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This track is dedicated to my mother, her maternal caregiving and her comforting and inspiring voice.

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Mother oh mother, sing to your children
each passing day as they stumble and grow
your tender care as their night long nursemaid
soothes every ache with a song sweet and slow,
...a song sweet and slow.

Mother oh mother sing to your children
showing your love with a song in each word
melody fills every empty passage
warm kitchen stove and a yellow song bird,
...a yellow song bird.

Twinkle twinkle little star
How I wonder what you are
I wish I may I wish I might
Have the wish I wish tonight.

Children oh children sing to your mother
songs of your daydreams with castles and moats
Run through the meadows tugging on kite strings
rising and falling with each tender note.

Monday's child is fair of face
Tuesday's child is full of grace
Wednesday's child is full of woe
Thursday's child has far to go.

Passing of time, melodies linger
binding the souls between mother and child
Mother to son, brother to sister,
Sweet recollections and pain reconciled.

Mother oh mother, sing to your children,
showing your love with a song in each word.
Children oh children sing to your mother
learn and return every song you have heard.

Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray the Lord my soul to keep
Guard me while I sleep tonight
And wake me safe at dawn's first light.

Mother oh mother blood ties deepen
Each passing year as our souls sing as one.

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from Island in the Sound, released June 15, 2010
Barbara Hume, composer/lyricist
Anne Pell, Pianist

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Barbara Hume Seattle, Washington

Barbara Hume lives in the Seattle area where she has collaborated with composers for the past 20 years including David Paul Mesler, Bonnie Murphy, Paul Lewis and other northwest artists producing original music, set to a rich and varied canon of poetry. In these albums, the weaving of melody and imagery produce songs that unearth the raw senses that nurture the soul. ... more

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