I Dreamed About Mama Last Night

I've just been to heaven with someone so true I dreamed about mama last night

She read me her Bible like she used to do I dreamed about mama last night

Mama used to never go to sleep at night until all of us were in bed

On party nights till we come home she often sat up and read

We little thought about it then for we were young and gay

Just how much mama worried when children were away

We only knew that she never slept when we were out at night

That she waited just to know that we were all gonna come home alright

Why sometimes we'd stayed away till one or two or three

And I used to think that mama could hear the turning of the key

For we'd step aside and she'd call and we'd reply

But we were all too young back then to understand just why

But up until the last one had returned mama always kept a light

She couldn't go to sleep until she kissed us all goodnight

I think mama just had to know that we were safe before she went to rest

She seemed to fear that the world might harm the ones that she loved the best

One time she told me when you're grown to women and to men

I'll sleep the whole night through I bet I'll be different then

And so it seemed that night and day we knew a mother's care

Then always when we got back home we'd find her waiting there

And then came the night that we were called together round her bed

The children're all with you now the kindly doctor said

And in her eyes there gleamed again that old time tender light

That told that she's just been waitin' to know that we were all alright

She smiled that old familiar smile and prayed to God to keep

Her children safe from harm throughout the years then mama went to sleep

My dream is a treasure that I'll always keep I dreamed about mama last night