Lamp Lighting Time In The Valley

Marty Robbins

Written by Harold Goodman, Sam C. Hart, Joe Lyons, Curt Poulton, Dean Upson

Key of C · Chords: I IV V

Verse 1

C                      F           C
There's a lamp shining bright in a cabin
                             G7
In a window it's shining for me
    C                     F  C
And I know that my mother is praying
    G7                        C
For the boy she is longing to see

Verse 2

          F                         C
When it's lamp lighting time in the valley
                              G7
And in dreams I go back to my home
  C                     F      C
I can see that old lamp in the window
   G7                         C
It will guide me where ever I roam

Verse 3

                        F              C
When it's lamp Lighting time I can see her
                                 G7
As she rocks in her chair to and fro
    C                F              C
But I know that I'll never more see her
      G7                           C
Cause she's gone to a good place I know

Verse 4

                          F        C
Oh she lights up her lamp and sits waiting
                                      G7
For she knows not the crime that I've done
    C                  F                  C
But I'll change all my ways and I'll meet her
   G7                            C
Up in Heaven when life's race is run

Verse 2

          F                         C
When it's lamp lighting time in the valley
                              G7
And in dreams I go back to my home
  C                     F      C
I can see that old lamp in the window
   G7                         C
It will guide me where ever I roam