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B _ I remember the day
F#m I
E called Mama on the telephone.
_ I told
F# her, Mama, _ _ I'm getting _
B married _ .
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E I
B could hear her voice on the other side of the
E telephone.
She was smiling and
F# she asked me a question that I'd
C#m B probably answer _ .
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E She _
B _ said, Son, _ will you take
E time to know her?.
I said,
F# Mama, _ _ _ _ _
B she's the _ best.
_
E _ But
B today it hurts me so to
E go back to Mama and say, Mama, _
F# _ I'm getting _ divorced.
Oh,
B I'm getting divorced.
_ _
F# This _ _ .
_
E choice I
F# made didn't work
E out the way I thought it
F# would _ _ .
E This choice I
B made, _ _ _ _ it hurts me so, Mama _ .
This _ _ _ _
F# _ _ _ .
_
E choice I _
F# made didn't work
E out the way I thought
F# it would.
This
E choice of mine, oh,
B _ _ .
Mama, I've had too much to live.
It's not easy to _ understand
E _ .
it, _ but I hope _
F# you'll be there _ to _
B understand _ .
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F# it _ .
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B _ _ .
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E _
B _ I _ _ remember when church,
E when the bridge, I met Reverend Richard.
F# You looked so beautiful,
D#m so
C#m beautiful
B and so innocent.
_ I _ _ _ _ did not know that _
E behind that beauty.
_ Lies that true
F# color that will destroy me in the
B near future.
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E _ _
B _
F# _ .
This
E choice I _
F# made _
E didn't work out the
F# way I thought
E it would.
_ _
B _ _ .
Oh, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Mama, _ _ _
F# _ _ .
this
E choice I
F# made didn't work
E out the way I thought it
F# would _ .
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I remember when I held your
E hand, _ you showed me the redness of your lips.
When
F# we were _ sitting
B over _ _ .
_ _
E This _
B _ _ .
was a bridge I meant to
E take.
Was not something that was between
F# you.
Now I know what it means when
B they say.
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We're over with another
E man's _ baby.
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F# Oh, Lord, _ _ _ I'm
B asking, Lord.
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F# _ _ This
E choice I _
F# made _ didn't work
E out the way I thought it
F# would.
This
E choice of mine, oh,
B _ _ .
Mama, I've had too much to live _ _ .
I hope _ _ _
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F# _ _ _ .
_ you'll be there to
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understand _ _ _ it _ _ .
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