Mothers Pride Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

G♯m C♯m F♯ E x 2

C♯mOh she knoF♯ws

 She takBes his hand

GmAnd prays the child will understand

C♯mAt the door theF♯y watch the menB go by

G♯mIn the clothes that daddy wore

AMother’s pride

F♯Baby boy

BHis fathers eyes

G♯mHe’s a soldier waiting for Awar

F♯Time will come

He’ll hold a gun

His father’s son

G♯m C♯m F♯ E x 2

C♯m And as he F♯grows

BHe hears the band

G♯mTakes the step from boy to man

C♯mAnd at the shore she F♯waves her son goBodbye

G♯mLike the man she did before

AMother’s pride

F♯Just a boy

BHis country’s eyes

G♯mHe’s a soldier waving atA the shore

F♯And in her heart the time has come

To lose a son

C♯mAnd all the husbands, all the sons, aF♯ll the lovers gone

BThey make no difference

G♯mNo difference in the end

C♯mStill hear the woman F♯say your daddy died aB hero

G♯mIn the name of God and name

AMother’s pride

F♯Crazy boy

BHis lifeless eyes

G♯mHe’s a soldier now forevermAore

F♯He’ll hold a gun ‘till kingdom come