Willie Nelson – Im The Only Hell My Mama Ever Raised (Guitar)

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I can't sell my mama short on loving me

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I guess that's why she let me go so far

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Mama try to stopped me short of stealing

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

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She told me not to smoke it

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But I did and it took me far away

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And I turned out to be

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The only hell my mama ever raised

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Well, I rolled into Atlanta,

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stolen tags and almost out of gas

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I had to get some money,

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and lately I'd learned how to get it fast

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Those neon lights were calling me

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and somehow I just had to get downtown

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So I reached into the glove box,

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another liquor store went down

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And I'd sing, "Precious memories, take me back to the good ol' days"

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Let me hear my mama singing, "Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me"

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

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

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Well, they put them handcuffs on me,

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Lord, how I fought to resist

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But agent clamped 'em tighter,

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'til that metal bit into my wrist

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They took my belt and my billfold,

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my fingerprints and the profile of my face

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And then they locked away the only hell my mama ever raised

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And I'd sing, "Precious memories, take me back to the good ol' days"

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Let me hear my mama singing, "Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me"

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

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

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As verse chords

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And I'd sing, "Precious memories, take me back to the good ol' days"

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Let me hear my mama singing, "Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me"

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

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