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[Verse 1]
Em     D         G
I know you don't like me
      C                 G
Don't like the things I do
Em          D         G
The saddest part just might be
     C                D
That I don't like you too
    Em        D       G
You think you know my story
               C                G
Well maybe you did for a little while
  Em               D      G
I guess that's the way it sometimes goes
          C            G
Between a mother and a child
 
Em     D             G
All my life you've reminded me
        C                   G
How you struggled nine long months
     Em     D             G
Your achin' back and your swollen feet
        C              D
How you almost lost me once
    Em      D       G
You say you gave up everything
C                  G
All the dreams you had
Em      D              G
Told us kids we're the only reason
    C                     G
You stayed there with our dad
 
 
[Chorus]
             C     D       G
And you want me to cry for you
         C     D                G
You want me to feel the way you do
    Em    D         G
I'm sorry your life let you down
        C               G
But the fault it is not mine
     C               G
It's not supposed to be like this
          C            G
Between a mother and a child
 
 
[Instrumental]
 
Em D G   C
 
 
[Verse 2]
 
Em       D     G
You want me to just agree
     C              G
With everything you say
Em      D       G
Call my dad the bad guy
         C               D
Make him pay and pay and pay
     Em     D      G
It's really not my business
         C                G
It never was or will ever be
      Em     D      G
But I know nobody's perfect
           C                G
And that's counting you and me
            C                G
Yeah that's counting you and me
 
 
[Bridge]
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I don't remember all that happened
     G
Mama I was just a kid
          C
But if it really was all that bad
    D
Why do you wish I did?
 
 
[Chorus]
         C     D       G
You want me to cry for you
           C        D       G
I'll never feel the way you do
    Em    D         G
I'm sorry your life let you down
        C                G
But the fault it was not mine
     C               G
It's not supposed to be like this
          C            G
Between a mother and a child
     C            G
Oh a mother and a child
          C                   G
You're my mother and I'm your child