Hank Williams – Ive Just Told Mama Goodbye (Guitar)

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(3/4 measure) [Intro] | D | A7 | D | D | [Verse 1]
D            A7       D
Each year on Mother's day

           G        D
The rose I wore was red

      G              D
But today I'm saying my first prayer

                A7        D
Mama's lying on her dying bed
[Chorus]
               A7       D
I've just told Mama goodbye

                 G         D
Mother's day has turned to night

         G                     D
Like the flowers in May, she's withered away

                   A7      D
And my red rose is turning white
[Verse 2]
            A       D
This is the dreaded hour

            G        D   D7
We all must face someday

            G           D
Yet there's consolation in my heart

                      A7          D
She will bloom in the Master's bouquet
[Chorus]
               A7       D
I've just told Mama goodbye

                 G         D
Mother's day has turned to night

         G                     D
Like the flowers in May, she's withered away

                   A       D
And my red rose is turning white
[Verse 4]
             A7      D
Her time has come to go

                    G     D
And there's nothing I can do

     G                 D
Only hold her hand and say goodbye

                    A7          D
Mama's day with her children is through
[Verse 5]
               A7       D
I've just told Mama goodbye

             G        D   D7
As I knelt beside her bed

      G                    D
But I heard her say: "I'll meet you someday"

                       A7   A      D
"Where the white roses turn to re-ed"