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Hey Me Hey Mama Tab

by Ray Lamontagne




Papa's in the kitchen,

Mama's in the field
           
There's a murder in the henhouse
                          
Mud flung high upon the wheels

     
Ol' rooster in the dooryard
           
He's just leanin' on the horn
          
With the wind so sweetly driftin'
                      
Through the ripening corn

            
Hey Me, Hey Mama
                                  
Where you been for so long, for so long?
            
Hey Me, Hey Mama
                                       
Where you been, where you, been for so long?


There's something outrageous
'Bout that evening sky
Just this side of dangerous
That look in your eye

I always knew that you were crazy
Always knew you could be cruel
Still, I would do just about anything
In the world for you

Hey Me, Hey Mama
Where you been for so long, for so long?
Hey Me, Hey Mama
Where you been, where you
been for so long?

You left me standin' in the corner
With my head so hangin' down
Punch-drunk, busted up and reelin'
Like a rodeo clown

You always seem to hit me
Like a lightnin' from above
I guess I just wasn't ready for
Such a heavy-handed love.

Hey Me, Hey Mama
Where you been for so long, for so long?
Hey Me, Hey Mama
Where you been, where you
been for so long?

Hey Me, Hey Mama
Where you been for so long for so long?
Hey Me, Hey Mama
Where you been, where you
been for so long?


              
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