uke chords: C F Am G C F C G C
Capo 5
(To get the sound of a uke you could not play low E and A strings)
Intro: G (only high E string)
She asked me, "Son, when I grow old,
Will you buy me a house of gold?
And when your father turns to stone,
Will you take care of me?"
G C
She asked me, "Son, when I grow old,
Em D
Will you buy me a house of gold?
G C
And when your father turns to stone,
G D G
Will you take care of me?"
C E7 Am F C
I will make you queen of everything you see
G
I'll put you on the map,
C G
I'll cure you of disease
G C
Let's say we up and left this town,
Em D
And turned our future upside down
G C
We'll make pretend that you and me,
G D G
Lived ever after happily
G C
She asked me, "Son, when I grow old,
Em D
Will you buy me a house of gold?
G C
And when your father turns to stone,
G D G
Will you take care of me?"
C E7 Am F C
I will make you queen of everything you see
G
I'll put you on the map,
C G
I'll cure you of disease Ohhhhh
G C
And since we know that dreams are dead,
Em D
And life turns plans up on their head,
G C
I will plan to be a bum,
G D G
So I just might become someone
G C
She asked me, "Son, when I grow old,
Em D
Will you buy me a house of gold?
G C
And when your father turns to stone,
G D G
Will you take care of me?"
C E7 Am F C
I will make you queen of everything you see
G
I'll put you on the map,
C
I'll cure you of disease