When you grow up Liv-in' like a good boy ough-ta And your ma-ma Takes a shine to her best son Some-thing diffe-rent All the girls they seem to like you Cause you're hand-some Like to talk and a whole lot of fun But now your girl's gone a mis-sin' And your house has got an em-pty bed The folks-'ll won-der 'bout the wed-ding They won't lis-ten to a word you said Gon-na take your ma-ma out all night Yeah we'll show her what it's all ab-out We'll get her jacked up on some cheap cham-pagne We'll let the good times all roll out And if the mus-ic ain't good, well it's just too bad We're gon-na sing al-ong no mat-ter what Be-cause the dan-cers don't mind at the New Or-leans If you tip 'em and they make a cut Do it Take your ma-ma out all night So she'll have no doubt That we're doing oh the best we can We're gon-na do it Take your ma-ma out all night You can stay up late 'cause baby you're a full grown man It's a strug-gle Liv-in' like a good boy ough-ta In the sum-mer Wat-chin' all the girls pass by When your ma-ma Heard the way that you'd been talk-ing I tried to tell you That all she'd wan-na do is cry Now we end up ta-kin' the long way home Loo-kin' o-ver-dressed wear-in' buc-kets of stale col-ogne It's so hard to see streets on a coun-try road When your glas-ses in the gar-bage And your Con-tin-en-tal's just got towed Gon-na take your ma-ma out all night Yeah we'll show her what it's all ab-out We'll get her jacked up on some cheap cham-pagne We'll let the good times all roll out And if the mus-ic ain't good, well it's just too bad We're gon-na sing al-ong no mat-ter what Be-cause the dan-cers don't mind at the New Or-leans If you tip 'em and they make a cut Do it Take your ma-ma out all night So she'll have no doubt That we're doing oh the best we can We're gon-na do it Take your ma-ma out all night You can stay up late 'cause baby you're a full grown man Do it Take your ma-ma out all night So she'll have no doubt That we're doing oh the best we can We're gon-na do it Take your ma-ma out all night You can stay up late 'cause baby you're a full grown man