Mama's Opry

She grew up plain and simple in a farming town Her daddy played the fiddle and use 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 Dancing to a country sound The Carters and Jimmy Rodgers played her favorite songs And on Saturday nights there was a radio show And she would sing along And 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 While she was hanging the clothes on the line I was a kid just a humming along Well, I'd be playing in the grass, To her what might of seemed obliviously But 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 But 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 savior'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 savior'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 --- Mama's Opry - The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Iris DeMent