Don't Tell Mama
By Brian Burns - (C) 1999 - Brian Burns Music (BMI)
Tabbed By Larry Mofle
7/10/2010



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D          D/C#       D/B    D/A       G                  D
Don't tell Mama I'm a guitar picker, she thinks I'm just in jail
       D           D/C#      D/B        D/A        Em                   A
I been dreamin' up lines and ringin' up rhymes and raisin' all kinds of hell
G                         D                                D/C# Bm
Break Mama's heart if she saw me singin' with my hair in a pony-tail
   G                     D                  G           A       D                
So don't tell Mama I'm a guitar picker, she thinks I'm just in jail


               A                         Em          Em/F#     G    A            
I used to be a good ol' boy, a clean cut kid, Mama's pride and joy
      D                      G               A
Never stayed out late, never raised no kinda cane
                    Em                         G                  D 
Then I bought me an old guitar and started out pickin' in a smoky bar
   A                                            Em          Em/F#   G      A
If Mama finds out I've gone this far, she'll be hangin' her head in shame, so...


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Mama loves her youngest son, but if she ever saw me on stage with Gary P. Nunn,
She's be plowin' up my corn with a double shovel,
But I love those neon lights, and those sexy, sultry Texas nights.
If Mama finds out what I'm doin' with my life, good God, there's gonna be trouble, so...


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