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Artist/Band: Jimmy Dean
Lyrics for Song: Mama Sang a Song
Lyrics for Album: 20 Great Story Songs [Curb] [1999]



(Bill Anderson)



(God put a song in the heart of an angel and softly she sang it to me.)



I get to thinkin' lotta times

About when I was a lad

Of the old homeplace where I grew up

Of the days both good and bad .



My overalls were hand-me-downs

Shoes full of holes

I used to walk four miles to school every day

Through the rain, 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 badland farm

And seven hungry mouths to feed.



And yet and somehow

Our homefire never flickered once

'Cause when all the things went wrong

Mama took the hymn book down and mama sang a song.



(What a friend we have in Jesus.)



I've been rocked to sleep many a night

To the tune of What a Friend

Morning come Rock of Ages

It gently wake me once again.



Then daddy'd reach up and take the Bible down and he'd read it

Read it loud and strong

And I always felt that maybe our home was blessed

When daddy'd say mama sing a song.



Sister left home first I guess

Then Bob and Tommy and then Dan

By then dad's hair was turning grey

And I had to be mama's little man.



But it seemed that when dad grew weak

Mom's faith grew strong

And I think those were the greatest days of all

When mama sang a song.



(Rock of ages cleft for me let me hide myself in Thee.)



I guess the old house is still standin'

I don't go back much anymore

No voice is left to fill those halls

And no steps to grace the floor.



For you see mama sings in heaven now

Around God's golden throne

But I'll always believe that this old world is a whole lot better place

Because one time my mama sang a song.



(Precious mem'ries flood my soul...)


Album Lyrics: 20 Great Story Songs [Curb] [1999]


Jimmy Dean
"20 Great Story Songs [Curb] [1999]"


1. Mama Sang a Song
2. Oklahoma Bill
3. Old Rivers
4. Please Pass the Biscuits