Tanya Tucker - What's Your Mama's Name, Child Lyrics

Lyrics What's Your Mama's Name, Child - Tanya Tucker



What's your mama's name, child?
What's your mama's name?
30 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
And 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?
20 some odd years ago
A drunkard 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?




Tanya Tucker - Tanya Tucker: Greatest Hits Encore
Album Tanya Tucker: Greatest Hits Encore
date of release
13-08-1990




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