[ti:Fore She Was Mama]
[ar:New Country Collective]
[al:New Country Classics]
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[00:00.00]Fore She Was Mama - New Country Collective
[00:12.37]'Bout ten years old hide and seek
[00:14.98]I found me in the closet
[00:18.00]Ready or not I stumbled on
[00:20.71]And opened up that box of
[00:23.67]Yearbooks letters black and whites
[00:26.43]A hundred maybe more
[00:29.11]Next thing I know my brothers and me
[00:31.99]Got 'em scattered on the floor yeah
[00:39.21]There was one of her flippin' the bird
[00:41.94]Sittin' on a Harley
[00:44.73]And a few with some hairy hippie dude
[00:47.53]Turns out his name was Charlie
[00:50.40]Her hair her clothes her drinkin' smokin'
[00:53.08]Had us boys confused
[00:55.83]I'll never forget the day us nosy kids got introduced
[01:01.69]To Mama 'fore she was Mama
[01:06.53]In a string bikini in Tijuana
[01:12.50]Won't admit she smoked m*******a
[01:17.85]But I saw Mama 'fore she was Mama
[01:27.21]We put that box right where it was
[01:29.81]And never said a word
[01:32.67]But growin' up got hard just tryin'
[01:35.71]Not to picture her
[01:38.26]In anything but aprons dresses
[01:41.24]Mini vans and church
[01:43.86]Oh and Daddy would have whooped our butts
[01:47.10]For diggin' up that dirt
[01:49.57]On Mama 'fore she was Mama
[01:54.62]In a string bikini in Tijuana
[02:00.38]She won't admit she smoked m*******a
[02:05.80]But I saw Mama 'fore she was Mama
[02:23.54]We laugh and hang it over her head
[02:26.49]Right above her halo
[02:29.04]Her face turns red when we bring up
[02:31.91]That tie dyed Winnebago
[02:34.70]She runs and hides and still denies
[02:37.68]That hip high rose tattoo
[02:40.37]She burned that box of forget me nots
[02:43.48]When she found out we knew
[02:45.99]About Mama 'fore she was Mama
[02:51.01]In a string bikini in Tijuana
[02:56.73]Won't admit she smoked m*******a
[03:02.21]But that was Mama 'fore she was Mama
[03:08.26]And there's that one down in the Bahamas
[03:13.68]But that was Mama 'fore she was Mama yeah