Garth Brooks - Papa Loved Mama lyrics

Album: Ropin´ the Wind (1991)

Papa drove a truck nearly all his life
You know it drove mama crazy bein a trucker´s wife
The part she could not handle was the bein´ alone
I guess she needed more to hold than just the telephone
Papa called mama each & every night
Just to ask her how she was & if us kids were all right
Mama would wait for that call to come in
But when Daddy´d hang up she was gone again

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Momma was a looker
Lord how she shined
Papa was a good´n
But the jealous kind
Papa Loved Mama
Mama loved men
Mama´s in the graveyard
Papa´s in the pen

Well, it was bound to happen
One night it did
Papa came home & it was just us kids
He had a dozen roses & a bottle of wine
If he was lookin to surprise her he was doin´ fine
I heard him cry for mama up & down the hall
Then I heard the bottle break against the bedroom wall
That ol´ Diesel engine made an eerie sound
When Papa fired it up & headed into town.

Well, the picture in the paper showed the scene real well
Papa´s rig was buried in the local motel
The desk clerk said he saw it all real clear
He never hit the brakes, & he was shifting gears.

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