Happy Mothers Day Song

VERSE 1:
Happy Mother’s-day
I appreciate you, in a very non-hallmark way
And I am only here to say
Good god I love you, god I love you.

It was an Odyssey of the Mind
How a woman could devote such thought and time
To a bunch o’ kids building with balsa wood
Potato spelled with an ‘E’ sounds much more good

If it wasn’t soccer practice, basketball, or little league
It was a trip of your invention for to walk the vaulted halls of OMSI
Ya know I had all that I could ask for, and so I’m singing just to say
That I’m really good-god-damn-grateful
for the opportunities placed in my way

CHORUS (Em-Bm7-C-G) 2X then (A7-D7)
And when you stop a conversation, cause you feel the need to say
That you wouldn’t a’changed one moment, that we got to spend together today
I feel a sweet release, that doesn’t seem to come to me any other way
From most believable words I’ve heard in days

VERSE 2:
Happy Mothers Day
I appreciate you in a very non-hallmark way
And I am only here to say
That good-god I love you, god I love you

And I forgive you, for putting me in boys choir with a pedophile
Good thing he liked the ladies, or I might have been in therapy for a while
Thanks bringing squeeze-its to my recreational soccer games
Any 8 year old could tell you water and orange slices just ain’t the same

And for every other Wednesday you’d let us go to chucky-cheese
Thanks for eating all that shitty pizza while animatronic robots sputter and wheeze
Thanks for Sunday morning and letting us sleep in the back pew
Waiting for a sweet piece of pot-luck chicken, then taking us out for ice-cream when we’re through

CHORUS (Em-Bm7-C-G) 2X then (A7-D7)
And when you stop a conversation, cause you feel the need to say
That you wouldn’t a’changed one moment, that we got to spend together today
I feel a sweet release, that doesn’t seem to come to me any other way
From most believable words I’ve heard in days


VERSE 3:
Happy Mothers Day
I appreciate you in a very non-halmark way
And I am only here to say
That I wouldn’t have had it any other way

Italy, France, and Germany
Panama, Canada, Greece, and even Jersey
It was swell, and I knew that I was blessed
Israel, Egypt, no time for all the rest.

when it came time for me to go to University
You said go roam, get gone and lost, this is you time to wander and weave
That’s a simple thing to say, but it’s a harder thing to mean
Putting my own interests over your own empty nest insecurity

CHORUS (Em-Bm7-C-G) 2X then (A7-D7)
And when you stop a conversation, cause you feel the need to say
That you wouldn’t a’changed one moment, that we got to spend together today
I feel a sweet release, that doesn’t seem to come to me any other way
From most believable words I’ve heard in days

Happy mothers day
But it’s a father’s day too
Because nine-times out of ten he has acted as the family glue
So go forth and be fantastic
Don’t go changing anything
cause I’m gonna need you tomorrow
every summer, fall , and spring.