Misc Musicals – Spring Awakening - Mama Who Bore Me (Ukulele)

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TITLE: Mama Who Bore Me, from Spring Awakening MUSIC: Duncan Sheik LYRICS: Steven Sater ORIGINAL ARTIST: Lea Michele TRANSCRIPTION: Andrew Marsden Reduced to ukulele-playable chords, from my original guitar/piano chord sheet. Chord onset is at the beginning of the chord-as-written. Rhythm is a little difficult, lyric-wise - chords syncopated across syllables; but two chords per bar, generally. The right-hand column, below, shows alternatives to the full chords on the left:

C-tuning (gCEA)    Alternatives

Am: 2000 Fadd9: 0010 F Gadd9: 0252 G Dadd9: 2425 D Cadd9: 0203 C Dsus4: 0230 D: 2220 Asus4: 2200 A: 2100 G: 0232 INTRO: Am Fadd9 Gadd9 Dadd9

   Am         Fadd9  Gadd9      Dadd9
   Mama who bore me, Mama who gave me,

Am            Fadd9          Gadd9      Dadd9
   No way to handle things, who made me so sad.

   Am          Fadd9  Gadd9      Dadd9
   Mama, the weeping, Mama, the angels.

Am                Fadd9     Gadd9 Dadd9
   No sleep in Heaven or Bethle--hem.

        Fadd9          Cadd9  Dsus4             D
   Some pray that one day, Christ will come a-calling,

Fadd9            Gadd9     Asus4          A
   They light a candle, and hope that it glows.

Fadd9            Cadd9                Dsus4             D
   And some just lie there, crying for Him to come and find them,

       Fadd9                 Gadd9              Asus4       A
   But when He comes, they don't know how to go.

(A)           Fadd9  Gadd9      Dadd9
   Mama who bore me, Mama who gave me,

A             Fadd9          Gadd9      Dadd9
   No way to handle things, who made me so sad.

A              Fadd9  Gadd9      Dadd9
   Mama, the weeping, Mama, the angels.

Fadd9
   No sleep in Heaven,

G            Asus4       A
   or Bethlehem.