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we'd splash through the puddles
    C
on cold, rainy days
       G
me and ma would make up stories
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'bout wild tigers and crazy things
      G
dad taught me how to grow old
      C
be a man and take charge
    G
but ma, she just loved me 
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with a kind and gentle heart

C
now i thank the good lord
         G
that he put me with mom
       D
she showed me how to laugh
      G
and love with a pure heart
              C
she used to cover me with blankets
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from the cold night air
     G
and now that i am gone 
      D              G
she covers me with prayer

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me and ma would bake cookies
           C
and she'd let me eat the dough
      G
one summer night we went to see
    D
a drive in picture show
      G
she taught me in bible school
         C
how to fold my hands and pray
          G
then at night we'd say our prayers 
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and thank god for the day


repeat chorus
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and now that i am gone
 D                    C         G
she covers me with prayer