Don't try to mislead me now, baby
Just because I'm young and wild
Just because I'm young and wild
Yes, you must remember
That I am my mama's baby child,
mm -mm,
God knows I'm my mama's baby child
And I know my little woman,
I know she's bound to love me some
Yeah, God knows she's
bound to love me some
Why, boy?
Cause she throws her arms around me
Like the circle round the sun
Yeah, God knows like
the circle round the sun
Then I'm going to write me one letter,
I'm going to mail it in the air,
yeah, God knows why I mail
it in the air.
There's these people in the world
Know I got me a woman somewhere
Lord knows I got me
a gal somewhere
There's my mama, she told me
And my daddy stood and cried,
dear Lord, and my daddy
stood and cried,
what's that, boy?
Said you got too many women
for any man -boy of your size,
dear Lord, any man -boy of your size.
My mom, she's dead,
and my daddy, he is too,
Lord, and my daddy, he is too.