What's Your Momma's Name, Child Lyrics - Singles - 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 use 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 

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 Buford Wilson 

What's your mama's name child What's your mama's name 

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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 nickels 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 mans ragged coat they found a faded letter 

It said you have a daughter and her eyes are Wilson green 

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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 Buford 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