Mothers Day Thread
 

Well mine has passed at the end of 2011 so it has profoundly changed this day.

Im sure there is many of us here with that same feeling. So how about a thread to celebrate them anyway. Mine always loved music and dancing.

This song has new meaning for me...
Paul Simon - Mother And Child Reunion (1972)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDjjWpLKsGM

This one I have lived by and love it ever since it came out.


Lynyrd Skynyrd - Simple Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHQ_aTjXObs

this is another Dan one I particurly like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HXivdPva2s and the lyrics,

I've been ridin' a winning horse for a long, long time
Sometimes I wonder is this the end of the line
No one should take advantage of who they are
No man has got it made
If he thinks he does, he's wrong

Every mother's son better hear what I say
Every mother's son will rise and fall someday

I've seen it happen so many times, so many times before
Some man got so much money he doesn't worry no more
Or he's got such a pretty woman that'll treat him fine
My friend has been a fool
It happens everytime

Every mother's son better hear what I say
Every mother's son will rise and fall someday

I'm not tryin to preach to no one, to no one at all
I've seen so many of my good friends just rise to fall
'cause they got so much money or a woman so fine
My friends have all been fools, it happens every time

Every mother's son better hear what I say
Every mother's son will rise and fall someday

What I say
Every mother's son better hear what I say
Every mother's son will rise and fall someday

Oh, every mother's son will rise and fall someday

A little over a year ago my Mother passed away. Have to keep busy or dwell to much on the loss.





Barney

It's a tough one Barney they provided so much to our lives. Even as we have grown old it's like a certain protection and love has been lost. Something no other entity in our lives could ever provide.

But I'll celebrate her being....


My mom had this album (I have it now) I remember sitting on her lap and her singing and teaching me the song.

Harry Belafonte Carnegie Hall
Mama Look A Boo Boo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBUGtPn7eQo

It has been 6 years for me Barney,I miss My mother,she was What I understood Strenghth to be.Just dwell on the good Stuff that is why you have a memorie keep her strong in your mind..

Then there was the women in my life, she didn't really like any of them but one.

Looking back she was right:rolleyes:

The Miracles - Shop Around

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQGXa3FiXKM

Same here, February.

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So true, My mom was a people person and the life of a party.


The party started when she arrived.


http://i1171.photobucket.com/albums/...EPHOTOS075.jpg

http://i1171.photobucket.com/albums/...EPHOTOS109.jpg

I'm so sorry to here that Steve it's your first mothers day without her. Looking back although not that long ago it was a tough day for me. I was also on line then sharing with others that all where going or had been though the same thing, it helped a lot.You got my support if you like. Tell use some of your found memories and things she liked.

I remember one one day when I was a young adult I put this song on. My mom came running into the living room and just couldn't control her self. After that she love CCR.

Creedence Clearwater Revival - It Came Out of the Sky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuPtOtGF4TY

This one too.... she knew all the words but from the Charley Pride version.
Credence Clearwater Revival - Cottonfields
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JjxpGpKNR4


Needles to say my Willy and the Poor Boy's ended up staying in her record colection.

Mine died on Thanksgiving Day, 2008 at 84.

Dad passed the following February at 91.

There isn't a single day that passes that I don't think of them, ever.
Despite anything I may have said here I always loved them, admired them and miss them terribly.

The last picture of them together on their 65th Anniversary in 2008.

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Dave

My mother used to complain about the Beatles a lot. She would tell me they "ruined" my generation.

Then, I caught her crying the day John Lennon was shot. "How could somebody do this to him? He had such a big heart."

Her favorite Beatles song; "Julia".

Dave

Thank you Dave for this wonderful moving picture!

elvis presley - in the ghetto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ox1Tore9nw

Awesome post Dave, that brought tears to my eye's.

The Beatles-While My Guitar Gently Weeps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3RYvO2X0Oo

Thank you for that, should have said a year ago February. My doppelganger mom 3 years ago and my birth mom December 22 1971.

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Lost Mom one week before I met Florence, often wondered whethere she and Dad had anything to do with our meeting, Heart attack and she asked for no heroic neasures and so the second attack snt her to her rest two months shy of her 91st birthday. The solo picture was taken around the time sh and Dad married. The other was as they were standing in the garden of the house where I was born. Dad passed on in 1962 days shy of his 81st birthday.

Hiya Rob. Your Mom looks quite the confident lady. ;)

Sounds like your mom didn't want you to be alone :( and sad. She made sure someone was there to help you though the pain. Funny thing about life we don't know true bliss without true pain they have to go hand in hand.

My mother died in 1967, and my old man crapped out in 1958.

So I've had plenty of time to get over it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ4fD3rJt8E

Been many years since mom left to the great beyond. Strange the weird things that sometimes trigger grief even now.

She had her issues but I've never met anyone kinder.

Pete

My mother didn't care much about anything beyond the problems she had in her marriage to my father. Certainly not much about the day to day life experience of either of her sons. Do I miss her? Sure. Just goes to show ya how fucked up we humans can be.