Album:  I'm Moving On And Other Country Hits
Written by:  Hank Snow

     MY MOTHER    Hank Snow

(You're just an angel and I love you)

There are friends who'll want you but just for a day
There are pals you'll think true but they'll cast you away
But there's one loving soul boys I sure recommend
Through this old world of sorrow she'll be true to the end

Mother though her hands are all wrinkled and old
Mother silver hair that has lost all the gold
(You left her alone to roam through the years)
(But all that you left her was heartaches and tears)
So kiss her old brow whisper softly and true
Mother you're just an angel and I love you

On the door of a cottage a wreath sadly hung
And the hearse stood there waiting as the choir softly sung
There were flowers in their beauty and the old parson he prayed
This was the last tribute as they left for her grave

She won't meet you son when you crave her caress
She has reared you to manhood and now you have laid her to rest
Those flowers in their beauty I tell her there no more
Cause tonight she's with the angels up around God's great throne

So don't cry a lake son to try and repay
Give those flowers and give those treasures give them today
Let her know that you love her and kindly show her that you care
Cause she's your mother God love her she's as true as a pray

So kiss her old brow as softly and true
Mother you're just an angel and I love you