Got to See If I Can't Get Mommy (To Come Back Home)

Before it was ripe

Way before it was time

To pick the grapes from the vine

Love that poured from my heart made me see

So, I borrowed my mother's wedding bang

Found a shack and a piece of land

Oh, Lord, what else could make my life complete?

Afraid of everybody told, each baby boy

No tears or streams of awful pain

Back to the fields before she was healed

And never, never complained

I can't go through life in misery alone

I gotta go see if I can't get your momma' to come back home

Little Susie, come here

Now, here's a chance for you to show daddy what a big girl you can be

Now here's what I want you to do

I want you to take good care of little Davy, and the twins

And if I don't get back tonight, and bounce 'em on my knee

Oh, Lord, how do you make a little boy a man?

When he's only three

A house divided, broken in two

Can't stand the test when the wind blows through

Oh, Lord, I can't hold it together by myself

So I headed for town, where I thought she'd be

Prayed the right word would come to me

Tryin' to make her see we needed her

Now, I got to the ridge

There was a crowd on the bridge

Where she fell to a watery grave

Somebody said, "We did all we could but she couldn't be saved"

Ooh, I can remember the words I told Susie when I left her all alone:

"Gotta go see if I can't get your momma' to come back home"

See if I can't get your momma' to come back home

Gotta go see if I can't get your momma' to come back home (That's all that we need)

Gotta see if I can't get your momma' to come back home

(I gotta, gotta, gotta) Go see if I can't get your momma to come back home...