Standard Tuning
Intro: All in D
When I was 6 or 7
Mama tucked me in
With a lullaby and it
Made my eyes open wide again
I would lie awake and wonder
Why a boy named Billy Joe
Jumped off the Tallahatchee Bridge
To the river far below
Chorus:
Blame it on mama
And the songs she loved to sing
I m not from Louisiana but that don t mean a thing
Don t come from Alabama or a hill from Tennessee
Just blame it on mama, she sang (she sang)
The country into me
I just loved to listen
As she d sing those story songs
Bout a coat of many colors
Or a girl named Delta Dawn
When the lights went out in Georgia
I would beg for just one more
All about Fancy and the pretty red satin
Dancing dress she wore
(Chorus)
I m a coal miner s daughter
Lovin my preacher s son
I have walked the streets of Laredo
Stared down the barrel of a law man s gun
I ve grown roots and I ve got claims
To places I ve never been
And when I sing those songs it takes me
Right back home again
(Chorus)
The country into me, yeah
