Grateful Dead – Mama Tried (Guitar)

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Mama Tried chords * Grateful Dead 1971 Skulls and Roses (Merle Haggard) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mama_Tried_(song) [Intro] D A D [Verse 1|
    D                      G
The first thing I remember knowin

         D                G
Was that lonesome whistle blowin'

      D
And a youngin's dream

   G             A
Of growin' up to ride

     D                     G
On a freight train leavin' town

    D                   G
Not knowin' where I was bound

D                      A
No one could change my mind

         D     G D
But mama tried
[Verse 2]
        D          G
One and only rebel child

       D               G
From a family meek and mild

D              G
Mama seemed to know

            A
What lay in store

            D
In spite of all my

       G
Sunday learnin'

        D             G
For the bad I kept on turnin'

    D             A          D    G D
And mama couldn't hold me anymore
[Chorus]
             D
And I turned 21 in prison

      C              D
Doin' life without parole

   Bm
No one could steer me right

         A           A7
But mama tried, mama tried

     D
Mama tried to raise me better

        G             D
But her pleadings I denied

                       A
That leaves only me to blame

            D
'Cause mama tried
[Interlude] D A D [Verse 3]
         D              G
Dear old daddy rest his soul

        D           G
Left my mom a heavy load

    D             G
She tried so very hard

            A
To fill his shoes

        D             G
Workin' hours without rest

       D              G
Wanted me to have the best

        D                 A
Oh, she tried to raise me right

        D     G D
But I refused
[Chorus]
             D
And I turned 21 in prison

      C              D
Doin' life without parole

   Bm
No one could steer me right

         A           A7
But mama tried, mama tried

     D
Mama tried to raise me better

        G            D
But her pleadin' I denied

                       A
That leaves only me to blame

            D     G D
'Cause mama tried
[Solo] D G D G D G A D G D G D A D G D [Chorus]
             D
And I turned 21 in prison

      C              D
Doin' life without parole

   Bm
No one could steer me right

         A           A7
But mama tried, mama tried

     D
Mama tried to raise me better

        G            D
But her pleadin' I denied

                       A
That leaves only me to blame

            D     G D
'Cause mama tried
[Outro]
                       A
That leaves only me to blame

            D
'Cause mama tried
* Alternate: Capo II D = C G = F A = G Bm = Am A7 = G7 Set8