GC
She grew up plain and simple in a farming town.
DG
Her daddy played the fiddle and used to do the calling when they had hoedowns.
EmC
She says the neighbors would come and they'd move all my grandma's furniture 'round.
DD
And there'd be twenty or more there on the old wooden floor dancin' to a country sound.
GC
The Carters and Jimmy Rodgers played her favourite songs.
DG
And on Saturday nights there was a radio show and she would sing along.
EmC
And I'll never forget her face when she revealed to me,
GDG
That she'd dreamed about singing at The Grand Old Opry.
GC
Her eyes, oh, how they sparkled when she sang those songs.
DG
While she was hanging the clothes on the line, I was a kid just a hummin' along.
EmC
Well, I'd be playing in the grass, to her, what might be, obliviously,
CD
But there ain't no doubt about it: she sure made her mark on me.
GC
AnD she played old gospel records on the phonograph.
DG
She turned them up loud and we'd sing along, but those days have passed.
EmC
Just now that I am older it occurs to me,
GDG
That I was singing in the grandest opry.
DGC
And we sang Sweet Rose of Sharon, Abide With Me,
DG
'Til I ride The Gospel Ship to Heaven's Jubilee.
EmC
And In That Great Triumphant Morning my soul will be free,
AmD
And My Burdens Will Be Lifted when my Saviour's face I see.
GC
So I Don't Want to Get Adjusted to This World below,
DG
But I know He'll Pilot Me 'til it comes time to go.
EmC
Oh, nothing on this earth is half as dear to me,
GDG
As the sound of my Mama's Opry
DGC
And we sang Sweet Rose of Sharon, Abide With Me,
DG
'Til I ride The Gospel Ship to Heaven's Jubilee.
EmC
And In That Great Triumphant Morning my soul will be free,
CD
And My Burdens Will Be Lifted when my Saviour's face I see.
GC
So I Don't Want to Get Adjusted to This World below,
DG
But I know He'll Pilot Me 'til it comes time to go.
EmC
Oh, nothing on this earth is half as dear to me,
GDG
As the sound of my Mama's Opry
This arrangement for the song is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this for private study, scholarship, or research.