[00:05.090]
[00:13.540]The first thing I remember
[00:15.190]Knowin was a
[00:16.710]Lonesome whistle blowin
[00:18.360]And a younguns dream
[00:19.340]
[00:19.980]Of growin up to ride
[00:22.200]
[00:23.090]On a freight train leavin town
[00:24.780]
[00:25.480]Not knowin where Im bound
[00:27.030]
[00:28.060]No one could change
[00:29.260]My mind but mama tried
[00:30.620]
[00:32.440]One and only rebel child
[00:34.140]
[00:35.110]From a family meek and mild
[00:36.530]
[00:37.880]My mama seemed to to
[00:39.590]Know what lay in store
[00:41.630]
[00:42.320]Spite all my Sunday learnin
[00:43.620]
[00:44.570]Towards the bad
[00:45.530]I kept on turnin
[00:46.490]
[00:47.050]Til mama couldn't
[00:48.200]Hold me anymore
[00:49.720]
[00:51.660]I turned twenty-one in prison
[00:54.340]Doin life without parole
[00:55.550]
[00:57.300]No one could steer me right
[00:59.160]But mama tried  mama tried
[01:01.100]Mama tried to raise me better
[01:03.300]
[01:03.860]But her pleading I denied
[01:05.320]
[01:06.060]That leaves only me to blame
[01:08.260]'Cause mama tried
[01:09.000]
[01:13.450]Dear ole daddy  rest his
[01:14.950]Soul left my mom a heavy load
[01:17.280]
[01:18.100]She tried so very hard
[01:19.820]To feel his shoes
[01:20.840]
[01:22.640]Workin hours without rest
[01:24.270]
[01:24.810]Wanted me to have the best
[01:26.650]
[01:27.750]She tried to raise me
[01:29.190]Right but I refused
[01:30.670]
[01:32.120]I turned twenty-one in prison
[01:34.560]Doin life without parole
[01:36.350]
[01:38.370]No one could steer me right
[01:40.380]But mama tried  mama tried
[01:41.840]Mama tried to raise me better
[01:43.630]
[01:44.550]But her pleading I denied
[01:45.930]
[01:46.780]And that leaves only me to blame
[01:49.010]'Cause mama tried
[01:49.870]
[01:51.260]And that leaves only me to blame
[01:53.480]'Cause mama tried