Lackawanna Rail

WRITER'S NOTES:

At my parents house on Christmas, the adults would draw names for who they would buy a gift for.  Not being very well off finacially I usually gave gifts of a sentamental nature.  Something that took talent, but no money.

One year, my mom got tired of everyone else (especially my dad who I got two years running) getting one of my gifts.  She wanted something special.  So, she fixed the drawing.  I was living in Pittsburgh, PA at the time, so "she drew the names for us" and well, look at that!  I got her!

So, anyway I thought that I would write her a song.  I sat down at the old piano and got it finished in about a week.  I recorded it onto a cassette tape and then inserted it in a box of tissues so that it was at the top where the tissues come out.  Then I wrapped the box of tissues.

Anyway, mom's are usually not very appreciated by kids, but we sure learn to appreciate them after we become parents, don't we?  I think all of us should take a little time and tell our moms and dads that we love them.  Mom's are amazing, and as kids, we just don't understand the sacrafices that they make, or the way we hurt thier feelings. But years later, we realize what they really meant in our life.