Go Home and Tell Your Mother
Lyrics - Dorothy Fields
Key: Bb
Music - Jimmy McHugh
Copyright 1930

File Created 05/29/2020
File Updated 02/08/2024

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Verse:

Eb            D    Eb
Our hands and eyes have met
    D    Eb
Our lips are friend-ly too
G         Fm         Bb7
Don't you think that you
       D  Eb           A7   Bb7
Should go and warn the fam'-ly

Eb           D     Eb
You owe your folks a debt
   D   Eb
Of con-fi-dence, it's true
    Bb           D7     G7
And mother knows what's best
   Cm7      Ebm6     F7
So get this off your chest

Chorus 1:

   Bb       Bdim      Cm7   Cm7-5
Go home and tell your mother
         Bb        Gm    Cm7
That she certainly did a wonderful
F7     Bb  FdimF7
job on you
   Bb       Bdim      Cm7   Cm7-5
Go home and tell your father
           Bb       Gm      Cm7
That we're marryin’ like re-spect-a-ble
F7     BbBb7
people do

     Eb           Ebm6
Then ask her what she did
    Bb      D7   G7
Ask fa-ther what he did
     Cm7          Ebm6
When both of them need-ed
  F                     F7
A darned sight more thankiss-es

   Bb       Bdim      Cm7   Cm7-5
Go home and tell your mother
         Bb        Gm
That her beautiful child
   Cm7      F7      BbFdimF7
is gonna be-long to me

Chorus 2:

   Bb       Bdim      Cm7   Cm7-5
Go home and tell your mother
       Bb        Gm     Cm7
That I certainly have a terrible
F7       Bb FdimF7
crush on you
   Bb       Bdim      Cm7   Cm7-5
Go home and tell your father
         Bb         Gm    Cm7
That I'm willing to marry all of your
F7     Bb  Bb7
fam'ly too.

     Eb      D7   Ebm6
Then ask her what she did
    Bb     D7   G7
Ask father what he did
     Cm7          Ebm6
When both of them needed
     F               F7
Each other just like we did

   Bb       Bdim     Cm7   Cm7-5
Go home and tell you mother
         Bb        Gm       Cm7
That her beautiful child is gonna
  F7       BbFdimF7
be-long to me

End with:

     Eb           Ebm6
Then ask her what she did
    Bb     D7   G7
Ask father what he did
     Cm7          Ebm6
When both of them pleaded
     F                 F7
That love was all they needed

   Bb       Bdim      Cm7   Cm7-5
Go home and tell your mother
         Bb        Gm       Cm7
That her beautiful child is gonna
   F7      Bb DbdimBb6
be-long to me

Arrangement by Judy Muldawer


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