What's Your Mama's Name chords by Tanya Tucker & Friends
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What's your mama's name, child?
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What's your mama's
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name?
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Thirty -some -odd years ago,
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a young man came to Memphis
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Asking about a rose
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that used to blossom in his world
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People never took the time
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to mind the young man's questions
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Until one day they heard him ask
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a little green -eyed girl
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What's your mama's name, child,
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what's your mama's name?
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Does she ever talk about a
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place called New Orleans?
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Has she ever mentioned
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a man named Buford Wilson?
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What's your momma's name,
child?
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What's your momma's name?
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20 -some -odd years ago
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A drunkard down in Memphis
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Lost a month of life and labor
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to the county jail, just because he asked a little green -eyed girl a
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question and offered her a nickel's worth of candy if she'd tell.
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A year and some odd days ago,
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an old man died in Memphis.
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Just another wayward soul
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the county had to claim
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Inside the old man's ragged coat
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they found a faded letter
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It said you have a daughter
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and her eyes are Wilson green
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What's your mama's name, child,
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what's your mama's name?
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Does she ever talk about a
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place called New Orleans?
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Has she ever mentioned
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a man named Beaufort Wilson?
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What's your mama's name, child,
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what's your mama's name?
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What's your mama's name, child?
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What's your mama's name?
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What's Your Mama's Name
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