My brothers said that i'm

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

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 doin' great

He really loves his job

And Ronnie with his two kids

How 'bout that wife he's got

And that one's kind of crazy

But that one is my baby

I got a call in Alabama

To come home to Louisiana

And come as fast as you can fly

'Cause your mama really needs you

And says she's gotta 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 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