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 the Bible as she used to do
 I dreamed about Mama last night
 She never closed her eyes to sleep
 Till we were all in bed
 And on party nights till we came home
 She always sat and read
 We had little thought about it then
 For we were young and gay
 Just how much Mama worried
 When we children were away
 We only knew she never slept
 While we were out at night
 That she waited just to know
 That we'd all come home alright
 And sometimes when we'd stay away
 Till 1 or 2 or 3
 It seemed to us that Mama heard
 The turning of the key
 For always when we'd step inside
 She'd call and we'd reply
 We were all too young back then
 To understand the reason why
 Till the last one had returned
 She always kept a light
 For Mama couldn't sleep until
 She'd kissed us all good night
 She had to know we were safe
 Before she went to rest
 For she always feared the world might harm
 The ones she loved the best
 Once she said, "When you are grown
 To women and to men
 Perhaps I'll sleep the whole night through
 It might be different then"
 So it seemed that night and day
 We knew our mother's care
 For always when we got back home
 We found her waiting there
 Then came the day
 We were called together 'round her bed
 "The children are all with ya now"
 The kindly doctor said
 Then in her eyes there gleamed again
 That old-time tender light
 That told that she waited
 Just to know we made it home alright
 She smiled that old familiar smile
 And prayed to God to keep
 Her children safe from harm throughout the years
 And then she went asleep
 My dream is a treasure that I'll always keep
 I dreamed about Mama last night