Clay Walker – Fore She Was Mama (Guitar)

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Chords

Asterisks (*) denote chords that get a single strum; the F* in the instrumental interlude is just one quick strum that mimics the bass line. [Intro Tab]
e|--------------------------------------0-x--------------------------------------------|
B|-1h3-3-3-3--1h3-3-3---------------------3---1h3-3-3-3--1h3-3-3--------------------3--|
G|-----------------------0--0-0-0-4p2------------------------------0--0-0-0-4p2--------|
D|--------------------3------------------------------------------3---------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
[Intro Chords] D D G F* D [Verse 1]
D
'Bout ten years old, hide and seek

  G               D
I found me in the closet
Ready or not I stumbled on
    G              D
And opened up that box of
Yearbooks, letters, black and whites
  G              D
A hundred, maybe more
Next thing I know my brothers and me
        G                D
Got 'em scattered on the floor (Yeah)
D D G F* D [Verse 2]
D
There was one of her, flippin' the bird

G            D
Sittin' on a Harley
And a few with some hairy hippie dude
      G                D
Turns out his name was Charlie
Her hair, her clothes, her drinkin' smokin'
G           D
Had us boys confused

                                   G        D
I'll never forget the day us nosey kids got introduced
[Chorus]
G                      D
To Mama, 'fore she was Mama

            A          D
In a string bikini, in Tijuana

G                      D
Won't admit she smoked marijuana

          G    A              D
But I saw Mama, 'fore she was Mama
D D G F* D [Verse 3]
D
We put that box right where it was

    G            D
And never said a word
But growin' up got hard just tryin'
G              D
Not to picture her
In anything but aprons, dresses
G             D
Mini-vans and church
Oh and Daddy would have whooped our butts
    G               D
For diggin' up that dirt
[Chorus]
G                      D
On Mama, 'fore she was Mama

            A          D
In a string bikini, in Tijuana

G                      D
Won't admit she smoked marijuana

          G    A              G (additional riff) D      A
But I saw Mama, 'fore she was Mama
D D G F* D [Verse 4]
D
We laugh and hang it over her head

G               D
Right above her halo
Her face turns red when we bring up
     G               D
That tie-dyed Winnebago
She runs and hides and still denies
     G             D
That hip high rose tattoo
She burned that box of forget-me-nots
     G                D
When she found out we knew
[Chorus]
G                         D
'Bout Mama, 'fore she was Mama

            A          D
In a string bikini, in Tijuana

G                      D
Won't admit she smoked marijuana

             G    A              D
But that was Mama, 'fore she was Mama

                G    Asus2         D
And there's that one down in the Bahamas

             G    A              D
But that was Mama, 'fore she was Mama
D D G F* D x2 ************************************ | x Dead note | h Hammer-on | p Pull-off ************************************