Key: Bb            (capo 3rd fret and play in G ) 
 
G                                 C 
She grew up plain and simple in a farming town. 
    D                                                            G 
Her daddy played the fiddle and used to do the calling when they had hoedowns. 
             Em                                                    C 
She says the neighbors would come and they'd move all my grandma's furniture 'round. 
               D                                                        G 
And there'd be twenty or more there on the old wooden floor dancin' to a country sound.  
 
 
G                                        C 
The Carters and Jimmy Rodgers played her favourite songs. 
       D                                                    G 
And on Saturday nights there was a radio show and she would sing along. 
         Em                                C 
And I'll never forget her face when she revealed to me, 
                         D                        G 
That she'd dreamed about singing at The Grand Ol' Opry.  
 
 
G                                        C 
Her eyes, oh, how they sparkled when she sang those songs. 
              D                                                   G 
While she was hanging the clothes on the line, I was a kid just a hummin' along. 
             Em                                                   C 
Well, I'd be playing in the grass, to her, what might've seemed, obliviously, 
          D                                          G 
But there ain't no doubt about it: she sure made her mark on me. 
  
 
        G                                C 
An' she played old gospel records on the phonograph. 
    D                                                  G 
She turned them up loud and we'd sing along, but those days have passed. 
     Em                     C 
Just now that I am older it occurs to me, 
           D                         G 
That I was singing in the grandest opry.  
 
CHORUS: 
                  G                     C 
      And we sang Sweet Rose of Sharon, Abide With Me, 
             D                                G 
      'Til I ride The Gospel Ship to Heaven's Jubilee. 
               Em                               C 
      And In That Great Triumphant Morning my soul will be free, 
               D                                               G 
      And My Burdens Will Be Lifted when my Saviour's face I see.  
 

                  G                     C 
      So I Don't Want to Get Adjusted to This World below, 
             D                                G 
      But I know He'll Pilot Me 'til it comes time to go. 
               Em                               C 
      Oh, nothing on this earth is half as dear to me, 
                           D      G 
      As the sound of my Mama's Opry 
 
INSTRUMENTAL  
 
(Chorus)