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Marc Laidlaw — Mama Never Went Electric
Artist: → Marc Laidlaw
Marc Laidlaw — Mama Never Went Electric — lyrics
Had about six sisters and five of the other
I think there was a dozen of us
Never met my father, it was all on my mother
When we hitchhiked we had to catch a bus
Which happened every time the county came around
And said to get those kids in school
We’d pack up our bags and hit the road that night
‘Cause Mama said school’s for fools
We learned to read from the cover of a
Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band LP
Mama put us to sleep with traditional tales
Of the Partridge family
But Mama never went electric
Mama never drove a car
Mama chopped wood and Mama carried water
But Mama never got very far
Mama never vaped an e-cig
Mama roll her own cigar
She was as far out as you could get
But Mama never got very far
M-m, we lived in the woods
And oh, we lived in the hills
I seem to recall a desert and a lake and a bog and a rocky tor
We lived in the woods, the times were good
We lived in the hills, it was super chill
We lived in a dell and that was swell
And when we lived on the shore who could ask for more?
We had an old harmonica
Four strings on a guitar
We had buckets for drums and Coke bottle rattles
And Mama had to be the star, but
Mama never went electric
Mama never drove a car
Mama chopped wood and Mama carried water
But Mama never got very far
Mama never vaped an e-cig
Mama roll her own cigar
Mama was as far as out as far could get
But Mama never got very far
Mama sang like starlight
She danced like the wind in a tree
Mama said music is the soul of the world
And that’s good enough for me
Oh Mama never went electric
Mama never drove a car
Mama chopped wood and Mama carried water
But Mama never got very far
Mama never vaped an e-cig
Mama roll her own cigar
Mama went as far out as she could get
But Mama never got very far
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