Mother The Queen Of My Heart Chords
Mother The Queen Of My Heart by Merle Haggard is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, G7, F, D7 and C7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
C G7 C
I had a home down in Texas
F C
Down where the blue bonnets grew
G7 C
I had the kindest old mother
D7 G7
How happy we were just we two
C G7 C
Till one day the angels called her
C7 F
A debt that we all have to pay
C
She called me close to her bedside
G7 C
To me these words she did say
G7 C
Son don't start drinking and gambling
F C
Promise you'll always go straight
G7 C
Ten years have passed since we parted
D7 G7
My promise I've broke I must say
C G7 C
I started gambling for pastime
C7 F
Soon I was just like them all
C
I bet my clothes and my money
G7 C
Not thinking that I'd ever fall
G7 C
One day I bet all my money
F C
Not a thing was left to be seen
G7 C
All that I needed to break them
D7 G7
Was one card and that was a queen
C G7 C
The cards were dealt round the table
C7 F
Each man took one from the draw
C
I drew the one that would beat them
G7 C
I turned it and here?s what I saw
G7 C
I saw my mother's picture
F C
And to me she seemed to say
G7 C
Son you have broken your promise
D7 G7
So I tossed the cards away
C G7 C
I gave all my winnings to a newsboy
C7 F
I knew I was wrong from the start
C
I'll never forget that promise
G7 C
To my Mother the queen of my heart