Chords for Doug Stone - Don't Tell Mamma

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I was heading north on Highway 5, [Bb] it started _ Sunday night, _ [C] when a pickup truck flew by me out of [F] control.
_ _ As _ I watched in my _ headlights, he [Bb] swerved left, then back right, _ [C] never hit the brakes as he left the [F] road.
I _ _ found him lying in the grass, _
[Bb] among the steel and glass, _ [C] with an empty whiskey bottle by his side.
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And through the blood and tears, [Bb] he whispered [F] in my [Bb] ear, _ [C] a few last words just before [F] he died.
_ _ _ [C] He [F] 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, _ _ _ _ _ [C] that I met the Lord with whiskey on [F] my bread.
_ _ _ _ I still think about that night, _ [Bb] and how that young man died, [Bb] _
[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, _ _ _ _ [F] Lord 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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