Chords for Maw Maw's Song

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_ _ _ They owned back in the Bayou _ Woods, _ a long time ago [D] near Lake [G] Larkin.
_ _ _ There was a family with five _ kids, _ didn't have [D] much but [G] they learned to live.
_ _ _ Papa shared crop, mama washed the clothes.
_ _ _ Kids did the [D] chores, chopped the [G] garden rows.
_ _ _ Did what they could to keep the wolves away.
_ But most important, mama learned to pray.
_ _ [D] [Em] And the faces of [D] her children [G] always come to mind.
[Em] And her [D] children's children, [G] she thinks about them all the [C] time.
_ _ _ _ _ [G] And every night before the [D] pillow [Em] cradles are [G] hanged,
she'll kneel down and pray for them in the dark [D] beside her bed.
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[D] _ _ _ _ [G] Papa died young just before the fall, _ _ when the house burned [D] down they nearly [G] lost it all.
_ _ _ Mama still had what mattered most, _ _ the love of her [D] kids and the [G] Holy Ghost.
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_ [G] _ _ _ _ Grandma's been around almost a hundred _ years, for us she's [D] cried a [G] million _ tears.
She still holds faith [Em] waiting for the _ day, _ [G] when the trump of God will call her away.
_ [D] [Em] But the faces [D] of her children [G] always come to mind.
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And her [D] children's [G] children, she thinks about us all [C] the _ time.
_ _ _ [G] And every night before the pillow cradles are hanged,
she'll kneel down and pray for us in the dark [D] beside her [G] bed.
[D] _ _ _ _ _ [C] For her children _ _ _ _ and her [G] children's [D] children.
_ _ _ [C] For her children and her [G] children's children. _ _
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