she kept the beds made and stayed there all alone washed her clothes and hung them out to dry did things the same old way and though her kids were gone she kept the lights on in their room at night she kept the dust away until she could no more and the house was sold and everything inside all her treasures were not worth much at all always happy she had never questioned why chorus everything she owned was scattered to the wind sold at auction on a sunny autumn day it took a lifetime to find all the things she wanted and a day for all those hands to come and carry them away her daughter closed the door and looked back one more time she could feel her mother s eyes watching down on her just like years ago from her window at the kitchen as a child those summer nights seemed like they would never end and she remembered how her mama prayed for rain where did all that time go and leave me here to face the world without my mama in the rain chorus