MAMA PAINT ME A PICTURE
Music and lyrics by Anndrena Belcher
Mama, hear my plea, won’t you paint me a picture
Long to see my mother and my father and my sister
See my sister’s husband and their only dear son
Mama paint a picture, you know I really need one
Have us sitting here on the front porch in the summer
Birds are flying blue and the bugs are a humming
Sunflowers stand tall and yellow in the garden
Paint a picture quick before my dreams have parted
Chorus:
Old coal mines, dark and rugged hills
Your folks and mine are singing still
Cold grey streets, deep northern lake
Come back to me now before it’s too late
Mama hear my cry and I won’t be so homesick
Dark and lonely nights won’t lay so heavy on me
The floods have come and gone, I’m grown and I know it
But my heart is still a child, Mama, and I have to show it
We can still live together here and have a good life
We walk on here or do you say it’s my time
To head back north where the lands lay all flattened
I wish that old migration hadn’t never happened
Chorus