Chords for Sophie Tucker Sings A Yiddishe Mamma

_ [Em] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ .
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ [C#] _ _ _ .
[F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .
_ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .
Of [D] things I should be [G] thankful _ for I've had a goodly [F#] _ .
share.
_ _ [Bm] And as [F#] I [Bm] sit in [A#] the comfort [Bm] _ of a [F#] cozy _ chair _ [Dm] My [A] fancy takes [Dm] me to a humble [Gm] east side [A] tenement.
_ _ _ [Dm] _ Three [A] flights [B] in the rear [C#] to where _ [Bm] my _ childhood days [F#] were spent.
_ _ It _ [Bm].
wasn't [F#] much [G] like paradise _ but _ [Bm] amid the [Em] dirt [F#] and _ _ [Em] all.
_ There _ sits [Bm] the sweetest angel _ _ .
_ [C#] _ One _ that I _ _ _ fondly [F#] _ _ .
call.
_ _ _ _ _ [D#m] _ _ .
[F] My _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ .
Yiddish _ Mama _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I need her more than [F#] ever _ now.
_ [C#] _ .
_ [F#] _ _ My Yiddish _ Mama _ _ _ _ _ _ I'd love to kiss that [Bm] wrinkled brow.
_ _ _ _ I [C#m].
long to [Em] _ always _ _ [G] _ .
[C#] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ .
[C#] go on [Bm] by _ _ _ _ _ and [E] ask [A#] [Em] her to forgive me [E] for _ _ _ .
Things [F#] I did [Bm] that made her cry _ _ _ _ How few _ _ _ were her pleasures _ _ .
She never cared for [F#] fashion _ style _ _ Her _ jewels _ and treasures _ _ .
_ _ She found them in her baby's [Bm] _ smile _ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] Oh I'm _ _ .
_ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _ .
[Em] what I am _ [F#] _ _ .
today.
_ _ To [Bm] that dear little [G] _ _ lady _ [D#] _ .
[Bm] So _ _ _ old and gray.
_ _ [C#] _ _ [E] To that _ _ [Em] wonderful [Bm] _ Yiddish _ _ [Em] _ Mama.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ As I stand here in the night I think of my old Mama.
_ [C#] Not a well-dressed young man [F#] and not a well-dressed lady.
But a mother of fat times, of a big house.
_ _ With [G] a cozy Yiddish [Bm] heart and many [F#] wistful [Bm] eyes.
[Em] In the same little room as she had become as an old [Bm] woman.
[C#] _ _ [Bm] _ Sitting and knitting a quilt from the long past [Em] years.
When the house was full _ [A#] with the sound of children's voices.
[G].
And the kitchen tasted of the sharp [Bm] knick-knacks of the scissors.
_ You make me believe that we didn't like everything.
[G] But yet [A#] before us the [F#] children had collected everything.
[Em] The [F#] piece of bread from the mother had to give us voluntarily.
_ And before her children [Gm] she had to put them away in [Bm] life.
_ Alone she had to knit, alone she had to wash _ and [Em] iron.
She worked day [Bm] and _ _ [Em] night and always ironed [A#] her child.
_ _ [G] And that's what a Yiddish [Gm] Mama is.
[Bm] And how happy you people are that you [Em] still have your Mamas.
[G].
You can [Em] wish for the best.
_ And with your head you don't feel [F#] ashamed and you don't stop behaving.
[Bm] You can kiss their hands and hold their shoulders.
_ _ You need to pray to God for your health and for your life.
[F#] From [C#] all good and wealth you can give [F#] a full _ _ .
Millions of dollars, diamonds, houses, big, beautiful.
[G] _ But one thing in the [Bm] world, that God doesn't give you more than one _ _ .
A Yiddish _ Mama _ .
_ _ _ She makes, but she is the [F#] whole _ _ world.
A Yiddish _ Mama.
_ _ Oh how bitter it is [Bm] when she leaves _ _ .
You should [Em] thank God for what [C#] she still has _ with [Bm] her.
_ _ You [A#] don't know [Bm] [Em] the saddest [F#] words when she leaves.
[Bm] _ _ _ In water and fire, _ _ where she ran [F#] away from her child _ _ .
She doesn't have a home, _ _ but she has the [Bm] greatest heart _ _ _ .
_ [G] Oh how [Em] happy _ and [Bm] _ _ rich [Em] is the person [F#] who has.
_ _ _ A [G] _ beautiful [Em] mother, _ _ a [Bm] _ gift from God.
_ [C#] _ [Em] Only an old _ .
[Bm] _ Yiddish _ _ [Em] _ _ .
Mama.
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