{"id":669,"date":"2021-05-10T04:31:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T04:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=669"},"modified":"2025-09-22T23:46:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T23:46:24","slug":"mama-done-told-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/mama-done-told-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Mama Done Told Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Words & Music by Johnny Mercer & Harold Arlen, 1941\r\n<\/span>Recorded by Rosemary Clooney, 1952 (#17)\r\n<\/span>Written for a film called Hot Nocturne, this song became so popular that the movie\r\n<\/span>was re-titled Blues in the Night<\/span>\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS } . . . [A] My mama done tol' me, when I was in kneepants,<\/span><\/span>  My mama done tol' me, [A7] \"Son. . .<\/span><\/span> A woman'll [D7] sweet talk, and give ya the big eye,<\/span><\/span> [B7] Then when the [E7] sweet talkin's [A] done . . . <\/span><\/span>A [E7] woman's a two-face, a [Am7] worrisome thing who'll [E7] leave ya singin' <\/span><\/span> The [A] blues  [D9]     in the [A] night.\"\r\n<\/span><\/span><\/span> \r\nRefrain:<\/span>\r\n[A7] Now the rain's a-fallin',   [E7] hear the [Am7] train a- [D7] -callin',<\/span><\/span>\r\n[A] \"Whoo-ee.\" (My mama done tol' me,)<\/span><\/span>\r\n[D9] Hear that lonesome whistle [Dm6]  blowin' 'cross the [E7] trestle,<\/span><\/span>\r\n[A] \"Whoo-ee.\" (My mama done tol' me.)<\/span><\/span>\r\nA [E7] whoo-ee-duh whoo-ee,<\/span><\/span>  Ol' [B7] clickety clack's a- [E7] -echoin' back  the [A7] blues   [D9]  in the [A] night.\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\n<\/span>{ CHORUS }<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u00a0 Words & Music by Johnny Mercer & Harold Arlen, 1941 Recorded by Rosemary Clooney, 1952 (#17) Written for a film called Hot Nocturne, this song became so popular that the movie was re-titled Blues in the Night { CHORUS } . . . [A] My mama done tol’ me, … CLICK TO VIEW SONGMama Done Told Me<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,116,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-chords","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}