Afinação: meio tom abaixo Intro: D9 Dm Dm F Bb C Mamas put your babies to sleep, story too cruelsome for Bb C Dm F Bb C them this is. In Junior high she said goodbye to her parents and ran Bb C Gm F C Dm Gm F away with a boy. She left her family warm and kind, all of her friends said C Dm C Dm "you're out of your mind". 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 Dm F Bb C mind of a child. Boy got her pregnant, Mary-Lou cried," For this I am Bb C Gm F C Dm Gm too young oh why did you lie" You said "it's okay if we do it today", I was F C Dm C Dm so scared that you would go away. "Despite all the papers been signed, C A mama take me back be so kind". Dm C F Bb Only a child, reckless and wild, needs to come 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 C Dm C Bb F someone new. Sunshine or rain, it's all the same, life isn't gray 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 C always so clean. Days to come aren't easy to see, You can change 'em but Dm C Dm A Bb C it isn't free. I see that you don't believe, ooo-oo, but you will see.