Does Your Mother Know Lyrics - Gordon Lightfoot

Does your mother know, you had to go someday? 

Does your mother know, that you would grow so fast? 

Anyway, that's all you think about 

You'd call her if you could 

But the letters that you write in the faded winter light 

Just tell her, they tell her 

That you've got ten dollars and you'll be all right 

And when you get straight you're gonna come back east some day 

Does your mother know, you had a man in the west? 

Does your mother know, you drove him from your door? 

Anyway that's all you think about 

You'd call her if you could 

Does your mother know, you walked all day in the rain? 

Does your mother know, how deep your love could be? 

Anyway that's all you think about 

You'd call her if you could 

But the letters that you write in the faded winter light 

Just tell her, they tell her 

That you've got ten dollars and your rent costs eight 

And when you get straight you're gonna come back east some day 

But the letters that you write in the faded winter light 

Just tell her, they tell her