More songs by Walker Hayes
Description
Lyricist, Composer, Keyboards, Programmer, Producer, Recording Engineer: Warren "Oak" Felder
Composer, Vocal, Associated Performer, Guitar, Lyricist, Producer: Walker Hayes
Lyricist, Composer: Ben Williams
Composer, Lyricist: Sebastian Kole
Mixing Engineer: Joe Thibodeau
Mastering Engineer: Brad Blackwood
Lyrics and translation
Original
Thirteen, I was already leaning on a bottle.
Daddy beat us with a belt, preacher beat us with a Bible. Down in south Alabama, dog river, cattails.
I was scared of my brother when he got out of jail.
Bought a Chevy, drove Lainey Bell to the levee. We were getting out of Dodge ready. Class of '98.
Ain't called y'all in a minute, but hey.
Mama, I still keep my mobile alive, in my pocket like a pocket knife. Take it out every once in a smile.
Whittle on a memory for a little while. Thank God the shit that went wrong, taught me how to write country songs.
Ain't it funny how a childhood trauma cuts you deep and sharpens you, don't it mama?
Said I'ma throw a little Tupac on the mic.
I ain't mad at your mama 'cause it ain't like I was one of those on the road bumper sticker kids. I know you tried like
Merle's mama did. But I was too proud, turning my twelves up too loud.
I was just a baby, got a few now. Wish I could call Dad.
I just called to say, "Don't be sad. " Mama, I still keep my mobile alive, in my pocket like a pocket knife.
Take it out every once in a smile. Whittle on a memory for a little while.
Thank God the shit that went wrong, taught me how to write country songs.
Ain't it funny how a childhood trauma cuts you deep and sharpens you, don't it mama?
Too long, way too long. Since I took that drive to the two-five-one.
Too long, way too long. Down sixty-five, Bama, here I come. Too long, way too long.
Since I took that drive to the two-five-one. Too long, way too long.
Down sixty-five, Bama, here I come.
Mama, I still keep my mobile alive, in my pocket like a pocket knife. Take it out every once in a smile.
Whittle on a memory for a little while.
Thank God the shit that went wrong, taught me how to write country songs.
Ain't it funny how a childhood trauma cuts you deep and sharpens you, don't it mama?
'Cause she deep and sharpens you, don't it mama?
'Cause she deep and sharpens you, don't it mama?
English translation
Thirteen, I was already leaning on a bottle.
Daddy beat us with a belt, preacher beat us with a Bible. Down in south Alabama, dog river, cattails.
I was scared of my brother when he got out of jail.
Bought a Chevy, drove Lainey Bell to the levee. We were getting out of Dodge ready. Class of '98.
Ain't called y'all in a minute, but hey.
Mama, I still keep my mobile alive, in my pocket like a pocket knife. Take it out every once in a smile.
Whittle on a memory for a little while. Thank God the shit that went wrong, taught me how to write country songs.
Ain't it funny how a childhood trauma cuts you deep and sharpens you, don't it mama?
Said I'ma throw a little Tupac on the mic.
I ain't mad at your mama 'cause it ain't like I was one of those on the road bumper sticker kids. I know you tried like
Merle's mama did. But I was too proud, turning my twelves up too loud.
I was just a baby, got a few now. Wish I could call Dad.
I just called to say, "Don't be sad. " Mama, I still keep my mobile alive, in my pocket like a pocket knife.
Take it out every once in a smile. Whittle on a memory for a little while.
Thank God the shit that went wrong, taught me how to write country songs.
Ain't it funny how a childhood trauma cuts you deep and sharpens you, don't it mama?
Too long, way too long. Since I took that drive to the two-five-one.
Too long, way too long. Down sixty-five, Bama, here I come. Too long, way too long.
Since I took that drive to the two-five-one. Too long, way too long.
Down sixty-five, Bama, here I come.
Mama, I still keep my mobile alive, in my pocket like a pocket knife. Take it out every once in a smile.
Whittle on a memory for a little while.
Thank God the shit that went wrong, taught me how to write country songs.
Ain't it funny how a childhood trauma cuts you deep and sharpens you, don't it mama?
'Cause she deep and sharpens you, don't it mama?
'Cause she deep and sharpens you, don't it mama?