Mama sang a song
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God put a song in the heart of
an angel,
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and
softly she sang it to me.
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1. I get to thinking lots of
times about back when I was a lad,
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of
the old home place where I grew up,
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of
the days both good and bad,
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my overalls were
hand-me-downs, my shoes were full of holes.
I used to walk four miles to
school every day,
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through
the rain the sleet and the cold.
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I've seen the nights when my
daddy would cry
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for
the things that his family would need.
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But all he ever got was a badland farm
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and
seven hungry mouths to feed.
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And yet, and yet our home fire
never flickered once,
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’cause when all these things
went wrong,
Mama took the hymn book down
and mama sang this song :
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+ What a friend we have
in Jesus !
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2. I've
been rocked to sleep many a night
to
the tune of What a Friend,
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and
come morning, Rock of Ages
would
wake me gently once again.
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And then daddy would reach up,
and
he'd take the Bible down,
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and
he'd read it, read it loud and long.
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And I always felt that maybe
our house was blessed,
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when
daddy would say, “Mama sing a song !”
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3. Sister left home first I guess,
and
then Bob and then Tommy and then Dan.
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By then dad's hair was turning
white
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and I
had to be mama's little man,
but
it seemed that as daddy's back grew weak,
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my
mother's faith just grew strong.
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And those were the greatest
days of all,
when
mama sang a song.
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+ Rock of ages cleft for
me, let me hide myself in Thee.
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Do do
doo.
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4. I guess the house is still
standing,
I don't get to go back much
anymore.
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No voice is left to fill those
halls,
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and
no steps to grace the floor.
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For, you see, my mother sings
in heaven now,
around
God's golden throne.
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But I'll always believe that
this world is a better place,
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because
one time my mama sang a song.
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+ Precious mem'ries flood my sou.....................l.
(orig. = capo 3rd) (Bill Anderson)