I've just been to heaven with someone so true I dreamed about mama last night
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She read me her Bible like she used to do I dreamed about mama last night
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Mama used to never go to sleep at night until all of us were in bed
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On party nights till we come home she often sat up 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 children were away
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We only knew that she never slept when we were out at night
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That she waited just to know that we were all gonna come home alright
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Why sometimes we'd stayed away till one or two or three
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And I used to think that mama could hear the turning of the key
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For we'd step aside and she'd call and we'd reply
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But we were all too young back then to understand just why
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But up until the last one had returned mama always kept a light
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She couldn't go to sleep until she kissed us all goodnight
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I think mama just 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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One time she told me when you're grown to women and to men
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I'll sleep the whole night through I bet I'll 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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Then always when we got back home we'd find her waiting there
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And 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 there gleamed again that old time tender light
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That told that she's just been waitin' to know that we were all 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 then mama went to sleep
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My dream is a treasure that I'll always keep I dreamed about mama last night
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I Dreamed About Mama Last Night
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| Bill Anderson |
