Spoonboy - The Mamas And The Papas Chords & Tabs
Spoonboy - The Mamas And The Papas Chords
F A# C G
e|------8-----6-----8----3------------|
B|------10----6-----8----3------------|
G|------10----7-----9----4------------|
D|------10----8-----10---5------------|
A|------8-----8-----10---5------------|
E|------8-----6-----8----3------------|
F A# F A#
F
I will be with my mom at the end of her life
A#
As I know that she would be for mine.
It's not obligation that leads me to say it,
C A# F
It's just how i intend to spend the time.
No person who gives out a part of themselves
A#
Will ever be truly forgotten.
These parts will change hands,
And they surpass lifespans,
C A# F
Alive as long as they are passed along.
G
I remember the parts passed to me,
C
And after she's gone,
F
I will remember my mom.
F A# F A#
F
My mother sat like a book on the shelf
A#
Through the cold autumn years of her life,
Replaying her memories like a tape on repeat
C A# F
Over and over in her mind.
She'd always been the kind of a mother
Who would put others before herself,
A#
This much i know.
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There were men in her life
C A# F
Who took well advantage before they got up to go.
G C
imagine all of your memories of mistakes that you made
F A#
played over in your mind like the loop of a tape.
G C
do my mother's regrets, for which she lost rest,
F
do they keep you awake at night?
A#
could you tell me that father?
G
do your memories haunt you, sir?
C
or are you content with what you left behind?
F A# F A#
F A# C A# (x2) (lalalalalalalallalalalalala part)(same as verses)
F A# F A#
F
i will be with my mom at the end of her life,
A#
but sir i will not be for yours.
you've done nothing to earn it and frankly,
C A# F
you don't deserve it, so you won't be receiving that reward.
there are people who's names are passed down generations,
A#
and sir, yours is not one of them.
consider it a consequence of a mistake that you made,
C A# F
for which there will never be amends.
G C
how is that for a memory to keep you awake?
F
there are parts that you gave to me,
A#
but there are parts of us all, i think,
G
that are better off left behind.
C F
there are parts of us all that are better left to die.
F A# F A#
F A# C A# (x2) (lalalalalalalallalalalalala part)(same as verses)
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