Freeway - Gerry Mulligan Quartet

Mama never seemed to miss the finer things in life

if she did, she never did say so to daddy

she never wanted to be more than

a mother and a wife

if she did, she never did say so to daddy

the only thing that seemed

to be inportant in her life

was to make a house a home and to make us happy

Mama never wanted anymore than what she had

if she did, she never did say so to daddy

He often left her alone,

she didn’t mind the stayin' home

if she did, she never did say so to daddy

and she never missed

the flowers and the cards he never sent her

if she did, she never did say so to daddy

being took for granted was a that thing she accepted

and she didn’t need those things to make her happy

and she didn’t seem to notice

that he didn’t kiss and hold her

if she did, she never did say so to daddy

One morning we awoke just to find a note

Mama carefully wrote and left to daddy

and as he began to read it out ears could not beleive it

the words she had written there to daddy

she said, «the kids are old enough,

they don’t need me very much

I’ve gone in search for love I need so badly

I have needed you so long

but I just can’t keep holding on»

she never meant to come back home

if she did, she never did say so to daddy

Good-bye to daddy