Tom: C
Introdução:
C G
As a young boy my mama used to make me walk the line,
C G
even then as now, women were a weakness of mine,
C
in grade school I was a mess,
D
just pulling up some little girls dress,
C
teacher send me home from school..."what a witch",
D
mama'd say...bad boy go get me that switch
G
Mama you can't give me no whippin'
C
just for staying out all night
G
Mama you can't give me no whippin'
C D
I'm old enough to know wrong from right
G
Mama you can't turn me over your knees
C D
it's embarrassing to a man like me
C D G
Mama I think that I got something that the girls like
C D G
Mama I think I might have something that the girls like
C
I must have been about 13
G
when this feeling came over me
C
started to learning how to talk the girls
G
out of their virginity
C
I'd sneak'em out in the light of the moon
D
slip'em up into my bedroom
C
Mama catch us there without a stitch
D
she'd say.... bad boy, go get me that switch
Back to chorus:..........
C G
I remember celebrating my 18th birthday
C
I started out on the town in the evening
G
and I heard Mama scream... boy don't you be late
C
well I rolled in about four A.M.
D
didn't know where I was, and where I'd been
C
there stood Mama with a belt in her hand
D
I said,... Hey Mama, your boy's a man
Back to chorus again... 2 times, fading out on the second