
Date of issue: 31.12.2001
Record label: Capitol Records Nashville
Song language: English
Mama's Opry |
She grew up plain and simple in a farming town |
Her daddy played the fiddle and used to do the calling |
When they had ho-downs |
She says the neighbours would come |
And they’d move all my grandma’s furniture around |
And there’d be twenty or more there on the old wooden floor dancing to a |
country sound |
The Carters and Jimmie Rodgers played her favorite songs |
And on Saturday nights there was a radio show |
And she would sing along |
And I’ll never forget her face when she revealed to me |
That she’d dreamed about singing at The Grand Old Opry |
Her eyes, oh, how they sparkled when she sang those songs |
While she was hanging the clothes on the line |
I was a kid just a humming along |
Well, I’d be playing in the grass, to her |
What might have seemed, obliviously |
But there ain’t no doubt about it she sure made her mark on me |
And she played old gospel records on the phonograph |
She turned them up loud and we’d sing along |
But those days have passed |
Just now that I am older it occurs to me |
That I was singing in the grandest opry |
And we sang Sweet Rose of Sharon, Abide With Me |
Until I ride The Gospel Ship to Heaven’s Jubilee |
And In That Great Triumphant Morning my soul will be free |
And My Burdens Will Be Lifted when my Saviour’s face I see |
So I Don’t Want to Get Adjusted to This World below |
But I know He’ll Pilot Me until it comes time to go |
Oh, nothing on this earth is half as dear to me |
As the sound of my Mama’s Opry |
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Shot Full Of Love | 1982 |
Travelin' Mood | 2002 |
Who's Gonna Take the Garbage Out ft. Iris DeMent | 2019 |
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Mornin' Glory | 2012 |
Makin' My Way Back Home | 2012 |
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Artist lyrics: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Artist lyrics: Iris DeMent