Tanya Tucker - What's Your Mama's Name, Child lyrics
[Tanya Tucker - What's Your Mama's Name, Child lyrics]
What's your mama's name, child?
What's your mama's name?
Thirty some-odd years ago
A young man came to Memphis
Askin' 'bout a rose that used
To blossom in his world
People never took the time to
Mind the young man's questions
Until one day they heard him
Ask a little green-eyed girl
What's your mama's name
Child? What's your mama's name?
Does she ever talk about a
Place called New Orleans?
Has she ever mentioned a
Man named Buford Wilson?
What's your mama's name
Child? What's your mama's name?
Twenty some-odd years ago
A drunk down in Memphis
Lost a month of life and
Labor to the county jail
Just because he asked a little
Green-eyed girl a question
And offered her a nickel's worth
Of candy if she'd tell
A year and some-odd days ago
An old man died in Memphis
Just another wayward soul the
County had to claim
Inside the old man's ragged coat
They found a faded letter it said
"You have a daughter and her
Eyes are Wilson green"
What's your mama's name
Child? What's your mama's name?
Does she ever talk about a
Place called New Orleans?
Has she ever mentioned a
Man named Buford Wilson?
What's your mama's name
Child? What's your mama's name?
What's your mama's name, child?
What's your mama's name?
What's your mama's name?
Thirty some-odd years ago
A young man came to Memphis
Askin' 'bout a rose that used
To blossom in his world
People never took the time to
Mind the young man's questions
Until one day they heard him
Ask a little green-eyed girl
What's your mama's name
Child? What's your mama's name?
Does she ever talk about a
Place called New Orleans?
Has she ever mentioned a
Man named Buford Wilson?
What's your mama's name
Child? What's your mama's name?
Twenty some-odd years ago
A drunk down in Memphis
Lost a month of life and
Labor to the county jail
Just because he asked a little
Green-eyed girl a question
And offered her a nickel's worth
Of candy if she'd tell
A year and some-odd days ago
An old man died in Memphis
Just another wayward soul the
County had to claim
Inside the old man's ragged coat
They found a faded letter it said
"You have a daughter and her
Eyes are Wilson green"
What's your mama's name
Child? What's your mama's name?
Does she ever talk about a
Place called New Orleans?
Has she ever mentioned a
Man named Buford Wilson?
What's your mama's name
Child? What's your mama's name?
What's your mama's name, child?
What's your mama's name?