Dear Mama - Kelly Groucutt

I just have time to write this letter

I hope it gets back home to you

I really have to say I’m sorry

For running out on you

Before my time is through

If I had told you I was leaving

You would have tried to change my mind

Remember when you said

I did not care about you

You said you’d be the last thing on my mind

You’d be the last thing on my mind

I didn’t mean to make you cry, mama

I didn’t mean to make you cry

I didn’t mean to make you cry, over me

And the guns are getting louder

I can hear the cannon roar

And I don’t think I can kill again

What am I fighting for?

Please God end this war

And I know I’m not a coward

But I’m so very much afraid

Of ending like the other kids

In their shallow graves

The captain tells me we don’t stand a chance

Although help is on its way

I’d dearly love to see your smiling face again

There’s so much I’d like to say

Oh, before I’m blown away

I didn’t mean to make you cry, mama

I didn’t mean to make you cry

And you’re so wrong to think

I did not care about you

You’ll be the last thing on my mind

You’ll be the last thing on my mind

I didn’t mean to make you cry, mama

I didn’t mean to make you cry

And you’re so wrong to think

I did not care about you

You’ll be the last thing on my mind, oh mama

You’ll be the last thing on my mind