I'd Rather Have My Mama Back

from Stranger Friend (2022) by Dan Frechette

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I'd Rather Have My Mama Back

I got a factory lefty vintage Gibson mandolin in my California mountain shack
But I'd rather have my mama back
I've got a 000-18 Martin guitar that rings like a bell even when I play it like a hack
But I'd rather have my mama back
I've got a banjo dobro lap slide jazz bass autoharp lap slide drums and a killer Strat
But I'd rather have my mama back
A J-45 and a carbon fiber 12 string that I never have to tune or worry that she's gonna crack
I'd rather have my mama back

Why am I filled with pain and sadness every day?
These people here just let me down and flake
Why am I here? For some joke of a career?
How did time transpire to turn this way?

I'm giving up trying to book a gig at the Brookdale Lodge just to get Dan and Laurel back on track
I'd rather have my mama back
I'm giving up trying to get together and play with anyone who won't die any day from a heart attack
I'd rather have my mama back

Why do I try to make life be a breeze?
Sometimes I want to make sweet memories
Tired of all these winding mountain roads are getting me
To haul up here where all I do is freeze

I've got a life down here too far from where I'm from
to ever see my mama laugh
I'd rather have my mama back
I got more albums out than I've got fans
even if I only put out half
but I'd rather have my mama back

Time takes away the worlds that mean the most
To my long gone father I'll always raise a toast
the last 10 years down here
somehow now I appear
a broken man living down on the west coast

With a world class workaholic who's too busy for loving
building up her money stack
I'd rather have my mama back
I got a story I'd tell if you knew me well
but you don't and I won't
I'm surfing in the black
I'd rather have my mama back

I've got a Beatles jam group filled with folks
who don't know me from jack
I'd rather have my mama back
I could play requests all night for strangers drinking wine
making up for what they lack
I'd rather have my mama back

It may seem harsh to you
but what would you do?
If this became the only world you know
You just want to dance
like I don't have a clue
You don't want a different point of view!

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from Stranger Friend (2022), released December 13, 2022

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