CAPO: 5th Fret 

Intro: C  G  C    G    C    F    C  G  C     

         G                C 
Mama, if you could see me now 
                                  G       C 
I'm not the boy you knew in Macon town 
                                   F 
They found a uniform about my size 

It's a little big I guess, but that's alright 
C        G                C 
Mama, if you could see me now 


              G                 C 
Mama, they're treating me right well 
                                         G        C 
The men all say I brought this good luck spell 
                                     F 
I am the mascot of the Ninth Brigade 

They will not march unless I lead the way 
C             G                 C 
Mama, they're treating me right well 


        G             C 
Mama, I do not have a gun 
                                      G        C 
I'm only lucky when I'm banging on my drum 
                                               F 
And I skinned a rabbit for the cook last night 

He said that I could keep his Bowie knife 
C       G             C 
Mama, I do not have a gun 


        G            C 
Mama, I lost my arrowhead 
                                     G        C 
It was big enough to strike a bobcat dead 
                                        F 
Must've fallen when I climbed that tree 

Yankee fires as far as I could see 
C       G            C 
Mama, I lost my arrowhead 


          G                  C 
Mama, the troops are falling in 
                                           G        C 
And we must move while we've still got the wind 
                                              F 
The scouts are fanning out like whippoorwills 

Today we're marching over Bloody Hill 
C         G                  C 
Mama, the troops are falling in 


Instrumental: C  G  C    G    C    F    C  G  C 


        G                 C 
Mama, I never thought I'd run 
                                                G     
But something happened when I saw those Yankees come 
    C                                   F 
Now I've been running now a week or two 

Too ashamed to run back home to you 
C       G                 C   F 
Mama, I never thought I'd run__ 
   C       G                 C   F 
Oh Mama, I never thought I'd run__ 
   C       G                 F       C 
Oh Mama, I never thought I'd run___