Some Mother's Daughter

I heard on the news on the radio today
How a young woman died in a car smash on the Calder highway
Unmarried in her early twenties they did not give her name
Or not say where she lived or from what town she came.

Yet she was some mother's daughter and her mother tonight
Will grieve for her darling and for her no respite
From the grief that afflicts her she won't get to sleep
Her face wet with tears and she sob as she weep.

She was some mother's daughter though to no man a wife
And near the City of Bendigo she lost her life
So young for to die and not yet in her prime
And she will not grow old and show the wear of time.

She was somebody's daughter and some mother in tears
Will grieve for her child for weeks months and years
The child she gave birth to and raised from life now has gone
She was some mother's daughter though life will go on.

She will not marry, give birth to children and live to grow old and gray
The young woman who died on the Calder highway
In our birth and our death we do not have a say
Yet she was some mother's daughter who died today.