Tuning: E A D G B E

[Intro]

^E (Shall we gather at the river that ^B7flows by the throne of ^EGod)

[Verse] (Background Strumming and humming)

^EThe church doors opened one Sunday in a little country ^B7town The people all were silent in the rain that misted down^E And an old gray-haired granddad his shoulders stooped with pain^B7 Was holdin' fast a little boy who kept^E cryin' in the rain And in the dim candlelight within a casket lay so still^B7 That soon would lie beneath the earth,^E up at the top of the hill

The little boy kept askin' in a low and plaintive tone

^B7 What's wrong with mommy grandpa^E won't she be comin' home It's awful lonesome grandpa since daddy went away And mommy's all the reason^B7 why I'm happy every day^E

Wouldn't she feel better grandpa if I layed down by her side

The old man turned and ^B7faced him and with these words replied^E Mother went a walkin' son away up in the sky^B7 Along the brook that winds a^Emong the stars up there on high

And down the valley where the sun goes home at night to sleep

^B7 Mother went a walkin' son,^E she wouldn't want us to weep The boy didn't seem to understand just where his mom had gone^B7 He couldn't realize that now,^E she wouldn't be comin' home He saw the rain on grandpa's face he didn't know he cried^B7 And of course he couldn't hear the ^Ewords that grandpa said inside Mother went a walkin',^B7 son,^E up yonder in the sky And all that we can do down here son is bow our heads and cry^B7 She's gone to meet your ^Edaddy son and take him by the hand Yes mother went a walkin' son,^B7 in God's great ^Emeadowland

Jim Reeves - Mother went a walkin