Mr. Potter Lyrics

Dear Mr. Potter

I hope you're well

And though we've met once, I don't remember

You held me when I was only a year

It would appear you knew my mother

Dear Mr. Potter

I found your notes

They were locked up in my mother's dresser

My father, for all his saving grace

was always too late, you had her heart first

You see my mother, she fell in love with a black man in the sixties

But Grandpa wouldn't let that be

Oh my mother, she met him every year down in Mississippi

And that love makes you family

Dear Mr. Potter

I'm sad to say

My dear mother has passed away

I wish I could tell you it was a lie

But all this to say

You deserve a goodbye

You see my mother, she fell in love with a black man in the sixties

But Grandpa wouldn't let that be

Oh my mother, she met him every year down in Mississippi

And that love makes you family

Now I know why she cried during "Same Time Next Year"

And I know when she died, she'd have had you near

But her peace wasn't peaceful as most

No funeral, no holy ghost

No her peace wasn't peaceful as most

No funeral, no holy ghost

You see my mother, she fell in love with a black man in the sixties

But Grandpa wouldn't let that be

Oh my mother, she met him every year down in Mississippi

And love makes you family

Oh my mother, she fell in love with a black man in the sixties

But Grandpa wouldn't let that be

Oh my mother, she met him every year down in Mississippi

And love makes you family

Oh my mother

Yes my mother

Oh my mother

And love makes you family

Oh my mother

Yes my mother

Oh my mother, yah

And love makes you family