Artisto: | The Carter family (English) |
Uzanto: | Waeller Wutz |
Daŭro: | 130 sekundoj |
Komenca paŭzo: | 12 sekundoj |
Tononoma sistemo: | Bazvalorа |
Sakra: | |
Komentoj pri tabulaturo: | - |
Titel: I Have an Aged Mother
Artist: The Carter Family
Album: In The Shadow Of
Clinch Mountain (2000)
(A. P. Carter)
Recorded:
Date: Monday, November 25, 1929
(09:00-13:00)
Location: Atlanta Women's Club,
Atlanta, GA
Victor Recording Session
Orig.: G
Intro: G C G D
G C G D G
G C
Last night while I lay sleeping
G D7 G
Last night while in a dream
C
I saw my dear old mother
G D7 G
Down by a rippling stream
C G
Don't ask me why I'm weeping
C G
Don't ask me why I pray
C
For I've an aged mother
G D7 G
Ten thousand miles away
Instrumental: G C G D G
G C
A letter here from sister dear
G D7 G
Come home, we're all alone
C
Dear mother's slowly fading
G D7 G
She can't be with us long
C G
Don't ask me why I'm weeping
C G
Don't ask me why I pray
C
I've a dear old mother dying
G D7
Ten thousand miles away
G D7 G
Well, ah-le-ho, le-ho-lay
G D7 G
Well, ah-le-ho, le-ho-lay
C G
Out in the cold world
D7 G
Long ways from home
G C
I'm drawing near the old home
G D7 G
Dear sister's at the gate
C
She's leading me through the doorway
G D7 G
Oh, brother, you've come too late
C G
Oh, lead me to the casket
C G
Throw back the linen so fine
C
That I may kiss her pale white lips
G D7 G
For I know they'll never kiss mine
Instrumental: G C G D G
G C
I see the pale moon shining
G D7 G
On mother's white tombstone
C
The rosebuds 'round them twining
G D7 G
Are just like me alone
G D7 G
Well, ah-le-ho, le-ho-lay
G D7 G
Well, ah-le-ho, le-ho-lay
C G
Out in the cold world
D7 G
Left all alone