None of them
HEY MA
As recorded by Aaron Rowe
(2025 release)
Intro
C
Verse 1
C Dm7
You can see the mansions from the council estate
F C
And there’s a big old rain cloud, forming overhead now, as I leave this place
Dm7
‘Cause down here no one’s special, and they’d kill ya if ya tried
F
But they’d help you in a heartbeat, if they couldn’t stop you bleeding,
C
They’d die there by your side
Chorus
Am7 G C F
Hey ma, I crossed the sea today
Am7 G C
Would you mind checking in on Mick for me
F Am7 G C F
Tell me you know I had to go but I wanted to stay
Am7 G C F Dm7
Hey… hey ma
Verse 2
C
Is Pj off the drink still
Dm7
Is it raining up in Shankill
F
Yenno I'd be doing alright
C
If I had someone to shoot the breeze with
G
Just once in every while
Chorus
Am G C F
Hey Ma, I’m just calling to say
Am7 G C F
All the words that’ll make you think I breeze through the day
Am7 G C
Yeah, and I know it’s just an hour on the aeroplane
F Am7 G C F
But that doesn’t stop it feeling like a world away
Am7 G C F Am7 G C F Dm
Hey… hey... ma
Verse 3
C
Living in the city
Dm7
And although the London lights are pretty
F
Nobody stops see the beauty
F
Of what is going on
C
What’s really going on
Out-Chorus
G Am7 G C F
Hey ma, I crossed the street today
Am7 G C F
I said hello to a stranger but he walked away
Am7 G C F
I’m sending love from a street where no one knows my name
Am7 G C F Am
And I hope when I get back that things will be the same
G C F
Hey… hey ma
Am7 G C F
Hey…
Am7 G C F Dm
Hey… ma...
C F
Hey ma
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