My brother said that I was rotton to the core

I was the youngest child so I got by with more

I geuss she was tired by the time I came along

She laugh until she cried I could do no wrong

and she would always save me because I was her baby



Worked a factory in Ohio

a shrimp boy in the bio

drove a truck in Birmingham

turn 21 in cincinatti

called home to mom and daddy

said your boy is now a man

she said I dont care if your 80

you'll always be my baby



She loved that photograph of our whole family

she'd always point us out for all her friends to see

That's Greg he's doin' great he really loves his job

and ronnie with his two kids how bout that wife he's got

and that ones kinda crazy but that one is my baby



gotta call in alabama to come on home to louisana

and come as fast as you fly

cause your moma really needs you

and says she's gotta see you

she might not make it through the night

the whole way I drove eighty

so that she could see her baby



my whole family had been weepin

by the time that I got to her side

and I know that se'd been takin

and my heart it was breakin'

I never got to say goodbye

I softly kissed that lady

and cried just like a baby