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Mama, can I huh, mama, can I huh, huh |
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Can I mama, won't you please let me, mama can I, huh |
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That's the sweetest little dress, Sally where'd you get the pattern? |
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Made me one just like it out of yellow dotted swiss |
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Yes, I guess we got the earliest garden in the county |
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Beneath the strawberries are a heap of snappin greenbeans |
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(It's been so long since I saw you, Hows your family |
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Too bad about your boy) |
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Mama make Willie quit pulling at my hair! |
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Mama ouch! ouch! mama, just make Willie quit it! |
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Tommy, if ya don't put down that stick |
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I'm gonna wear you out with it, boy, be quick |
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Come quick, Sammy Jean stuck her finger in a Coke bottle |
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Can't get it out cause its stuck, stuck, stuck |
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(Dad finally had his operation |
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You know how he is at putting off things) |
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Now I told you my mama didn't raise no fool |
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I can do anything if I got the right tools |
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Mama can I huh, mama can I huh, huh |
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Can I mama, won't you please let me, mama can I, huh |
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The crops been failing, lord it sure is dry |
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You'd think that we'd a sprinkle by and by |
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(Family reunion) |
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Gonna tear you up, girl, gonna get a switchin' |
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Better tell your cousin that you're sorry that you hit her |
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(Abby MaGiunness in love with Aybel's oldest boy |
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It's opt to kill their ma) |
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If I told you once, it's been a thousand times |
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Quit askin' your uncles for nickels and dimes |
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Mama, make Willie quit it, pulling at my hair |
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Mama, ouch! ouch! mama, just make Willie quit it |
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I told you my mama didn't raise no fool |
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I can do anything if I got the right tools |
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(Family reunion) |
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Did it again, put her finger in a Coke bottle |
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Can't get it out cause it's stuck, stuck, stuck |
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(I heard this mornin' they dropped the Tallahatchie river |
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And found poor Billie gone) |
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Ah, a little head cold, that's all ya have |
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You fix it right up with a jar of Vic's salve |
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It's the first time ever that the family's been together |
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It's so nice that we all get along so well |
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(Family reunion) |
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He's got the money, you'd think that he'd try |
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And do something for his mama before she died |
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Now I don't mean to criticize your cookin', no I don't |
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But I think that ya could add a little bit of pepper |
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(Harvey, I'd love to have your recipe, is that the cake you served last Sunday) |
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I told you my mama didn't raise no fool |
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I can do anything if I got the right tools |
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Mama, make Willie quit, bitin' at me! |
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Mama, ouch! ouch! mama, just make Willie quit it! |
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Why yes, I guess |
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And don't ya look nice in your Sunday dress? |
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Doesn't Sally look tacky in her silly little dress? |
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You can see that she just doesn't know no better |
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(Can you imagine, she let her daughter Rosalie |
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Go off to Memphis by herself) |
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Mama, can I huh, mama can I huh, huh |
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Can I, mama, won't you please let me, mama can I, huh |