I saw my mother's name chords by Hank Thompson
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Verse 1
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Your daddy was a gambling
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man my mother said to me
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He left me when you were a child
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but he was all this world to me
I know your daddy loved me too
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from tattoo on his arms
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Was a heart of love that bored my
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name and was his good luck charm
I didn't heed my mother's
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words to leave the cards alone
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I took to gambling just like dad
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and left my mother's home
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Verse 2
One night the gang was gathered
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round we delt the hand of draw
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An old man sat across from
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me and this is what I saw
From out his sleeve he pulled the
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card and I pulled out my gun
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I shot him dead not knowing
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then what evil I had done
He fell across the table his
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hands reached out in vain
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His sleeve slipped back an d upon
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his arm I could see so plain
I gazed down at his lifeless arm
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and I hung my head in shame
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For upon his arm was tattooed heart
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and I saw my mother's name
I saw my mother's name
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