The Stanley Brothers – Mothers Only Sleeping (Guitar)

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I left my old home way back in the mountains

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Since mother and father had both passed away

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We followed our mother up to the graveyard

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For mother was called to heaven that day

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Mothers not dead she's only a sleeping

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Just patiently waiting for Jesus to come

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The birds will be singing while Mother is sleeping

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They will sing o'er as the grave sinks away

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Oh how we miss her around the old home place

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Everything seems so lonesome since shes gone away

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Mother is sleeping way back the mountains

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Yes mother is sleeping way back in the hills

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Mothers not dead she's only a sleeping

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Just patiently waiting for Jesus to come

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The birds will be singing while Mother is sleeping

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They will sing o'er as the grave sinks away