What's Your Mama's Name

WHAT’S YOUR MAMA’S NAME

Tanya Tucker

What’s your mama’s name, child

What’s your mama’s name?

Thirty some-odd years ago a young man came to Memphis

Asking ‘bout a rose that used to blossom in his world

People never took the time to mind the young man’s questions

Untill oneday they heard him ask a little green-eyed girl

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 Bufford Wilson?

What’s your mama’s name child?

What’s your mama’s name?

Twenty some-odd years ago a drunkard down in Memphis

Lost a month of life and labored to the county jail

Just because he asked a little green-eyed girl a question

And offered her a nickles’ worth of candy if she’d tell

A year and some-odd days ago an old man died in Memphis

Just another wayward soul the county had to claim

Inside the old man’s ragged coat they found a faded letter

It said you have a daughter, and her eyes are Wilson Green

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 Bufford Wilson?

What’s your mama’s name child?

What’s your mama’s name?

What’s your mama’s name child?

What’s your mama’s name?

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