Your Mama Don't Dance - Loggins and Messina

Tab by omanyen@fusemail.com

This a great hand-clapping, juke-jivin type of song, played with
a swing-type of shuffle beat. This is best played with two acoustics,
so I've tabbed both guitar parts. This version is done in "A".


[Intro]

  (1st guitar)
e|------------
B|------------
G|--2---------
D|--2------2-4
A|--0--3h4----
E|------------

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--------------
---2----------
-2-2------2-4-
---0--3h4-----
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--------------
--------------
--2-----------
2-2------2-4-2
--0--3h4------
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--------------
--------------
-2------------
-2------2-4-2-
-0--3h4-------
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2--|
2--|
0--|
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  (2nd guitar)
e|--5----5--7-
B|--5----5--7-
G|--5h6--5--7-
D|------------
A|------------
E|------------

-5----5--7--5-
-5----5--7--5-
-5h6--5--7--5h
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--------------
--------------

---5--7--5----
---5--7--5----
6--5--7--5h6--
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--------------
--------------

5--7--5----5--
5--7--5----5--
5--7--5h6--5--
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7--|
7--|
7--|
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[Chorus]

             
Your mama don'

              
t dance and yo

             
ur daddy don't

           
 rock and roll

.
        ( play intro )
             
Your mama don'

              
t dance and yo

              
ur daddy don't

           
 rock and roll

.
        ( play intro )
             
When evenin' r

              
olls around an

       
d it's time to

 go to town,
             
where do you g

o to rock and 

roll?


[Verse 1]

             
The old folks 

             
say that you g

              
otta end your 

        
day by ten.
        ( play intro )
             
If you're out 

              
on a date and 

              
you bring it h

              
ome late, it's

    
 a sin.
       ( play intro )
             
There just ain

              
't no excusin'

      
, you know you

're gonna lose
          
and never win.

 I'll say it a

gain. And it's

 all because .

..


[Chorus]

             
Your mama don'

              
t dance and yo

             
ur daddy don't

           
 rock and roll

.
        ( play intro )
             
Your mama don'

              
t dance and yo

              
ur daddy don't

           
 rock and roll

.
        ( play intro )
             
When evenin' r

              
olls around an

       
d it's time to

 go to town,
             
where do you g

o to rock and 

roll?


Then go to bridge with a walk up:

e|------------
B|------------
G|------------
D|------------
A|--0--1--2--3
E|------------

-------1/2--|
-------2/3--|
-------1/2--|
-------0----|
--4---------|
------------|

[Bridge]

    
You pull into 

a drive-in, yo

u find a place

 to park.
    
You hop into t

he back seat w

here you know 

it's nice and 

dark.
       
You're just ab

out to move in

, you're think

in' it's a bre

eze.
          
There's a ligh

t in your eye 

and then a guy

 says:

"Outta the car, longhair!"
             
"Ooh-wee! You'

              
re comin' with

             
 me, the local

   
 police!"


[Chorus]

And it's all because ...
             
Your mama don'

              
t dance and yo

             
ur daddy don't

           
 rock and roll

.
        ( play intro )
             
Your mama don'

              
t dance and yo

              
ur daddy don't

           
 rock and roll

.
        ( play intro )
             
When evenin' r

              
olls around an

       
d it's time to

 go to town,
             
where do you g

o to rock and 

roll?
             
Where do you g

o to rock and 

roll?
             
Where do you g

o to rock and 

roll?


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