Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Tennessee Women's Prison, artist - Wanda Jackson. Album song Country Keepsakes, in the genre Поп
Date of issue: 31.12.1972
Record label: Capitol Records Nashville
Song language: English
Tennessee Women's Prison |
Mama said that thirteen was too young to think my lips |
And too young to run with me and twice my years |
But when you’re young and yearn to be a woman what does your mother know |
I couldn’t understand her hangups and her fears |
A year went by and I got tired of mama’s foolish advice |
At fourteen I was sure I knew it all |
It wasn’t like it was at home out on the streets so long |
Me I lived outside the law |
Now I’m livin' in the cold grey world hear me cryin' in the night |
Missin' even mom and dad and a man to hold me tight |
I should’ve listened to my mama and seen the visdom in her eyes |
And the Tennessee women’s prison wouldn’t be my mama tonight |
If I ever get out of this nasty cell I’ll never be back again |
Cause mama has sure got smarter every day since I’ve been in |
I gonna follow the straight and narrow if I can just get my parole |
And the Tennessee women’s prison won’t own my soul |
Cause I’m livin' in the cold grey world… |
And this Tennessee women’s prison wouldn’t be my mama tonight |