Wrong Black Mare Chords by Brown Bird

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[Gm] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ I'm giving you a song to keep you safe Your love will keep you trying
[Gm] Mama's little [G] baby won't hush down She's [Gm] spooking all the [G] hens and the old milk
cow _ [Gm]
Rest your [Bb] head in the [Eb] cradle now _
[G] Ain't no one gonna hear us out. _
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Daddy laid it all on the wrong black mare.
[Gm] _
Hopped the next [G] train to God knows where.
[Gm] But God [F] don't go where your daddy's going. _
Where [G] the cowards and the fools belong. _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ Mama waited up on the porch all night. _
Waited up till the morning light.
[Gm] She fed [Bb] those hens and she milked that cow. _
[G] Then she got behind that old man's plow.
[Gm] _
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_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ And [Gm] late last night a bad man came. _
Screaming curses at your daddy's name.
You [Am] woke screaming to a frightening sound.
[Gm] And your mama laying on the ground.
A bad [A] man running down the back door staring. _
[Eb] [Gm] Blame it all on the wrong [G] black [Gm] mare.
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Mama's little baby won't rush down.
She's spooking all the hens and the old milk [Gm] cow.
Rats [Bb] go ahead in the cradle [Eb] now. _
[G] Ain't no one gonna hear us [Gm] out.