Johnny Paycheck – Im The Only Hell My Mama Ever Raised (Guitar)

B                      
I can't sell my mama short on loving me

E                 
Mama try to stopped me short of stealing

  B
I guess that's why I had to steal that car

B
She told me not to smoke it

                             E
But I did and it took me far away

    F#  
And I turned out to be

                           B
The only hell my mama ever raised

B
Well, I rolled into Atlanta, stolen tags and almost out of gas

  E
I had to get some money, and lately I'd learned how to get it fast

      B                                                            E
Those neon lights was calling me and somehow I just had to get downtown

     F#                                                    B
So I reached into the glove box, another liquor store went down

            B                                                E
And I sing 'Precious memories', take me back to the good ol' days

       F#                                          B
Let me hear mama singing, 'Rock of ages' cleft for me

                                                                 E
She tried to turn me on to Jesus, but I turned on to the devil's ways

    F#                                            B        C
And I turned out to be the only hell my mama ever raised

          C                 
When they put them handcuffs on me, Lord how I fought to resist

    F
But agent clamped 'em tighter, 'til that metal bit into my wrist

             C                                                            F
They took my belt and my billfold, my fingerprints, and the profile of my face

G                                                     C
Then they locked away the only hell my mama ever ever raised

            C                                                F
And I sing 'Precious memories', take me back to the good ol' days

       G                                           C
Let me hear mama singing, 'Rock of ages' cleft for me

                                                                 F
She tried to turn me on to Jesus, but I turned on to the devil's ways

    G                                             C      C#
And I turned out to be the only hell my mama ever raised

             C#                                                  F#
She tried to turn me on to Jesus, but I turned on to the devil's ways

    G#                                            C#
And I turned out to be the only hell my mama ever raised