Blame It On Mama - The Jenkins

When I was six or seven mama tucked me in

With a lala by that made my eyes open wide again

I'd lie awake and wonder why a boy named Billy Joe

Jumped off the Talahatche bridge to the river far below

Blame it on mama and the songs she loved to sing

I'm not from Lousiana that don't mean a thing

Don't come from Alabama or hail from Tennessee

Just blame it on mama she sang the country into me

I just loved to listen as she sang those story songs

About a coat of many colors or a girl named Delta Dawn

When the lights went out in Goegia I would beg for just one more

All about fancy and pretty red satin dancing dress she wore

Blame it on mama and the songs she loved to sing

I'm not from Lousiana but that don't mean a thing

Don't come from Alabama or hail from Tennessee

Just blame it on mama she sang the country into me

I'm a coal miners daughter loving that preachers son

I could walk the streets of Laredo

Stare down the barrel of a law mans gun

I've grown roots and I've got ties to places I've never been

And when I sing those songs it takes me right back home again

Blame it on mama and the songs she loved to sing

I'm not from Lousiana but that don't mean a thing

Don't come from Alabama or hail from Tennessee

Just blame it on mama she sang the country into me

The country into me yeah