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Mama Never Played

from Hazelnut by Squirrel Butter

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7. Mama Never Played:
Here is a song of autobiographical fiction that goes out to all mothers and anyone that has ever had a mother.

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There’s a picture in my mind, going way back in time
To my mother’s kind and worried eyes
With a letter from school, about minding the rules
And the problem child who never ever tries

To restless to see the pain and misery
I brought to my family that day
But she said, “Get in the car, we’re buying that guitar,
The one you said you'd like to learn to play.”

Though mama never played she taught me ever song I made
In the love that she gave me all along
No, she never picked a string, but she taught me how to sing
And how to give everything for a song

Now, many years have flown, since I started all alone
Packed my six string and gone down the road
And when I said goodbye, she looked me in the eye
And cried and held me tight and watched me go

So eager to play in the bright lights far away
I barely heard her saying at the door
“Whatever you go through and no matter what you do,
You’ll always be my darling baby boy.”

Though mama never played she taught me ever song I made
In the love that she gave me all along
No, she never picked a string, but she taught me how to sing
And how to give everything for a song

I spent years bummin’ ‘round and playing town to town
Fell in love and settled down and made a home
It would make my mama proud to see me here somehow
She’s smiling down from Heaven now I know

I’ve played under the stars and in crowded rowdy bars
Now my favorite gig by far is down the hall
Singing lullabies while our baby shuts her eyes
As I realize I’m playing Mama’s song

Though mama never played she taught me ever song I made
In the love that she gave me all along
No, she never picked a string, but she taught me how to sing
And how to give everything for a song
She gave everything for a song

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from Hazelnut, released July 8, 2022
Written by Charlie Beck
banjo, vocal- Charlie
guitar, vocal- Charmaine

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Squirrel Butter Seattle, Washington

Based in Seattle, husband & wife duo Squirrel Butter, Charlie Beck & Charmaine Slaven, performs traditional and original music primarily influenced by Appalachian, early country, jug band, and blues artists from the late 1800’s through 1950’s.

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