Original recorded version is in Bb. For this version, capo up 3 frets (you can hear
the high Bb note on the high E string, made by using a G formation on the 6th fret).
They probably actually play it in "B" tuned down 1/2 step, but this is an easy way to
do the Am descending bass pattern.

All chords are choked off with the heel of your pick hand for the choppy rhythm feel

(chords relative to the capo up 3 frets)
            
355433  

355533

133211   

133311

X02210
Am sus2
X02200

3X2210

2X2210

XX0232

33555X

244322

[Intro] x2

G Gsus4 (pull off back to G) 
F Fsus4 (pull off back to F)
Am Am9 (hammer on back to Am)
(repeat these figures throughout verses)


[Verse]

             
When you grow 

              
up livin' like

            
 a good boy ou

ghta
            
And your mama 

              
takes a shine 

             
to her best so

n
             
Something diff

              
erent all the 

              
girls they see

     
m to like you
             
Cause you're h

             
andsome like t

              
o talk and a w

             
hole lot of fu

n
 
             
But now your g

             
irl's gone a m


issin'
         
And your house

             
 has got an em

          
pty bed
             
The folks'll w

             
onder 'bout th

  
e wedding
          
They won't lis

#            
ten to a word 

    
you said


[Chorus]

             
Gonna take you

              
r mama out all

 
 night
             
Yeah we'll sho

              
w her what it'

       
s all about
              
We'll get her 

         
jacked up on s

ome cheap cham

pagne
              
We'll let the 


good times all

 roll out
           
And if the mus

ic ain't good,

 well it's jus

t too bad
             
We're gonna si

ng along no ma

tter what
            
Because the da

ncers don't mi

nd at the New 

Orleans
             
If you tip 'em

              
 and they make

          
 a cut

 
             
Do it -take yo

             
ur mama out al

l night
             
So she'll have

              
 no doubt that

              
 we're doing o

              
h the best we 

      
can
             
We're gonna do

              
 it -take your

      
 mama out all 

night
             
You can stay u

              
p late 'cause 

              
baby you're a 

                  
full grown man

  
             
It's a struggl

              
e livin' like 

             
a good boy oug

hta
            
In the summer 

              
watchin' all t

              
he girls pass 

 
by
             
When your mama

              
 heard the way

              
 that you'd be

   
en talking
              
I tried to tel

            
l you that all

              
 she'd wanna d

     
o is cry

 
[Verse]

            
Now we end up 

              
takin' the lon

  
g way home
         
Lookin' overdr

              
essed wearin' 

             
buckets of sta

     
le cologne
            
It's so hard t

              
o see streets 

      
on a country r

oad
          
When your glas

#
ses in the gar

bage
             
And your Conti

              
nental's just 

    
got towed


[Chorus]

             
Gonna take you

              
r mama out all

       
 night
             
Yeah we'll sho

              
w her what it'

      
s all about
              
We'll get her 

         
jacked up on s

ome cheap cham

pagne
              
We'll let the 

 
good times all

 roll out
           
And if the mus

ic ain't good,

 well it's jus

t too bad
             
We're gonna si

ng along no ma

tter what
            
Because the da

ncers don't mi

nd at the New 

Orleans
             
If you tip 'em

              
 and they make

          
 a cut


[Bridge]

             
Do it -take yo

        
ur mama out al

l night
             
So she'll have

              
 no doubt that

              
 we're doing o

              
h the best we 

       
can
             
We're gonna do

              
 it -take your

      
 mama out all 

night
             
You can stay u

              
p late 'cause 

              
baby you're a 

                 
full grown man


[Solo]

           


[Chorus]

             
Gonna take you

              
r mama out all

       
 night
             
Yeah we'll sho

              
w her what it'

      
s all about
              
We'll get her 

         
jacked up on s

ome cheap cham

pagne
              
We'll let the 

 
good times all

 roll out
           
And if the mus

ic ain't good,

 well it's jus

t too bad
             
We're gonna si

ng along no ma

tter what
            
Because the da

ncers don't mi

nd at the New 

Orleans
             
If you tip 'em

              
 and they make

          
 a cut