Lyrics to
Mother

This version of Mother was released by Barbra Streisand in 1971.

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Mother you had me
But I never had you
I wanted you
But you didn’t want me
So I, I just got to tell you
Goodbye
Goodbye
Father you I left me
But I never left you
I needed you
You didn’t need me
So I, I just got to tell you
I gotta tell you
Goodbye
Goodbye
Children don’t do
What I have done
I couldn’t walk
But I tried to run
So I, I just got to tell you
Goodbye
Goodbye
Mamma don’t go
Daddy come home
Mamma don’t go
Daddy come home
Mamma don’t go
Daddy come home
Mamma don’t go
Daddy come home
Mamma don’t go
Daddy come home…

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About Lyrics and Mother by Barbra Streisand

When you decide to study the lyrics to Mother, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by Barbra Streisand. Some of the lyrics to Mother have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Barbra Streisand and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Mother if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Mother" means the words set to the music of Mother, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Barbra Streisand. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Mother and the lyrics to Mother are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Barbra Streisand who came here looking just for the lyrics to Mother, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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