Following our usual custom on Thursdays, we would be doing a throwback. Today, we want to look at 5 greatest songs dedicated to mothers. It is not like it is mothers day but you would agree that they should be celebrated every day just like dads.
Maybe next week, we do that for dads. Today is all about mothers. The touching thing about these throwback songs are the lyrics, they are a deviation from what we hear these days from half-baked musicians who seemed more concerned about the beats than the message of their songs.
We have collected 5 finest songs about mums to make you feel emotional. Check them below:
1. Dolly Parton’s Coat of many colours
This classic song tells of how Dolly’s mother stitched together a coat for her daughter out of rags given to the family. While sewing the coat together, she told Dolly the biblical story of Joseph and his Coat of Many Colours. The excited child, “with patches on my britches and holes in both my shoes”, headed to school, “just to find the others laughing and making fun of me” for wearing a coat made of rags. But it ends: “Now I know we had no money, but I was rich as I could be, In my coat of many colours my momma made for me.”
2. The Beatles’ Let it be
The title track of The Beatles’ final album, this anthem saw Paul McCartney take to the piano to get his emotional message out. McCartney said the song came after he had a dream about his mother Mary during a tense period surrounding the sessions for the White Album in 1968. He later explained that his mother – who died of cancer when he was 14 – was the inspiration for the “Mother Mary” lyric: “I felt very blessed to have that dream. So that got me writing ‘Let It Be’.”
3. Celine Dion’s Because you loved me
This emotional power ballad is about Celine thanking a loyal loved one for guiding, and protecting her throughout her life, and making her who she is today, and is perfect for Mother’s Day. Having said that, writer Diane Warren said that the song was a tribute to her father. So it’s actually perfect for any parent or guardian!
4. Spice girls’ Mama
Each of the five Spice Girls contributed to the writing of this ode to mothers everywhere. Mel B said: “We wrote ‘Mama’ when I was going through a bad phase with my mum. The sentiments are really that your mum’s probably the best friend that you’ve got. Whether she’s an overprotective mother or a bit of a landmine, she probably knows you better than yourself in some ways.” Mel C added: “Mama’s all about how you’re such a cow to your mum when you’re going through that rebellious teenage stage. Then when you get a bit older, you realise that whatever she was doing, she was only doing it for your own good. And you think: ‘God, I was really horrible.'”
5. Madonna’s Promise to try
This emotional song from the Like a Prayer album is about the death of Madonna’s mother when she was just five. In one part, she specifically asks “Does she hear my voice in the night when I call?”. Later, an adult admonishes a child by saying: “Little girl, don’t you forget her face/Don’t let memory play games with your mind/She’s a faded smile frozen in time”.