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mother country easy guitar chords by John Stewart

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  • Verse 1
    There 
    was a story 

    in the San 
    Francisco 
    chronicle 

    That of course 
    I forgot 
    to 
    say 
    it 

    But it was 
    about 
    a lady 
    who 
    lived 
    in the 

    'good old 
    days' 

    When a cen
    tury 
    was 
    born 
    and a 

    century 
    had died 

    And about 
    these 
    'good 
    old 

    days' 
    the 
    old 
    lady 
    replied 

    "Why 
    they were 
    just 
    lot 
    of people 

    doing 
    the be
    st 
    they could" 

    "Just 
    a lot of 
    people 
    do

    ing 
    the best 
    they 
    could" 

    And then 
    the lady 
    said 
    that they 
    did 
    it, 

    "pretty 
    up 
    and walk
    ing 
    good" 

    Whatever 
    happene
    Verse 2
    d to 
    those 

    faces 
    in the 
    old 
    photo
    graphs 

    mean, 
    the little 
    boys 

    Boys? 

    Hell 
    they 
    were men 

    Who 
    stood 
    knee 
    deep 

    in the John
    stown 
    mud 

    In 
    the time 
    of that ter
    rible 
    flood 

    And they 
    listened 
    to the water 

    That aw
    ful 
    noise 

    And then 
    they 
    put away 
    the dreams 

    that 
    belonged 
    to little 
    boys 

    Verse 3

    And 
    the sun 
    is 
    going 
    down 

    for 
    Mister 
    Bouie 

    As 
    he's 
    singing 
    with his 

    class 
    of nineteen- 
    two 

    Oh, 
    mother 
    country, 
    do 
    love 
    you 

    Oh, 
    mother 
    country, 
    do 
    love 
    you 

    knew 
    a man 
    Verse 4
    named 
    E.A. 
    Stuart, 

    spelled 
    S.T.U.A.R.T. 

    And 
    he owned 
    some 
    of the 
    finest 
    horses 

    that 
    I think 
    I've 
    ever 
    seen 

    And he 
    had one 
    favorite, 
    a cham
    pion, 

    the 
    old 
    cam
    paigner 

    And 
    he called 
    her 
    "Sweet

    heart 
    On 
    Parade" 

    And 
    she 
    was 
    eas
    ily 
    the finest 

    horse 
    that the 
    good 
    Lord 
    ever 
    made 

    But old 
    E.A. 
    Stuart, 

    he was 
    going 
    blind 

    And 
    he said 
    "Before 
    I go, 

    I gotta 
    drive 
    her one 
    more 
    time" 

    So 
    people 
    came 
    from 
    miles 
    around, 

    and 
    they 
    stood 
    around 
    the ring 

    No 
    one said 
    a word 

    You know, 
    no one 
    said 
    a thing 

    Then 
    here 
    they come, 

    E.A. 
    Stuart 
    in 
    the wag
    on right 
    be
    hind 

    Sitting 
    straight 
    and 
    proud 
    and 

    he's 
    driving 
    her 
    stone 
    blind 

    And 
    would you 
    look 
    at her 

    Oh, 
    she 
    never 
    looked 
    finer 

    or went 
    better 
    than 
    today 

    It's 
    E.A. 
    Stuart, 
    and the 
    old 
    Cam
    paigner, 

    "Sweet
    heart 
    On 
    Parade" 

    And 
    the people 
    cheered 

    Why 
    even 
    saw 
    grown 
    man 
    break 

    right 
    down 
    and cry 

    And you 
    know 
    it was 
    just 
    a little 
    while 
    later 

    That 
    old 
    E.A. 
    Stuart 
    died 

    Verse 5

    And 
    the sun 
    it 
    is 
    going 

    down 
    for 
    Mister 
    Bouie 

    As 
    he's singing 
    with 
    his 

    class 
    of 
    nineteen- 
    two 

    Oh 
    mother 
    country, 
    do 
    love 
    you 

    Oh 
    mother 
    country, 
    do 
    love 
    you 

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