I Dreamed About Mama Last Night (Acetate Version 25) [2019 - Remaster]

Friend, this morning we're gonna start with a number here that
We had the pleasure of recording here a few months ago under a different name
Under a very good friend of ours
In fact, I even sleep with him every day and night
Fella by the name of Luke the Drifter
Which in one of my other characters is Luke
We'd like to do it for you
And get this on MGM Records if you care to have it
I think it's one of the finest things that's ever been written
It was wrote by Fred Rose
"I Dreamed About Mama Last Night"

I just been to heaven with someone so true
I dreamed about mama last night
She read me the bible like she used to do
I dreamed about mama last night

She never closed her eyes and sleep
'Til we were all in bed
And on party nights 'til we came home, she often sat and read
But we little thought about it then 'cause we were young and gay
Just how much mama worried when we children were away
We only knew she never slept when we were out at night
And she waited just to know that we'd all come home alright

Why, sometimes when we'd stayed awake 'til one or two or three
It seems with us that we could hear the turning of the key
For always when we stepped inside, she'd call and we'd reply
But we were all too young back then to understand the reason why

Until the last one had returned, she'd always keep a light
For mama couldn't sleep until she kissed us all goodnight
She had to know that we were safe before she went to rest
She seemed to fear the world might harm the one she loved the best
And once she said, "When you are grown to women and to men
Perhaps I'll sleep the whole night through
I may be different then"

And it seemed that night and day, we knew a mother's care
For always when we got back home, we'd find her waitin' there
Then came the night that we were called to gather 'round her bed
"The children all with you now", the kindly doctor said

And in her eyes that gleamed again, that old-time tender light
That told that she'd been waiting just 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
And then mama went to sleep

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