I'm The Only Hell My Mama Ever Raised

(album: There's Still A Little Country Left - 2015)

I can't sell my mama short on loving me
I guess that's why she let me go so far
Mama try to stopped me short of stealing
I guess that's why I had to steal that car

She told me not to smoke it but I did and it took me far away
And I turned out to be the only hell my mama ever raised

Well, I rolled into Atlanta, drunk and almost out of gas
I had to get some money, and lately I'd learned how to get it fast
Those neon lights was calling me and somehow I had to get downtown
So I reached into the glove box, another liquor store went down

And I sing 'Precious Memories', take me back to the good ol' days
I wanna hear my mama singing to me, 'Rock of Ages' cleft for me
She tried to turn me on to Jesus, but I turned on to the devil's ways
And I turned out to be the only hell my mama ever raised

When they put them handcuffs on me, boys I tried to resist
Yeah I hear they clamped 'em tighter, 'til that metal bit into your wrist
They took my belt and my billfold, my fingerprints, and the profile of my face
And then they locked away the only hell your mama ever ever raised

And I sing 'Precious Memories', take me back to the good ol' days
I wanna hear my mama singing to me, 'Rock of Ages' cleft for me
She tried to turn me on to Jesus, but I turned on to the devil's ways
I turned out to be the only hell my mama ever raised

And I sing 'Precious Memories', take me back to the good ol' days
I wanna hear my mama singing to me, 'Rock of Ages' cleft for me
She tried to turn me on to Jesus, but I turned on to the devil's ways
And I turned out to be the only hell my mama ever raised
And I turned out to be the only hell my mama ever raised