Chords for Molly O'Day,I heard My Mother Weeping

[Cm] _ _ _ _ _ _
[G#] _ _ _ [C#] _ _ _
_ _ The big _ courtroom was crowded _ _ [F#] while the jury _ heard [C#] my plea. _
_ _ I said, sir, I'm _ guilty _ _ [D#] of the crime you're accusing [G#] me. _
_ I [C#] _ guess no one believed _ me, for [F#] they only _ turned [C#] away _
_ to _ tell the judge their verdict _ _ while [G#] I bowed my _ head [C#] and prayed. _
_ _ I heard _ my mother weeping _ _ when [F#] the judge said,
guilty [C#] _ son, _ _ I'll have to give you life _ now for [D#] the crime that you [G#] have _ _ done.
She [C#] cried, don't take my darling, _ _ [F#] he means the world [C#] to me. _
_ _ He's all I have to live _ for, [G#] I pray you'll set [C#] him free.
_ _ _ _ _
His father _ was a _ _ drunkard, [F#] went away, left us [C#] _ _ alone. _
I worked to earn a living _ _ and to [D#] raise our _ [G#] darling son. _ _
[C#] Now if you take him from _ me, [F#] his face no more [C#] I'll see. _ _
Just put your _ son in his _ _ place, his [G#] _ mother here [C#] with me. _ _
_ _ The _ judge sat _ [A#m] there with [C#] head _ bowed, at [F#]
first did not [C#] reply.
_ _ _ And then I saw him brushing _ _ a [D#]
tear drop from his [G#] _
eye.
_ He [C#] _
_ motioned to the jury, _ _ _ [F#] this _ sentence can't be [C#] _
_ _ done.
God bless you, darling mother, _ _ _ I [G#] still love you and [C#] my son. _ _ _