{"id":25278,"date":"2025-07-14T05:19:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T05:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=25278"},"modified":"2025-08-20T15:31:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T15:31:38","slug":"mother-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/mother-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOTS MORE TO THE SONG THAN MOST PEOPLE KNOW<\/a><\/p>\n

\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[XX]\u00a0 I\u2019ve been around the [XX]\u00a0 world you bet, but [XX]\u00a0 never [XX]\u00a0 went to [XX]\u00a0 school.\u00a0 [XX]\u00a0 Hard [XX]\u00a0 knocks are all I [XX]\u00a0 seemed to get - per-[XX] =haps I\u2019ve [XX]\u00a0 been a[XX]\u00a0 fool.\u00a0 But[XX]\u00a0 still some [XX]\u00a0 educated folks [XX]\u00a0 supposed to be so[XX]\u00a0 swell would [XX]\u00a0 fail, if they were [XX]\u00a0 called [XX]\u00a0 upon a [XX]\u00a0 simple [XX]\u00a0 word to [XX]\u00a0 spell.\u00a0 <\/span>Now [XX]\u00a0 if you\u2019d like me to [XX]\u00a0 put me to my [XX]\u00a0 test, there\u2019s [XX]\u00a0 one your name that [XX]\u00a0 I can spell the [XX]\u00a0 best. [XX]\u00a0 [XX]\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n\r\nC<\/span>                               Dm<\/span>    G7<\/span>\r\nM is for the million things she g-ave me\r\n \r\n                                C<\/span>\r\nO means only that she's growing old\r\n \r\nC7<\/span>           F<\/span>                 C<\/span>    A7<\/span>\r\nT is for the tears she shed to save me\r\n \r\nD7<\/span>                           G7<\/span>\r\nH is for her heart of purest gold \r\n \r\nC<\/span>                                 G7<\/span>\r\nE is for her eyes with love-light shining\r\n \r\n                                      E7<\/span>\r\nR means right and right she'll always be\r\n \r\nF<\/span>                                C<\/span>    Am<\/span>\r\nPut them all together they spell moth-er\r\n \r\n  F<\/span>                   G7<\/span>       C<\/span>\r\nA word that means the world to me \r\n \r\n \r\nWhen I was just a baby long before I learned to walk.\r\nWhile lying in my cradle, I would try my best to talk.\r\nIt wasn\u2019t long before I spoke, and all the neighbors heard,\r\nmy folks were very proud of me for mother was the word.\r\n<\/span>Although I\u2019ll never lay a claim to fame,\r\nI\u2019m satisfied that I can spell this name. <\/span>\r\n\r\n                       Dm<\/span>      G7<\/span>\r\nM is for the mercy she possess-es\r\n \r\n                             C<\/span>\r\nO means that I owe her all I own\r\n \r\nC7<\/span>           F<\/span>            C<\/span>     A7<\/span>\r\nT is for her tender sweet caresses \r\n \r\nD7<\/span>                             G7<\/span>\r\nH is for her hands that made a home\r\n \r\nC<\/span>                                G7<\/span>\r\nE means everything she's done to help me\r\n \r\n                             E7<\/span>\r\nR means real and regular you see\r\n \r\nF                                C    Am\r\nPut them all together they spell moth-er\r\n \r\n  F                   G7       C\r\nA word that means the world to me<\/span><\/pre>\n
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LOTS MORE TO THE SONG THAN MOST PEOPLE KNOW [XX]\u00a0 I\u2019ve been around the [XX]\u00a0 world you bet, but [XX]\u00a0 never [XX]\u00a0 went to [XX]\u00a0 school.\u00a0 [XX]\u00a0 Hard [XX]\u00a0 knocks are all I [XX]\u00a0 seemed to get – per-[XX] =haps I\u2019ve [XX]\u00a0 been a[XX]\u00a0 fool.\u00a0 But[XX]\u00a0 still some [XX]\u00a0 educated … CLICK TO VIEW SONGMother<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,117,121,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-almost-ready","category-hold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}