I wish i'd known the man a little better
That turned my momma on
He must have been a heck of a man

Cause momma was a lady don't you know

Momma was no prude but she was proper

Never wore her dress to short
She didn't care if you did
But she'd of never taken a drank

Grandma kate did the best she could
To see momma grew up right
So she'd be fittin one day for courtin

And to wear some gentleman's ring

I wish i'd known the man a little better

That turned my momma on
He was always laughing and sang a right sweet song
I wish i'd known the man a little better that turned my moma on

He must have been a heck of a man
Cause momma was a lady don't you know


I hear he came to town one day
In a rusty old 49 ford
Selling ladies shoes and $$#orted greeting cards

He was killer good looking and easy to like
And turning all the ladies heads
But he saw momma first and lord knows

How some of them travelin men are

I wish i'd known the man a little better

That turned my momma on
He was always laughing and sang a right sweet song
I wish i'd known the man a little better that turned my momma on

He must have been a heck of a man
Cause momma was a lady don't you know


Momma seemed to forget the thangs that
Grandma kate had always told her
She ran away one night with a travlin man

They bought gas at rita's truck stop
And drove to desoto county
But he brought her home with a ring

Upon her hand

Momma's told me how the fever took him

When i was barely 5
But i remember him pitching me up
And catching me

And i love to sit and listen to her
Tell me about my daddy
She says he thought the sun must surely

Rise and set with me

I wish i'd known the man a little better that turned my momma on

He must have been a heck of a man
Cause momma was a lady don't you know


I wish i'd known the man a little better that turned my momma on
He must have been a heck of a man
Cause momma was a lady don't you know



(Thanks to Georgie for these lyrics)