Take One Away
Burton Cummings

[Intro]     Am     C   (x2)

Am                                 F                                  G                    C          Dm
One cloudless morning was it day or night the sun and the moon were bright Take one away
Am                        F                                    G                   C           Dm     C
Two holy sisters in the desert dry from the weight the old mule will die Take one away_______

[Chorus]
C                         G                                  F                                C      G
Oh mama I think it's time you knew the day I first came to you I was dead on arri----val
C                                       G                                      F
Now I can hear you pleading on the radio Mama I've joined the church you know
                                  C     G   C        Dm
 And I've been passing out bib----les take one away


[Repeat Intro]   Am      C   (x2)



Am                                         F                                G              C          Dm
Three babies conceived she couldn't afford them all the curtain begins to fall Take one away
Am                                             F                                      G
Five o'clock in the morning ... oh just an hour ago She might have been alive you know
            C          Dm
But they took one away


[Chorus]
C                         G                                  F                                C      G
Oh mama I think it's time you knew the day I first came to you I was dead on arri----val
C                                       G                                      F
Now I can hear you pleading on the radio Mama I've joined the church you know
                                  C     G   C        Dm
 And I've been passing out bib----les take one away



[Chorus]
C                         G                                  F                                C      G
Oh mama I think it's time you knew the day I first came to you I was dead on arri----val
C                                       G                                      F
Now I can hear you pleading on the radio Mama I've joined the church you know
                                  C     G   C        Dm  C          Dm    C           Dm
 And I've been passing out bib----les take one away Take One Away    Take One Away


[Ending]        Am     C        Am     C      Am     C       Am

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