Aunt Matties Quilt

	  		


Intro: Am  D  C  G 
  
                   C        G      Am                  D 
Aunt Mattie bent a thousand times, down the long black rows 
     G                C     G         Am     C           D 
Then battled with the angry weeds, so little seeds could grow 
     Bm             C                    G                 C 
Come summer, Mattie pulled the snow from cruel and cutting bolls 
        G                C               Am               D   
She was patient pale and slender and was only eight years old 
  
  
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Round 'n round the spinning wheel, beneath Aunt Mattie's boot 
      G                   C      G         Am       C       D 
She recalled the soil and cotton seeds and summer's hopeful shoots 
    Bm               C                    G               C 
Two winters spun out summer's threads, in rich and creamy folds 
        G             C                 Am         D         G 
And she had a bolt of cotton cloth when she turned ten years old 
  
  
Chorus: 
C              D                   G               Em 
If we bend and plant the seeds and tame the wicked weeds 
      C               D               G            Em 
If we let the sun and rain assist and simplify our needs 
      C             D                Em             A7 
If we follow in the barefoot path of one persistent girl 
      C               D               C    G6     G   
We'll throw a healing quilt across an ever ailing world 
  
  
           C    G        Am               D 
Indigo and lavender made up Aunt Mattie's sky 
  G             C         G         Am       C      D 
Remembering her childhood days, she made the rustic dye 
       Bm              C                 G                  C 
In the hour before the day would end, it fed young Mattie's dream 
         G          C    G        Am         D        G 
She made indigo and lavender when she turned just fourteen 
  
  
Chorus: 
C              D                   G               Em 
If we bend and plant the seeds and tame the wicked weeds 
      C               D               G            Em 
If we let the sun and rain assist and simplify our needs 
      C             D                Em             A7 
If we follow in the barefoot path of one persistent girl 
      C               D               C    G6     G   
We'll throw a healing quilt across an ever ailing world 
  
  
Instrumental;  (same as Verse) 
  
  
     G      C       G               Am                  D 
Aunt Mattie bends a thousand times, down each patchwork row 
    G                  C         G          Am     C      D 
And piece by piece and stitch by stitch, in fading candle glow 
    Bm            C             G                 C 
The valley of the shadow cannot call her from her seams 
      G             C          G         Am      D    G 
Until finishing her lifetime's work, she dies at seventeen 
  
  
Chorus: 
        C              D                   G               Em 
Oh, and if we bend and plant the seeds and tame the wicked weeds 
      C               D               G            Em 
If we let the sun and rain assist and simplify our needs 
      C             D                Em             A7 
If we follow in the barefoot path of one persistent girl 
      C               D               C    G6     G   
We'll throw a healing quilt across an ever ailing world  
  
  
OUTRO: Am  D  C G C   G