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Artist: Bruce Cockburn
Canonical path: /cockburn-bruce/mama-just-wants-to-barrelhouse-all-night-long
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Mama Just Wants To Barrelhouse All Night Long
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Mama Just Wants To Barrelhouse All Night Long
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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
I hear the city singing like a siren
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
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Bruce Cockburn performs "Mama Just Wants To Barrelhouse All Night Long", and this lyric page sits inside the Bruce Cockburn catalog on LyroVerse.
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