Key: G
Introduction:
G C G D G
Verse: 1
G C
Last night while I lay sleeping
G D7 G
Last night while in a dream
C
I saw my dear old mother
G D7 G
Down by a rippling stream
C G
Don't ask me why I'm weeping
C G
Don't ask me why I pray
C
For I've an aged mother
G D7 G
Ten thousand miles away
G C G D G
Verse: 2
G C
A letter here from sister dear
G D7 G
Come home, we're all alone
C
Dear mother's slowly fading
G D7 G
She can't be with us long
C G
Don't ask me why I'm weeping
C G
Don't ask me why I pray
C
I've a dear old mother dying
G D7
Ten thousand miles away
Bridge
G D7 G
Well, ah-le-ho, le-ho-lay
G D7 G
Well, ah-le-ho, le-ho-lay
C G
Out in the cold world
D7 G
Long ways from home
Verse: 3
G C
I'm drawing near the old home
G D7 G
Dear sister's at the gate
C
She's leading me through the doorway
G D7 G
Oh, brother, you've come too late
C G
Oh, lead me to the casket
C G
Throw back the linen so fine
C
That I may kiss her pale white lips
G D7 G
For I know they'll never kiss mine
G C G D G
Verse: 4
G C
I see the pale moon shining
G D7 G
On mother's white tombstone
C
The rosebuds 'round them twining
G D7 G
Are just like me alone
Outro
G D7 G
Well, ah-le-ho, le-ho-lay
G D7 G
Well, ah-le-ho, le-ho-lay
C G
Out in the cold world
D7 G
Left all alone
End