Chords for Iris DeMent : Mama's Opry
Tempo:
83 bpm
Chords used:
B
F#
E
G#m
C#
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[B] [E] I'd like to do a song now that I wrote for my mother.
[N] My mom is about 76 years old right now, but she grew up in the northeast corner of Arkansas.
And, yeah, it's a nice little corner of the world, I guess.
But [G]
when she was a young woman, she used to listen to the grand old rappy radio shows
that would [Bm] come [Em] over the air back then.
And [B] she got the idea that she would like to go off to Nashville
and become what she called a singing star at the grand old Opry.
[N] I was about five years old when [C#m] my mother and I were standing around [B] the living room
listening to a Loretta Lynn gospel record, and I remember my mother telling me about that.
And [E] I remembered it after I got grown [B] up, and I wrote this song for her.
It's called Mama's Opry.
She grew up plain and simple [E] in a farming town
[F#] Her daddy played the fiddle and he used to do the [B] calling when they had hold downs
[G#m] She said the neighbors would come and they'd move all my [E] grandma's furniture around
And every 20 or more they're on an old wooden [F#] floor dancing to a country sound
[B] Then Jimmy Rogers [E] played her favorite songs
[F#] And on Saturday nights there was a radio [B] show and she would sing along
[C#] And I'll never forget her face when [E] she revealed to me
[B] That she dreamed about [F#] singing at the grand [B] old Opry
[F#] Were [B] her eyes gold [E] when she sang those songs
[F#] While she was hanging the clothes on the line I was a [B] kid just humming along
[G#m] I'd be playing in the grass to her what might have [E] seemed obliviously
But there ain't no doubt about it [F#] she sure made her mark on me
And [B] she played all her birds [E] on the phone, her grass
[F#] She'd turn them up loud and we'd sing [B] along though those days have passed
[C#] But just now that I am older [E] it occurs to me
That [B] I was singing [F#] in the grandest [B] Opry
[F#] And we [B] sang sweet rose of Sharon, [E] abide with me
Lost [F#]
the ship to [B] heaven's jubilee
And [G#m] in that great triumphant morning [E] my soul will be free
And my burdens will be lifted [F#] when my savior's face I see
[B] So I don't want to get adjusted [E] to this world below
But [F#] I know he'll pilot me [B] till it comes time to go
[C#] Oh and nothing on this [E] earth's half as dear to me
[B] As all [F#] of my [B] mama's Opry
[F#] And [B] we sang sweet rose of Sharon, [E] abide with me
Lost [F#]
the ship [B] to heaven's jubilee
[G#m] And in that great triumphant morning [E] my soul will be free
And my burdens will be lifted [F#] when my savior's face I see
[B] So I don't want to get adjusted [E] to this world below
[F#] But I know he'll pilot me [B] till it comes time to go
[C#] Oh and nothing on this [E] earth's half as dear to me
As [B]
[F#] all of my [B] mama's Opry
[Bm] [N]
[N] My mom is about 76 years old right now, but she grew up in the northeast corner of Arkansas.
And, yeah, it's a nice little corner of the world, I guess.
But [G]
when she was a young woman, she used to listen to the grand old rappy radio shows
that would [Bm] come [Em] over the air back then.
And [B] she got the idea that she would like to go off to Nashville
and become what she called a singing star at the grand old Opry.
[N] I was about five years old when [C#m] my mother and I were standing around [B] the living room
listening to a Loretta Lynn gospel record, and I remember my mother telling me about that.
And [E] I remembered it after I got grown [B] up, and I wrote this song for her.
It's called Mama's Opry.
She grew up plain and simple [E] in a farming town
[F#] Her daddy played the fiddle and he used to do the [B] calling when they had hold downs
[G#m] She said the neighbors would come and they'd move all my [E] grandma's furniture around
And every 20 or more they're on an old wooden [F#] floor dancing to a country sound
[B] Then Jimmy Rogers [E] played her favorite songs
[F#] And on Saturday nights there was a radio [B] show and she would sing along
[C#] And I'll never forget her face when [E] she revealed to me
[B] That she dreamed about [F#] singing at the grand [B] old Opry
[F#] Were [B] her eyes gold [E] when she sang those songs
[F#] While she was hanging the clothes on the line I was a [B] kid just humming along
[G#m] I'd be playing in the grass to her what might have [E] seemed obliviously
But there ain't no doubt about it [F#] she sure made her mark on me
And [B] she played all her birds [E] on the phone, her grass
[F#] She'd turn them up loud and we'd sing [B] along though those days have passed
[C#] But just now that I am older [E] it occurs to me
That [B] I was singing [F#] in the grandest [B] Opry
[F#] And we [B] sang sweet rose of Sharon, [E] abide with me
Lost [F#]
the ship to [B] heaven's jubilee
And [G#m] in that great triumphant morning [E] my soul will be free
And my burdens will be lifted [F#] when my savior's face I see
[B] So I don't want to get adjusted [E] to this world below
But [F#] I know he'll pilot me [B] till it comes time to go
[C#] Oh and nothing on this [E] earth's half as dear to me
[B] As all [F#] of my [B] mama's Opry
[F#] And [B] we sang sweet rose of Sharon, [E] abide with me
Lost [F#]
the ship [B] to heaven's jubilee
[G#m] And in that great triumphant morning [E] my soul will be free
And my burdens will be lifted [F#] when my savior's face I see
[B] So I don't want to get adjusted [E] to this world below
[F#] But I know he'll pilot me [B] till it comes time to go
[C#] Oh and nothing on this [E] earth's half as dear to me
As [B]
[F#] all of my [B] mama's Opry
[Bm] [N]
Key:
B
F#
E
G#m
C#
B
F#
E
[B] _ _ [E] I'd like to do a song now that I wrote for my mother.
