Fore She Was Mama-Modern Country Heroes

[ti:Fore She Was Mama] [ar:Hit Crew Masters] [al:American Alternative Country, Vol. 8] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Fore She Was Mama - Modern Country Heroes [00:12.69]Bout ten years old hide and seek [00:15.38]I found me in the closet [00:18.42]Ready or not I stumbled on [00:20.90]And opened up that box of [00:24.13]Yearbooks letters black and whites [00:26.81]A hundred maybe more [00:29.38]Next thing I know my brothers and me [00:32.22]Got 'em scattered on the floor (Yeah) [00:37.86] [00:39.38]There was one of her flippin' the bird [00:42.58]Sittin' on a Harley [00:44.14]And a few with some hairy hippie dude [00:48.00]Turns out his name was Charlie [00:50.73]Her hair her clothes her drinkin' smokin' [00:53.50]Had us boys confused [00:56.23]I'll never forget the day us nosey kids got introduced [01:01.45] [01:02.41]To Mama fore she was Mama [01:06.01] [01:06.85]In a string bikini in Tijuana [01:12.89]Won't admit she smoked marijuana [01:18.83]But I saw Mama fore she was Mama [01:22.97] [01:28.20]We put that box right where it was [01:30.56]And never said a word [01:33.03]But growin' up got hard just tryin' [01:36.23]Not to picture her [01:38.05] [01:38.58]In anything but aprons dresses [01:41.87]Mini-vans and church [01:44.33]Oh and Daddy would have whooped our butts [01:48.26]For diggin' up that dirt [01:50.08]On Mama 'fore she was Mama [01:54.81]In a string bikini in Tijuana [02:00.71]She won't admit she smoked marijuana [02:06.44]But I saw Mama 'fore she was Mama [02:12.82] [02:23.85]We laugh and hang it over her head [02:27.15]Right above her halo [02:29.46]Her face turns red when we bring up [02:32.42]That tie-dyed Winnebago [02:34.77] [02:36.53]She runs and hides and still denies [02:38.73]That hip high rose tattoo [02:41.22]She burned that box of forget-me-nots [02:43.92]When she found out we knew [02:46.43]About Mama 'fore she was Mama [02:50.53] [02:51.39]In a string bikini in Tijuana [02:57.80]Won't admit she smoked marijuana [03:03.01]But that was Mama 'fore she was Mama [03:07.76] [03:08.63]And there's that one down in the Bahamas [03:12.87] [03:14.08]But that was Mama 'fore she was Mama