Mother Nature

Mother Nature

You better use what mother nature gave you

till father time takes it away

she thinks her beauty is fading

cause that’s what her Mama say



She told her when she’s thirty

she won’t be wanted by any man

so you know, that she gonna try to

live it up while she can

however, her words will never, ever no never come true

that honky tonkin life style it can get the best of you



As the twig’s bent that’s the way the tree grows

walking the same ole path

you can do what they say you ought to

but you’re just living in their past



this world can be so lonesome

when you only have yourself

but being yourself ain’t enough when

they wish you were someone else



they don’t want you to have what you want to, you know I ain’t lyin'

who thought that being a woman could be, con-sid-ered a crime?



Do everything your mama told you not to

Same things she wish she would of done

Take time to live the way you want to

you gotta do it while you’re young



Daddy said, “marry a rich man”

you deserve to have the best

he’s rich and unhappy

that’s the price of success



You don’t need to get married, in the suburbs outside of town

move back to the city, babe, We love having you around



oooh, ah, oooh, ah, oooh, ah



You better use what mother nature gave you

till father time takes it away

she thinks her beauty is fading

cause that’s what her Mama say



She told her when she’s thirty

she won’t be wanted by any man

so you know, that she gonna try to

live it up while she can

however, her words will never, ever no never come true

that honky tonkin life style it can get the best of you