Standard (EADGBE)

Boy of mine

 As your fortune comes to carry you down the line

 And you watch as the changes unfold

 And you sort among the stories you've been told

 If some pieces of the picture are hard to find

 And the answers to your questions are hard to hold

 Take good care of your mother

 When you're making up your mind

 Should one thing or another take you from behind

 Though the world may make you hard and wild

 And determine how your life is styled

 When you've come to feel that you're the only child

 Take good care of your brother

Let the disappointments pass

Let the laughter fill your glass

 Let your illusions last until they shatter

Whatever you might hope to find

 Among the thoughts that crowd your mind

 There won't be many that ever really matter

 But take good care of your mother

 And remember to be kind

 When the pain of another will serve you to remind

 That there are those who feel themselves exiled

 On whom the fortune never smiled

 And upon whose life the heartache has been piled

 They're just looking for another

 Lonely child

 And when you've found another soul

 Who sees into your own

 Take good care of each other

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