mama's baby

she said that she just couldn't leave her mother

i met a girl in our town i tour all my resistance down

i thought what a dream this gonna be

i live with her a month or two and like any boy in love will do

ask her if she would marry me

but she was a mama's baby

mama's baby

though she love me like she never love the other

she was a mama's baby

mama's baby

and she said that she just couldn't leave her mother

then i said well then probably the only thing that's left for me it's a going come back in a year

and so

the year past away

and then i try to win her hand again

she even pact her close

but wouldn't go

cause she was a mama's baby

mama's baby

though she love me like she never love the other

she was a mama's baby

mama's baby

and she said that she just couldn't leave her mother

well i hang around till finally i asked her to marry me

her mother says that it would be alright

we bought ourselfs a little home

and i finally got her all alone but she stays with her mother every night

cause she's a mama's baby

mama's baby

though she love me like she never love the other

she was a mama's baby

mama's baby

and she said that she just couldn't leave her mother

well she said that she just couldn't leave - her mother