Get your rockin' chair mama, rock on ‘round the world or two.
Get your rockin' chair baby, rock on ‘round the world or two.
And don't scream, after I'm dead and gone.

Because you had a good man, you didn't seem to understand.
You had a good man, but you didn't seem to understand.
But you will know what it means, when you have to drag from hand to hand.

The very reason why, so many homes are wrecked today.
The very reason why, so many homes are wrecked today.
It's these women, who listen to everything everybody say.

Friend, will you please see for yourself.
Friend, will you please see for yourself.
Then you'll know when your eye's sees, you don't have to b'lieve nobody else.