Intro: C 

             Where’d I Come From    (Rich-Foster)

Sung by Bobby Bare Jr and Jeannie Bare

 

Son
  C                                       F     G                                     C

Momma where’d I come from? Did they give me to you free?

                                    F                                                           G
Did you buy me in a boy store? Momma, where’d you find me? 

Mother

F                        Em E7              Am  Am (G Bass) D7 (F# Bass)

Well Bobby I found you, in a smile,

                C     Am       Dm                G           C     F C

And the gentleness hidden in your daddy’s eye.

 

Son

   F                                  G                         C

Freddy said a bird came and left me in a tree.

                      F                                                        G

Momma where’d I come from? That don’t sound right to me.

 

Mother

F                                         Em                                E7        Am    Am (G Bass)

Well,  I’ll tell you darlin’  God in all his sweetness, smiled on us.

D7 (F# Bass)            C      Am             Dm                        G          C    F C      

Yes he did. Then an angel came and brought you on the wings of love.

 

Son

  F                            G                                  C

Did a doctor bring me like John said he did?

                                F  

And if a doctor brought me where did they get kids?

 

Mother

                                           G

Well sweetheart, can you keep a secret?

F                                  Em      E7      Am   Am (G Bass)   D7 (F# Bass)        

Well, just between a mother and her son.

                       C         Am        Dm                  G                       F G

I’ll tell ya. You were born of love and that’s where you came from.

              C                    C    

Well Bobby now do you know where you came from?

 

Son

              F G F G

Yes, Love!