Bill Anderson - I Dreamed About Mama Last Night lyrics

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 inside and she'd cal

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...