Your Mama Warned You Chords
by Eels
Your Mama Warned You by Eels is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of Fm. It uses the chords Fm, D#, C, G#, A#, Em, F, Cm, Gm and Dm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro :
Riff x2
Fm
Your mama warned you, she was probably right
D# C
Said I be trouble all day and all night
Fm
She said my kind is not to take an old kind
D# C
She told them better was out there to find
Fm
Your mama warned you and she doesn't needs words
D# C
A life with him high that's for the birds
Fm
She said you listen and you take it from me
D# C
You just can't be what he needin to be
G# A# Em Em
But you can't believe everything she says
G# A# Em Em
There's a home called heaven within my head, You know that I mean well
Riff
Fm
Your mama warned you with an arrogant tone
D# C
Don't be a fool girl leave him alone
Fm
She so superior and so she just think
D# C
But I don’t trust someone who’s eyes never blink
G# A# Em Em
No, you can't believe everything she says
G# A# Em Em
There's a home called heaven within my head, You know that I mean well
F Cm Gm Dm
A# Dm
All the things she’ll never understand
D#
I’ll know she’ll never be a fan
A# F
But she’s not you
Riff
Fm
Your mama warned you, she was probably right
D# C
Said I be trouble all day and all night
Fm
She said my kind is not to take an old kind
D# C
She told them better was out there to find
G# A# Em Em
And you can't believe everything she says
G# A# Em Em
There's a home called heaven within my head, You know that I mean well
Fm
Your mama warned you.