When She Sang Amazing Grace

Capo 4 (or you can capo 2 and play in key of D)
Use alternating bass to get the best effect.


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When I was a child, mama?d hold me
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In her lovin? arms when the storm clouds come along
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Dark clouds rising, storms a ragin
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She would sing an old gospel song

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With the thunder crashing and lightning, flashing
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I found comfort in the words that she would sing
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Beyond these dark skies there?s a rainbow
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That only love and the sun?ll bring


When she sang Amazing Grace
I felt tears in my eyes
When she sang Circle Be Unbroken
Lord, I knew there?s bluer skies


Time rolled on, the circle was broken
Mama went on to somewhere beyond the blue
I started ramblin? that lost highway
And hard livin? took away the little child she knew


Yeah, I started drinkin? and I started gamblin?
I had no one to look over me
There was no blue skies, only sorrow
I could only hear her sing in my memory


I was runnin? with a wild bunch
Hanging with the rough and the rowdy kind
I was livin fast, and I was dying young
So alone, Lord I had a worried mind


I was drunk and I was hurtin?
Somewhere on the streets in New Orleans
When I stumbled into a little shelter
I saw an angel with a tambourine