I Dreamed About Mama Last Night

[ti:I Dreamed About Mama Last Night] [ar:The Hit Crew] [al:Old School Country Classics: The Early 1900's, Vol. 2] [offset:0] [00:01.25]I Dreamed About Mama Last Night - The Hit Crew [00:08.22]I've just been to heaven with someone so true [00:14.32] [00:15.76]I dreamed about mama last night [00:20.08] [00:23.48]She read me the Bible like she used to do [00:29.98] [00:30.87]I dreamed about mama last night [00:35.49] [00:39.48]She never close her eyes to [00:41.74]Sleep till we were all in bed [00:43.62] [00:44.56]And on party nights [00:46.14]When we come home she often sat and read [00:48.69] [00:49.69]We little thought about it [00:51.15]RThen for we were young and gay [00:52.81] [00:53.90]Just how much mama worried [00:55.14] [00:55.71]When we children were away [00:57.21] [00:58.67]We only knew she never slept [01:00.76]When we were out at night [01:02.84]That she waited just to know [01:04.32] [01:04.83]That we'd all come home alright [01:06.47] [01:08.67]Why sometimes when we'd stay away [01:10.74]Till one or two or three [01:12.68] [01:13.81]It seemed to us that mama [01:15.66]Heard the turning of the key [01:17.37] [01:18.33]For always when we'd step aside [01:20.66]She'd call and we'd reply [01:22.24] [01:23.00]But we were all too young back [01:25.06]Then to understand the reason why [01:26.82] [01:27.95]Until the last one had returned [01:30.42]She'd always keep a light [01:31.92] [01:32.63]For mama couldn't sleep until [01:34.63]She kissed us all goodnight [01:36.28] [01:37.40]She had to know that we [01:39.33]Were safe before she went to rest [01:41.68]She seemed to fear that the world [01:43.87]Might harm the ones that she loved the best [01:46.34] [01:47.61]And once she told me [01:49.03]When you're grown to women and to men [01:51.08] [01:51.67]Perhaps I'll sleep the whole night through [01:54.20]I may be different then [01:55.52] [01:56.39]And so it seemed that night and day [01:58.88]We knew a mother's care [02:00.18] [02:01.18]That always when we got back home [02:03.60] [02:04.37]We'd find her waiting there [02:05.88] [02:07.17]Then came the night that [02:08.82]We were called together round her bed [02:10.61] [02:11.54]The children're all with you now the kindly doctor said [02:14.70] [02:15.89]And in her eyes the gleam again [02:17.88]That old time tender light [02:19.36] [02:20.52]That told that she's just been waiting [02:22.65]To know that we were alright [02:25.00] [02:26.40]She smiled that old familiar [02:28.48]Smile and prayed to God to keep [02:31.08] [02:31.87]Her children safe from harm throughout the years [02:35.97]Tand then she went to sleep [02:37.96] [02:41.44]My dream is a treasure that I'll always keep [02:47.65] [02:49.02]I dreamed about mama last night [02:53.50]