Some days I am lonesome I want to talk to my mother And she isn’t home Then I ask my father Where has she been the last twenty years? And he answers Where do you think you fool as usual? She is asleep in Abraham’s bosom Resting from years of your incessant provocation Exhausted by infinite love of me Escaping from the boredom of days shortening to Christmas and the pain of days lengthening to Easter You know where she is She is at ease in Zion with all the other dead Jews