MEMORIES OF MOTHER (Ralph Stanley)
>From "Clinch Mountain Country" (Rebel-5001)
Released May 1998
Ralph Stanley with CLAIRE LYNCH
Disk 1/Track 8
Key of G
INTRO
VERSE 1
On a dark stormy night the angels called mother
Her love that we shared for such a short while
She called us around and told us she was leaving
Then closing her eyes she went with a smile
CHORUS
Mother that rests in a lonesome old graveyard
On a hill a far away there's stands her white tomb
With the grass covered over it seems so neglected
When the spring seasons comes sweet flowers will bloom
VERSE 2
I'll never forget the love mother gave us
As children we'd play around our old home
I know her reward is a mansion in heaven
While her children on earth are scattered and gone
(CHORUS)
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