Mama's Face

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 bein' 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