Chords for Don't Tell Mamma

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I was heading north on [Cm] Highway [Bb] 5, it started Sunday night, _ [C] when a pickup truck flew by me out of [F] control.
_ _ _ _ _ As I watched in my headlights, [Bb] he swerved left, then back right, [C] never hit the brakes as he left the road.
[F] _ _ I _ found him lying in the _ grass, [Bb]
among the steel and glass, [C] with an empty whiskey bottle _ by his _ side.
[F] _ _ _ And through the blood and tears, [Bb] he _ whispered in my ear, _ [C] a few last words just before [F]
he died.
_ _ _ [C] He said, _ don't tell mama I [Bb] was drinking, _ _ _ _ _ [F] Lord knows her soul would [C] never _ rest.
_ I _ [F] _
can't leave this world with [Bb] mama thinking, _ _ _ _ _ [C] that I met the Lord with whiskey on [F] my bread.
_ _ _ _ I still think about that night, _ [Bb] and how that young man [Bb] died, [C] and how others sometimes pay for our [F] _
_ mistakes.
_ _ _ The last thing on his mind, [Bb] as he left this world behind, _ [C] was knowing someone _ else's heart [F]
would [C] break.
_ [F] _ _ He said, _ don't tell mama I [Bb] was drinking, _ _ _ Lord [F] _
knows her soul would [C] never _ _ rest.
_ _ [F] I can't leave this world with [Bb] mama thinking, _ _ _ _ that [C] I met the Lord with whiskey on [F] my bread.
_ _ He _ said, _ don't tell mama I [Bb] was drinking.
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