery And Gin
• Miss The Mississippi And You
• My Favorite Memory
• Okie From Muskogee
• Ramblin Fever
• Reasons To Quit
• Silver Wings
• Sing Me Back Home
• Somewhere Between
• Swinging Doors
• Thats The Way Love Goes
• The Bottle Let Me Down
• The Fightin Side Of Me
• The Running Kind
• The Way I Am
• Today I Started Loving You Again
• Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Star
• Working Man Blues

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