Jenkins the blame it on mama lyrics

when i was six or seven mama tucked me in

with a lullaby that made my eyes open wide again

i'd lie awake and wonder why a boy named Billy Joe

jumped off the Talahatche bridge to the river far below



blame it on mama and the songs she loved to sing

i'm not from Lousiana but that dont mean a thing

don't come from Alabama or hail from Tennessee

just blame it on mama she sang the country into me



i just loved to listen as she sang those story songs

bout a coat of many colors or a girl named Delta Dawn

when the lights went out in Georgia i would beg for just one more

all about fancy and pretty red satin dancin dress she wore



blame it on mama and the songs she loved to sing

i'm not from Lousiana but that dont mean a thing

dont come from Alabama or hail from Tennessee

just blame it on mama she sang the country into me



i'm a coal miners daughter lovin that preachers son

i could walk the streets of Laredo stare down the barrel of a lawmans gun

i've grown roots and i've got ties to places i've never been

and when i sing those songs it takes me right back home again



blame it on mama and the songs she loved to sing

i'm not from Lousiana but that dont mean a thing

dont come from Alabama or hail from Tennessee

just blame it on mama she sang the country into me



the country in to me, yeah