"Hi Mom, It's Me" genre: Country General
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	Story song with an interesting twist.
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	Story Behind the Song Woke up at 2 am one morning with this song in my head. Got up, and in 45 minutes the song was completed. Not about my life personally, but have known a few people in this situation. Lyrics Hi Mom, It's Me Word and Music By Roy Rivers Copyright © 1999-2002, Roy Rivers, All rights reserved. Well I listened to the radio The other night in bed I'd been singing on the road somewhere And feeling about half dead The announcer took a phone call From a woman as she cried She told of love and happiness And how it up and died. There was something in her story And I guess it caught my ear I imagined how it must have felt To carry all those years How a moments indiscretion Had produced a little life And a fifteen year old mother Who was made to sacrifice. There ensued a bitter battle As her folks became enraged They would let her bring him in the world Until a couple came Who would give the child the kind of life That wouldn't need repair But it broke the heart and spirit Of this frightened little girl. Well, she told of how she talked to him And felt his kicking feet How she sang him lullabies To put herself to sleep And when he was delivered, She was not supposed to see But she caught a glimpse of a birthmark, Like a heart, upon his knee. Well at that very moment Something shook me in my brain Cause I had searched for many years To learn my real mom's name And I threw aside the covers From my bed in that motel And stared down at my knee And the little heart I knew so well. Well I called the station quickly And I learned the lady's name And I found that her address Was in this town where I was playing So I dressed myself and drove there, I just had to go and see And it was almost like I saw myself, And I said -- Hi mom, it's me There's a truth within this story Like a tune for every song And you never know when happenstance Will help you right along And for some it's a beginning, And for some it's in an end And for some it's in the living And the truth it has to lend.

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