Chords for The Carter Family and Johnny Cash - Dear Mama

_ _ _ [C] _ Mother Maybel, come down and join me, will you?
Mother Maybel, I want to tell you something.
We've got a little special thing here to do right now.
June, Helen, and Anita wrote a song with you in mind.
Come right down here. _
A special tribute to you.
As you know, Mother Maybel Carter is in the Country Music Hall of Fame.
She's got three daughters that have worked with her for years.
So have all of us worked with her for years.
We're awfully proud of her.
Mother, this song the girls want to sing is especially for you.
It's called Dear Mama. _ _
_ _ [F] Dear Mama, _ [C] _
now that [F] we're older,
_ [C]
we can [F] see the load [C] on those tired [F] old shoulders.
[C]
Mama, [F] you're a trooper.
[C] Mama, you're a soldier. _
Mama, [F] we've [G] finally [C] come of _ _ age.
[Em] _ _ [C]
When I [F] was growing up [C] and still a little girl,
[G]
I was always wondering [F] about the [C] ways of the world.
_ Mama [F] tried to tell me how my [C] life was going to be,
[G] but I was young and wild [F] and it was hard for [C] me to see. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] Dear Mama, _ _ [C] _
now that _ [F] _ _ _ [Em]
we're older,
we can [F] see the load [C] on those tired [F] old [C] shoulders.
Mama, [F] you're a trooper.
[C] Mama, you're a soldier.
Mama, _ [Dm] we've [G] finally come [C] of age.
_ _ [G] _ _ [C] She always [F] got me out of [C] bed early Sunday morning
[G] and took me off to church [F] where I could learn [C] about the Lord.
And when I [F] started acting [C] kind of wild for my age,
[G] she said, [Dm] take it easy, [F] you're just going [C] through a stage.
_ _ Yeah, Mama, I'll tell you, all those years we worked together [F] on the road,
I'll never forget the times that [C] you pressed my pants for me
[F] and I'd try to go on stage with them a [C] little regularly,
[F] try to keep me straightened out [Am] in other ways to get me [F] back home in shape
[C] and all the other [F] kinds of things.
And I'll [C] tell you, if I can pick my fishing buddies
from the crappie start biting this spring,
[F] I'm going to choose you to go fishing with me [C] again, all right? _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] Dear Mama, _ _ [C] _
now that [F] we're older,
_ _ [C]
we can [F] see the load [Em] on those tired [F] old [C] shoulders.
Mama, [F] you're a trooper.
[C] Mama, you're a soldier.
Mama, _ [F] we've finally [G] _
come a [C] way.
_ _ [Dm] _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [N] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Look at that hill over there.
[G] It's beautiful. _
_ _ _ _ It's beautiful. It's beautiful. _ _