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I Dreamed About Mama Last Night chords by
David Allan Coe
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Key: F major•
Verse 1
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I've just been to heaven
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with someone so true
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I dreamed about
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Mama last night
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She read me the
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Bible like she used to do
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I dreamed about momma last night
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Why she never closed her eyes to sleep
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Until we were all in bed
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And on party nights till we come home
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Why she often sat up and read
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Of course, we little thought about it then
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When we were young and gay
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Just how much

Mama worried
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When we children were away
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Why we only knew she never slept
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When we were out late at night

And that she waited just to know
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That we'd come home all right
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Why, sometimes,

you know, when we'd stay away
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Until one or two or three
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It just seemed to us that
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Mama heard the turning
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of the key
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For always when we stepped inside
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She'd call us and we'd reply
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But, of course, we were much too young back
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then to understand the reason why.

And it seemed until the last one had returned,
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she always kept a light.
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Cause mama couldn't sleep until
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she kissed us all goodnight
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Why she had to know that we were safe
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before she went to rest
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And she seemed to fear that the world
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might harm the ones she loved the best.
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And once she said,
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when you're grown to women and to men,
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Why, perhaps I'll sleep the

whole night through
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Things might be different then
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And so it seems that night and day
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We had a mother's care
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And we knew whenever we got home that
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we'd find mama waiting there.
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And then came the night that we were
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all called to gather around her bed.
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Your children are all with you now,
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the kindly doctor said.

And in her eyes there gleamed
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again that old familiar light.
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And as each one of us held her in our arms,
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she kissed us all goodnight.

I'm gonna have to leave you soon,

she said
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Now don't you weep
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And once she knew that

we were saved
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Mama went to sleep
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I still see her smilin' wherever I
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go I dreamed about momma last night
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I know she is happy cause she told me so
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I dreamed about mama last night
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She read me the bible like she used to
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do I dreamed about mama last night
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Tuning:Standard Open Tuner
Chords

  • D

  • G

  • Bm

    2

  • A

Capo: 3

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The original key of I Dreamed About Mama Last Night by David Allan Coe is F major.

The primary chords used in I Dreamed About Mama Last Night are F, Bb, Dm, C.

To play in the original key, place your capo on the 3 fret.

Yes, this version uses open chords like F, Bb, Dm, C, making it a great song for beginner guitarists.

The tempo of I Dreamed About Mama Last Night is approximately 79 beats per minute.

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