Mama You'd Have to Be Proud of Me

(Hank Cochran)



The one I love so much told me goodbye

It hurt so much but I didn't cry

I let a smile hide my misery

Mama, you'd have been proud of me.



Yesterday, I thought to him just like a friend

Smiled and asked him how he'd been

Said, ''I hope you're happy as can be?

Mama, you'd have been proud of me.''



And if you could have seen me today

I'd smile and laugh in my old carefree way

They thought that I was like I'd like to be

Mama, you'd have been proud of me.



Mama, you'd have been proud of me...