Hank Williams: I dreamed about mamma last night

(I've just been to heaven with someone so true I dreamed about mama last nightShe read me the Bible like she used to do I dreamed about mama last night)She never closed her eyes and sleep till we were all in bedAnd on party nights till we came home she often sat and readWe little thought about it then for we were young and gayJust how much mama worried when we children were awayWe only knew she never slept then when we were out at nightThat she waited just to know that we'd all come home all rightWhy sometimes when we'd stay away until one or two or threeIt seemed to us that mama heard the turning of the keyFor always when we'd step aside she'd call and we'd replyBut we were all too young back then to understand the reason whyUntil the last one had returned she'd always keep a lightFor mama couldn't sleep until she kissed us all goodnightShe had to know that we were safe before she went to restFor she seemed to fear the world might harm the ones she loved the bestAnd once she told me when you're grown to women and to menPerhaps I'll sleep the whole night through I may be different thenAnd so it seemed that night and day we knew a mother's careThat always when we got back home we'd find her waitin' thereThen came the night that we were called together round her bedThe children're all with you now the kindly doctor saidAnd in her eyes there gleamed again that old time tender lightThat told that she's just been waitin' to know that we were all rightShe smiled that old familiar smile and prayed to God to keepHer children safe from harm throughout the years and then she went to sleep(My dream is a treasure that I'll always keep I dreamed about mama last night)