Released: December 11, 1970
Featuring: Plastic Ono Band
Songwriter: John Lennon
Producer: Phil Spector Yoko Ono John Lennon
[Verse 1]
Mother, you had me but I never had you
I wanted you, you didn't want me
So I, I just got to tell you
Goodbye, goodbye
[Verse 2]
Father, you left me but I never left you
I needed you, you didn't need me
So I, I just got to tell you
Goodbye, goodbye
[Verse 3]
Children, don't do what I have done
I couldn't walk and I tried to run
So I, I just got to tell you
Goodbye, goodbye
[Outro]
Mama don't go, Daddy come home
Mama don't go, Daddy come home
Mama don't go, Daddy come home
Mama don't go, Daddy come home
Mama don't go, Daddy come home
Mama don't go, Daddy come home
Mama don't go, Daddy come home
Mama don't go, Daddy come home
Mama don't go, Daddy come home
Mama don't go, Daddy come home
Mama don't go, Daddy come home
Mama don't go, Daddy come home
Mama don't go, Daddy come home
Mama don't go, Daddy come home
Mama don't go, Daddy come home
Mother, you had me but I never had you
I wanted you, you didn't want me
So I, I just got to tell you
Goodbye, goodbye
[Verse 2]
Father, you left me but I never left you
I needed you, you didn't need me
So I, I just got to tell you
Goodbye, goodbye
[Verse 3]
Children, don't do what I have done
I couldn't walk and I tried to run
So I, I just got to tell you
Goodbye, goodbye
[Outro]
Mama don't go, Daddy come home
Mama don't go, Daddy come home
Mama don't go, Daddy come home
Mama don't go, Daddy come home
Mama don't go, Daddy come home
Mama don't go, Daddy come home
Mama don't go, Daddy come home
Mama don't go, Daddy come home
Mama don't go, Daddy come home
Mama don't go, Daddy come home
Mama don't go, Daddy come home
Mama don't go, Daddy come home
Mama don't go, Daddy come home
Mama don't go, Daddy come home
Mama don't go, Daddy come home
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- Live in New York City (1986)
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- The Black Album (2014)
- Plastic Ono Band (The Ultimate Collection) (2021)
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- Woman
- Working Class Hero
- Jealous Guy
- God
- Woman is the Nigger of the World
- Mind Games
- Mother
- Oh My Love
- Love
- Gimme Some Truth
- Watching the Wheels
- Isolation
- #9 Dream
- (Just Like) Starting Over
- Hold On
- Cold Turkey
- Stand By Me
- Crippled Inside
- Grow Old with Me
- Remember
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