Mama's Opry

She grew up plain and simple in a farming town

Her daddy played the fiddle and used to do the calling when they had hoedowns

She said the neighbors would come and they'd move all my grandma's furniture 'round

And there'd be twenty or more there on the old wooden floor,dancin' to a country sound

The Carters and Jimmy Rodgers played her favorite songs

And on Saturday nights there was a radio show and she'd sing along

I'll never forget her face when she revealed to me

That she'd dreamed about singing at The Grand Ol' Opry

Her eyes, oh, how they sparkled when she sang those songs

She was hanging the clothes on the line, I was a kid just a hummin' along

Well, I'd be playing in the grass, to her, what might've seemed, obliviously

There ain't no doubt about it: she sure made her mark on me

She played old gospel records on the phonograph

She turned them up loud and we'd sing along, how those days have passed

Just now that I am older it occurs to me

That I was singing in the grandest opry

And we sang Sweet Rose of Sharon, Abide With Me

'Til I ride The Gospel Ship to Heaven's Jubilee

And In That Great Triumphant Morning my soul will be free

And My Burdens Will Be Lifted when my Saviour's face I see

So I Don't Want to Get Adjusted to This World below

But I know He'll Pilot Me 'til it comes time to go

Oh, nothing on this earth is half as dear to me

As the sound of my Mama's Opry

And we sang Sweet Rose of Sharon, Abide With Me

'Til I ride The Gospel Ship to Heaven's Jubilee

And In That Great Triumphant Morning my soul will be free

And My Burdens Will Be Lifted when my Saviour's face I see

So I Don't Want to Get Adjusted to This World below

But I know He'll Pilot Me 'til it comes time to go

Oh, nothing on this earth is half as dear to me