"Every Mother's Son" lyrics

You could hardly hope to please me
You haven't got that voice
A man just needs his mother back
A woman's got a choice
A little boy needs strife and joy
In sickness and in health
A man's got to have his mother back
A woman's got herself
Oh, a woman's got herself

Will you help me, will you hold me
Will you miss me when I'm gone?
A woman's got to have her mother's voice
So that her man is on his own

Will you excuse my little weakness
Will you tell me that that's all right?
A woman's got to have her mother's voice
So that her man comes home each night
Oh, that man comes home each night