D GG
I was left alone, A long, long time ago
C D
By my mother who I never got to know
C
Faded memories of my life
G C
Have been washed in whiskey nights
D G C G
And I'm living at the bottom of the bottle
G
I've spent my life on a bar stool all alone
C D
Never knowing why she sent me from my home
C
Was there something wrong with me?
G C
That no one else could see
D G C G
What's the reason only I got turned away
[Chorus] D
Mama please tell me why
C G
You would leave just me behind
D
You sent me off and then you went and had my brother
C
Before me, a little girl
G C
And they're the centre of your world
G D G
Mama tell me why'd you leave the middle child?
C G D G
G
I should've gone back home and ask her to her face
C D
But my life's become too much of a disgrace
C G C
And I got the news today saying mama passed away
D G
So I'll never know the reason I'm alone
[Chorus] D
Mama please tell me why
C G
You would leave just me behind
D
You sent me off and then you went and had my brother
C
Before me, a little girl
G C
And they're the centre of your world
G D G C
Mama tell me why'd you leave the middle child?
G D C G D G
