Garth Brooks – Papa Loved Mama (Guitar Tab)

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[Verse 1]
   Papa drove a truck nearly all his life, you know it drove mama crazy 
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   Being a truckers wife, the part she couldnt handle wasn't bein alone
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   guess she needed more hold  than just a telephone *(Coda)

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   Papa called mama each and every night, just ask her how she was and if
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  his kids were alright, mama would wait for the call to come in
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 but when daddyd hang up she was gone again
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[Chorus]
   Mama was a looker and lord how she shined,  papa was the good for nothing jealous kind
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   Papa love mama, mama loved meeeeeeen,        mama's in the graveyard papas in the pen
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[Verse 2]
    Well it was bound to happen, one night it did,      papa came home and 
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   and  it was just us kids    He had a dozen roses and a bottle of wine, 
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   he was looking quite surprised she was doing fine *(Coda)
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  I heard a cry from mama up and down the hall     I   heard a bottle break
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    against the bedroom wall  That old deisel engine mad and eerie sound, 
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   when papa fired it up and headed in to town
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[Pre-Chorus]
picture in the paper showed the scene real well, papa's rig was buried in the local motel
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desk clerk said he'dsawitall real  cleeear,      he never hit the breaks as he was shiftin gears
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[Chorus]
   Mama was a looker and lord how she shined,  papa was the good for nothing jealous kind
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   Papa love mama, mama loved meeeeeeen,        mama's in the graveyard papas in the pen
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