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
 Asking 'bout a rose 
 That use to blossom in his world
 People never took the time 
 To mind the young man's questions
 Until 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
 It 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?