Mama Sang A Song chords by
Walter Brennan

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Verse 1

(Written by Bill Anderson)

(God put a song in the heart of

an Angel,)

(And softly she sang it to me.)

Verse 2
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I get to thinking lots of times About
back when I was a lad,
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Of the old home- place where
I growed up;
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Of the days both good and bad.
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My overalls        was

Verse 3
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hand- me- downs,
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y shoes was full of holes,
And I used to walk four miles
to school every day,
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Through the rain and the sleet
and the cold.

Verse 4
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I've seen the nights when my
daddy would cry
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For the things that his family would need,
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But all he ever got was a bad- lands farm
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And seven hungry mouths to feed.

Verse 5
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And yet, and yet out home- fire never flickered once,
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'Cause when all these
things went wrong,
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Mama took the hymn- book down,
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And mama sang a song.

Verse 6

(What a friend we have in

Jesus.)

Verse 7
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I been rocked to sleep many a night To the
tune of "What A Friend"
TO THE TUNE OF "WHAT A
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FRIEND"; come morning,
"Rock of Ages" would waken me
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gentle once again.

Verse 8
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Then dad, he'd reach up an
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d take the bible down
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And read it, read it loud and long,
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I always thought that maybe
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our our home was blessed
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When daddy would say,
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"Mamma, sing a song."

Verse 9
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Sister left home first, I guess,
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Then Bob and then Tommy
and then Dan,
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Then dad's hair was turnin' white,
'N I had to be mama's little man.

Verse 10
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But it seemed that as daddy's
back growed weak,
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Mother's faith just growed strong,
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And them were the greatest days of all,
When mama samg a song.
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(Rock of ages, cleft for

Verse 11
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me.)
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(Let me hide myself in
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thee.)...
OOH,
OOH, OOH. (Through Recitation)

Verse 12

I guess the house is still standing;

I don't get back much no more,

No voice is left to fill them halls,

Verse 13
'N no steps to grace the floor.
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You see, my mama sings
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in heaven now,
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Around God's golden throne,
But I'll always believe this world
Is a better place because, one time,
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My mama sang a song.

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