Mama's Worried

Mama's worried all the time

She tells everyone she's fine

But she's hurting bad and worried so

She don't want no one to know

There's a rumbling below

Out on the sea, an unnatural glow

People with nowhere to go

And nothing in their eyes

We ain't seen daddy for a while

He walked away, his worried smile

Was the memory he gave to me

We don't know where he's gone

And mama's worried all the time

She tells everyone she's fine

But she's hurting bad and worried so

She don't want no one to know

People in their stylish clothes

They look at us and turn up their nose

A hunger deep inside me grows

And never goes away

She starts singing in the morning

She works and sings all day

Singing sad, singing low

For a while the worry goes away

And mama's worried all the time

She tells everyone she's fine

But she's hurting bad and worried so

She don't want no one to know