A Picture Of Your Mother - Tom T. Hall

My little girl and I lost Mama just three years ago

And now that she is older there are things she wants to know

She said, «Please Daddy tell me 'bout my mother 'cause I miss her.»

I said, «Get pen and paper and I’ll help your draw her picture.»

I said, «First draw a heart so big there’s room for little else

Then write a million for the things that she denied herself

Draw a rose the kind of which there’ll never be another

And when you finish you will have a picture of your mother

«If you want to make the picture even more complete

You could draw a little cottage, draw it nice and neat

Draw a bright and shining sun up in the sky above

But then again I guess it’s pretty hard to draw my love

«So draw a heart so big that there is room for little else

Write a million for the things that she denied herself

Draw a rose the kind of which there’ll never be another

And when you finish you will have a picture of your mother.»