I used to think my mother was a shabbos queen song

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Maryann

Wed, Apr 11 2018, 6:07 pm

Does anyone know the words? Or can post a YouTube link to this song? Thanks!

Skippy!!

Wed, Apr 11 2018, 6:16 pm

http://jewishsonglyrics.blogsp......html

Maryann

Wed, Apr 11 2018, 6:17 pm

Thanks!

Iymnok

Wed, Apr 11 2018, 6:20 pm

I used to think my mother was the Shabbos Queen
She’d stand so regally with Royal grace
And whisper to the king of the universe, Hashem,
In a very special place, behind her covered face

I knew she wasn’t asking him for diamonds,
My noble mother never asked for gold.
She was asking Him to help me study all the Torah ways
And to let her eyes behold, the joy as she grows old

Ohohoh
When I grow up, no matter what life brings
Hashem will give me the strength I need to handle it
And I will walk by the light of a thousand Friday nights
To the tefillos of my mother who
Always had the candles lit

shirachadasha

Wed, Apr 11 2018, 7:32 pm

Wow. The last time I thought of that song was so long ago. I now see a beauty in it that I didn't know enough to appreciate in the past.

Mommyg8

Wed, Apr 11 2018, 8:22 pm

Thanks for posting the words, lymnok! I thought I knew the words but I really just knew the chorus. So nice to see the rest of the song! I agree, it's so beautiful.

losingweight

Wed, Apr 11 2018, 8:30 pm

Lymnok isn't there also another stanza?

jkl

Wed, Apr 11 2018, 8:32 pm

Iymnok wrote:

Weren't there more paragraphs to this song:

My mother turns our home into a palace.
Her wisdom and her warmth both make it so.
She bentches licht and I can hear her tender feelings speak
Without any voice or words, but the kiss on my cheek.

The Shabbos candle's light is gentle and so soft.
It smoothes away her worries every week.
And suddenly the troubles of the past week disappear
All our fears and worries cease, In ihis moment of peace.

Ohohoh....

I think of how it hurts my mother when I'm doing wrong,
When I do not let my good side show.
But this week I decide I will make my mother proud
Because how else will she know, that I love her so.

Each Mitzvah I will do will be a diamond
Each smile of mine will be a precious stone
To put into the crown she seems to wear on Friday night.
And when I am fully grown, I'll wear a crown of my own.

Ohohoh

thunderstorm

Wed, Apr 11 2018, 8:45 pm

We sang this song at our fourth grade performance and I was the mother bentching licht. That was 27 yrs ago, this song brings back such good memories!😊

iammom

Wed, Apr 11 2018, 8:46 pm

jkl wrote:

IIRC I don't think this from is the original song. Maybe these words were done by someone else later on?

jkl

Wed, Apr 11 2018, 8:51 pm

iammom wrote:

IIRC I don't think this from is the original song. Maybe these words were done by someone else later on?

I have no idea. This is how I remember the song from when I was a little girl.

Coffee Addict

Wed, Apr 11 2018, 8:58 pm

I also know the song like lymnok posted.

jkl

Wed, Apr 11 2018, 9:00 pm

iammom wrote:

IIRC I don't think this from is the original song. Maybe these words were done by someone else later on?

I googled the song - and this is the first link that came up

www.dosiso.com/cth/ArticleFile.....k.doc

It is a Jewish songbook from Tzivos Hashem, 1998. It is a downloadable 328 page Microsoft Word document and this song is posted on page 206.

Oh Goodness, some of those songs are bringing back some long lost memories!

losingweight

Wed, Apr 11 2018, 9:03 pm

I always knew it was a long song. Maybe you learned it when you were young so they skipped the second part.

4thebooks

Wed, Apr 11 2018, 9:07 pm

Does anyone have the guitar chords for this song?

giselle

Wed, Apr 11 2018, 9:16 pm

jkl wrote:

Omg this is taking me waaaaay back!

Iymnok

Thu, Apr 12 2018, 1:38 am

Thanks for posting the rest.
What I posted was only the first part that was part of a medley from our school performance in eighth grade. I knew it was only the first stanza.

salt

Thu, Apr 12 2018, 4:12 am

iammom wrote:

IIRC I don't think this from is the original song. Maybe these words were done by someone else later on?

All those words, including the additional stanzas are in a cassette we used to have as kids called Yanki Learns About Shabbos (about 30 yrs ago).
I don't know if that's the original.

blessedflower

Thu, Apr 12 2018, 4:42 am

Benny Friedman sings it in his shabbos cd with some more nice old songs

Chayalle

Thu, Apr 12 2018, 10:58 am

IIRC this song was composed by Mrs. Yocheved Reich of Lakewood (mother of writer Etka Gittel Schwartz, Scotty on imamother.)

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