A Vision Of Mother

Ricky Skaggs

Written by Ralph Stanley and Carter Stanley

Key of C · Chords: I IV V

Verse 1

C
Oft' my thoughts drift back to childhood
       F               C
To the time when I was free
     F                 C
As I played before the fireside
          G7               C
Around my darling mother's knee

Verse 2

There's a blessed home up yonder
         F                  C
Where my loved one wait for me
             F    C
I saw mother in a vision
         G7                C
Kneeling there to pray for me

Verse 3

Then one day our mother left us
      F                  C
Daddy said she'd gone to rest
         F               C
Oh how I miss my darling mother
       G7             C
As she held me to her breast

Verse 2

There's a blessed home up yonder
         F                  C
Where my loved one wait for me
             F    C
I saw mother in a vision
         G7                C
Kneeling there to pray for me

Verse 4

Some sweet day I'll meet you mother
            F              C
Your little boy is commin' home
           F             C
To see you as in days of childhood
            G7             C
The one you loved and left alone

Verse 2

There's a blessed home up yonder
         F                  C
Where my loved one wait for me
             F    C
I saw mother in a vision
         G7                C
Kneeling there to pray for me