I wrote this for my Mother-in-Law's (Hoh Lee Moy - see pix) 93rd birthday in 2004. She's now 98 (2009)! Latest update ... she went to heaven on November 20, 2009. Mix: Tommy Hellsten
Stan loves music, is published (EMI/Capitol), and has experience performing on radio and TV when it was live in the good old days. These days he's just writing
Songwriter of pop, country, inspirational songs. I like to write. I travel a lot to Asia...so my music may have an Asian influence.
Story behind the song
Lee Moy, as how her friends call her, is a real Florence Nightingale. An orphan, she was one of the few, in her days, in Malaya who passed the Cambridge School examination.
Her husband was killed when my wife was only 3 (on his and her birthday as they shared the same birthday). Single Mom, she raised six kids. One of them, Robert, died of gangrene on his second day in school.
To raise the kids, she became a nurse.
What a woman. She was one of the most humble, unselfish people I've known. I loved her as I did, my own Mom.
Lyrics
My Mother’s Love
Copyright Stan Loh, April 14, 2004. Written for Mom on her 93rd birthday.
Verse 1
My mother’s love, deeper than the bluest sea,
Beautiful and free,
Soft and warm to me.
Everlasting love, won’t trade it for anything,
Precious gracious thing,
No connected strings.
Verse 2
Her memories, just like the storybooks,
Love finds every nook,
Clear as snow fed brooks.
An unspoken love, can’t find the words to say,
Miss her every day,
Since I’ve been away.
BRIDGE
Mom you are a special kind,
You’re always on my mind,
Don’t need much to make you smile,
But it’s been a while,
Verse 3
A mother’s love doesn’t ever change,
Firm as a mountain range,
Never looking strange.
Unquestioned love, don’t need keys to open up,
Always a full cup,
In my mother’s love.
