[Intro]
[Em7]Is this the real life? [A7]Is this [Em7]just [A7]fan - [Em7]ta - [A7]sy?
[D7]Caught in a [Am7]land - [D7]slide, no es[G]cape from[Am7] re -[G] a [D7]- li [G]- ty.
[Em7]Open your eyes, look [G7]up to the skies and[C]and see.
[Am7]I'm just a poor boy, I[D7]I need no sympathy, because I'm
[G#]easy c[G]come, [F#]easy g[G]go, [G#]little h[G]igh, [F#]little l[G]ow.
[C]Anyway the[G/B] wind blow[A#dim]s doesn't reall[D7/A]y matter to me, t[G]o me.
[Verse 1]
[G]Mama just kill[Em]killed a man, put a gun [Am]against his head,
pulled my [Am7]trigger, now he's [D7]dead.
[G]Mama,life had just[Em]just begun, but now [Am]I've gone and
[G#aug]thrown it a[C/G]all a -[Am7b5]- way. [Fmaj7] [Eaug]
[Chorus]
[C]Mama,[G/B] ooh_____[Am]____ didn'[Dm]t mean to mak[C#aug]e you [F/C] cry. [Dm7b5]
If [G7]I'm not back again this time t[C]tomorrow, car - r[G/B]ry on, car - [Am]ry on
as if [Fm]nothing really[C]really matters. [F] [C] [Cdim] [Dm7] [G]
[Verse 2]
[G]Too late, my time[Em]time has come, sends shiv[Am]shivers down my spine,
body's [Am7]aching all the [D7]time.
[G]Goodbye, everybody, I've[Em]I've got to go, gotta[Am]gotta leave you all
Beh[G#aug]ind and f[C/G]ace the[Am7b5] truth. [Fmaj7] [Eaug]
[Chorus]
[C]Mama,[G/B]Mama, ooh [Am] [Dm] I don't want to [C#aug]die, [F/C] [Dm7b5]
I [G7]sometimes wish I'd never been born at all
[Solo]
[C] [G/B] [Am] [Dm] [C#aug] [F/C] [Dm7b5] [G7] [C] [G/B]
[Am] [Dm] [C#aug] [F/C] [Dm7b5] [A#] [A#/A] [A#/G#] [A#/G]
[G]So you think you can stone me and sp[C]spit in my e[G]eye. [A#]
[G]So you think you can love me and le[C7]leave me to d[F]die.
[Dm]Oh, [G]baby,[Dm]baby,can't do this to me,[G]me,baby.
[Dm]Just gotta get [G]out,[Dm] just gotta get[G] right outt[C]a here.
[Outro]
Nothing really matters, anyone can see.
N[Am]Nothing really [Fm]matters,[F/G]matters, nothing really matters [C]to me.