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You Can Be Anything: Dedicated to Flora Lawson z'l

by Rabbi Sandra Lawson

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Flora Mae Lawson z'l passed away on Tisha B'Av, the saddest day in the Jewish calendar, after a long battle with cancer. My relationship with my mother like many daughters and mothers was a complicated one, but all that I am in this world I owe to her. I wrote this song a few years ago and sang this to her during her first battle with cancer, and I sang this to her the night before she died. No matter what I think of my own voice, I know she found comfort and peace in my singing.

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When I was a young my Mama said to me
When I was a young my mama said to me
“You can be anything you wanna be

So I join the U.S. Army
So I could fight for my country
Because “You can be anything you wanna to be

So I got me a Graduate Degree
Now I'm a rabbi look at me
Because “I can be anything I wanna to be

When I was a young my Mama said to me
When I was a young my Mama said to me
“You can be anything you wanna to be

So, one day I said to my daughter
What my Mama said to me
And she looked into my eyes
And she said
I can be anything I wanna be
Because you could be anything you wanted to be

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released August 8, 2020

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Rabbi Sandra Lawson North Carolina

Rabbi Sandra Lawson is the Inaguaral Director or Racial Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for Reconstruction Judaism and the Spiritual Leader and Founder of Kol Hapanim.

She lives in North Carolina with wife Susan and our three fur babies Bridget, Izzy and Simon
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