Standard Tuning

Intro: All in D

D5
When I was 6 or 7
               A5
Mama tucked me in
        D5
With a lullaby and it
                       A5
Made my eyes open wide again
         G5                            
I would lie awake and wonder
       D5               G5
Why a boy named Billy Joe
        D5
Jumped off the Tallahatchee Bridge
        A5
To the river far below

Chorus:
G5
Blame it on mama
         D5
And the songs she loved to sing
     G5                           D5
I'm not from Louisiana but that don't mean a thing
        G5                D5
Don't come from Alabama or a hill from Tennessee
        C5
Just blame it on mama, she sang (she sang)
           D5
The country into me

D5
I just loved to listen
                            A5
As she'd sing those story songs
        D5
'Bout a coat of many colors
                      A5
Or a girl named Delta Dawn
         G5                        
When the lights went out in Georgia
        D5                 G5
I would beg for just one more
D5
All about Fancy and the pretty red satin 
A5
Dancing dress she wore

(Chorus)

G5                    D5
I'm a coal miner's daughter
G5                    D5
Lovin my preacher's son
        G5                       D5
I have walked the streets of Laredo
                A5
Stared down the barrel of a law man's gun

G5                       D5
I've grown roots and I've got claims
G5                     D5
To places I've never been
G5                       D5
And when I sing those songs it takes me
A5
Right back home again

D5

(Chorus)

    D5
The country into me, yeah