A Message To My Mother Chords
A Message To My Mother by Hank Williams is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of F. It uses the chords G7, C, C7, F and G. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
intro (G7) (C) (C7)
chorus
(F)Take this message to my(C)mother
It will fill her heart with(G7)joy
(C)Tell her that I've met my (G7)Saviour
God has saved her wanderin'(C) boy
The (C)tears and sorrow I have (G7)caused her
How I wish I could re(C)pay
But tell her I'll be waiting (G7)for her
We'll meet in heaven some glad (C)day(C7)
chorus
(C)How she cried when I(G7)left her
I know it filled her heart with (C)pain
She said, "Son, please don't leave(G)me
For we may never meet(C)again."(C7)
chorus
(F)Take this message to my (C)mother
It will fill her heart with(G7)joy
(C)Tell her that I've met my(G7)Saviour
God has saved her wanderin'(C) boy
(C)Year have passed since that(G7)parting
But I know she waits and (C)prays
Soon I'll cross that dark (G)river
Please let her know that I was (C)saved (C7)
(F)Take this message to my (C)mother
It will fill her heart with (G7)joy
(C)Tell her that I've met my(G7)Saviour
God has saved her wanderin' (C)boy