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Cover Mama's Flowers
Recorded by Mel Tillis
Written by Johnny Gore
[3/4 time]

C                              F          C
It's been many years now since mom passed away
                                   D7          G7
But there's lots of sweet memories that I have today
    C                     F              C
And when I see autumn and leaves turning brown
                    G7        C
I feel like mama is somewhere around

F                        C
Don't forget to cover my flowers
G7                         C
I still hear my sweet mama say
F                   C
Be sure to cover my flowers
      G7                  C
Or my flowers will wither away

                           F       C
Yes I remember though it's been so long
                            D7            G7
My heart feels so heavy and life seems so wrong
    C                         F              C
I'd give all my treasures and things I might own
                     G7          C
To go back to mama's old country home

Repeat #2

                            F            C
As I wait in this jungle in this foreign land
                            D7         G7
Of people so indifferent to God and to man
     C                     F        C
It's kill or be killed and I wonder today
                                     G7           C
If the ones that I'm fighting thinks of mama this way

Repeat #2

F                   C
Be sure to cover my flowers
      G7                  C
Or my flowers will wither away 

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