Key: C major
Verse 1
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Am
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My mother's
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arms would hold us tight
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Lord, keep them tonight
Em
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And so did we, sleep sound an d safe.
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It must have been our mother's faith.
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Morning would call the sun to rise,
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and open sweetly slumbering eyes.
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She prayed, keep them on their way.
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He held us in my mother's faith.
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My mother's faith was wrapped about us
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like the softest downwinter.
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And while the raging wind had found us
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As in her arms we ever stayed
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At even time, dusk o 'er the field,
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Reluctant moon an d stars revealed,
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She thanked him well, as through the day,
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As certain as my mother's faith.
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My mother's faith could move a mountain
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and all as deep as any ocean
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But to keep safe those gathered round her
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This was the greatest gift she gave
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When summer turned and we had grown
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Her passing called us woeful home I kissed her then,
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as there she lay
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And now I know my mother's fate
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And so does she, sleep sound and safe,
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It must have been my mother
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's fate.
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Ooooooooh
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