(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 closed her eyes and sleep till we were all in bed
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And on party nights till we came 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 then when we were out at night
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That she waited just to know that we'd all come home all right
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Why sometimes when we'd stay away until one or two or three
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It seemed to us that mama heard the turning 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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For she seemed to fear the world might harm the ones 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 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 right
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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 and 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)
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I Dreamed About Mama Last Night
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| Hank Williams, Jr. |
