Randy Newman
Mama Told Me Not To Come
12 Songs (1970)

G(7/D)  x 2

Will you have whisky with your water
Or sugar with your tea?
What are these crazy questions
That you're asking me?

This is the wildest party
That there ever could be
Wo don't turn on the lights
Cause I don't want to see

  G  G7      C              E♭
        Mama told me not to come
        Mama told me not to come
  Mama said that ain't no way to have fun

  B --0-1--2--3--0-7-5--3--3-1-0--
  G --0-2--3--4--0-7-5--3--3-2-0--

Open up the window
Let some air into this room
I think I'm almost choking
On the smell of stale perfume

And the cigarette you're smoking
'Bout to scare me half to death
Open up the window
Let me catch my breath

  Refrain instrumental

G(7/D)  x 2

The radio is blastin'
Someone's knockin' on the door
The hostess is not lastin'
She's passed out on the floor

I've seen so many things
That I ain't never seen before
I don't know what it is
But I don't wanna see no more

  Refrain (tite passe  x 2)

G(7/D)  x 6

...fade out


( Three Dog Night (en G♯), Tom Jones & Stereophonics (en G) :

  refrain w/ riff

  D --5----3--2--1----3-5--        --3^5--
  A -----1-2--3--4--5------  fin:  -------  puis passe w/o le b♭ choquant
  E --3--------------------        -------

  globalement + décadent, finale w/ double passe )