A 1922 popular song.
Words by Jack Yellen.
Music by Milton Ager.
Sheet music provided by Laurence Rubenstein:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Once there were eyes that wept for me
When trouble came my way
Once there were lips that prayed for me
A million times ev’ry day
Once there were arms that held me in
A mother’s fond embrace
But now I roam this world alone
For who can take her place?
Refrain
Oh, what a mother I had
She toiled that I might be glad
Always the same in sunshine or rain
She never knew what it meant to complain
God loaned me an Angel whose smile
Brightened this earth for a while
When she left the whole world grew sad
What a wonderful mother I had
- Who always had a sunny smile
When clouds would hide the skies?
Who always had a tender kiss
To keep the tears from my eyes?
Who used to share my ev’ry care
Each sorrow and each pain?
My mother who would gladly do
The same for me again
Sung here by Fred Feild: