Bruce Cockburn - Mama Just Wants to Barrelhouse All Night Long lyrics

rate me

I was up the road on easy street

Watching everybody stand around and cheat

A man comes up and says, "Move along

Down to the corner where you belong"

But mama just wants to barrelhouse all night long

I hear the city singing like a siren choir

Some fool tried to set this town on fire

TV preacher screams "come on along"

I feel like Fay Wray face to face with King Kong

But mama just wants to barrelhouse all night long

Sometimes I wonder what I am

I feel like I'm living in a hologram

It doesn't seem to matter what's right or wrong

Everybody's grabbing and coming on strong

But mama just wants to barrelhouse all night long