{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1788713,"song":"Theres Always A Mother Waiting At Home","artist":"Johnny Cash","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/1788713-theres-always-a-mother-waiting-at-home-chords-by-johnny-cash/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1788713?type=chord","rating":4.83008,"votes":4,"content":"[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nSo you're going to leave the old home Jim[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]F[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nToday you're going away[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G7[/ch]                           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSo you're going among the city folk to dwell[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                      [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSo spoke a kind old mother to her boy one summer's day[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G7[/ch]                                 [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIf you're mind's made up that way I wish you well[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe old home will be lonesome[/tab]\r\n            \r\nWe'll miss you when you go\r\n[tab]                                              [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nThe birds won't sing so sweet when you're not nigh[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                                        [ch]F[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut if you get in trouble Jim just write and let us know[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]G7[/ch]                          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nShe spoke these words and then she said goodbye[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]   [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIf sickness overtakes you[/tab]\r\n               \r\nAnd old companions shake you\r\n[tab]                                      [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nAs through this world you wander all alone[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhen friends you haven't any[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]\r\nIn your pocket not a penny[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G7[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThere's a mother always waiting you at home[/tab]\r\n\r\n     \r\n[tab]                                                [ch]F[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nTen years later to this village came a stranger no one knew[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]G7[/ch]                          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nHis steps were haunt and ragged clothes he wore[/tab]\r\n\r\nThe little children laughed at him\r\n[tab]            [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAs down the lane he trod[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G7[/ch]                          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAt last he stopped before a cottage door[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]   [ch]F[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]\r\nHe gently knocked no sound he heard[/tab]\r\n                          \r\nHe thought can she be dead\r\n[tab]                                        [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nBut then he heard a voice well known to him[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nTwas his mother's voice but her hair had silvered[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]F[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBy the touch of time[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G7[/ch]                                     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd she said thank God they've sent me home my Jim[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]   [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIf sickness overtakes you[/tab]\r\n               \r\nAnd old companions shake you\r\n[tab]                                      [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nAs through this world you wander all alone[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhen friends you haven't any[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]\r\nIn your pocket not a penny[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G7[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThere's a mother always waiting you at home[/tab]","plain_text":"We'll miss you when you go\n\n\n\n\n\n\n               \nAnd old companions shake you\n\n\n\n\n\n     \n\n\n\nThe little children laughed at him\n\n\n\n\n\n                          \nHe thought can she be dead\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n               \nAnd old companions shake you","chords":["C","F","G7"],"chord_diagrams":{"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[3,2,0,0,0,1],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,1]}}}