Ray Wylie Hubbard - When She Sang Amazing Grace guitar chord

When She Sang Amazing Grace

Ray Wylie Hubbard

Tabbed By Larry Mofle

rmofle@satx.rr.com

10/23/2004

Capo 4 (or you can capo 2 and play in key of D)

Use alternating bass to get the best effect.

C

When I was a child, mama’d hold me

F C

In her lovin’ arms when the storm clouds come along

C

Dark clouds rising, storms a ragin

G C

She would sing an old gospel song

C

With the thunder crashing and lightning, flashing

F C

I found comfort in the words that she would sing

C

Beyond these dark skies there’s a rainbow

G C

That only love and the sun’ll bring

When she sang Amazing Grace

I felt tears in my eyes

When she sang Circle Be Unbroken

Lord, I knew there’s bluer skies

Time rolled on, the circle was broken

Mama went on to somewhere beyond the blue

I started ramblin’ that lost highway

And hard livin’ took away the little child she knew

Yeah, I started drinkin’ and I started gamblin’

I had no one to look over me

There was no blue skies, only sorrow

I could only hear her sing in my memory

I was runnin’ with a wild bunch

Hanging with the rough and the rowdy kind

I was livin fast, and I was dying young

So alone, Lord I had a worried mind

I was drunk and I was hurtin’

Somewhere on the streets in New Orleans

When I stumbled into a little shelter

I saw an angel with a tambourine