I basically wrote the words to this song about six months before my mother died. Unfortunately, her dementia had progressed so far that i didn’t give them to her because i knew she wouldn’t understand them. At that point she no longer recognized me.
It took me a long time to devise a tune to turn the poem into a song. I’m still not completely satisfied — i don’t think it works out as one my better efforts. However, it does summarize pretty well the impact that Mama had on the person i have become.