What's Your Mama's Name Child

What's your mama's name, child?
 What's your mama's name?
 30 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
 'Til 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?
 20 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
 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?