What`s Your Mama`a Name Lyrics

What`s Your Mama`a Name lyrics

Thiry 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

Chorus:
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 Bueferd Wilson
What's your mama's name
child
What's your mama's name

Twenty some odd years ago
A drunk
went 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
So the county
had to claim
Inside the old mans ragged coat
They found a faded
letter
It said you have a daughter
And her eyes are Wilson
green

Reapeat Chorus