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I wish I'd known the man a little better that turned my mama on

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He must have been a heck of a man cause mama was a lady don't you know


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Mama was no prude but she was proper never wore her dress too short

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She didn't care if you did but she'd never taken a drink 

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Grandma Kate did the best she could to see mama grew up right

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So she'd be fitting one day for courting and to wear some gentleman's ring


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I wish I'd known the man a little better that turned my mama on

                               G7                 C
People was always laughing and sang a right sweet song


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I wish I'd known the man a little better that turned my mama on

                                        G7                        F
He must have been a heck of a man cause mama was a lady don't you know

 
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I hear he came to town one day in a rusty old '49 Ford

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Selling ladies shoes and assorted greeting cards

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He was killer good looking and easy to like and turning all the ladies heads

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But he saw mama first and Lord knows how some of them traveling men are


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I wish I'd known the man a little better that turned my mama on

                                        G7                        F
He must have been a heck of a man cause mama was a lady don't you know

   
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Mama seemed to forget the things that grandma Kate had always told her

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She ran away one night with that traveling man

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They bought gas at Reba's Truck Stop and drove to Desoto County

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But he brought her home with a ring upon her hand


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Mama's told me how the fever took him when I was barely five

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But I remember him pitching me up and catching me

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And I love to sit and listen to her tell me about my daddy

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She says he thought the sun would surely rise and set in me

 
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I wish I'd known the man a little better that turned my mama on

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He must have been a heck of a man cause mama was a lady don't you know