From the recording Mama
Lyrics
MAMA
Mama, I love you! Mama, I love you! Oh. yeah
So many things I wanna tell you
Got so much love to give you
So many ways I wanna thank you
For all the things that you do
Chorus
Mama, why did you work so hard
Mama, me carrying you name gone abroad
Mama, you know that me love you so
Mama, promise me that you’ll never go…
(Repeat)
Time hard, Papa run gone and left we
Time past, seem like him forget we
Thank God Mama never stop try
Stand strong wipe the tear from you eye
Three pickney on you them rely
Never really know the reasons why.
(Chorus)
Life did hard no me nah tell no lie
Nuff time me affi buss out a cry
Sometimes there was nothing to eat
Yet still you keep we off a the street
Through it all you were always there
Thank you, Mama, for showing you care
(Chorus)
Oh mama, oh mama, mama
Oh, mama, listen…
A no little thing you suffer fi we
Three pickney without a daddy
Nuff thing me never understand
But that change now me turn a big man
Mama tell me what can I do for you
For there is nothing that is too good for you
(Chorus)
2006 Alfred Lloyd
McKoy District Publishing (BMI)