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I've just been to heaven with someone so true I dreamed about mama last night |
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She read me the Bible like she used to do I dreamed about mama last night |
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She never close her eyes to sleep till we were all in bed |
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And on party nights when we come home she often sat and read |
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We little thought about it then for we were young and gay |
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Just how much mama worried when we children were away |
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We only knew she never slept when we were out at night |
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That she waited just to know that we'd all come home alright |
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Why sometimes when we'd stay away till one or two or three |
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It seemed to us that mama heard the turnin' of the key |
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For always when we'd step aside she'd call and we'd reply |
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But we were all too young back then to understand the reason why |
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Until the last one had returned she'd always keep a light |
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For mama couldn't sleep until she kissed us all goodnight |
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She had to know that we were safe before she went to rest |
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She seemed to fear that the world might harm the ones that she loved the best |
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And once she told me when you're grown to women and to men |
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Perhaps I'll sleep the whole night through I may be different then |
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And so it seemed that night and day we knew a mother's care |
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That always when we got back home we'd find her waitin' there |
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Then came the night that we were called together round her bed |
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The children're all with you now the kindly doctor said |
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And in her eyes the gleam again that old time tender light |
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That told that she's just been waitin' to know that we were alright |
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She smiled that old familiar smile and prayed to God to keep |
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Her children safe from harm throughout the years tand then she went to sleep |
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My dream is a treasure that I'll always keep I dreamed about mama last night |
