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Artist: Lucky Dube
Canonical path: /lucky-dube/mama
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Mama
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Mama
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Oh, lord have mercy
I remember the day I called mama on the telephone
I told her mama, I'm getting married
I could hear her voice on the other side
Of the telephone, she was smiling
And she asked me a question that I proudly answered
She said: Son, did you take time to know her?
I said mama she's the best
But today it hurts me so
To go back to mama and say mama
I'm getting divorced
Oh, I'm getting divorced
This choice I made, didn't work out the way I thought it would
This choice I made
It hurts me so mama
This choice I made, didn't work out the way I thought it would
This choice of mine oh
Mama said to me
It's not easy to understand it son
But I hope you'll make it
You'll be happy again
It's not easy to understand it son
But I hope you'll make it
You'll be happy again
I remember in church
When the preacher read the scriptures
You looked so beautiful, so beautiful and so innocent
I did not know that behind that beauty
Lies the true colors that will destroy me in the near future
This choice I made, didn't work out to be the way I thought it would be
Oh mama, this choice I made didn't work out the way I thought it would be
Now I'm hurting
I remember when I held you
By the hand preacher man read the scriptures
Putting words in your mouth
Maybe what the preacher man said was not
Something that was within you
Now I know what they mean when they say
Beautiful woman is another man's plaything
Oh lord, I'm hurting now
This choice I made, didn't work out the way I thought it would
This choice I made, oh
Mama said to me
It's not easy to understand it son
But I hope you'll make it
You'll be happy again
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