| My mama don’t understand
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| She’s impossible to the core
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| Now she says that she’s gettin' married
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| He’s a friend of a friend of the boy next door
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| He’s got all of the best intentions
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| Half of a school degree
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| But when he does his song and dancin'
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| They know they can be happy as the shows on TV
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| She needs a change, she wants a life
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| Where she can grow and they can thrive
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| Some kind of space of her own
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| A different view
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| Another slant
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| Another way
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| Another chance
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| To get on with her life
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| (Mama she don’t understand)
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| Mama she don’t
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| She don’t even know
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| She don’t know
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| She don’t understand
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| She’s gotta know
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| If she can cut life on her own
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| But like the man says,
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| «You can never go home again»
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| You gotta come see the new place
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| Mom, you’re gonna feel right at home
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| Could you just front that deposit
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| Mama, we’ll pay you back when the welfare check comes
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| Nothin’s gone as expected
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| No one knows all the trouble we’ve seen
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| But we’ll pull ourselves together
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| It’s the two of us now
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| Of course, baby makes three
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| A little luck
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| An even break
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| We’ll find a way
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| To have our cake
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| And even eat a piece or two
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| We’ll show you how
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| We’re winnin' now
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| We’ll live it up Can’t keep 'em down
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| Woh-wa-no-no-no-no
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| Woh-wa-no-no-no-no
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| Woh-wa-no-no-no-no
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| Woh-wa-no-no-no-no
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| She don’t understand me She don’t understand me So mama, please understand
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| (Mama, please understand)
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| If it’s possible, we implore
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| Could we just move in these few things
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| We won’t get in the way
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| And we’ll sleep on the floor
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| Cuz, times have been getting tougher
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| (Times have been getting tough)
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| It’s an unfriendly world outside
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| They say things will pick up by summer
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| Can we borrow the car
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| Will you watch little Clyde,
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| Thanks a lot
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| Woh-wa-no-no-no-no
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| Mama don’t understand
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| Woh-wa-no-no-no-no
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| Mama don’t understand me Woo-wa-doo
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| Woo-wa-doo-ooo
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| Woh-wa-no-no-no-no
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| Mama don’t understand
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| Woh-wa-no-no-no-no
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| Mama don’t understand me
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| (Mama don’t understand me)
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| Woo-wa-doo
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| Woo-wa-doo-ooo
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| (Mama don’t understand me, no)
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| Woh-wa-no-no-no-no
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| Mama don’t understand
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| Woh-wa-no-no-no-no
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| She don’t understand me
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| (Mama don’t understand me)
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| Woo-wa-doo
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| Woo-wa-doo-ooo
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| (Mama, she don’t understand me, yeah) |