She said that she just couldn't leave her mother I met a girl in our town I tour all my resistance down I thought what a dream this gonna be I live with her a month or two and like any boy in love will do Ask her if she would marry me But she was a Mama's Baby, Mama's Baby Though she love me like she never love the other She was a Mama's Baby, Mama's Baby And she said that she just couldn't leave her mother Then I said well then probably the only thing that's left for me it's a going come back in a year And so, the year past away, and then I try to win her hand again She even pact her close, but wouldn't go Cause she was a Mama's Baby, Mama's Baby Though she love me like she never love the other She was a Mama's Baby, Mama's Baby And she said that she just couldn't leave her mother Well I hang around till finally I asked her to marry me Her mother says that it would be alright We bought ourselfs a little home And I finally got her all alone but she stays with her mother every night Cause she's a Mama's Baby, Mama's Baby Though she love me like she never love the other She was a Mama's Baby, Mama's Baby And she said that she just couldn't leave her mother Well she said that she just couldn't leave - her mother