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Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 14:04:08 +0100
 From: D Heggie 
                     "Me and all the Other Mothers"
                          by Loudon Wainwright 
 Chords and lyrics written out by David Heggie (texdh@bonaly.hw.ac.uk)
 =====================================================================
 This song's really pretty easy - the verses are all just C G and D
 repeated quickly (I've put them on the first verse below - after that
 it's just more of the same).
 
 The recording of this song that I've got is from some radio session
 or other, so I don't know how like the record it is, but on this one
 he plays quite quickly, and it's all fairly loose (no fancy picking 
 or anything - just strum, strum, strum).
 
 Also on the D chords, he adds Dsus4 every now and then (it seems like
 he plays it when he feels like, so I'd do the same if I were you).
 
 C       G             D
  Me and all the other mothers
     C               G          D
  We hang around the playground all day
 C              G          D
  Watching over all of our precious young ones
     C                    G                   D
  We watch them climb and slide and swing and play
 
 (play the rest of the verses as above - listen to the record
  to get the *proper* timing!)
 
 Yeah, we were sippin' on our coffee containers
 Chit-chattin' telling little white lies
 Labour, horror-stories and painless abortions
 I wasn't feeling like one of the guys
 
 Barefootin' all over that sand-pile
 "Get down from that jungle, Jim!"
 And their whole wide world is just three lunch boxes
 And a luke-warm water fountain
 
 Chorus : 
 
 A
  Me and all the other mothers
       G                A         D
  Were praying that the sun gonna shine
             A                       D            G
  And if the winos and weirdos steer clear of the playground
 
  [No Chord]
  1-2-3-4
 C              G       D
  Everything'll be just fine
 C                   G  D         (hold the D)
  Yeah Everything'll be just fine
 
 It's easy to get injured in the playground
 Scrapes and bruises on the girls and the boys
 No, it's no bed of roses, no bowl of Cheerios
 And they say you've got to share your toys!
 
 But mother knows best in the playground
 When they watch them and they leave them alone
 And if the don't want to play, she can make them all stay
 And she knows just when to take them all home
 
 I got a crush on a mother
 Maybe we should inter-tangle our lives
 Her son and my daughter were born for each other
 And she's reminding me of all of my wives
 
 [CHORUS]
 
 [BREAK] - just repeat one verse ( C G D ) 
 
 I saw an actual father !
 But there was something wrong with something he did
 He and his son were climbing up in a tree
 And someone said that he'd kidnapped the kid
 
 Well then the mothers they all started screaming
 And pointing at the man in the tree
 The sharp-shooters arrived and they shot the man dead
 You know, that guy, he could've been me
 
 A grown man should no go tree-climbing
 It's about time that that guy grew up
 But most fathers are really like winos and weirdos
 In the long run, they always screw up
 
 [CHORUS]
 
 End on D
 
 That's it.