I Dreamed About Mama Last Night (Acetate Version 24) (2019 - Remaster)

[00:00.20] I dreamed about mama last night
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[00:09.13] I've just been to Heaven with someone so true
[00:16.52] I dreamed about mama last night
[00:23.05] She read me the Bible like she used to do
[00:30.42] I dreamed about mama last night
[00:37.36] She never closed her eyes and sleep 'til we were all in bed
[00:44.01] And on party nights 'til we came home she often sat and read
[00:49.70] We little thought about it then for we were young and gay
[00:54.56] Just how much mama worried when we children were away
[00:58.88] We only knew she never slept when we were out at night
[01:03.60] That she waited just to know we'd all come home alright
[01:08.65] While sometimes when we'd stay away 'til one or two or three
[01:13.15] It seemed to us that mama heard the turnin' of the key
[01:17.75] For always when we stepped inside, she'd call and we'd reply
[01:22.74] But we were all too young back then to understand the reason why
[01:29.15] Until the last one had returned, she'd always keep a light
[01:34.28] For mama couldn't sleep until she kissed us all goodnight
[01:39.05] She had to know that we were safe before she went to rest
[01:43.62] Oh mama seemed to fear the world might harm the ones she loved the best
[01:49.28] And once she said, "When you are grown into women and to men
[01:54.22] Perhaps, I'll sleep the whole night through, I may be different then"
[01:59.32] And so it seemed that night and day, we knew a mother's care
[02:04.44] That always when we got back home, we'd find her waitin' there
[02:09.27] Then came the night that we were called together 'round her bed
[02:14.28] "The children're all with you now," the kindly doctor said
[02:19.59] And in her eyes there gleamed again that old time tender light
[02:23.89] That told that she had been waitin', just to know we were all alright
[02:29.93] She smiled that old familiar smile, and prayed to God to keep
[02:36.23] Her children safe throughout the years, and then mama went to sleep
[02:43.09] My dream is a treasure, that I'll always keep
[02:50.38] I dreamed about mama last night
[02:58.50] Thank you Hank, that is a pretty song
[03:00.41] Freddy Rolls wrote that song, didn't he? Yes sir
[03:02.96] Yeah, that's a good one
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