What's Your Mama's Name

What's your mama's name child, what's your mama's name
 Thirty some odd years ago a young man came to Memphis
 Askin' 'bout a rose that used to blossom in his world
 People never took the time to mind the young man's questions
 Till one day they heard him ask a little green eyed girl
 What's your mama's name child, what's your mama's name
 Does she ever talk about a place called New Orleans
 Has she ever mentioned a man named Buford Wilson
 What's your mama's name child, what's your mama's name
 Twenty some odd years ago a drunkard down in Memphis
 Lost a month of life and labor to the county jail
 Just because he asked a little green eyed girl a question
 And offered her a nickel's worth of candy if she'd tell
 A year and some odd days ago an old man died in Memphis
 Just another wayward soul the county had to claim
 Inside the old man's ragged coat they found a faded letter
 That said you have a daughter and her eyes are Wilson green
 What's your mama's name child, what's your mama's name
 Does she ever talk about a place called New Orleans
 Has she ever mentioned a man named Buford Wilson
 What's your mama's name child, what's your mama's name
 What's your mama's name child, what's your mama's name