Capo 4 (or you can capo 2 and play in key of  D ) 
Use alternating bass to get the best effect. 
 
 
             C 
When I was a child, mama?d hold me 
       F                                       C  
In her lovin? arms when the storm clouds come along 
            C 
Dark clouds rising, storms a ragin 
             G               C  
She would sing an old gospel song 
 

                 C   
With the thunder crashing and lightning, flashing 
        F                                   C 
I found comfort in the words that she would sing 
             C  
Beyond these dark skies there?s a rainbow 
              G               C 
That only love and the sun?ll bring 
 
 
When she sang Amazing Grace 
I felt tears in my eyes 
When she sang Circle Be Unbroken 
Lord, I knew there?s bluer skies 
 
  
Time rolled on, the circle was broken 
Mama went on to somewhere beyond the blue 
I started ramblin? that lost highway 
And hard livin? took away the little child she knew 
 
  
Yeah, I started drinkin? and I started gamblin? 
I had no one to look over me 
There was no blue skies, only sorrow 
I could only hear her sing in my memory 
 
  
I was runnin? with a wild bunch 
Hanging with the rough and the rowdy kind 
I was livin fast, and I was dying young 
So alone, Lord I had a worried mind 
 
  
I was drunk and I was hurtin? 
Somewhere on the streets in New Orleans 
When I stumbled into a little shelter 
I saw an angel with a tambourine