Mama's Teaching Angels How To Sing

Ricky Skaggs

Written by Dottie Rambo

Key of G · Chords: I IV V

Verse 1

G                                  C              G
There's a voice now missing in our little country choir
D7                                G
Rock of Ages will never sound the same
C                                    G
God heard her singing heaven was not complete
D7                                G
Now Mama's teaching angels how to sing

Verse 2

C                             G
Mama's teaching angels how to sing
C                                   G
Heaven's halls are silent when Mama sings
C                        G                        C
David lays down his harp and heaven's bells won't ring
G                    D7            G
When Mama's teaching angels how to sing

Verse 3

C                                                     G
The old home it’s now empty it's lonesome since she's gone
D7                                     G
And it's hard to know she won't return again
C                                                    G
But I'll meet her in that morning on heaven's golden hills
D7                                  G
Where Mama's teaching angels how to sing

Verse 2

C                             G
Mama's teaching angels how to sing
C                                   G
Heaven's halls are silent when Mama sings
C                        G                        C
David lays down his harp and heaven's bells won't ring
G                    D7            G
When Mama's teaching angels how to sing

Verse 4

D7                              C  G
When Mama's teaching angels how to s-ing