Merle Haggard – Mother The Queen Of My Heart (Guitar)

C       G7           C
I had a home down in Texas

F                           C
Down where the blue bonnets grew

  G7                  C
I had the kindest old mother

D7                        G7
How happy we were just we two

C                G7            C
Till one day the angels called her

               C7          F
A debt that we all have to pay

                           C
She called me close to her bedside

            G7            C
To me these words she did say

                G7           C
Son don't start drinking and gambling

F                        C
Promise you'll always go straight

G7                             C
Ten years have passed since we parted

D7                           G7
My promise I've broke I must say

C         G7           C
I started gambling for pastime

                C7        F
Soon I was just like them all

                        C
I bet my clothes and my money

             G7            C
Not thinking that I'd ever fall

          G7         C
One day I bet all my money

F                          C
Not a thing was left to be seen

G7                           C
All that I  needed  to break them

D7                          G7
Was one card and that was a queen

C              G7              C
The cards were dealt round the table

              C7           F
Each man took one from the draw

                          C
I drew the one that would beat them

                G7            C
I turned it and here’s what I saw

         G7       C
I saw my mother's picture

F                       C
And to me she seemed to say

G7                       C
Son you have broken your promise

D7                    G7
So I tossed the cards away

C             G7            C
I gave all my winnings to a newsboy

             C7             F
I knew I was wrong from the start

                       C
I'll never forget that promise

             G7              C
To my Mother the queen of my heart