Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song I Love You, Mama, artist - Shirley Caesar. Album song Rejoice, in the genre Поп
Date of issue: 14.07.1980
Record label: Word
Song language: English
I Love You, Mama |
You know so ofttimes people ask me |
Shirley, why is it that you sing about mothers so much? |
But you know, my Mama has been both mom and dad for me |
Maybe many of you don’t know it, but my mother is a semiinvalid |
Today I’d like to just say thanks, Mom |
Thanks for sharing and caring about me |
The many nights that you laid awake while I was out on the road singing |
And many nights, many mornings rather, you wouldn’t even go to sleep |
Until you’d hear me put my key in the door |
I wanna say thanks for the many mornings that you’d get up |
And would fix us some lunch when so many kids didn’t have anything to eat |
And I remember, in my little ol' selfish way I would complain |
Because I had to take biscuit and a piece of meat between the bread to school |
And the children would laugh at me and I’d come home crying, saying |
Mama, I don’t take that to school anymore and my Mama would say thanks |
Because I remember so vividly that morning you called in the kitchen |
And you told me to look down in the bag |
I said, Mama, there’s nothing down in the bag but meat and bread |
And Mama, I remember you took the meat and the bread out and you put it on the |
table |
And I said, Mama, there’s nothing down in the bag |
And you said, yes, it is, that’s what you told me |
She said, you’ll take this meat and this bread and you’ll go to school |
And whenever the children laugh at you, you tell them that every morning when I |
get up |
The first thing that I do is I put my love in that bag |
Thanks, Mom |
When Daddy died, I remember, the relatives came |
And they wanted to take us all from you |
And I remember you saying with tears in your eyes |
I know that nobody’s gonna give me a job |
And I know that my check that I get each month is not going to be enough to |
take care of my children |
But some kind of way, God’s gonna make a way |
And I remember you used to sing this song all the time |
«Courage my soul and let me journey on |
Though the night seems dark, it won’t be very long |
Thanks be to God the morning light appears |
The storm is passing over, hallelujah» |
And, Mama, we can say today that that storm passed over |
And, Mama, I wanna say thank you for denying yourself |
There were times that you wanted a dress, you bought us that dress |
There were times when you needed shoes, you bought us those shoes |
There were times when you wanted to go out, you stayed home |
Thank you, Mama, thank you for teaching me how to love |
Teaching me about Jesus, making me go to Sunday school when I didn’t want to go |
For, Mama, today when I look back over my life I can say that you been a good |
mom |
And Mama, I want to thank you for all of those whippings I got |
At times I’d throw rocks and break out windows and break out street lights |
And a time I’d go to the grocery stores and then steal twin popsicles and |
ginger snaps |
And I’ve looked you square in the eye and I’ve lied some about I been doing |
And you, being a good mom, you knew when I was lying |
I want to thank you, Ma, for those whippings I got |
And then Mama, I want to thank you for teaching me to understand, |
teaching me sharing, teaching me caring |
Mama, when I saw the other kids in the neighborhood, how you would take them in |
when they were hungry |
Oh, you’ve been a good Mama |
I’d like to just sum up this little tribute to you in four beautiful words |
And I know I can’t say thank you enough, but thank you with these four words |
I love you, Mama, I love you |
I love you, Mama |
I love you, Mama |