i wonder why my mama don t love my papa no more i guess my daddy been doing somethin wrong i wonder why my mama don t love my papa no more yeah my daddy must been doing somethin wrong you know i asked my mama i said mama what s the trouble she looked at me and said boy you d better go head on i looked at my mama she looked at me unconcerned i told my mama don t forget mama you never gets too old to learn that time i was talkin my daddy walked in the door said let that boy alone cause he s tellin you something right don t ya know mmmmm you never gets too old to learn still i say my papa must a done somethin wrong oh yeah to cause my mama s heart to ruin well you take two old people that s been together a long time they don t want children s or nobody else messin round their bidness see that s what i m talkin bout but the reason why i was talkin cause my mama i didn t want her to feel too bad over what papa do and i don t want papa to feel too bad over what mama do and i had a tell em you two people is livin you been together for a great long time you two people s been livin yeah you been together for a great long time yeah you know you had four boys and one girl to raise now ya better get bad things off your mind y all just get together and try to get along cause you ain t got many more days here you know then papa told mama come sit down on my knee said little things i ve did will you please forgive me and it made me feel so good man i went truckin on down the line you know i wa t nt gonna leave til i get them old folks together whoa yeah and get bad things of they mind sho h nough