When She Sang Amazing Grace
Ray Wylie Hubbard
Tabbed By Larry Mofle
rmofle at satx.rr.com
10/23/2004


Capo 4 (or you can capo 2 and play in key of D)
Use alternating bass to get the best effect.


             C
When I was a child, mama’d hold me
       F                                       C 
In her lovin’ arms when the storm clouds come along
            C
Dark clouds rising, storms a ragin
             G               C 
She would sing an old gospel song

                 C  
With the thunder crashing and lightning, flashing
        F                                   C
I found comfort in the words that she would sing
             C 
Beyond these dark skies there’s a rainbow
              G               C
That only love and the sun’ll bring


When she sang Amazing Grace
I felt tears in my eyes
When she sang Circle Be Unbroken
Lord, I knew there’s bluer skies

 
Time rolled on, the circle was broken
Mama went on to somewhere beyond the blue
I started ramblin’ that lost highway
And hard livin’ took away the little child she knew

 
Yeah, I started drinkin’ and I started gamblin’
I had no one to look over me
There was no blue skies, only sorrow
I could only hear her sing in my memory

 
I was runnin’ with a wild bunch
Hanging with the rough and the rowdy kind
I was livin fast, and I was dying young
So alone, Lord I had a worried mind

 
I was drunk and I was hurtin’
Somewhere on the streets in New Orleans
When I stumbled into a little shelter
I saw an angel with a tambourine