The Songs My Mother Sang - song lyrics 
American Old-time song lyrics from www.traditionalmusic.co.uk 
THE SONGS MY MOTHER SANG. Copyright, 1886, by W. F. Shaw. As sung by C R. Dockstader. 
I remember the songs that my mother used to sing When I was a child long ago; I see her dear face bending over me now, As she sang in a voice sweet and low. How she'd cheer and caress me, and teach me to talk, As close to her side I would creep; At the close of the day she would teach me to pray, I remember: "Now I lay me down to sleep." 
Chorus. Siny that good old song, that dear, good, sweet old song, The old song dear to us in days gone by; Oh, the ones we used to hear from our angel mother dear, The song that she sang for you and I. 
And when I older grew to other scenes I roamed, Then when alone at evening I would be I would sit down and think of the dear ones at home, It seemed my mother's face I could see; As she sang me to sleep in the days long ago, How again I would dearly love to hear The songs that my mother sang for they were sweet to me, The songs of my old mother dear.-Chorus.