[N] My mom is about 76 years old right now, but she grew up in the northeast corner of Arkansas.
And, yeah, it's a nice little corner of the world, I guess.
But [G]
when she was a young woman, she used to listen to the grand old rappy radio shows
that would [Bm] come [Em] over the air back then.
And [B] she got the idea that she would like to go off to Nashville
and become what she called a singing star at the grand old Opry.
[N] I was about five years old when [C#m] my mother and I were standing around [B] the living room
listening to a Loretta Lynn gospel record, and I remember my mother telling me about that.
And [E] I remembered it after I got grown [B] up, and I wrote this song for her.
It's called Mama's Opry. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ She grew up plain and simple [E] in a farming town
[F#] Her daddy played the fiddle and he used to do the [B] calling when they had hold downs
[G#m] She said the neighbors would come and they'd move all my [E] grandma's furniture around
And every 20 or more they're on an old wooden [F#] floor dancing to a country sound
[B] Then Jimmy Rogers [E] played her favorite songs
[F#] And on Saturday nights there was a radio [B] show and she would sing along
[C#] And I'll never forget her face when [E] she revealed to me
[B] That she dreamed about [F#] singing at the grand [B] old Opry
[F#] Were [B] her eyes gold [E] when she sang those songs
[F#] While she was hanging the clothes on the line I was a [B] kid just humming along
[G#m] I'd be playing in the grass to her what might have [E] seemed obliviously
_ But there ain't no doubt about it [F#] she sure made her mark on me
And [B] she played all her birds [E] on the phone, her grass
[F#] She'd turn them up loud and we'd sing [B] along though those days have passed
[C#] But just now that I am older [E] it occurs to me
That [B] I was singing [F#] in the grandest [B] Opry
[F#] And we [B] sang sweet rose of Sharon, [E] abide with me
Lost [F#] _
the ship to [B] heaven's jubilee
And [G#m] in that great triumphant morning [E] my soul will be free
And my burdens will be lifted [F#] when my savior's face I see
[B] So I don't want to get adjusted [E] to this world below
But [F#] I know he'll pilot me [B] till it comes time to go
[C#] Oh and nothing on this [E] earth's half as dear to me
[B] As all [F#] of my [B] mama's Opry
[F#] And [B] we sang sweet rose of Sharon, [E] abide with me
Lost [F#] _
the ship [B] to heaven's jubilee
[G#m] And in that great triumphant morning [E] my soul will be free
And my burdens will be lifted [F#] when my savior's face I see
[B] So I don't want to get adjusted [E] to this world below
[F#] But I know he'll pilot me [B] till it comes time to go
[C#] Oh and nothing on this [E] earth's half as dear to me
As [B] _
[F#] all of my [B] mama's Opry _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ [N] _ _
[N] My mom is about 76 years old right now, but she grew up in the northeast corner of Arkansas.
And, yeah, it's a nice little corner of the world, I guess.
But [G]
when she was a young woman, she used to listen to the grand old rappy radio shows
that would [Bm] come [Em] over the air back then.
And [B] she got the idea that she would like to go off to Nashville
and become what she called a singing star at the grand old Opry.
[N] I was about five years old when [C#m] my mother and I were standing around [B] the living room
listening to a Loretta Lynn gospel record, and I remember my mother telling me about that.
And [E] I remembered it after I got grown [B] up, and I wrote this song for her.
It's called Mama's Opry. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ She grew up plain and simple [E] in a farming town
[F#] Her daddy played the fiddle and he used to do the [B] calling when they had hold downs
[G#m] She said the neighbors would come and they'd move all my [E] grandma's furniture around
And every 20 or more they're on an old wooden [F#] floor dancing to a country sound
[B] Then Jimmy Rogers [E] played her favorite songs
[F#] And on Saturday nights there was a radio [B] show and she would sing along
[C#] And I'll never forget her face when [E] she revealed to me
[B] That she dreamed about [F#] singing at the grand [B] old Opry
[F#] Were [B] her eyes gold [E] when she sang those songs
[F#] While she was hanging the clothes on the line I was a [B] kid just humming along
[G#m] I'd be playing in the grass to her what might have [E] seemed obliviously
_ But there ain't no doubt about it [F#] she sure made her mark on me
And [B] she played all her birds [E] on the phone, her grass
[F#] She'd turn them up loud and we'd sing [B] along though those days have passed
[C#] But just now that I am older [E] it occurs to me
That [B] I was singing [F#] in the grandest [B] Opry
[F#] And we [B] sang sweet rose of Sharon, [E] abide with me
Lost [F#] _
the ship to [B] heaven's jubilee
And [G#m] in that great triumphant morning [E] my soul will be free
And my burdens will be lifted [F#] when my savior's face I see
[B] So I don't want to get adjusted [E] to this world below
But [F#] I know he'll pilot me [B] till it comes time to go
[C#] Oh and nothing on this [E] earth's half as dear to me
[B] As all [F#] of my [B] mama's Opry
[F#] And [B] we sang sweet rose of Sharon, [E] abide with me
Lost [F#] _
the ship [B] to heaven's jubilee
[G#m] And in that great triumphant morning [E] my soul will be free
And my burdens will be lifted [F#] when my savior's face I see
[B] So I don't want to get adjusted [E] to this world below
[F#] But I know he'll pilot me [B] till it comes time to go
[C#] Oh and nothing on this [E] earth's half as dear to me
As [B] _
[F#] all of my [B] mama's Opry _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ [N] _ _