Intro chords: G5 G5 G5    G5 G5 G5    G5 G5 G5    G5 G5 G5   C5 
 
C5                              G5                        
As a young boy my mama used to make me walk the line, 
C5                              G5 
even then as now, women were a weakness of mine, 
C5 
in grade school I was a mess,  
    D5 
just pulling up some little girls dress, 
C5 
teacher send me home from school..."what a witch", 
           D5 
mama'd say...bad boy go get me that switch 


       G5 
Mama you can't give me no whippin' 
         C5 
just for staying out all night 
G5 
Mama you can't give me no whippin' 
    C5                  D5 
I'm old enough to know wrong from right 
G5 
Mama you can't turn me over your knees 
       C5               D5 
it's embarrassing to a man like me 
C5                 D5                        G5 
Mama I think that I got something that the girls like 
C5              D5                             G5 
Mama I think I might have something that the girls like      
 
Verse 2: 
C5 
I must have been about 13 
          G5 
when this feeling came over me 
C5 
started to learning how to talk the girls 
G5 
out of their virginity 
C5 
I'd sneak'em out in the light of the moon 
D5 
slip'em up into my bedroom 
C5 
Mama catch us there without a stitch 
           D5 
she'd say.... bad boy, go get me that switch 
 
Back to chorus:.......... 

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Verse 3: 
C5                         G5 
I remember celebrating my 18th birthday 
C5 
I started out on the town in the evening 
      G5 
and I heard Mama scream... boy don't you be late 
C5                       
well I rolled in about four A.M. 
       D5 
didn't know where I was, and where I'd been 
C5 
there stood Mama with a belt in her hand 
        D5 
I said,... Hey Mama, your boy's a man 
 
Back to chorus again... 2 times, fading out on the second