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.
[C#] .
[F#] .
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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.
[C#] [F#] .
[A] [Bm] .
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