My Mother Showed Me
by Frank Moorer
My mother showed me what a Son should want, and what he should not.
My mother showed me how a Son could act and how he could not.
My mother showed me who a Son will be and whom he would not.
My mother showed me what a Man should want and what he should not.
My mother showed me how a Man could act and how he could not.
My mother showed me who a Man will be and whom he would not.
My mother showed me what a Husband should want and what he should not.
My mother showed me how a Husband could act and how he could not.
My mother showed me who a Husband will be and whom he would not.
My mother showed me what a Father should want and what he should not.
My mother showed me how a Father could act and how he could not.
My mother showed me who a Father will be and whom he would not.
From son to man to husband to father,
I know the man I should, could, and will be, because my mother showed me.
However, my mother could not show me how to be a man, because she is a woman.
My mother knows this, and that is how she taught me to be a man.
