15. Hey Mama, Kanye West
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Feel however you want about Kanye West, there’s no denying that the song he dedicated to the late Donda West is very raw, and exactly the kind of elegy we’d all be proud to have, even if it was recorded before her untimely death.
Most mom-tastic lyric:
Can’t you see, you’re like a book of poetry/ Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni, turn one page and there’s my mommy/ Come on mommy just dance wit me, let the whole world see your dancing feet.
14. There’s Always a Mother Waiting at Home, Johnny Cash
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Johnny Cash was a notorious mama’s boy, not that anyone could possibly hold it against him. One of his most prized possessions wasn’t his Martin D-35 black guitar but his mother’s hymn book, which probably makes your little Mother’s Day card look a little shabby by comparison. In this song, Cash tells the world what every mother already knows: After everyone else drifts away, we’ll be there.
Most mom-tastic lyric:
If sickness overtakes you/ Or old companions shake you/ As through this world you wander all alone/ When friends you haven’t any/ In your pocket not a penny/ There’s a mother always awaiting you at home
More:Being a mom is so much harder when you don’t have your own mom anymore.
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