Iris Dement - Mama's Opry guitar chord

Key: Bb (Capo 3rd fret and play in G)

G C

She grew up plain and simple in a farming town.

D G

Her daddy played the fiddle and used to do the calling when they had hoedowns.

Em C

She says the neighbors would come and they'd move all my grandma's furniture 'round.

D G

And there'd be twenty or more there on the old wooden floor dancin' to a country sound.

G C

The Carters and Jimmy Rodgers played her favourite songs.

D G

And on Saturday nights there was a radio show and she would sing along.

Em C

And I'll never forget her face when she revealed to me,

D G

That she'd dreamed about singing at The Grand Ol' Opry.

G C

Her eyes, oh, how they sparkled when she sang those songs.

D G

While she was hanging the clothes on the line, I was a kid just a hummin' along.

Em C

Well, I'd be playing in the grass, to her, what might've seemed, obliviously,

D G

But there ain't no doubt about it: she sure made her mark on me.

G C

An' she played old gospel records on the phonograph.

D G

She turned them up loud and we'd sing along, but those days have passed.

Em C

Just now that I am older it occurs to me,

D G

That I was singing in the grandest opry.

CHORUS:

G C

And we sang Sweet Rose of Sharon, Abide With Me,

D G

'Til I ride The Gospel Ship to Heaven's Jubilee.

Em C

And In That Great Triumphant Morning my soul will be free,

D G

And My Burdens Will Be Lifted when my Saviour's face I see.

G C

So I Don't Want to Get Adjusted to This World below,

D G

But I know He'll Pilot Me 'til it comes time to go.

Em C

Oh, nothing on this earth is half as dear to me,

D G

As the sound of my Mama's Opry

INSTRUMENTAL

(Chorus)