Motorcycle mama (1976)    (video)

 

    G - Em - Am - D (2x)  + D7

 

G                     Em       Am                                  D

    Motorcycle mama, why did you leave and where did you go,

G                     Em    - Am                                         D

    motorcycle mama,       I’ve been looking everywhere for you.

 

+  Em - C - D

 

    G                        Em

1.     I remember in sixty-five,

Am                                      D

    when Jimi Hendrix was still alive,

G                                       Em

    before he went to the Woodstock scene

Am                                D

    and turned on to the rock machine,

B7                                   Em

    We rode a red Harley Davidson

Am                       D                      - D7

     as we tried to follow the sun,

 

G                     Em       Am                                  D

    Motorcycle mama, why did you leave and where did you go,

G                     Em    - Am                                         D

    motorcycle mama,       I’ve been looking everywhere for you.

 

+   Em - C - D

 

   G                        Em

2.    I remember in sixty-seven,

Am                           D

    we were into the flower-power heaven,

G                          Em

    riding up the Pacific coast highway,

Am                             D

    winding up in the Frisco Bay.

B7                                 Em

    Like Ravi Shankar I played the sitar,

Am                                       D             - D7

    Maharishi Yogi was my Guru star.

 

G                     Em       Am                                  D

    Motorcycle mama, why did you leave and where did you go,

G                     Em    - Am                                         D

    motorcycle mama,       I’ve been looking everywhere for you.

 

+  Em - C - D            +  G - Em - Am - D (3x)

 

    G                                          Em

3.     Do you remember about Fritz the Cat,

Am                                         D

    and Dylan’s Leopard skin pill-box hat,

G                                            Em

    Sergeant Pepper’s lonely Hearts Club Band,

Am                                D

    he’s a rider thru the desert sand ?

B7                          Em

    Listen all of this makes me blue,

Am                                              D                 - D7

    but most of all you know I’m missing you.

 

G                     Em       Am                                  D

    Motorcycle mama, why did you leave and where did you go,

G                     Em    - Am                                         D

    motorcycle mama,       I’ve been looking everywhere for you.

 

                        Em                       C         - D

+  Why did you go, why did you leave ?

 

+  G - Em - C - D (4x) ...

 

    (Harpo)