Everybody’s Mama

“Everybody’s Mama” Verse 1 She was raised on a red dirt road in Georgia Where the screen doors slam and the whippoorwills sing Barefoot summers and a sky full of thunder Learning how to make something out of anything She carried that grit like a pocket full of sunshine When Florida called and the tide rolled in Five wild kids and a kitchen full of laughter And somehow she made it all work again Chorus Oh Barbara, you light up a room Like sunrise spilling over St. Joe Bay You never met a stranger Just a friend you hadn’t hugged that day With a heart big enough for the whole world’s worries And a laugh that carries on the breeze You weren’t just our mama growing up Everybody wished you were theirs too Verse 2 She didn’t watch from the porch like most mamas She was diving in the middle of the game Treasure hunts, backyard dodgeball battles Calling out each kid by name She’d get down on the floor with the little ones Like childhood was a place she still could go And the neighborhood kids kept hanging around ‘Cause her love was the warmest place they know Chorus Oh Barbara, you light up a room Like sunrise spilling over St. Joe Bay You never met a stranger Just a friend you hadn’t hugged that day With a heart big enough for the whole world’s worries And a laugh that carries on the breeze You weren’t just our mama growing up Everybody wished you were theirs too Bridge Now the sunsets find her by the water Grandbabies laughing in the fading light Still the same bright soul from Georgia Making ordinary days feel right Final Chorus Oh Barbara, you light up a room Like a morning breaking gold and new And every life you ever touched Still carries a little piece of you With your open heart and your fearless kindness And a love that always pulls us through You’re not just our mama forever You’re everybody’s mama too Outro From a red dirt road to the Gulf tide blue The best parts of us all came from you