Mammie chords by Dolly Parton

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Verse 1
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Mammie delivered me
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into this world
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Mammie watched my
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mama die at my birth
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And Mammie she loved me
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she took me to raise
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Mammie was all I had on this earth

Verse 2
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Let's get in the firewood,
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I'd hear Mammie say
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Let's go to the spring before it gets dark
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And you do up the dishes while
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the water's still hot
And don't throw that
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dishwater out in the yard
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Verse 3

Oh, Mammie taught me how to sing a song

She taught me to play her old guitar

And at night before bedtime

we'd sing for hours

As the teakettle whistled along on the fire

Verse 4
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And at night as I laid alone in my bed
I'd hear Mammie praying
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and each night she said
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Oh, dear God help me raise her
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to know right from wrong
And I pray she'll do right even
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after I'm gone

Interlude 1

Verse 5
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I'd wait until Mammie had
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fallen asleep
Then out of my window
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I'd quietly sneak
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And I'd wait by the mill pond
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according to plans
And there in the darkness
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I'd meet a man

Verse 6
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Oh, it's not that I wanted
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to bring Mammie shame
I just couldn't control wild
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blood in my veins
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They tell me my mama could
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not name my dad
So I guess it was natural
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for me  to be bad
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Verse 7
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One night I awoke at
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the sound of my name
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Come quickly, I heard Mammie cry
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She said you be good and I
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told her I would and
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That night I watched as
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my  Mammie died

Verse 8
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All I have now are the
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memories of Mammie
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And the goodness that loving
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her brought me
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Although she is gone in
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my heart she lives on
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And I   know how much
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good she taught me