Happy Birthday, Mama Petra

Intro

Happy birthday, Mama Petra, oh-oh (oh)

Happy birthday, Mama Petra, hey (hey)

Ma-ma, Pe-tra, ma-ma, Pe-tra

Verse

You wake the house with laughter, coffee steam on the rise

Sunlight on the windows, gentle wrinkle by your eyes

You folded every midnight into blankets for our dreams

Taught us how to stand up tall, how to stitch a broken seam

You hum that old melody while frying Sunday bread

You keep the stories safe inside the corners of our heads

When storms came rolling heavy you held the roof and stayed

You turned the small things golden — you turned the dark to day

Pre-chorus

We come with hands and flowers, with songs and open doors (open doors)

We come with little offerings of all the love you poured (love you poured)

Lift a glass and light the candles, let the promise glow (let it glow)

We sing it loud so you can feel it — Mama, let it show

Chorus

Happy birthday, dear Mama Petra, oh-oh (oh)

Happy birthday, dear Mama Petra, yeah (yeah)

Happy birthday, dear Mama Petra, blow the candles low

Happy birthday, dear Mama Petra, Pe-tra, Pe-tra, oh

Verse

Remember barefoot summers, the sidewalk lemonade

The crooked little pictures you saved in shoeboxes we made

Your laugh would fill the doorway, your voice would call us home

You taught us how to give our best when all we had was small

You stitched a thousand kindnesses into our Sunday coats

You read the words between the lines and fixed our stumbling notes

Now cake and paper crowns and a ribbon in your hair

We circle up like moths to light, to show you that we care

Bridge

May your mornings keep their sunlight, may your nights grow calm and deep

May the good you spread keep finding you when you lay down to sleep

May every wish you whisper find a road that brings it near

We’ll be here to sing it louder, Mama, every single year (every year)

Chorus

Happy birthday, dear Mama Petra, oh-oh (oh)

Happy birthday, dear Mama Petra, yeah (yeah)

Happy birthday, dear Mama Petra, blow the candles low

Happy birthday, dear Mama Petra, Pe-tra, Pe-tra, oh

Chorus

Happy birthday, dear Mama Petra, oh-oh (oh)

Happy birthday, dear Mama Petra, yeah (yeah)

Happy birthday, dear Mama Petra, blow the candles low

Happy birthday, dear Mama Petra, Pe-tra, Pe-tra, oh

Outro

Ma-ma, Pe-tra — ma-ma, Pe-tra (fade)

Happy birthday, Mama, happy birthday (let it shine)