What Can A Mother Do Lyrics - Let Freedom Ring - Chuck Prophet

She was an only child - born to run 

By the time her shoes wore out 

she was giving blood 

She was unwanted in seventeen states 

with the engine light on 

and Alaskan plates 

What can a mother do 

when she knows her baby's gone 

What can a mother do 

her baby's never coming home 

He was the youngest of seven kids 

had to fight for every crumb he was lucky to get 

He learned to work with the little that he had 

By the time he joined the service 

he was three times a dad 

What can a mother do 

when she knows her baby's gone 

What can a mother do 

her baby's never coming home 

Jesus on the billboard, heaven on high 

We smashed our fists like glass against the sky 

It's enough to make you run all night long 

through the yellow-orange lights into the car alarms 

What can a mother do 

when she knows her baby's gone 

What can a mother do 

her baby's never coming home