Dm                          C           G 
There was a time when I was happy in my life. 
Dm                      C                   G 
There was a time when I thought I'd live forever. 
Dm                      C               G 
There was a time when I prayed to Jesus Christ. 
Dm                       C              G 
There was a time I had a mother, it was nice. 

Am             F                    Dm 
Oh mother, why aren't you here with me. 
Am                  F                     Dm 
No one else saw the things that you could see. 
Am         F              Dm 
I'm trying hard to dry my tears. 
Am                   F                
Yes father, you know I'm not so free. 

Dm                     C                 G 
Nobody else would ever take the place of you. 
Dm                       C                     G 
Nobody else could do the things that you could do. 
Dm                C                     G 
Nobody else could ever hurt me like you did. 
Dm                   C            G 
I didn't understand, I was just a kid. 

Am             F                    Dm 
Oh mother, why aren't you here with me. 
Am                  F                     Dm 
No one else saw the things that you could see. 
Am         F              Dm 
I'm trying hard to dry my tears. 
Am                   F          Dm 
Yes father, you know I'm not so free. 

Am                   F       
I got to give it up, find someone to love me. 
Am                  F 
I got to let it go, find someone that I can care for. 
Am                   F         
I got to give it up, find someone to love me. 
Am                  F 
I got to let it go, find someone that I can care for. 

Am                             F 
My mother died when I was five and all I did was sit and cry. 
Am                                    F 
I cried and cried and cried all day until the neighbours went away. 
Am                                                               F 
They couldn't take my loneliness, I couldn't take their phoniness. 
Am                                                        F 
My father had to go to work, I used to think he was a jerk. 
Am                                F 
I didn't know his heart was broke and not another word was spoke 
Am                            F 
and he became a shadow of the father I was dreaming of. 
Am 
I made a vow that I would never need another person ever. 
F                                                       Am   F 
Turned my heart into a cage, a victim of a kind of rage.     

Am                   F                Am    F 
I got to give it up, find somebody to love. Find someone that I can care for. 
Am                   F                Am    F 
I got to give it up, find somebody to love. Find someone that I can care for. 

Am                            F                            Am 
I got to give it up, I got to give it up, I got to give it up.  
                     F  
I got to give it up, I got to give it up. 
Am                F  Am                   F 
I got to let it go,  I got to give it up. 
Am         F          Am                  F   
Oh mother, oh father, I got to give it up. 

Am  F   Am   F    Am