I dreamed about mama last night...

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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 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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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)