Biography:
Three Dog Night is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California best known for their music from 1968 to 1975, during which time they achieved twenty-one consecutive Billboard Top 40 Hits and 12 consecutive Gold Albums. Three Dog Night are still active in 2012, touring and recording 43 years after their first album was released. The first of the band's 7 million-selling singles was One in 1969. They scored three number one singles: Mama Told Me (Not to Come), Joy to the World and Black and White.
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Other songs:
- One
- A Change Is Gonna Come
- Black And White
- Celebrate
- Easy Evil
- Easy To Be Hard
- Elis Comin
- Joy To The World
- Liar
- Mama Told Me Not To Come
- My Old Kentucky Home
- Never Been To Spain
- Old Fashioned Love Song
- Out In The Country
- Pieces Of April
- Play Something Sweet Brickyard Blues
- Shambala
- Try A Little Tenderness
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[Intro]
G# G#7/Eb G# G#7/Eb G# G#7/Eb G# G#7/Eb G# G#7/Eb
[Verse]
G# G#7/Eb
Want some whiskey in your water?
G# G#7/Eb
Sugar in your tea?
G# G#7/Eb G# G#7/Eb
What's all these crazy questions they're askin' me?
G# G#7/Eb G# G#7/Eb
This is the craziest party that could ever be
G# G#7/Eb G# G#7/Eb
Don't turn on the lights 'cause I don't wanna see
[Chorus]
G# G#/C C# D
Mama told me not to come
Eb G# G#/C C# D Eb
Mama told me not to come
G# G#/C C# D G#/C Eb
"That ain't the way to have fun, no"
[Verse]
G# G#7/Eb G# G#7/Eb
Open up the window, let some air into this room
G# G#7/Eb G# G#7/Eb
I think I'm almost chokin' from the smell of stale perfume
G# G#7/Eb G# G#7/Eb
And that cigarette you're smokin' 'bout scare me half to death
G# G#7/Eb G# G#7/Eb
Open up the window, sucker, let me catch my breath
[Chorus]
G# G#/C C# D
Mama told me not to come
Eb G# G#/C C# D Eb
Mama told me not to come
G# G#/C C# D Eb
"That ain't the way to have fun, son"
G#/C Eb
"That ain't the way to have fun, son"
[Interlude]
G# G#/C C# D Eb
G# G#/C C# D Eb
G# G#/C C# D Eb
G# G#7/Eb G# G#7/Eb
[Verse]
G# G#7/Eb G# G#7/Eb
The radio is blastin', someone's knockin' at the door
G# G#7/Eb G# G#7/Eb
I'm lookin' at my girlfriend - she's passed out on the floor
G# G#7/Eb G# G#7/Eb
I seen so many things I ain't never seen before
G# G#7/Eb G# G#7/Eb
Don't know what it is - I don't wanna see no more
[Chorus]
G# G#/C C# D
Mama told me not to come
Eb G# G#/C C# D
Mama told me not to come
Eb G# G#/C C# D Eb
She said, "That ain't the way to have fun, son"
G#/C Eb
"That ain't the way to have fun, no"
[Outro]
G# G#/C C# D Eb
"That ain't the way to have fun, no"
G# G#/C C# D Eb
"That ain't the way to have fun, son"
G# G#/C C# D Eb
"That ain't the way to have fun, no"
G# G#/C C# D Eb
"That ain't the way to have fun, son"
G# G#7/Eb G# G#7/Eb G# G#7/Eb G# G#7/Eb G# G#7/Eb
[Verse]
G# G#7/Eb
Want some whiskey in your water?
G# G#7/Eb
Sugar in your tea?
G# G#7/Eb G# G#7/Eb
What's all these crazy questions they're askin' me?
G# G#7/Eb G# G#7/Eb
This is the craziest party that could ever be
G# G#7/Eb G# G#7/Eb
Don't turn on the lights 'cause I don't wanna see
[Chorus]
G# G#/C C# D
Mama told me not to come
Eb G# G#/C C# D Eb
Mama told me not to come
G# G#/C C# D G#/C Eb
"That ain't the way to have fun, no"
[Verse]
G# G#7/Eb G# G#7/Eb
Open up the window, let some air into this room
G# G#7/Eb G# G#7/Eb
I think I'm almost chokin' from the smell of stale perfume
G# G#7/Eb G# G#7/Eb
And that cigarette you're smokin' 'bout scare me half to death
G# G#7/Eb G# G#7/Eb
Open up the window, sucker, let me catch my breath
[Chorus]
G# G#/C C# D
Mama told me not to come
Eb G# G#/C C# D Eb
Mama told me not to come
G# G#/C C# D Eb
"That ain't the way to have fun, son"
G#/C Eb
"That ain't the way to have fun, son"
[Interlude]
G# G#/C C# D Eb
G# G#/C C# D Eb
G# G#/C C# D Eb
G# G#7/Eb G# G#7/Eb
[Verse]
G# G#7/Eb G# G#7/Eb
The radio is blastin', someone's knockin' at the door
G# G#7/Eb G# G#7/Eb
I'm lookin' at my girlfriend - she's passed out on the floor
G# G#7/Eb G# G#7/Eb
I seen so many things I ain't never seen before
G# G#7/Eb G# G#7/Eb
Don't know what it is - I don't wanna see no more
[Chorus]
G# G#/C C# D
Mama told me not to come
Eb G# G#/C C# D
Mama told me not to come
Eb G# G#/C C# D Eb
She said, "That ain't the way to have fun, son"
G#/C Eb
"That ain't the way to have fun, no"
[Outro]
G# G#/C C# D Eb
"That ain't the way to have fun, no"
G# G#/C C# D Eb
"That ain't the way to have fun, son"
G# G#/C C# D Eb
"That ain't the way to have fun, no"
G# G#/C C# D Eb
"That ain't the way to have fun, son"
Thrills
Thriving Ivory
Tia Lynn
Tiago Braga
Tiago Iorc