The Jenkins Blame it on Mama lyrics

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Blame it on Mama
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 Tallahatchie Bridge
To the river far below

Blame it on mama and the songs she loved to sing
I'm not from Louisiana but that don't mean a thing
Don't come from Alabama or heir 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'd beg for just one more
All about Fancy and the pretty red satin dancing dress she wore


Blame it on mama and the songs she loved to sing
I'm not from Louisiana but that don't mean a thing
Don't come from Alabama or heir from Tennessee
Just blame it on mama she sang the country into me

I'm a coal miner's daughter
lovin that preacher's son
I have walked the streets of Laredo
Stared down the barrel of a law mans 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 Louisiana but that don't mean a thing
Don't come from Alabama or heir from Tennessee
Just blame it on mama she sang the country into me
The country into me