I'VE JUST BEEN
TO HEAVEN
WITH SOMEONE SO TRUE
I DREAMED ABOUT MAMA
LAST NIGHT
SHE READ ME THE BIBLE
LIKE SHE USED TO DO
I DREAMED
ABOUT MAMA
LAST NIGHT
SHE NEVER
CLOSED HER EYES
IN SLEEP TILL WE
WERE ALL IN BED
AND ON PARTY NIGHTS
TILL WE CAME HOME
SHE OFTEN SAT
AND READ
WE LITTLE
THOUGHT ABOUT IT THEN
FOR WE WERE
YOUNG AND GAY
JUST HOW MUCH
MAMA WORRIED
WHEN WE CHILDREN
WERE AWAY
WE ONLY KNEW
SHE NEVER SLEPT
AND WHEN WE WERE
OUT AT NIGHT
THAT SHE WAITED
JUST TO KNOW
THAT WE'D ALL
COME HOME ALRIGHT
WHY SOMETIMES
WHEN WE'D STAY AWAY
TILL ONE OR TWO
OR THREE
IT SEEMED TO US
THAT MAMA HEARD
THE TURNIN' OF THE KEY
FOR ALWAYS
WHEN WE'D STEP INSIDE
SHE'D CALL
AND WE'D REPLY
BUT WE WERE ALL
TOO YOUNG BACK THEN
TO UNDERSTAND
THE REASON WHY
UNTIL THE LAST ONE
HAD RETURNED SHE'D
ALWAYS KEEP A LIGHT
FOR MAMA
COULDN'T SLEEP UNTIL
SHE'D KISSED US ALL
GOODNIGHT
SHE HAD TO KNOW
THAT WE WERE SAFE
BEFORE SHE WENT
TO REST
SHE SEEMED TO FEAR
THAT THE WORLD
MIGHT HARM THE ONES
SHE LOVED THE BEST
AND ONCE SHE TOLD ME
WHEN WE'RE GROWN
TO WOMEN AND TO MEN
PERHAPS I'LL SLEEP
THE WHOLE NIGHT
THROUGH
I MAY BE DIFFERENT THEN
AND SO IT SEEMED
THAT NIGHT AND DAY
WE KNEW A MOTHER'S
CARE
THAT ALWAYS WHEN WE
GOT BACK HOME
WE'D FIND HER
WAITIN' THERE
THEN CAME THE NIGHT
THAT WE WERE CALLED
TOGETHER
'ROUND HER BED
THE CHILDREN ARE
ALL WITH YOU NOW
THE KINDLY DOCTOR
SAID
AND IN HER EYES
THE GLEAM AGAIN
THAT OLD TIME
TENDER LIGHT
THAT TOLD THAT SHE'D
BEEN WAITIN'
JUST TO KNOW
THAT WE WERE ALRIGHT
SHE SMILED THAT OLD
FAMILIAR SMILE
AND PRAYED TO GOD
TO KEEP
HER CHILDREN SAFE
FROM HARM
THROUGHOUT THE YEARS
AND THEN
SHE WENT TO SLEEP
MY DREAM
IS A TREASURE
THAT I'LL ALWAYS KEEP
I DREAMED ABOUT MAMA
LAST NIGHT