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Mother Make my Bed

from The Longing Kind (album) by Maz O'Connor

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    Released February 26, 2016

    All songs by Maz O'Connor
    Track 5 music by Maz O'Connor and Jim Moray
    Produced by Jim Moray
    Maz O'Connor: vocals, guitar, tenor guitar, piano, harmonium
    Beth Porter: cello
    Matt Downer: double bass
    Nick Malcolm: trumpet
    Chris Hillman: pedal steel
    Suzi Gage: harmony vocals
    Jim Moray: harmony vocals, drums and percussion, electric guitars, synths, hammond organ, mandolin, harmonium, banjo

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lyrics

Oh mother make my bed
I need to lay my head
Where I have laid it a thousand times before

Why'd you let me roam
So far away from home
I've been wandering so long don't know what I'm wandering for

And father you didn't tell me
How they'd try and sell me
All of these dreams made of paper made of stone

I built my dreams on water
Forgot how to be the daughter
You had always been so proud to call your own

Oh when I'm old where will I go?
And when I'm free what will I be?
When you're young and when you're poor
The only thing you want is more

So I found myself a place
That stayed open late
And found myself a man who would stand as I swayed

Swayed left and right
Swayed into the night
Swayed until I lost my shine until I lost my light

He cleaned me up and took me home
He kissed me top and toe
I swayed some more
He stayed some more
And then I just don't know

Tell me what lies behind
For a girl of my kind?
I've a tale of woe the bars are closed and I've nowhere left to go

Oh when I'm old where will I go?
And when I'm free what will I be?
When you're young and when you're poor
The only thing you want is more

Oh mother make my bed
I need to lay my head
Where I have laid it a thousand times before

Don't you worry over me
Don't ask me where I've been
We are young we are poor the only thing we want is more

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from The Longing Kind (album), released February 26, 2016
Mother Make my Bed (Marie-Louise O’Connor) SGO Music Publishing Ltd (PRS)

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Maz O'Connor London, UK

Singer and songwriter based in London
'remarkable songwriting talent....captivating voice ****' Q Magazine

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