Standard Tuning EADGBe 


[Intro] 
    
    
    
    

[Verse 1]
             
Mother told me

            
, yes she told

             
 me, I'd meet 

           
girls like you

.
             
She also told 

            
me stay away, 

             
you'll never k

              
now what you'l

   
l catch
             
Just the other

            
 day I heard o

     
f a soldier's 

falling off
             
Some Indonesia

            
n junk that's 

        
going 'round..

.

[Chorus 1] 
             
Mommy's all ri

          
ght, daddy's a

              
ll right, they

            
 just seem a l

      
ittle weird
          
Surrender, Sur

           
render, but do

              
n't give yours

             
elf away, ayyy

                      
-ayyy-ay-ay-ay

[Verse 2]
             
Father says yo

            
ur mother's ri

             
ght, she's rea

          
lly up on thin

gs.
             
Before we marr

            
ied, mommy ser

             
ved in the WAC

              
s in the Phili

  
ppines.
             
Now I had hear

            
d the WACs rec

             
ruited old mai

        
ds for the war
             
But mommy isn'

            
t one of those

       
, I've known h

er all these y

ears.

[Chorus 2] 
             
Mommy's all ri

          
ght, daddy's a

              
ll right, they

            
 just seem a l

      
ittle weird
          
Surrender, Sur

           
render, but do

              
n't give yours

             
elf away, ayyy

                      
-ayyy-ay-ay-ay

[Verse 3]
             
Whatever happe

             
ned to all thi

             
s season's loo

              
sers of the ye


ar?
             
Every time I g

             
ot to thinking

             
 'Where'd they

       
 disappear?'
             
Then I woke up

             
, Mom and Dad 

    
are rolling on

 the couch
             
Rolling number

             
s, rock and ro

          
lling, got my 

Kiss records o

ut.

[Chorus 3] 
             
Mommy's all ri

            
ght, Daddy's a

              
ll right, they

             
 just seem a l

       
ittle weird
             
Surrender, Sur

           
render, but do

              
n't give yours

            
elf away....aw

           
ay,  away--ay-

          
ay-ay

[Chorus 4] 
             
Mommy's all ri

            
ght, Daddy's a

              
ll right, they

             
 just seem a l

       
ittle weird
             
Surrender, Sur

           
render, but do

              
n't give yours

            
elf away....aw

           
ay,  away--ay-

          
ay-ay