What's your mama's name?
Askin' 'bout a rose
That said you have a daughter
Thirty some odd years ago
A nickel's worth of candy if she'd tell
And labored to the country jail
The county had to claim
What's your mama's name?
Just another wayward soul
To mind the young man's questions
Does she ever talk about
What's your mama's name?
A little green eyed girl a question
What's your mama's name, child?
A place called New Orleans
What's your mama's name?
A year and some odd days ago
Just because he asked
And her eyes are Wilson green
What's your mama's name, child?
Has she ever mentioned
A drunkard down in Memphis
What's your mama's name, child?
What's your mama's name, child?
And offered her
A man named Buford Wilson
Does she ever talk about
Him ask a little green eyed girl
People never took the time
They found a faded letter
Lost a month of life
Inside the old man's ragged coat
Twenty some odd years ago
A place called New Orleans
An old man died in Memphis
A man named Buford Wilson
Till one day they heard
That used to blossom in his world
Has she ever mentioned
A young man came to Memphis
What's your mama's name, child?
