Mother's Only Sleeping

Mother's not dead, she's only a sleeping
 Just patiently waiting for Jesus to come
 The birds will be singing while mother is sleeping
 They will sing o'er as the grave sinks away
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 Well I left my old home way back in the mountains
 For mother and father had both passed away
 We followed our mother up to the graveyard
 For mother was called to heaven that day
 Mother's not dead, she's only a sleeping
 Just patiently waiting for Jesus to come
 The birds will be singing while mother is sleeping
 They will sing o'er as the grave sinks away
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 Oh, how we miss her around the old home place
 Everything seems so lonesome since she went away
 Mother is sleeping way back the mountains
 Yes mother is sleeping way back in the hills
 Mother's not dead, she's only a sleeping
 Just patiently waiting for Jesus to come
 The birds will be singing while mother is sleeping
 They will sing o'er as the grave sinks away