Intro:  B5    E5  F#5    B5    E5  F#5

  B5               F#5                    C#5
She sat all alone on a bus out of Beaumont
     E5          F#5       B5
With courage of just 18 years
  B5               F#5                 C#5
A penny and quarter were taped to a letter
    E5          F#5           B5       F#5  E5
And Mama's good-bye in her ears
    B5              F#5            C#5
She watched as her high school faded behind her
        E5              F#5            B5
And the house with the white picket fence
     B5            F#5             C#5
Then she read the note that her Mama had wrote
E5                          F#5
Wrapped up with twenty-six cents

                     
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                         B5     F#5     Ab5  F#5    Ab5
When you get lonely   call me   anytime at all
               B5     F#5     Ab5  F#5    Ab5
I'll be there with you    always    anywhere at all
                                    Eb5
There's nothing I got that I wouldn't give
    E5                C#5
And money is never enough
         E5                                           F#5
Here's a penny for your thoughts    a quarter for the call
    E5          F#5      B5
And all-a your Mama's love

  B5         F#5             C#5
A penny and quarter buys a whole lot of nothin
E5           F#5            B5
Taped to an old wrinkled note
             B5           F#5             C#5
And when she didn't have much, she had all Mama's love
E5                   F#5
Inside that old envelope

                          
Chorus

     Ab5                    F#5           E5
Oh, it's been years since Mama's been gone 
             Ab5               F#5                 E5    F#5  Ab5  F#5
But when she holds a coin she feels her love----just as strong


Chorus

              C#5                         E5
Here's a penny for your thoughts  a quarter for the call
               F#5      B5
And all-a your Mama's love