Mother's Advice

Mother's Advice-Dock Boggs
Banjo, gDGBD tuning, Mike Seeger, guitar in G position, standard tuning

Sit down by the side of your Mother, my boy,
You have only a moment, I know
If you wait 'til I give you my parting advice
It is all that I have to bestow

REFRAIN: Hold fast to the right, hold fast to the right
Wheresoever your footstep may roam
Don't forsake not the way of Salvation, my boy,
You have learned from your Mother at home

SOLO

I gave you to God, in your cradle, my boy,
I have taught you the best that I knew
And as long as His mercy permits me to live
I shall never cease praying for you

REFRAIN: Hold fast to the right, hold fast to the right
Wheresoever your footstep may roam
Don't forsake not the way of Salvation, my boy,
You have learned from your Mother at home

SOLO

You will find in this bundle a Bible, my boy
It's a book, of all others, the best
It will teach you to live and prepare you to die
And will lead to the Gates of the Blessed

REFRAIN: Hold fast to the right, hold fast to the right
Wheresoever your footstep may roam
Don't forsake not the way of Salvation, my boy,
You have learned from your Mother at home

You leave us to seek for employment, my boy,
You have yet of the world to be tried
But in all of the struggles and temptations you meet
May you, in your Saviour, confide

REFRAIN: Hold fast to the right, hold fast to the right
Wheresoever your footstep may roam
Don't forsake not the way of Salvation, my boy,
You have learned from your Mother at home

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