Key: Em
Introduction: Em
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Mama, we all go to hell.
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Mama, we all go to hell.
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I'm writing this letter and wishing you well,
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Mama, we all go to hell.
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Oh, well, now,
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Mama, we're all gonna die.
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Mama, we're all gonna die.
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Stop asking me questions, I'd hate to see you cry,
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Mama, we're all gonna die.
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And when we go don't blame us, yeah.
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We'll let the fires just bathe us, yeah.
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You made us, oh, so famous.
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D/F#
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We'll never let you go-ooh-ooh.
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And when you go don't return to me my love.
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Mama, we're all full of lies.
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Mama, we're meant for the flies.
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And right now they're building a coffin your size,
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Mama, we're all full of lies.
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Well Mother, what the war did to my legs and to my tongue,
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You should've raised a baby girl,
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I should've been a better son.
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If you could coddle the infection
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They can amputate at once.
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You should've been,
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I could have been a better son.
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And when we go don't blame us, yeah.
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We'll let the fires just bathe us, yeah.
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You made us, oh, so famous.
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D/F#
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We'll never let you go-ooh-ooh.
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She said: "You ain't no son of mine
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For what you've done they're gonna find
A place for you
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And just you mind your manners when you go.
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And when you go, don't return to me, my love."
That's right.
Em
Mama, we all go to hell.
Em
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Mama, we all go to hell.
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It's really quite pleasant
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Except for the smell,
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Mama, we all go to hell.
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A#m
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Mama, mama, mama
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A#m
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Mama, mama, mama
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And if you would call me your sweetheart,
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I'd maybe then sing you a song
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But the shit that I've done with this fuck of a gun,
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A#5
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You would cry out your eyes all along.
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We're damned after all.
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Through fortune and flame we fall.
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And if you can stay then I'll show you the way,
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A#5
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To return from the ashes you call.
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We all carry on
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When our brothers in arms are gone
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So raise your glass high
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For tomorrow we die,
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And return from the ashes you call!
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