Year: 2001 - Album: Live from Mars
Written by Ben Harper
Intro: D G - D G - A - D
D G D
Papa he left home today
D G D
Said he ain't comin' back again
D D/F# G
Said he ain't gonna be nobody's second best
E A
Just cause mama's got a special kind of friend
D G D
Papa he left home today
D G D
Said he ain't comin' back no more
D D/F# G
Said he ain't gonna take no damn back seat
A D
And how could mama do him so low
D G D
But mama's got a girlfriend now boy
D G D
Mama's got a girlfriend now
D D/F#
Mama's got a girlfriend
G E
Mama's got (found) a true friend
A D
Mama's got a girlfriend now
D G D
You see mama don't watch your damn football
D G D
And your beer drinkin' just won't do
D D/F#
You're just stayin' out late
G
And you're preachin' the hate
E A
And you never have been true
D G D
You see mama she want her somebody
D G D
Who will let her be herself
D D/F#
So she's leavin' you
G
And your stinky damn ways
A D
Cause she's found somebody else
Chorus
Interlude: D G - D G - D G - D - D G - D G - E - A
D G - D G - D G - D - D G - D G - A - D
D G D
Papa he left home today
D G D
He was wavin' his hands and cryin'
D D/F#
You could tell by the sound
G
And the tone in his voice
E A
That his heart was slowly dyin'
D G D
But mama said "Boy if I ever
D G D
Catch you 'round here again
D D/F# G
You ain't never gonna have nobody else
A D
Not a woman or a man"
Chorus (2x)
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