Sheet music (partial) and chords at
Lamp Lighting

pmf arrangement, key of G

Usual lyrics:

WHEN IT'S LAMP LIGHTIN' TIME IN THE VALLEY

There's a lamp burning bright in a cabin
In a window it's shining for me
And I know that my mother is praying
For the boy that she is longing to see.

When it's lamp lighting time in the valley
Then in dreams I go back to my home.
I can see that old light in the window
It will guide me wherever I roam.

In the lamplight each night I can see her
As she rocks in her chair to and fro;
Though she prays that I'll come back to see her
Still I know that I never can go.

When it's lamp lighting time in the valley
Then in dreams I go back to my home.
But I've sinned against my home and my loved ones
And now I must evermore roam.

So she lights up the lamp and keeps waiting
For she knows not the crime I have done.
But I'll change all my ways and I'll meet her
Up in Heaven when life's race is run.

When it's lamp lighting time in the valley
Then in dreams I go back to my home.
I can see that old light in the window
It will guide me wherever I roam.

Lyrics from Vagabonds 1933, taken from lyricsplayground.com

Another set of chords at cowboylyrics.com