The Only Hell My Mama Ever Raised

[ti:The Only Hell My Mama Ever Raised] [ar:Johnny Paycheck] [al:Honky Tonk Classics] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.59]The Only Hell My Mama Ever Raised – Johnny Paycheck [00:06.44] [00:09.28]I cant sell my mama short on loving me [00:12.65] [00:13.33]I guess that's why she let me go so far [00:16.40] [00:17.34]Mama tried to stopped me short of stealing [00:20.65] [00:22.08]I guess that's why I had to steal that car [00:25.28] [00:26.28]She told me not to smoke it [00:28.22]But I did and it took me far away [00:31.96] [00:32.84]And I turned out to be [00:34.84] [00:35.52]The only hell my mama ever raised [00:38.06] [00:41.56]I pulled into Atlanta stolen tags and almost out of gas [00:46.64] [00:50.09]I had to get some money and lately I'd learned how to get it fast [00:55.40] [00:58.18]Those neon lights was calling me and somehow I just had to get downtown [01:04.05] [01:05.30]So I reached into the glovebox another liquor store went down [01:10.39] [01:13.64]And I sing "Precious Memories " take me back to the good ol' days [01:19.20] [01:20.64]I can hear my mama singing "Rock of Ages" cleft for me [01:25.52] [01:26.64]She tried to turn me on to Jesus but I turned on to the devil's ways [01:31.98] [01:33.42]And I turned out to be the only hell my mama ever raised [01:38.02] [01:46.08]Well they put those handcuffs on me and Lord how I fought to resist [01:50.76] [01:54.46]They just clamped 'em tighter 'til that metal bit into my wrist [01:59.97] [02:03.06]They took my belt and my billfold my fingerprints and the profile of my face [02:08.32] [02:10.07]And then they locked away the only hell my mama ever raised [02:14.71] [02:18.05]And I sing "Precious Memories " take me back to the good ol' days [02:22.53] [02:24.90]I can hear my mama singing "Rock of Ages" cleft for me [02:30.37]She tried to turn me on to Jesus but I turned on to the devil's ways [02:35.95] [02:37.71]And I turned out to be the only hell my mama ever raised [02:42.34] [02:46.08]Tried to turn me on to Jesus but I turned on to the devil's ways [02:52.12] [02:53.12]And I turned out to be the only hell my mama ever raised