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Original recorded version is in Bb. For this version, capo up 3 frets (you can hear
the high Bb note on the high E string, made by using a G formation on the 6th fret).
They probably actually play it in "B" tuned down 1/2 step, but this is an easy way to
do the Am descending bass pattern.
All chords are choked off with the heel of your pick hand for the choppy rhythm feel
(chords relative to the capo up 3 frets)
SOL
355433
SOLsus4
355533
FA
133211
FAsus4
133311
LAm
X02210
LAm sus2
X02200
LAm/SOL
3X2210
LAm/FA#
2X3310
RE
XX0232
DO
33555X
FA#
244322
intro (repeat 2x):
G Gsus4 (pull off back to G)
F Fsus4 (pull off back to F)
Am Am9 (hammer on back to Am)
(repeat these figures throughout verses)
SOL FA
When you grow up livin' like a good boy oughta
LAm SOL
And your mama takes a shine to her best son
SOL FA
Something different all the girls they seem to like you
LAm SOL
Cause you're handsome like to talk and a whole lot of fun
LAm LAm/SOL
But now your girl's gone a missin'
LAm/FA# RE SOL
And your house has got an empty bed
LAm LAm/SOL
The folks'll wonder 'bout the wedding
LA/FA# RE SOL
They won't listen to a word you said
chorus
SOL
Gonna take your mama out all night
FA
Yeah we'll show her what it's all about
DO
We'll get her jacked up on some cheap champagne
SOL
We'll let the good times all roll out
SOL
And if the music ain't good, well it's just too bad
FA
We're gonna sing along no matter what
DO
Because the dancers don't mind at the New Orleans
SOL FA FA FA# SOL
If you tip 'em and they make a cut
SOL FA
Do it -take your mama out all night
DO SOL FA FA FA# SOL
So she'll have no doubt that we're doing oh the best we can
SOL FA
We're gonna do it -take your mama out all night
DO SOL FA FA FA# SOL
You can stay up late 'cause baby you're a full grown man
SOL FA LAm
SOL FA
It's a struggle livin' like a good boy oughta
LAm SOL
In the summer watchin' all the girls pass by
SOL FA
When your mama heard the way that you'd been talking
LAm SOL
I tried to tell you that all she'd wanna do is cry
LAm LAm/SOL
Now we end up takin' the long way home
LAm/FA# RE SOL
Lookin' overdressed wearin' buckets of stale cologne
LAm LAm/SOL
It's so hard to see streets on a country road
LAm/FA#
When your glasses in the garbage
RE SOL
And your Continental's just got towed
SOL
Gonna take your mama out all night
FA
Yeah we'll show her what it's all about
DO
We'll get her jacked up on some cheap champagne
SOL
We'll let the good times all roll out
SOL
And if the music ain't good, well it's just too bad
FA
We're gonna sing along no matter what
DO
Because the dancers don't mind at the New Orleans
SOL FA FA FA# SOL
If you tip 'em and they make a cut
SOL FA
Do it -take your mama out all night
DO SOL FA FA FA# SOL
So she'll have no doubt that we're doing oh the best we can
SOL FA
We're gonna do it -take your mama out all night
FA SOL FA FA FA# SOL
You can stay up late 'cause baby you're a full grown man
-solo-
SOL FA DO SOL FA DO FA FA FA# SOL
-repeat chorus-
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