Mamas put your babies to sleep, story too cruelsome for them this is. In Junior high she said to her parents and ran away with a boy. She left her family warm and kind, all of her friends said \"you're out your mind\". Life of her own she would find, it's monday and she's gotta grind.
Job as a waitress she sure was to find, beautiful face, mind a child. Boy got her pregnant, Mary-Lou cried,\" For this I am too young oh why did you lie\" You said \"it's okay if we do it today\", I was so that you would go away. \"Despite all the papers signed, mama take me back be so kind\".
Only a child, reckless and wild, needs to come home again. He promised the but won't marry you. Nothing to do, eating for two, he's goin' out someone new. Sunshine or rain, it's all the same, life isn't gray oh Mary-Lou.
Mamas do your children still sleep, in the safe of their cradles so sweet. Story I told you I have forseen, little angel so clean. Days to come aren't easy to see, You can change 'em butit isn't free. I see that you don't believe, ooo-oo, but you will see.