Song Description
song about a mother who loved her kids
Song Length |
6:09 |
Genre |
Country - Traditional |
Tempo |
Floating |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
Mood |
Moving, Poignant |
Subject |
Love for Child, Mother |
Language |
English |
Era |
2000 and later |
Lyrics
?I Loved You Miss Frog?
Night after night
I could find you there
There, in your chair, hiding your despair
You drank your quart of beer, read your Perry Mason book
As you chain smoked, Pall Malls, your hands they shook
You couldn?t pay bills
And you often fell due
Too scared to feel
Yet your tears would spill
You used your Will to stay sane
Yet you never complained
Your kids were your favorite things
Your sunshine when it rained
Miss Frog
You were a ravishing woman, living in a fog
Your man made faults, cost you big
Miss Frog
Your fear and pain you tried, you tried to keep inside
So your kids could feel safe, loved, and never denied
You worked in a laundry for 2 1/2 cents a shirt
You accidentally burned your arm, to make matters worse
No your beauty and charm they didn?t last long
No matter how much right you did, you always felt wrong
One Christmas morn, you took a tree to some treeless kids
You bucked their mean ole Daddy and said, ?kids, here some joy is?
You walked through a storm to save your own two children
Braved life with a throw of the dice, more than once or twice
Miss Frog
You were a ravishing woman living in a fog
Your man made faults cost you big,
Miss Frog
Your fear and pain you tried, you tried to keep inside
So your kids could feel safe, loved, and never denied
Never no peace of mind, you worried all the time
When it came to your kids, you would shine
You taught them by example to try, even cry, if you must, but trust
enough to pray once in a while, if not, every single day
You have to make your fun, you use to say, everyday
You laughed and joked and made up words for play
You were grown but you still wondered every day
Why your Mama and Daddy had given you away
(Chorus)
Miss Frog, I never did know who nicknamed you
Don?t know why your guardians shamed and blamed you
I?m guessing that Heaven eventually came to claim you
Angels they may have renamed you
No other name would do
These fond memories I recall, and teardrops fall
You?re still my fondest memory
My fondest memory of all
Grandma, mother, woman, whatever you were called
I just loved, loved, loved, you,
Loved you, Miss Frog
(Chorus)
Words and Music Michelle Birdsong and Ramsey Kearney
August 12, 2006