What's Your Mama's Name
By Tanya Tucker
Written by Dallas Frazier & Earl Montgomery
Album: What's Your Mamas Name (1973)
Tabbed by Larry Mofle
5/21/2017
Capo 3
G C
What's your mamas name child
G D G
Whats your mama's name
G D C G
Thirty some odd years ago, a young man came to Memphis
G D C G
Askin''bout a rose that use to blossom in his world
G D C G
People never took the time to mind the young man's questions
G Am D G
Till one day they heard him ask a little green eyed girl
Chorus:
G C D G
What's your mama's name, child, whats your mama's name
G C G D
Does she ever talk about a place called New Orleans
G D G7 C
Has she ever mentioned a man named Buford Wilson
G C D G
What's your mama's name, child, whats your mama's name
Key change to G#
Twenty some odd years ago, a drunkard down in Memphis
Lost a month of life and labor to the county jail
Just because he asked a little green eyed girl a question
And offered her a nickle's worth of candy if she'd tell
Key change to A
A year and some odd days ago, an old man died in Memphis
Just another wayward soul, the county had to claim
Inside the olds mans coat they found a ragged letter
It said he had a daughter and her eyes are Wilson green
Chorus
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