Iris DeMent - Mama's Opry

      
 
 Key: Bb (Capo 3rd fret and play in G)
 
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 She grew up plain and simple in a farming town.
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 Her daddy played the fiddle and used to do the calling when they had hoedowns.
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 She says the neighbors would come and they'd move all my grandma's furniture 'round.
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 And there'd be twenty or more there on the old wooden floor dancin' to a country sound.
 
 
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 The Carters and Jimmy Rodgers played her favourite songs.
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 And on Saturday nights there was a radio show and she would sing along.
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 And I'll never forget her face when she revealed to me,
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 That she'd dreamed about singing at The Grand Ol' Opry.
 
 
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 Her eyes, oh, how they sparkled when she sang those songs.
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 While she was hanging the clothes on the line, I was a kid just a hummin' along.
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 Well, I'd be playing in the grass, to her, what might've seemed, obliviously,
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 But there ain't no doubt about it: she sure made her mark on me.
 
 
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 An' she played old gospel records on the phonograph.
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 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,
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 That I was singing in the grandest opry.
 
 CHORUS:
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 And we sang Sweet Rose of Sharon, Abide With Me,
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 'Til I ride The Gospel Ship to Heaven's Jubilee.
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 And In That Great Triumphant Morning my soul will be free,
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 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,
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 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
 
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