Key: C major
Verse 1
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See, when I was a kid growing up, I used to be kind of mixed up about my mom,
you know.
I mean, she was so sweet and everything,
except when I did something wrong, you know.
And, uh, you know what I'm talking about.
I used to get really mixed up because I watched
TV, you know,
and mothers on television never acted like
real mothers.
TV, you know, when kids do things wrong,
you ever notice?
They never do anything
to them, man.
All they ever say is,
young man go to your room.
Go to your room. I don't know about you
guys, but my
mother never said that to me when
I did something wrong.
When I did something
that was really wrong,
she'd look at me and say, I brought you into this world,
I'll take you out.
We're talking violence on
TV, they never met
my mother, you know what I mean?
You
ever notice too, when mothers get really
mad, they don't talk normal either?
David
Meeks, do you understand what I
am trying to say to you?
Are you listening to me?
Oh!
Look at this room!
Look at this room!
I'm looking at him, I'm looking at
him, I'm looking at him.
I got clothes all over the floor,
but that way I don't get the carpet dirty.
Watch your step though, mom.
a cat under there somewhere.
Dwayne.
Come on out,
Dwayne.
You've been down there three days, man.
See, my brother wasn't
much help either, you know.
me.
You see, my mother had a lot of rules around the house,
you know, and you just didn't break those things,
you know, unless you wanted to be
Well he and I
had an agreement going where he wouldn't tell on me if
I wouldn't tell on him you
know when we did something wrong
you know.
We figured we'd both live longer
that way.
You see one of those rules my mom had to do
with the kind of music you
listen to.
See my mother didn't want anything but classical
music in the
house.
She didn't want any of that rock stuff
or that beat. not gonna have that in my house.
Not gonna have any of that country western
garbage either.
For years I
thought that was the name of the music,
Country
Western
Garbage, you know.
A guy said he liked country western music.
I said, oh, you like garbage, oh.
Got my jaw handed to me.
Now, we didn't even have any religious
records
in the house or gospel music, you know,
unless it was written by
Bach,
Brahms, or
Beethoven,
and I couldn't really get
into that.
You know, it was all in
German, you know.
Ach,
Striefe,
Streich.
Sounded like somebody with
sinus trouble to me.
I was in there practicing the piano one time,
and I saw my brother
Dwayne coming in the
house.
You see, there's something about
Dwayne you've got to realize.
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Dwayne never came in the side door of the house
unless he was smuggling something
in.
He shouldn't, you know.
Beatle record?
I said, man, do you want to die?
He took me into the back room and he played me
some of it.
And I've got to kind
of admit, you know, I kind of liked it too.
You see, we had a problem then.
because we could only play it when my mother was out of
the house.
Of you could always tell when my mother left
the house because she had a bad muffler.
And we're not just talking your average,
everyday bad muffler either, gang.
You we're talking bad muffler.
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You know what I mean?
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I mean, walls would shake, buildings
would collapse, mothers would take children off
the streets.
You we're talking bad muffler,
okay?
So the way we'd work our music is very simple,
you see.
I'd be in there practicing my
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Mozart.
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And I'd hear my mother driving off,
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you know.
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20 years ago today,
Sgt.
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Pepper taught the band to play,
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say, is mama gone?
know, until we'd hear her coming back, you
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know?
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Should I say, what a nice young man?
Look at my brother and say, why can't
you be more like your little brother?
there.
And he'd always say, I am.
How did you like the song?
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