Fm D# A# There was a time I was happy in my life Fm D# A# There was time I believed Iʼd live forever Fm D# A# There was a time that I prayed to Jesus Christ Fm D# A# There was a time I had a mother it was nice Cm Fm A# Oh mother why arenʼt you here with me Cm Fm A# No one else saw the things that you could see Cm Fm A# Iʼm trying hard to dry my tears Cm Fm A# Yes father you know Iʼm not so free Fm D# A# Nobody else would ever take the place of you Fm D# A# Nobody else could do the things that you could do Fm D# A# No one else I guess could hurt me like you did Fm D# A# I didnʼt understand I was just a kid Cm Fm A# Oh mother why arenʼt you here with me Cm Fm A# No one else saw the things that you could see Cm Fm A# Iʼm trying hard to dry my tears Cm Fm A# Yes father you know Iʼm not so free Cm I got to give it up Fm A# Find someone to love me Cm I got to let it go Fm A# Find someone that I can care for Cm I got to give it up Fm A# Find someone to love me Cm I got to let it go Fm A# Find someone that I can care for Cm My mother died when I was five Fm A# And all I did was sit and cry Cm I cried and cried and cried all day Fm A# Until the neighbours went away Cm They couldnʼt take my loneliness Fm A# I couldnʼt take their phoniness Cm My father had to go to work Fm A# I used to think he was a jerk Cm I didnʼt know his heart was broken Fm A# And not another word was spoken Cm He became a shadow of Fm A# The father I was dreaming of Cm I made a vow that I would never need another person ever Fm A# Turned my heart into a cage a victim of a kind of rage Cm Iʼve got to give it up Fm A# Cm Find somebody to love Fm A# Find someone that I can care for Cm I got to give it up Fm A# I got to give it up Cm I got to give it up I got to give it up Fm A# I got to give it up
