Aunt Matties Quilt

INTRO: Am  D  C  G

                   C        G      
Aunt Mattie bent a thousand times, 
Am                  D
down the long black rows
     G                C     G    
Then battled with the angry 
     Am     C           D
weeds, so little seeds could grow
     Bm             C             
Come summer, Mattie pulled the 
       G                 C
snow from cruel and cutting bolls
        G                C        
She was patient pale and slender 
       Am               D
and was only eight years old


G                  C        G   
Round 'n round the spinning 
     Am                  D
wheel, beneath Aunt Mattie's boot
      G                   C      
She recalled the soil and cotton 
G         Am       C       D
seeds and summer's hopeful shoots
    Bm               C      
Two winters spun out summer's 
              G               C
threads, in rich and creamy folds
        G             C           
And she had a bolt of cotton cloth
      Am         D         G
 when she turned ten years old


CHORUS:
C              D                  
If we bend and plant the seeds and
 G               Em
 tame the wicked weeds
      C               D           
If we let the sun and rain assist 
    G            Em
and simplify our needs
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      C             D             
If we follow in the barefoot path 
   Em             A7
of one persistent girl
      C               D           
We'll throw a healing quilt across
    C    G6     G
 an ever ailing world


           C    G        Am      
Indigo and lavender made up Aunt 
         D
Mattie's sky
  G             C         G      
Remembering her childhood days, 
   Am       C      D
she made the rustic dye
       Bm              C       
In the hour before the day would 
          G                  C
end, it fed young Mattie's dream
         G          C    G        
She made indigo and lavender when 
Am         D        G
she turned just fourteen


CHORUS:
C              D                  
If we bend and plant the seeds and
 G               Em
 tame the wicked weeds
      C               D           
If we let the sun and rain assist 
    G            Em
and simplify our needs
      C             D             
If we follow in the barefoot path 
   Em             A7
of one persistent girl
      C               D           
We'll throw a healing quilt across
    C    G6     G
 an ever ailing world


INSTRUMENTAL;  (same as Verse)


     G      C       G            
Aunt Mattie bends a thousand 
   Am                  D
times, down each patchwork row
    G                  C         
And piece by piece and stitch by 
G          Am     C      D
stitch, in fading candle glow
    Bm            C             G
The valley of the shadow cannot 
                 C
call her from her seams
      G             C          G 
Until finishing her lifetime's 
        Am      D    G
work, she dies at seventeen


CHORUS:
        C              D       
Oh, and if we bend and plant the 
            G               Em
seeds and tame the wicked weeds
      C               D           
If we let the sun and rain assist 
    G            Em
and simplify our needs
      C             D             
If we follow in the barefoot path 
   Em             A7
of one persistent girl
      C               D           
We'll throw a healing quilt across
    C    G6     G
 an ever ailing world