Mama, Don't Treat Your Daughter Mean Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[Am]

[Verse 1]
[Am](Ry Cooder)

[Verse 2]
[Am]Hey, mama, don't you treat
your daughter mean
Hey, mama, don't you treat
your daughter mean
'Cause you [C]treat her so [G]mean and
she's [D]only [Dm]sweet sixte[D]en[Am]

[Verse 3]
[Am]
It was late last Friday evening,
when everything was [Dm]still
I [Am]heard somebody calling my
name outside my window sill
I got up and I looked outside
[Dm]stra[Am]inin' my eyes to see
[Dm]And my h[Am]eart went wild when
I realized just who was calling me

[Verse 4]
I [Am]hollered
Hey, mama, don't you treat
your daughter mean
Hey, mama, don't you treat your
daughter mean
'Cause you [C]treat her so [G]mean and
she's [Dm]only sweet six[Am]teen

[Verse 5]
[Am]
Now, her eyes were blazing up at me
Her hair was black as night
[Dm]And her nake[Am]d skin shone like gold
Out in the pale moonlight
She took my hand [Dm]and she
[Am]pulled me down
Where the grass had grown up tall
The she moved her body all around

[Verse 6]
Just like a cannon ball
[D]Hey, [Am]mama,
don't you treat your daughter mean
Hey, mama, don't you treat
your daughter mean
'Cause [C]you treat her so [G]mean
and she's [D]only sweet six[Am]teen

[Verse 7]
[Am]
[C]Yonder comes your [G]mama, girl,
'cross [Am]the field
[C]Runnin' and [G]a-shakin' like
like an auto[Am]mobile
[C]Daddy's got [G]a shotgun [F]in his hand
They [Dm]just don't [D]under[E] st[Am]and
The first time I seen that sweet girl
She was runnin' home from
Sunday school
And the next time I seen
that sweet little girl
[Dm]Was when she b[Am]roke her mama's rule
But the last time I seen that sweet little girl
She was filled with a strange [G]desire
[Am]Rollin' and tumblin' out on
the cold wet ground
Her skin burnin' up just like a cane fire
She called [C]my [G]name a [Am]thousand ways
The [C]tears came [G]streaming [Am]down her face
But [C]just when [G]I was 'bout
[F]to blow my stack
Her [Dm]daddy [D]came a-creepin' and
and a-crawlin' up up behind
And he [E]shot me in [F]the back
[E]

[Outro 1]
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