Standard Tuning Intro: All in D When I was 6 or 7 Mama tucked me in With a lullaby and it Made my eyes open wide again I would lie awake and wonder Why a boy named Billy Joe Jumped off the Tallahatchee Bridge To the river far below Chorus: Blame it on mama And the songs she loved to sing I'm not from Louisiana but that don't mean a thing Don't come from Alabama or a hill from Tennessee Just blame it on mama, she sang (she sang) The country into me I just loved to listen As she'd sing those story songs 'Bout a coat of many colors Or a girl named Delta Dawn When the lights went out in Georgia I would beg for just one more All about Fancy and the pretty red satin Dancing dress she wore (Chorus) I'm a coal miner's daughter Lovin my preacher's son I have walked the streets of Laredo Stared down the barrel of a law man's gun I've grown roots and I've got claims To places I've never been And when I sing those songs it takes me Right back home again (Chorus) The country into me, yeah