Mother’s Only Sleeping

Written by Bill Monroe

Key of D · Chords: I IV V

Chorus

        D                      A
Mothers not dead, she’s only a sleeping
                                    D
Just patiently waiting for Jesus to come
                                          A
The birds will be singing while Mother is sleeping
                                       D   D G
They will sing o’er as the grave sinks away

Verse 1

     D                              A
Well I left my old home way back in the mountains
                                      D
For mother and father had both passed away
                                 A
We followed our mother up to the graveyard
                                     D  D G
For mother was called to heaven that day

Verse 2

   D                              A
Oh how we miss her around the old home place
                                            D
Everything seems so lonesome since she went away
       D                        A
Mother is sleeping way back the mountains
                                       D    G D
Yes mother is sleeping way back in the hills