Mother Knows Best Chords by Richard Thompson

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Oh, you think you know [F] how to wipe your own nose?
[G] You think you know [F] how to button your [C] clothes?
Get down those shoes [F] if you haven't already [G] _ guessed _ _ _
That [C] you're just a bump on the log [D] of a life-cost mother [G]-of _ -pest _ _ _
That tells everybody [F] she was born in a ditch
[G] She bites her hair [F] till she looks like a witch
[C] Wolves in a train [F] suck a suckle at her [G] _ breast _ _ _ _
_ [C] Don't forget to wash [D] behind your ears, cause mother [G] knows best _ _ _ _
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Oh, you lost your [F] job?
Well, ain't that a shame?
[G] You've got nobody [F] but yourself to blame
[C] You can't sell everything [F] you get for such a [G] careless _ _ nest _ _
_ [C] Don't eat your peas [D] after night, cause mother [G] knows _ best _ _
So your babies are hungry, [F] so your babies sick
[G] Don't make babies, [F] that'll do the trick
[C] Put another string of [F] barbed wire in your little [G] love nest _ _ _ _
[C] It's better than a [D] cardboard box, cause mother [G] knows best _ _ _ _
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She got a zombie army [F] to serve her will
She [G] got a thousand bloodhounds [F] from the gates of hell
She [C] got a hundred black horses [F] with sulfur and coal [G] on their _ breath _ _ _
[C] And she writes the _ [D] unbelievers down, mother [G] knows best _ _ _
She says, bring me a [F] firstborn, I'll suck their blood
[G] Bring me a poor, [F] I can scramble in the [C] mud
Bring me a visionary, [F] I can put out [G] their _ _ eyes _ _
_ [C] Bring me a [G] scholar, [D] I'll have them all put [G] on my _ eyes
Cause mother knows _ best
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