Lyrics Mama, Don't Treat Your Daughter Mean - Ry Cooder

Mama, Don't Treat Your Daughter Mean - Ry Cooder
Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Mama, Don't Treat Your Daughter Mean, artist - Ry Cooder. Album song The Slide Area, in the genre Блюз
Date of issue: 31.12.1969
Record label: Warner
Song language: English

Mama, Don't Treat Your Daughter Mean

Hey, mama, don’t you treat your daughter mean
Hey, mama, don’t you treat your daughter mean
'Cause you treat her so mean and she’s only sweet sixteen
It was late last Friday evening, when everything was still
I heard somebody calling my name outside my window sill
I got up and I looked outside strainin' my eyes to see
And my heart went wild when I realized just who was calling me
I hollered «Hey!»
Hey, mama, don’t you treat your daughter mean
Hey, mama, don’t you treat your daughter mean
'Cause you treat her so mean and she’s only sweet sixteen
Now her eyes was blazing up at me
And her hair was black as night
Well her naked skin shone like gold
Out in the pale moonlight
Then she took my hand and she pulled me down
Where the grass was grown up tall
Then she moved her body all around
Just like a cannon ball
I hollered «Hey!»
Hey, mama, don’t you treat your daughter mean
Hey, mama, don’t you treat your daughter mean
'Cause you treat her so mean and she’s only sweet sixteen
Well yonder comes your mama, girl, 'cross the field
Runnin' and a-shakin' like an automobile
Daddy’s got a shotgun in his hand
They just don’t understand
Now the first time I seen that sweet little girl
She was runnin' home from Sunday school
And the next time I seen that sweet little thing
When she broke her mama’s rule
But the last time I seen that sweet little girl
She was filled with a strange desire
Rollin' and tumblin' out on the cold wet ground
Her skin burnin' up just like a cane fire
She called my name a thousand ways
The tears come streaming on down her face
Just when I was 'bout to blow my stack
Her daddy came a-creepin' and a-crawlin' up behind
And he shot me in the back
Hey mama
Hey, mama, don’t you treat your daughter mean
Hey, mama, don’t you treat your daughter mean
Hey mama don’t you treat your daughter mean
Hey mama don’t you treat your daughter mean
When you treat her so mean she’s only sweet sixteen

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