MAMA TRIED     (D)   MERLE HAGGARD

11   FIRST THING I RE-MEM-BER KNOW-ING 
            WAS THAT LONE-SOME WHISTLE BLOW-ING
     AND A YOUNG-INS' DREAM OF GROW-IN' UP TO RIDE
     ON A FREIGHT TRAIN LEAVE-ING TOWN, NOT KNOW-'IN WHERE I'M BOUND
     NO ONE COULD STEER ME RIGHT BUT MA-MA TRIED

27   ONE AND ON-LY REB-EL CHILD FROM A FAM-ILY MEEK AND MILD
     MY MA-MA SEEMED TO KNOW WHAT LAY IN STORE
     SPITE OF ALL MY SUN-DAY LEARNIN, 
            TOWARD BAD TO WORSE I KEPT ON TURNIN
     TILL MA-MA OULDN'T HOLD ME ANY MORE

43   AND I TURNED TWEN-TY ONE IN PRI-SON DO-IN' LIFE WITH OUT PA-ROLE
     NO ONE COULD STEER ME RIGHT BUT MA-MA TRIED, MA-MA TRIED
     MA-MA TRIED, TO RAISE ME BET-TER BUT HER PLEAD-ING I DE-NIED
     AND THAT LEAVES ONLY ME TO BLAME CAUSE MAMA TRIED

59   LEAD

75   DEAR OLD DAD-DY REST HIS SOUL, LEFT MY MOM A HEA-VY LOAD
     AND SHE TRIED SO VERY HARD TO FILL HIS SHOES
     WORK-IN' HOURS WITH OUT REST , WANT-ED ME TO HAVE THE BEST
     SHE TRIED TO RAISE ME RIGHT .  BUT I RE-FUSED

91   AND I TURNED TWEN-TY ONE IN PRI-SON .  DO-IN' LIFE WITH OUT PA-ROLE
     NO ONE COULD STEER ME RIGHT BUT MA-MA TRIED, MA-MA TRIED
     MA-MA TRIED, TO RAISE ME BET-TER BUT HER PLEAD-ING I DE-NIED
     THAT LEAVES ON-LY ME TO BLAME CAUSE MAMA TRIED

107  AND I TURN-ED TWEN-TY ONE IN PR-ISON DO-IN' LIFE WITH OUT PA-ROLE
     NO ONE COULD STEER ME RIGHT BUT MA-MA TRIED, MA-MA TRIED
     MA-MA TRIED, TO RAISE ME BET-TER BUT HER PLEAD-ING I DEN-IED
     THAT LEAVES ONLY ME TO BLAME CAUSE MA-MA TRIED
123  YEA, THAT LEAVES ON-LY ME TO BLAME CAUSE MA-MA TRIED   

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