Mama Told Me Chords

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Mama Told Me by Lena Meyer-landrut is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, Em, F, F#, D, C# and Gsus4. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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G
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Intro: G  Em  G  Em  F  G (2x) 

      G 
It's not taking me down 
Fdur             G 
Gonna stand right | up 
        G 
I could take it to town 
F            G      G F# F 
Baby but I'm | not 

      F          G 
I'm not looking | left or right 
     F                   G   G  F# F 
That turns right out to be | fine 
        F           G 
I'm not taking a- | -nother fight 
    Ddur 
And you know this is not the place to 

die because my 


     G 
Mama told me 
     D              C# 
This will be a good | day 
     Gsus4             G 
This will be a nice day 
    G 
You can hold me 
       D         C# 
Better in a good | way 
     Gsus4               G 
You don't need to tie me 

G (2x) 


On the way to your soul 
I've got to pass the night 
Take your time to break out now 
Cause the time is right 

I'm not looking left or right 
That turns right out to be fine 
I'm not taking another fight 
And you know this is not the place to 
die because my

 
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
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Metronome

100 BPM Andante