Barbara Ray - Who's Gonna Tie My Shoes? Lyrics

A home is such a hard thing
For a woman to leave behind
Leaving is even harder
When you're telling your son goodbye
I've never been one for crying
But the tears started falling down
When the tender words of my baby boy
Made me stop and turn around

When he said
Mommy
Who's gonna tie my shoes?
Buy me cotton candy
And take me
To the zoo?
Who's gonna sleep with daddy, momma
Like you always do?
When I get up in the morning, mommy
Who's gonna tie my shoes?

As he walked between his dad and me
I saw tears in his baby blue eyes
I guess for the first time in my life
I stopped and realised
That a boy and a home needs a dad and a mom
That's why I had to stay
'Cause any woman that's half of a woman
Wouldn't turn and walk away
When her son said

Mommy
Who's gonna tie my shoes?
Buy me cotton candy
And take me
To the zoo?
Who's gonna sleep with daddy, momma
Like you always do?
When I get up in the morning, mommy
Who's gonna tie my shoes?

When I get up in the morning, mommy
Who's gonna tie my shoes?