Mama's Face

(Glenn Martin)



My mama loved my dad for fifty years

She worked along beside him in the fields

He never gave her much but he gave her all he had

Dad's the only reason my mama lived.



Mama's face would light up like a diamond

Each time my daddy just walked in the room

She'd stop what she was doing and put her arms around him

Dad's the only world my mama knew.



Mama never saw her roses bloom

That year the angels came before the robin's song

Mama said, ''She didn't mind goin' on ahead

''But heaven won't be heaven till dad is home.''



When mama left she left dad a lonely man

But he talked to mama like she was still here

Oh, he'd talk about the hard times

And the good times that they'd had.



As his old mind slipped back across the years

Daddy never plowed his fields again

He just sat down to wait his time to come

And then one day he said, ''I think I hear a choir sing.''



And he closed his eyes and went to live with mom

Lord, I want to thank you for the years

That they were here for me to love

Though it's hard to let 'em go. Lord



You know I'd let 'em go again.

If I could have just been there

And seen my mama's face

When my dad walked in.



If I could have only seen my mama's face

When my daddy walked in...