Mama's Hungry Eyes Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[C]A canvas covered cabin
And [F]a crowded labor [C]camp
Stand in this memory
[G]and everybody
[C]My daddy raised a family there
With [F]two hard working [C]hands
And he tried [G]to feed my mama's
hungry [C]eyes[Gm][C][G]

[Verse 2]
[C]I remembered that he failed
And [F]my mama's faith [C]was strong
But her kids is too young [G]to realize
[D]There [G]was another cla[C]ss of people
That put us some[F]where just [C]below
One [G]more reason for my mama's
hungry [C]eyes[Bb][F][C]
[G]Mama

[Verse 3]
[C]never had the
[F]luxury she [C]wanted[Bb][C]
[G]But it [C]wasn't [G]'cause [C]my [F]daddy
didn't [C]try[Bb][F][C][G]
She [C]only wanted [F]things she
really [C]needed[Gm][C][G]
One more [C]reason [G]for my mama's hungry eye[C]s[Bb][C]
[G]

[Interlude 1]
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[C][G][C][F][C][Bb][F][C][G][C][G][C]

[Verse 4]
I [C]remembered daddy [Dm]praying
[C]for a better [F]way of [C]life[G]
But [C]I don't recall a change
[G]of any siz[D]e[G]
Just [C]a little [G]loss [C]of courage as her
[F]age began [C]to show[G]
No more [C]reason [G]for my mama's
hungry eyes
[C][Bb]

[Verse 5]
[C]
[G]Mama [C]never had the [F]luxury
she [C]wanted[Bb][F][C][G]
But it [C]wasn't [G]'cause [C]my [F]daddy
didn't [C]try[Bb][F][C][G]
She [C]only wanted [F]things she really
[C]needed[Bb][F][C][G]
One more [C]reason [G]for my
mama's hungry eyes
[C][F]

[Verse 6]
[C]
[G]You know he tri[C]ed to fee[G]d my mama's hungry

[Interlude 2]
eyes
[C][Bb][F][C][Bb][F][C][Bb][C][F][C]

[Verse 7]
[C]Pleasure, thank you all
Thanks a lot, thanks for asking that
Merle Haggard song
Yeah, I'd like to do I- I you know
you always think about
Bakersfield guys or Merle
Haggard and Buck Owens
But there's another guy
from Bakersfield
Wynn Stewart, yes sir
Where you at? Who said that?
There you go, way back
Oh of course, he's great [F]man

[Verse 8]
Ralph Mooney always said,
even though he played steel guitar for Waylon, that's right there you [F]go
Of course, Marie you knew that, alright
And so many other people,
and Buck Owens
But he always said he was Wynn
Stewart steel guitarist
You know so uh that's quite a,
that's quite a thing to say
And here's a song by Wynn Stewart
Written by Wynn Stewart,
called "Another Day, Another Dollar"
One, two...