Topical Tom mentioned "The Faded Old Sunbonnet" which I take to be this song:


MOTHER'S OLD FADED SUNBONNET
As sung by J. P. Mayton

There's a faded old sunbonnet on a peg behind the door.
It's the one my sainted mother used to wear,
But one day she hung it up and never took it down no more,
And since that day we've left it hanging there.

Dear God, take care of mother wherever she may be (up there).
Grant her rest and some comfort over there (and keep her).
Such a sweet and smiling angel she always seemed to be
In that old sunbonnet that she used to wear.

It seems that I can feel her tourin'(?) around that old home place.
That's when times were really tight and we were in despair,
And she'd take that old sunbonnet and put it low upon her face
Just to hide from us all the sorrow written there.

Oh, God, take care of mother....