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slmhlm
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Sentence in a song

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Hello,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBsXywD ... el=kdn3249

First sentence in this song,
It says 'i cant sell my momma short on loving me..'
it makes no sense to me ? What does it mean?
Thank you...
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Re: Sentence in a song

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slmhlm wrote: Thu Jan 07, 2021 2:24 pm Hello,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBsXywD ... el=kdn3249

First sentence in this song,
It says 'i cant sell my momma short on loving me..'
it makes no sense to me ? What does it mean?
Thank you...
If you sell someone short you do not appreciate or state their true value.

i cant sell my momma short on loving me = I must say that my momma loved me a lot
"We are not wholly bad or good, who live our lives under Milk Wood :-| " — Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood

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Re: Sentence in a song

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