The Only Hell My Mama Ever Raised

The Only Hell My Momma Ever Raised - Johnny Paycheck

I can't sell my mama short on loving me

I guess that's why she let me go so far

Mama tried to stopped me short of stealing

I guess that's why I had to steal that car

She told me not to smoke it

But I did and it took me far away

And I turned out to be

The only hell my mama ever raised

I pulled into Atlanta

Stolen tags and almost out of gas

I had to get some money

And lately I'd learned how to get it fast

Those neon lights was calling me

And somehow I just had to get downtown

So I reached into the glovebox

Another liquor store went down

And I sing precious memories

Take me back to the good all days

I can hear my mama singing

Rock of ages cleft for me

She tried to turn me on to Jesus

But I turned on to the devil's ways

And I turned out to be

The only hell my mama ever raised

Well they put those handcuffs on me

And Lord how I fought to resist

They just clamped them tighter

Till that metal bit in to my wrist

They took my belt and my billfold my fingerprints

And the profile of my face

And then they locked away

The only hell my mama ever raised

And I sing precious memories

Take me back to the good all days

I can hear my mama singing

Rock of ages cleft for me

She tried to turn me on to Jesus

But I turned on to the devil's ways

And I turned out to be

The only hell my mama ever raised

Tried to turn me on to Jesus

But I turned on to the devil's ways

And I turned out to be

The only hell my mama ever raised