Ma-mas put your ba-bies to sleep sto-ry too cruel-some for them this is In Ju-nior high she said good-bye to her par-ents and ran a-way with a boy. She left her fam-i-ly warm and kind, all of her friends said "you're out of your mind". Life of her own she would find, it's mon-day and she's got-ta grind. Job as a wait-ress she sure was to find beau-ti-ful face, mind of a child Boy got her preg-nant, Ma-ry-Lou cried "For this I am too young oh why did you lie" You said "it's o-kay if we do it to-day" I was so scared that you would go away "Des-pite all the pa-pers been signed, ma-ma take me back be so ki-i-i-i-ind O-nly a child, reck-less and wild needs to come home a-gai-ai-ain He prom-ised the moon but won't mar-ry you Noth-ing to do, eat-ing for two he's go-in' out with some-one new Sun-shine or rain, it's all the same, life is-n't gray oh Ma-ry-Lou. Ma-mas do your child-ren still sleep in the safe of their cra-dles so sweet Sto-ry I told you I have for-seen, Your lit-tle an-gel ain't al-ways so clean Days to come aren't ea-sy to see You can change 'em but it is-n't free I see that you don't be-lieve, ooo-oo, but you will see. O-nly a child, reck-less and wild needs to come home a-gai-ai-ain He prom-ised the moon but won't mar-ry you Noth-ing to do, eat-ing for two he's go-in' out with some-one new Sun-shine or rain, it's all the same, life is-n't gray oh Ma-ry-Lou. O-nly a child, reck-less and wild needs to come home a-gai-ai-ain He prom-ised the moon but won't mar-ry you Noth-ing to do, eat-ing for two he's go-in' out with some-one new Sun-shine or rain, it's all the same, life is-n't gray oh Ma-ry-Lou. O-nly a child, reck-less and wild needs to come home a-gai-ai-ain He prom-ised the moon but won't mar-ry you Noth-ing to do, eat-ing for two he's go-in' out with some-one new Sun-shine or rain, it's all the same, life is-n't gray oh Ma-ry-Lou. oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh