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Mama, I'm tellin' you sure as I'm standin' here
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She's my girl and that's the way I'm keepin' it my mama dear
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No good will it do you to stand there and sob or plea
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The girl got my heart and my love's comin' down on me
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The last time I met her since I got a taste of wild honey
      E                 F#     B            E
you know she's got thesweetness of the honey bee
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Honey, she got me all and she stung me good oh yessirree
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Before she even stung bees buzzin' around her hive
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She singled  me out , single-handed took me alive
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I'm going' to take her home and spend my life
                 B   E ( B E )
eatin' up the wild honey
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Oh! mama, she's sweeter, and sweeter, and sweeter, sweeter
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Honey, let me tell you how she really got to me so
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It ain't funny, the way she made me wnat to sing a little rock'nroll
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Bresk my back workin' just to save me some money
  C#m               F#7        B        E  ( B E )
I can spend my life with her eatin'up her wild honey
          C#m                           F#7   ( B E )
Oh! honey she's sweeter and sweeter, sweeter, sweeter