Lyrics & Knowledge Personal Pages Record Shop Auction Links Radio & Media Kids Membership Help
The Mudcat Cafesj



User Name Thread Name Subject Posted
12-stringer Chord Req: Mother Country (9) RE: Chord Req: Mother Country 22 Apr 15


This is evidently the same Guest who posted exactly the same query in the "John Stewart Songs" thread.

If so, the song he/she's looking for can be found at http://www.californiabloodlines.com/ , along with the rest of Lonesome John's repertoire, nearly all with choice of lyrics or lyrics/chords. This one is from his epochal "California Bloodlines" LP of 1969.

You can't save a URL for search results, so here's the song/chords:

Title:         MOTHER COUNTRY
Songwriter:         John Stewart
Tab:         Spoken Background - strings muffled with heel of hand and played
with index finger in an almost marching beat.
Rhythm goes something like,
"(C)Dum-de-dum, de-de-(F)dum-da-(G)dum-da..."

(C) (F) (G) (C) (F) (G)
(Spoken)
(C) There was a (F)story in the (G)San Francisco (C)Chronicle
That of (F)course I for(G)got to save,(C)
But it was a(F)bout a (G)lady
Who (C)lived in the 'good old (F)days',(G)
(C) When a (F)century was (G)born
(C) And a (F)century had (G)died,
(C) And a(F)bout these 'good old (G)days'
(C) The old (F)lady re(G)plied,
(C) (F) "Why, they were (G)just a lot of (C)people
(F)Doing the (G)best they (C)could.
(F) Just a (G)lot of people(C)
(F)Doing the (G)best they (C)could."
(F) (G)And then the lady (C)said (F) (G)that they (C)did it,
"Pretty (F)up and (G)walking (C)good."

(F) What(G)ever happened (C)to those faces in the (F)old photo(G)graphs?
(C) (F) I (G)mean, the little (C)boys...(F) (G)
(C)Boys? (F)Hell, they were (G)men
Who (C)stood knee deep (F)in the Johns(G)town (C)mud
In the (F)time of that (G)terrible (C)flood, (F) (G)
And they (C)listened to the water,(F) (G)
(C) (F) That (G)awful (C)noise...
(F) (G) (C)And then they (F)put a(G)way the (C)dreams
That be(F)longed to (G)little boys(C)...(F) (G)

(Play "unmuffled")
(Sung)
(E) And the sun is going (Am)down(D7) for Mister (G)Bouie
As he's (E)singing with his (Am)class (D)of nineteen-(G)two, (G7)
(C)"Oh, mother (F)country, (G)I do (C)love you. (F) (G)
(C)Oh, mother (F)country, (G)I do (C)love you" (F) (G)

("Muffled" again)
(Spoken)
(C) (F) I (G)knew a man (C)named E.A. St(F)uart,(G)
(C) Spelled (F)S.T.(G)U. (C) (F) A.(G)R.(C)T.
(F) And (G)he owned some of the (C)finest horses
(F)That I (G)think I've ever (C)seen,
(F) And (G)he had one (C)favorite, (F) a (G)champion,
(C) The old Cam(F)paigner,(G)
(C) (F) (G)And he (C)called her
(F)"Sweetheart (G)On Pa(C)rade", (F) (G)
(C) And she was (F)easily the (G)finest horse(C)
That the (F)good Lord (G)ever made.(C) (F) (G)
But old (C)E.A.Stuart, (F) (G)he was going (C)blind, (F) (G)
And he said, "Be(C)fore I go,
I (F)gotta (G)drive her (C)one more time."(F) (G)

(C)So people came from (F)miles a(G)round, (C)
And they (F)stood a(G)round the ring,(C) (F) (G) (C)
But (F)no one (G)said a word,(C)
You know, (F)no one (G)said a thing.(C) (F) (G) (C)
(F) Then (G)here they come,(C) (F) (G)
(C)E.A. Stuart (F) in the (G)wagon right be(C)hind, (F) (G)
(C) Sitting (F)straight and (G)proud, (C)
And he's (F)driving (G)her stone (C)blind. (F) (G)
(C) And would you (F)look at her,(G)
(C) Oh, she (F)never looked (G)finer (C)or went better (F)than to(G)day.
(C) It's (F)E.A. (G)Stuart (C) and the (F)old Cam(G)paigner,
(C) (F)"Sweetheart (G)On (C)Parade", (F) (G)
And the (C)people cheered,(F) (G)
(C)Why, I even saw a (F)grown (G)man (C)break right down and (F)cry,(G)
(C) And you (F)know it was (G)just a (C)little while later(F) (G)
(C) That old (F)E.A. (G)Stuart (C)died. (F) (G)

(Play "unmuffled")
(Sung)
(E) And the sun, it is going (Am)down(D7) for Mister (G)Bouie,
As he's (E)singing with his (Am)class (D)of nineteen-(G)two, (G7)
(C)"Oh, mother (F)country, (G)I do (C)love you. (F) (G)
(C)Oh, mother (F)country, (G)I do (C)love you." (F) (G) (C)


Post to this Thread -

Back to the Main Forum Page

By clicking on the User Name, you will requery the forum for that user. You will see everything that he or she has posted with that Mudcat name.

By clicking on the Thread Name, you will be sent to the Forum on that thread as if you selected it from the main Mudcat Forum page.

By clicking on the Subject, you will also go to the thread as if you selected it from the original Forum page, but also go directly to that particular message.

By clicking on the Date (Posted), you will dig out every message posted that day.

Try it all, you will see.