<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><song><author>Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash</author>
<aka>I remember when I was a lad</aka>
<title>Daddy sang bass</title>
<lyrics>[V1]
 And, and Carl Perkins wrote us another song
 That tells about the reason for it all
 That takes us back home and
 Again, tells it like it was when I was a little bitty kid
 And we gathered around the piana
 And me and little brother would join in
 And mamma would sing tenor, and dad would sing bass

[V2]
 I remember when I was a lad
 Times were hard and things were bad
 But there's a silver linin' behind every cloud
 Just poor people that's all we were
 Tryin' to make a livin' out of black-land dirt
 We'd get together in a family circle singin' loud

[C1]
   Daddy sang bass (mama sang tenor)
   Me and little brother would join right in there
   Singin' seems to help a troubled soul
   One of these days and it won't be long
   I'll rejoin them in a song
   I'm gonna join the family circle at the throne

[V3]
 Though the circle won't be broken
 By and by, Lord, by and by
 Daddy sang bass (mama sang tenor)
 Me and little brother would join right in there
 In the sky, Lord, in the sky

[V4]
 I remember after work mama would call in all of us
 You could hear us singin' for a country mile
 Now little brother has done gone on
 But I'll rejoin him in a song
 We'll be together again up yonder in a little while

[C2]
   Daddy sang bass (mama sang tenor)
   Me and little brother would join right in there
   Singin' seems to help a troubled soul
   One of these days and it won't be long
   I'll rejoin them in a song
   I'm gonna join the family circle at the throne

[V5]
 Oh no the circle won't be broken
 By and by, Lord, by and by
 Daddy sang bass (mama sang tenor)
 Me and little brother would join right in there
 In the sky, Lord, in the sky

[V6]
 In the sky, Lord, in the sky</lyrics>
</song>