Can anyone help

[Ace]

me locate the sheet music or tab for the Monroe song called "Memories of Mother and Dad"?

I have looked and looked and all I can find is the lyrics which I already know!

Thanks much!

[Jim Broyles]

Here ya go:

Memories of Mother and Dad

..G........................C...G
Mother left this world of sorrow
.....G......................D
Our home was silent and so sad
G..........................C....G
Dad took sick and had to leave us
....G..............D...........G
I have no home No mother nor dad

....C........................G
There's a little lonesome grave yard
.............................D
On these tombstones it did say
....G.........................C...G
On mother's "gone but not forgotten"
.....G...................D.......G
On dad's "we'll meet again someday"

I often go out to the graveyard
Where they laid them down to rest
I can almost hear them whisper
Trust in god He'll do the rest

Their souls have gone up to heaven
Where they'll dwell with god above
Where they'll meet there friends and loved ones
And share with all his precious love



Sorry about the dots. It wouldn't format right without them - the chords wouldn't stay over the right syllables.

[Ace]

Thanks Jim I appreciate it!

You wouldn't happen to know the tablature for this tune would you or where I can find it?

Thanks again...
Ace

[Jim Broyles]

Ace, to be honest I listened to it for the first time right after I read your post. I searched it on Rhapsody and just listened to it while I figured out the chords. Are you looking for the mandolin intro and the break? It doesn't sound like a signature lick, unique to this song. In other words, it's a pretty standard Monroe style intro and break which can fit almost any song with these chord changes. I need a sound file of it on my hard drive to be able to tab it out, unless I can find a YouTube video of it or something - I don't want to try to transcribe it off the free play Rhapsody I have - very cumbersome to slow down or back up, etc.

[Jim Broyles]

The vocals are doing an F or a Csus4 over the words "sorrow" and "leave" in the verse, and the syllable "got" in "forgotten" in the chorus. I can't tell if the guitar is going to F or C. It sounds like the bass is walking up to a C, but the vocals are giving it that bluegrass sus4 sound. In the Skaggs/Rice version it definitely goes to F in those spots.