Key: A
Introduction:
A7
When I was born my mother died
She said bye-bye baby, bye-bye
F#
I said, "Where you goin'?
F#ºEm
I'm just born"
E/D#
She said I'll only be gone for a while
C#7
My mother loved to leave in style
B
That's why God made the movies
A7
Well I laid around in my swaddling clothes
Until the doctor came and turned out the light
F#
Then I packed my bag
F#dim Em D
E/D#
And stole away into the night
C#7
Hoping things would work out right
B
That's why God made the movies
E D/F# E/G#
Say you will, say you will
G#m F#m
Say you'll take me to your loving breast
F#m7
B9
The way the ladies sometimes do
BE D/F# E/G#
Say you won't, say you won't
G#m F#m
Say you won't leave me for no other man
E B/D#
Say you'll love me just the way I am
Tacet
A7
Say you will
A7
When I was born my mother died
She said bye-bye baby, bye-bye
F#
And since that day
F#dim Em D
E/D#
The notorious boy of the wild
C#7
Adopted by the wolves when he was a child
B
That's why God. That's why God.
E7