Walter Brennan - Mama Sang A Song lyrics

Walter Brennan – Mama Sang a Song



(God put a song in the heart of an Angel)

(And softly she sang it to me)



I get to thinking lots of times

About back when I was a lad

Of the old home place where I growed up

Of the days both good and bad



My overalls was hand-me-downs

Me shoes was full of holes

And used to walk four miles to school every day

Through the rain and the sleet and the cold



I've seen the nights when my daddy would cry

For the things that his family would need

But all he ever got was a bad-land farm

And seven hungry mouths to feed



And yet, and yet out home-fire never flickered once

'Cause when all these things went wrong

Mama took the hymn-book down

And mama sang a song



(What a friend we have in Jesus)



I been rocked to sleep many a night to the tune of What a Friend

And come morning Rock of Ages would wake me gently once again



Then daddy reached up and he’d take the bible down

And he’d read it, read it loud and long

And I always thought that maybe our home was blessed

When daddy would say, "Mamma, sing a song"





Sister left home first, I guess

Then Bob and then Tommy and then Dan

Then dad's hair was turnin' white

'n I had to be mama's little man



But it seemed that as daddy's back growed weak

Mother's faith growed strong

And them were the greatest days of all

When mama sang a song



(Rock of ages, cleft for me)

(Let me hide myself in thee)

(Ooh, ooh, ooh)



I guess the house is still standin’

I don't get back much no more

No voice is left to fill them halls

'n no steps to grace the floor



But you see, my mama sings in heaven now

Around God's golden throne

But I'll always believe this world

Is a better place because, one time

My mama sang a song



(Precious memories fill my soul)

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