Mamas Opry chords by Iris Dement

Key of Bb Capo on 3

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                D
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,
      G               D     G
That she'd dreamed about singing at The Grand Old 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 be, obliviously,
       C            D
But there ain't no doubt about it: she sure made her mark on me.

       G        C
AnD 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,
       G     D G
That I was singing in the grandest opry.

 D      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,
      Am           D
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,
    G    D    G
As the sound of my Mama's Opry

 D    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,
    C              D
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,
     G     D    G