| Mama gave us all her life
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| Now it’s hard to live
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| (Yeah)
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| Mama gave us everything, boy
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| Now it’s her turn to live
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| Little brother
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| Brother, don’t you know?
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| You got the best mother that the world has ever known
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| Worked her fingers to the bone
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| Now you’re almost grown
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| And out on your own
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| She got the right to be left alone
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| I’m twenty
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| You’re sixteen
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| And brother that’s a-plenty
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| 'Cause when came on the scene
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| Mama was only seventeen
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| So she’s still a young woman
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| If you know what I mean
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| She got the right
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| To the man of her dreams
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| (Yeah)
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| She got the right
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| To the man of her dreams
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| She got the right
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| To the man of her dreams
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| Mama gave us all her life
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| And now it’s her turn to live
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| Her turn to live
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| Mama raised us all her life
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| And now it’s her turn to live
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| Mama gave us everything, boy
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| And now it’s you’re turn to give
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| Well, well, well
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| Because our mama, our mama
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| (Mama loves him)
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| (And? her)
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| But what us then
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| Is when a man comes in
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| And give him a chance to be your friend
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| She got the right to be loved again
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| (Talkin' about mama)
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| She got the right to be loved again
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| (Mama)
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| She got the right to be loved again
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| (Mama, mama)
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| Mama gave us all her life
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| Now it’s her turn to live
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| Mama gave us everything
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| Our turn to give
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| Her turn to live
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| And our turn to give
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| Her turn to live
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| Our turn to give
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| (Mama got the right)
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| (Mama got the right)
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| (Mama got the right) |