MARY BRASWELL: Looking Back, May 11, 2014

Each week Albany Herald researcher Mary Braswell looks for interesting events, places and people from the past. You can contact her at (229) 888-9371 or [email protected].

This week is a hodgepodge of tunes written to a mother and/or about a mother – with selected lyrics and by artists of my choice.

“A Bible & A Bus Ticket Home” – Collin Raye (1994)

Took a rented room on Broadway

And as I unpacked everything I owned

I found a note my mamma left me

With a Bible and a bus ticket home

It said, ‘One will get you where you’re going

When you haven’t got a prayer

And one will bring you back son

If your dreams ain’t waiting there’

“I Wouldn’t Trade the Silver in My Mother’s Hair” – Eddy Arnold (1950)

I wouldn’t trade the silver in my mother’s hair

For all the gold in the world

The hands that rocked my cradle through all my baby days

Are treasures from the sky that money cannot buy