| as performed by Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver (CAPO 3) |
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| There's a little mountain church in my thoughts of yest | erday |
| G | D | |
| where frie | nds and family gathered for the | Lord |
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| there an | old fashioned preacher talked the straight and narrow | way |
| G | D | G | |
| for what few | coins the congre | gation could | afford |
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| dressed in all our Sunday best we sat on pews of solid | oak |
| G | D | |
| and I | remember how our voices filled the | air |
| G | G7 | C | Eb | |
| how Momma | sounded like an angel on those | high soprano | notes |
| G | D | G | |
| when the | roll is called up | yonder I'll be | there |
| G | G7 | C | |
| looking back now that | little mountain | church house |
| G | D | |
| has | become my life's corner | stone |
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| it was | there in that | little mountain | church house |
| G | D | D7 | G | |
| I first | heard the Word to | base my | life | upon |
| (Instrumental refrain chords) |
| at the all day Sunday singings and dinner on the ground |
| many were the souls that were revived |
| while the brothers and sisters who'd gone on to glory land |
| slept in peace in the maple grove nearly |
| looking back now that little mountain church house |
| has become my life's cornerstone |
| it was there in that little mountain church house |
| I first heard the Word to base my life upon |
| (A capella line 1-2) |
| looking back now that little mountain church house |
| has become my life's cornerstone |
| (accompanied) |
| it was there in that little mountain church house |
| I first heard the Word to base my life upon |
| I first heard the Word to base my life upon |