The Man That Turned My Mama On by Tanya Tucker
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I wish I'd known the man a little better that turned my mama on
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He must have been a heck of a man cause mama was a lady don't you know
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Mama was no prude but she was proper never wore her dress too short
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She didn't care if you did but she'd never taken a drink 
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Grandma Kate did the best she could to see mama grew up right
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So she'd be fitting one day for courting and to wear some gentleman's ring
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I wish I'd known the man a little better that turned my mama on
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People was always laughing and sang a right sweet song
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I wish I'd known the man a little better that turned my mama on
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He must have been a heck of a man cause mama was a lady don't you know
 
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I hear he came to town one day in a rusty old '49 Ford
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Selling ladies shoes and assorted greeting cards
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He was killer good looking and easy to like and turning all the ladies heads
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But he saw mama first and Lord knows how some of them traveling men are
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I wish I'd known the man a little better that turned my mama on
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He must have been a heck of a man cause mama was a lady don't you know
   
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Mama seemed to forget the things that grandma Kate had always told her
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She ran away one night with that traveling man
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They bought gas at Reba's Truck Stop and drove to Desoto County
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But he brought her home with a ring upon her hand
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Mama's told me how the fever took him when I was barely five
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But I remember him pitching me up and catching me
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And I love to sit and listen to her tell me about my daddy
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She says he thought the sun would surely rise and set in me
 
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I wish I'd known the man a little better that turned my mama on
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He must have been a heck of a man cause mama was a lady don't you know