(Frazier Dallas/Earl Montgomery)
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What's your mama's name, child?
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What's your mama's name.
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Thirty some odd years ago, a young man came to Memphis.
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Asking 'bout a rose that used to blossom in his world.
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People never took the time to mind the young man's questions,
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Until one day they heard him ask a little green-eyed girl:
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What's your mama's name, child?
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What's your mama's name?
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Does she ever talk about a place called New Orleans.
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Has she ever mentioned a man named Buford Wilson?
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What's your mama's name, child?
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What's your mama's name?
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Twenty some off years ago, a drunkard down in Memphis,
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Lost a month of life in labour to the county jail.
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Just because he asked a little green-eyed girl a question,
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And offered her a nickel's worth of candy if she'd tell.
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A year and some odd days ago, an old man died in Memphis.
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Just another wayward soul, the county had claimed
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Inside the old man's ragged coat, they found a faded letter.
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It said: "You have a daughter and her eyes are Wilson green."
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What's your mama's name, child?
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What's your mama's name?
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Does she ever talk about a place called New Orleans.
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Has she ever mentioned a man named Buford Wilson?
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What's your mama's name, child?
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What's your mama's name?
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What's your mama's name, child?
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What's your mama's name?
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What's Your Momma's Name, Child
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| Tanya Tucker |
