| This song right here is for my mama
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| It’s the hardest song I ever wrote in my life
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| I must have cried a million tears
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| I wasn’t going to write it at first but
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| I figured if I could do a song recognizing everything else
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| It’s only right to write about the woman who gave me life
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| So this is dedicated to my mama and all the other mama’s that aren’t here today
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| Straight from the heart, straight from the heart
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| I got a call in the waiting room from the nurse
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| Telling me to come upstairs cause my mamma’s worse
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| I was at my baby’s bedside in a flash
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| But the look on their faces told me she passed
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| And everything went blank, I couldn’t think
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| I couldn’t believe even though she wasn’t breathin'
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| And the life support machine was turned off
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| And the tubes removed from her nose and mouth
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| I started tripping and my step father walks in
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| And states, let her go son she’s in a better place
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| She ain’t suffering no more, let her go I won’t
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| I should feel good for her but I don’t
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| Cause she didn’t deserve to go like that G
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| I wonder why the good Lord didn’t take me
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| But instead, I was picking up the telephone
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| Calling up sisters and brothers telling them mama gone
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| Drove a hearse, hearse Cadillac
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| Crowd of people gathered 'round dressed in black
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| Drove the hearse, hearse Cadillac
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| It had my precious mother in the back
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| Ever since you left here things done changed
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| Christmas, New Years and Thanksgiving ain’t the same
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| Without your button smile and sister?
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| And everybody missed you at the family reunion
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| Especially me, I tried to play strong
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| Looked around didn’t see you, couldn’t stay long
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| Cause there’s tears in my eyes from your death
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| And if I’m going to cry I’mma cry by myself
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| It hurts me to drive to your grave sight
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| And visit on your birthday, but it’s only right
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| I can’t believe that your name is on the stone
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| Buried in the ground, when mother’s day roll around
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| Now that you’re gone I realise
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| How much pain and misery you went through because of me
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| Going to jail, raising hell getting kicked
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| Out of school for fights and keeping you up late at night
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| When you had to go to work the next morning
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| So I could have food to eat and shoes on my feet
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| And a place to stay but being young and dumb
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| I couldn’t understand it so I took it for granted
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| I had a wedding and you missed it boo
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| My little baby girl blew a kiss at you
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| She never got to see her granny
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| But I told her but your spirit and if she call your name you can hear it
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| Drove the hearse, hearse Cadillac
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| Crowd of people gathered 'round dressed in black
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| Drove the hearse, hearse Cadillac
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| It had my precious mother in the back
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| Be good to your momma while you still got her
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| Hug her and kiss her cause when she gone you’re gonna miss her
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| I wish I could have went first
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| Cause words can’t express the pain that I felt when I saw the hearse
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| Drive off with my momma inside
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| Taking her for a last ride
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| I nearly died, cause that’s how I felt boss
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| Putting the gun to my head and blowing the mother fucker off
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| But she would have wanted me to be strong
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| Though teared up, not? |
| up, and lift my chin up
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| She would have told me get your money, keep making moves
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| And take care of your nieces and your nephews
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| Mama you’re gone, it’s hard being without you
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| It ain’t a day that goes by I don’t think about you
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| Everybody said count your blessings
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| Well, but they don’t know how I feel
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| Drove the hearse, hearse Cadillac
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| Crowd of people gathered 'round dressed in black
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| Drove the hearse, hearse Cadillac
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| It had my precious mother in the back
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| There it is
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| I remember the day the lord took you away
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| It was yesterday, whole world collapsed
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| It was like all the ?? |
| and the resentment that I felt for you
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| When you treated me bad didn’t even matter
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| You having problems with your momma, you got issues?
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| Y’all talk it out, call her go visit
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| Do something right now cause tomorrow ain’t promised
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| It won’t be the same when momma gone, nobody like momma, nobody |