You're The Only Hell You're Mama Ever Raised

Well, I heard mama late last night

She was talking to my father

Now it's time that boy was shipping out

And I mean come hell or high water

Smokes and spits, and drinks, and fights

And his friends all look like trouble

Oh, he sleeps all day and gone all night

Where's that boy I used to cuddle?

Ten good years

And then he must have gone insane

You're the only hell

Your mama ever raised

Tried to tell ya but you've

Got to do things your own way

Says you're a good boy

And that you must be goin' through some phase

You're the only hell mama ever

Mama ever raised

Susie sneaks out every night

Say's its only fair, yeah

Now mama won't let me have no fun

Sometimes I think she's Linda Blair, yeah

Sixteen years of bristling tears

Then Susie changed her ways

You're the only hell

Your mama ever raised

She tried to tell you

But you got to do things your own way

Susie was always coy prob'ly just

Goin' through some phase

You're the only hell your mama ever

Mama ever raised

You're the only hell

Your mama ever raised

She tried to tell ya but you've

That got to do things your own way

Should know, know better

That you must be goin' through some phase

You're the only hell your mama ever

Mama ever raised, mama ever raised

Oh mama, little boy may be leavin' today

I don't care what you say

Woman, I've got to go

And fly away