Here is a flawed transcription the lyrics to "Mother Country," which should be easier to read without the chords.
Source: http://www.mickeynewbury.com/backporch/post.asp?method=TopicQuote&TOPIC_ID=3939&FORUM_ID=2. I've corrected that transcription below, using the 1974 Phoenix Concerts recording.


MOTHER COUNTRY
(John Stewart)

There was a story in the San Francisco Chronicle
That I forgot to save
But it was about a lady who lived in the good ol' days
When a century was born
And a century had died
And about these good old days,
Well, the old lady replied,
"You know, they were just a lot of people
Who were doin' the best they could"
She said that the Good Old Days were just a lot of people
Who were doin' the best they could
And then the lady said that they did it
Pretty up and walkin' good


Whatever happened to those faces in the old photographs?
You've seen 'em, the little boys...
Boys? hell, they were men
Who stood knee deep in the Johnstown mud
It was during the time of that terrible flood
When they listened to the water, that awful noise
And then they just put away the dreams
That belong to little boys

Oh, the sun is going down for Mister Bouie
As he's singing with his class of nineteen-two:
Oh, mother country, I do love you.
Oh, mother country, I do love you.

And I knew a man named E. A. Stuart,
He spelled it S-T-U-A-R-T;
And he owned some of the finest horses
That I think I've ever seen
And he had one favorite - oh, and she was a champion,
The old Campaigner
And he called her 'Sweetheart on Parade'
And she was easily the finest horse
That the good Lord ever made


But old E. A. Stuart - well, he knew that he was goin' blind
But he said, "Before I go...
He told the boys around the tack room one day, he said:
"Before I go, I'm gonna drive her one more time."
So people came from miles around
And they stood around the ring.
But no one said a word,
No, they just stood there.
No one said a thing.
And they're openin' the gates back there,
And then here they come!
E.A. Stuart in the wagon right behind,
And he's sittin' straight and proud,
And he's drivin' her stone blind!
And would you look at her,
Ah, she never looked finer or went better than today.
Yes, E. A. Stuart and the old Campaigner
Sweetheart on Parade!
And the people cheered
Why I even saw a grown man
Break right down and cry
And you know, it was just a little while later...
Yeah, you know, it was just a little while later
That old E. A. Stuart died

Oh, the sun is going down for Mister Bouie
As he's singing with his class of nineteen-two:
Oh, mother country, I do love you!
Oh, mother country, I do love you!

Live recording, 2007: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWwayDfJtkE

1974 recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF0XBlW_L6s