Chords for 'Heirline' Mamas Song

_ _ I'm a mama's boy.
Any mama's boys here?
I tell you, I flat out loved my mama with all
my heart.
My mama was a deaf mute.
She was struck by lightning as a little girl.
It burst
her eardrums.
My little mama never heard me sing one song in this life, and my little
mama never heard me say one thing.
We grew up in an old shack house, all of us in there,
three-room shack house, where you could see the chickens running underneath the floor.
And when it would rain, we'd put buckets down and say, well, my sister, you say, well, let's
take up our bed and walk.
Amen.
And we'd get up and move the beds over and put the buckets
down and catch rainwater.
But, you know, and I heard him talking about the shoes.
I said,
I wore a cardboard in my shoes many a time.
And when I was a little boy, I used to have
to wear them holes in my clothes because we was poor.
Now they're paying money for
that, huh?
Praise the Lord.
I tell you, I don't understand it myself, but I saw this
one boy at the mall and he come out and had all them holes in his clothes.
I said, son,
are you poor?
And he said, no, I paid $80 for these.
I said, it looks to me like you
got ripped.
Amen.
Praise the Lord.
Amen.
I'm telling you, praise the Lord.
So they asked
me, they asked me one night, said, brother Ernie, are you ever going to compromise and
go to [B] wear dressing [E] down to sing?
And I said, well, I just can't.
Brother Hershaw, I just
can't.
Cause it was a long time y'all before I was ever able to wear one of these and have
one of these.
And when I got one of these and put it on, I thought I'd look pretty good.
Amen.
Praise the Lord.
Amen.
I told him I wore enough of the holy clothes when I was
little.
Amen.
Praise the Lord.
But I tell you, God's been good to me.
And, uh, like
I was saying when I was a little boy, wore them old plastic shoes and cardboard and,
uh, somebody said, God been good to you.
I said, well, yeah, I got a pair of leathers
on.
Amen.
Praise the Lord.
I said, he's the best thing I ever had in my life.
Amen.
I
could have took that other road.
Amen.
But I tell you what, friend, see, [Bb] I'm a child
born out of rape.
My little mama was raped and nine months later, [Db] here come Ernie.
And to say
that I'm against [B] abortion is an understatement.
Amen.
Praise the Lord.
Cause you know, if,
if you believe in that, that's like looking at me and saying, [E] we don't want you here.
[N] Amen.
But I tell you what, friend, you know, even though I was brought up like I was in times was
hard and the welfare tried to take me away from my little family.
I remember she had to know
my little aunt.
See, I live with my aunt, me and my little mama lived in there with my aunt.
You had to know my little aunt Grace.
When they came over to take me away, my little aunt
Grace said, let's pray about it.
And they said, well, we don't want to pray about it.
Well, she
pulled them in the floor.
Amen.
30 minutes later, she let them up and that little, amen.
And
that little welfare lady said, well, miss [G] Grace said, there's a lot of places financially he
could be better off.
She said, but as far as love, I don't think it gets no better than right
here.
Amen.
Praise the Lord.
So this song is for all of you.
My little mom, I didn't have no, when
she died, everything she had, I carried out in a little Walmart bag.
She didn't have nothing.
She
never owned a home, never had a car, never had nothing.
And somebody used to say, well, what did
your mama leave you?
I said, as far as worldly things, my mama didn't leave me nothing.
[N] But as
far as love, I got the load.
Amen.
Praise the Lord.
I tell you, praise the Lord.
Amen.
Amen.
And
I wrote this song sitting at my mama's grave.
Amen.
I put her away nice and I made sure she
looked good because that was my girl.
[Bm] And I remember her looking at me and hugging me and
saying, Eve, the boy love you, boy.
She couldn't say my name, but you know, friend, I sit there at
her grave and I said, all I need is just a hug from my little mom.
And the Lord reminded [Ab] me that,
you know, she wasn't there, but that love never went away.
So I wrote this song at her grave and
I hope it helps you tonight.
Mama's love.
Praise the Lord.
Amen. Amen.
[Dbm] [Ab] Deep _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ [Ab] _ _ [Bb] _ [Ab] within the midnight hour, [Db] a baby's cry is heard.
[Bbm] He's longing for his mama, [Eb] the one who gave him birth.
[Db] And
though she's tired [Eb] and body from [Ab] the struggles of the [Fm] day, _ _ [Ab] [Db] mama runs to her little boy [Ab] for [Eb] mama's love.
It
[Ab] never goes away.
[Db] It's me, child.
It's [Eb] mama.
[Abm] Please don't you cry.
[Db] It's me, child.
It's [Eb] mama.
[Db] Wipe those tears from [Eb] your eyes.
[Db] I know I can't [Eb] be with you [Ab] each and every [Dbm] day.
[Db] [Ab] So [Bbm] just remember within your heart [Ab] that [G] mama's love, it [Ab] never goes away.
How many of you [Dbm] love your mom?
_ _ [Bb] _
[Ab] _ _ _ _ [Db] _ _ _ _
[Bbm] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _
[Db] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [B] _ [Db] _ _
_ [Ab] _ [Bbm] _ Amen.
_ But [Eb] mama's love, [Ab] it never goes away.
[Db] It's me, child.
[Eb] It's mama.
[Ab] Please don't you cry.
[Db] It's me, child.
[Eb] It's mama.
[Db] Wipe those tears [Eb] from your eyes.
[Db] I know I [Eb] can't be with you [Ab] each and every day.
_ [Db] _ _
_ [Ab] [Bbm] So just remember within your [Ab] heart [G] that mama's love, [Ab] it never goes away.
[Ab]
[Bbm] It's just remember within your heart [G] that mama's love, [Ab] it never goes away.
_ _ [Dbm] I love you, mama.
_ _ [Ab] _ _ _ [Abm] _ _
_ _ [N] Let's sing that last verse.
I want you to tell your mama that [Ab] you love her.
Now, if you [Dbm] got her by you, would you?
_ [Bb] _ [Ab] Lying there upon her bed, [Db] her son begins to cry [Bbm] for he knows that in a little while [Eb] mama's going to die.
[Db] She says, son, [Eb] don't worry.
[Ab] Everything's gonna be [Db] okay.
_ _ [Ab] [Bbm] For I'll be home with Jesus.
But [Eb] mama's love, it never [Ab] goes away.
_ [Db] It's me, child.
[Eb] It's mama.
[Ab] Please don't you cry.
[Db] It's me, child.
[Eb] It's mama.
[Db] Wipe those tears [Eb] from your eyes.
[Db] I know I [Eb] can't be with you [Ab] each and every [Db] _ day.
[Ab] So [Bbm] just remember within your heart [Ab] [Eb] that mama's love, [Ab] it never goes away.
_ [Ab] [Bbm] It's just remember within your [Db] heart [Eb] that mama's love, it [Ab] never goes away.