Ben Harper - Mama's Got A Girlfriend song lyrics

Papa, he left home today
Says he ain't comin' back again
Says he ain't gonna be nobod'ys second best
Just cuz Mama's got a special kind of friend

Papa, he left home today
Says he ain't comin' back no more
Say he ain't gonna take no damn back seat
And how could Mama do him so low

But Mama's got a girlfriend now boy
Mama's got a girlfriend now
Mama's got a girlfriend, yes she found a true friend
Mama's got a girlfriend now

See Pama, don't watch that football
And your beer drinkin' just won't do
You're just stayin' out late and you're preachin the hate
And you never have been true

See cuz Mama, she wanted somebody
Who would let her be herself
So she's leaving you and your stinkin' damn ways
Cuz she found somebody else

And Mama's got a girlfriend now boy
Mama's got a girlfriend now
Mama's got a girlfriend, yes she found a true friend
Mama's got a girlfriend now

(Crazy country whammy bar solo)

Papa, he left home today
Wavin' his hands and cryin'
And you could tell by the sound and the tone in his voice
That his heart was slowly dyin'

But Papa said 'Boy if I ever catch you here again...
...You ain't never gonna have nobody else, not a woman or a man'

But Mama's got a girlfriend now boy
Mama's got a girlfriend now
Mama's got a girlfriend, yes she found a true friend
Mama's got a girlfriend now

Mama's got a girlfriend now boy
Mama's got a girlfriend now
Mama's got a girlfriend, yes she found a true friend
Mama's got a girlfriend, yeah she found a true friend...now

(Big bang ending)