Linda Ronstadt - The Sweetest Gift

Prisoner in Disguise / 1975-11-01 1. Love Is A Rose 2. Hey Mister That's Me Up on the Jukebox 3. Roll Um Easy 4. Tracks of My Tears 5. Prisoner in Disguise 6. Heat Wave 7. Many Rivers to Cross 8. The Sweetest Gift 9. You Tell Me That I'm Falling Down 10. I Will Always Love You 11. Silver Blue

The Sweetest Gift

written by J.B. Coats
© 1942 Stamps-Baxter Music & Ptg. Co.
© renewed 1970 by Stamps-Baxter Music & Ptg. Co.
© 1977 Stamps-Baxter Music of the Zondervan Corporation

One day a mother went to a prison
To see an erring but precious son
She told the warden how much she loved him
It did not matter what he had done

She did not bring to him a parole or pardon
She brought no silver, no pomp or style
It was a halo bright sent down from heaven's light
The sweetest gift, a mother's smile

She left a smile you can remember
She's gone to heaven from heartaches free
Those walls around you could never change her
You were her baby and e'er will be

She did not bring to him a parole or pardon
She brought no silver, no pomp or style
It was a halo bright sent down from heaven's light
The sweetest gift, a mother's smile

She did not bring to him a parole or pardon
She brought no silver, no pomp or style
It was a halo bright sent down from heaven's light
The sweetest gift, a mother's smile
The sweetest gift, a mother's smile