thanks for combining the other thread about this.
i recall posting some tunes on the other thread.

here are some that come to mind

daughters and sons by Tommy Sands
recently covered by the Duhks

Mothers Daughters Wives by judy small
http://unionsong.com/u295.html

also peggy seeger...my mother is younger than I am
on her recent 2 c.d. set three score and ten