My brother said that I
was rotten to the core.
I was the youngest child,
so I got by with more.

I guess she was tired by
the time I came along.
She´d laugh until she cried,
I could do no wrong.
She would always save me,
because I was her baby.

I worked a factory in Ohio,
a shrimp boat in the Bayou,
I drove a truck in Birmingham.
Turned 21 in Cincinnati,
I called home to mom and daddy,
I said "Your boy is now a man."
She said "I don´t care if you´re 80,
you´ll always be my baby."

She loved that photograph,
of our whole family.

She´d always point us out,
for all her friends to see.

That´s Greg he´s doing great,
he really loves his job.
And Ronnie with his 2 kids,
how ´bout that wife he´s got.
And that one´s kinda crazy,
but that one is my baby.

I got a call in Alabama,
said come on home to Louisianna
and come as fast as you can fly.
Cause your momma really needs you,
and says she´s got to see you,
she might not make it through the night.
The whole way I drove 80
so she could see her baby.

She looked like she was sleepin´
and my family had been weepin´
by the time that I got to her side.
And I knew that she´d been taken,
and my heart it was breakin´,
I never got to say goodbye.

I softly kissed that lady
and cried just like a baby.