C
At 16 she quit high school
            C
To make a fortune in the promise land
 C7     F
She got a job behind the counter
                          C
Of an all-night hamburger stand
          C
She wrote faithfully home to Mama:
       C                   Am
Now Mama, don't you worry none
       C                  G                    C
From small things, Mama, big things one day come


[Verse 2]
        C
It was late one Friday
        C                      C7
As he pulled in out of the dark
      F
He was tall and handsome;
                                          C
First she took his order; then she took his heart
               C
They bought a house up on a hillside
             C               Am
Where little feet once had run
       C                   G                   C  C7
From small things, Mama, big things one day come


[Bridge 1]
    F
Good love is fleeting
     C
It's sad but it's true
  C7            F
But when your heart is bleeding
 F#    G
You don't wanna hear the news


[Verse 3]
C                                                        C7
She packed her bags; went to Wyoming with a real estate man
           F                                  C
They drove down to Tampa in an El Dorado Grande
            C                                      Am
She writes home "dear Mama, life is heaven here in the sun"
       C                   G                  C
From small things, Mama, big things one day come


[Solo]
| C   | C   | C   | C7   |
| F   | F   | C   | C   |
| C   | C   | C   | Am  |
| C   | G   | C   | C7   |


[Bridge 2]
      F
She shot him dead
       C
On a sunny Florida road
  C7             F
But when they caught her asll she said was
               G
She couldn't stand the way he drove.


[Verse 5]
      C
Back home, lonesome Johnny
  C                     C7
waits for his baby's parole;
        F
He sits high up on a hillside
                          C
Where the Wyoming River flows
        C
At his feet, and almost grown now
        C                       Am
Sits a daughter and a handsome son
       C                  G                   C     F
From small things, Mama, big things one day come


[Tag]
       C                  G                   C
From small things, mama, big things one day come.