MY MOTHER'S EYES
From the film "Lucky Boy" (1929)
(Baer / L. Wolfe Gilbert)

George Jessel - 1929
Lonnie Johnson - 1949
Russ Hamilton - 1958
Horace Parlan Trio - 1960
Sonny Stitt - 1963
Lonnie Johnson - 1967
Frankie Valli - 1967
Tom Jones - 1967
Nancy Sinatra - 1969
Kevin Coyne - 1976
Etta Jones - 1977
Bette Midler - 1980
Soprano Summit - 1992
Also recorded by: Jimmy Roselli; Nellie Lutcher; Sydney Devine; Kenny Ball; David Newton; Joe Goldmark; 
Big Maybelle; Don Barret; Roland Stone; James Van Buren; Arthur Prysock; Kawai Cockett; 
Eugene Chadbourne & The Vertrek Ensemble. 


Back in childhood days, 
I can remember loving caresses showered on me.
Mother's eyes would gaze at me so tender, 
What was their meaning? Now I can see.

One bright and guiding light, 
That taught me wrong from right,
I found in my mother's eyes.
Those baby tales she told,
That road all paved in gold,
I found in my mother's eyes.

Just like a wandering sparrow,
One lonely soul.
I walked the straight and narrow,
To reach my goal.
God's gift sent from above,
A real unselfish love,
I found in my mother's eyes.

When I'm all alone, no one around me, 
I find the future dark as can be.
Sorrows I have known, always surround me, 
Then through the shadows, I always see.

One bright and guiding light, 
That taught me wrong from right,
I found in my mother's eyes.
Those baby tales she told,
That road all paved in gold,
I found in my mother's eyes.

Just like a wandering sparrow,
One lonely soul.
I walked the straight and narrow,
To reach my goal.
God's gift sent from above,
A real unselfish love,
I found in my mother's eyes.