Verse 1CEAm
Everybody's got to love each other
CEAm
Stop throwin' stones at your sisters and your brothers
GEAmGD
Man, it wasn't that long ago we were all living in the jungle
GG
So why do we gotta put each other down
GG
When there's more than enough love to g-g-go around?
ChorusC
Come to mama
Am
Tell me who hurt ya
F
There's gonna be no future
Fm
If we don't figure this out
Verse 2CEAm
Dude in a lab coat and a man of God
CEAm
Fought over prisms and a forty-day flood
GEAmGD
Well, I say rainbows did more than they've ever done
GG
So why do we gotta fight over ideas?
GG
We're talkin' the same old shit after all of these years
ChorusC
Come to mama
Am
Tell me who hurt ya
F
There's gonna be no future
Fm
If we don't figure this out
C
Oh, come tomorrow
Am
Who are you gonna follow?
F
There's gonna be no future
Fm
If we don't figure this out
BridgeCEAm
Psychic guru catches minnows in the harbor
CEAm
Everyone tells him he should work a little harder
GEAmGD
They all tell you that freedom must be bought But, baby, he's already caught them
GG
So why do we gotta tell each other how to live?
GG
The only prisons that exist are ones we put each other in
ChorusC
Come to mama
Am
Tell me who hurt ya
F
There's gonna be no future
Fm
If we don't figure this out
C
Oh, come tomorrow
Am
Who are you gonna follow?
F
There's gonna be no future
Fm
If we don't figure this out
CAm
Come to mama (Come onto me)
F
Come on mama Come on mama
Fm
Come on mama
CAmF
'Cause I wanna be there
Fm
I wanna be there for you I wanna be there
CAm
Why do we gotta tell each other how to live?
F
The only prisons that exist are ones we put each other in
Fm
Why do we gotta tell each other how to live? Look what that rainbow did
This arrangement for the song is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this for private study, scholarship, or research.