Dement Iris - Mama's Opry Lyrics
Her daddy played the fiddle and used to do the calling when they had hoe-downsShe says the neighbors would come and they'd move all my grandma's furniture 'roundAnd there'd be twenty or more there on the old wooden floor dancin' to a country soundThe Carters and Jimmy Rodgers played her favorite songsAnd on Saturday nights there was a radio show and she would sing alongAnd I'll never forget her face when she revealed to meThat she'd dreamed about singing at The Grand Ol' OpryHer eyes, oh, how they sparkled when she sang those songsWhile she was hanging the clothes on the line, I was a kid just a-hummin' alongWell, I'd be playing in the grass, to her, what might've seemed, obliviouslyBut there ain't no doubt about it, she sure made her mark on meAnd she played old gospel records on the phonographShe turned them up loud and we'd sing along, but those days have passedJust now, that I am older, it occurs to meThat I was singing in the grandest opryAnd we sang sweet rose of Sharon, abide with me'Til I ride the gospel ship to heaven's jubileeAnd in that great triumphant morning my soul will be freeAnd my burdens will be lifted when my savior's face I seeSo I don't want to get adjusted to this world belowBut I know he'll pilot me 'til it comes time to goOh, nothing on this earth is half as dear to meAs the sound of my mama's opryAnd we sang sweet rose of Sharon, abide with me'Til I ride the gospel ship to heaven's jubileeAnd in that great triumphant morning my soul will be freeAnd my burdens will be lifted when my savior's face I seeSo I don't want to get adjusted to this world belowBut I know he'll pilot me 'til it comes time to goOh, nothing on this earth is half as dear to meAs the sound of my mama's opry
