Ukulele Standard Tuning
*single strum
This is a song my mother would sing to me when I was just a little girl…
G Em
You should go to sleep right now,
C D G D
You should go to sleep right now.
G Em
Close your eyes and rest your head,
C D G D
And I’ll tuck your body into bed.
G Em
Be glad that you are young right now
C D G D
Because it just gets worse from here…
C
You will encounter disappointment
Am G
At every stage of your life
Em
I promise you,
C
Most of your dreams
Am
Will not come true
D*
Though people try to tell you they do, oh baby
G Em
I promise life’ll be full of awkward confrontations,
C Am
And you’ll get stuck in ten thousand awful conversations
G Em
You’ll be late to an important meeting
C Am*
And someday you will get bullied and end up bleeding
G
Someone you love
Em
Will not love you back
C Am
And you’ll never, never win the lottery
G* D* Em*
You will feel emotions such as anger, pain and sadness
C Am
Over and over, listen to me:
G Em
You will probably get into at least one car accident
C Am
You will make foes;
G* D* Em*
You will lose close friends and relatives to cancer
C Am
And other, horrible, unpredictable scenarios
G
And then you will die
Em
‘Cause everybody dies;
C Am
Life is but a fleeting string of sorrows…
G Em
But don’t think about that right now,
C
Just close your eyes and think about
Am G Em
Angels and rainbows
C Am
Angels and rainbows
G Em C D
G Em
You should go to sleep right now,
C D Am
You should go to sleep right now,
C D
And remember
G*
Mommy loves you.