mammie delivered me into this world mammie watched my mama die at my birth and mammie she loved me she took me to raise mammie was all i had on this earth let s get in the firewood i d hear mammie say let s go to the spring before it gets dark and you do up the dishes while the water s still hot and don t throw that dishwater out in the yard oh mammie taught me how to sing a song she taught me to play her old guitar and at night before bedtime we d sing for hours as the teakettle whistled along on the fire and at night as i laid alone in my bed i d hear mammie praying and each night she said oh dear god help me raise her to know right from wrong and i pray she ll do right even after i m gone i d wait until mammie had fallen asleep then out of my window i d quietly sneak and i d wait by the mill pond according to plans and there in the darkness i d meet a man oh it s not that i wanted to bring mammie shame i just couldn t control wild blood in my veins they tell me my mama could not name my dad so i guess it was natural for me to be bad one night i awoke at the sound of my name come quickly i heard mammie cry she said you be good and i told her i would and that night i watched as my mammie died  all i have now are the memories of mammie and the goodness that loving her brought me although she is gone in my heart she lives on and i know how much good she taught me ah mammie i m being good mammie
['classic country pop', 'country', 'country dawn']