Bob Seger

Songwriter: Bob Seger

Producer: Bob Seger Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section

[Verse 1]
I was the baby brother
I was the quiet other
And I remember mother
So well
I was the little stranger
I never was in danger
I could 'a had a manger
Pray tell

[Pre-Chorus]
Oh, how she could control me
And when I was bad she'd scold me
Sometimes she wouldn't hold me
And I'd cry

[Chorus]
But Momma she never told me a lie
Momma she never told me a lie

[Verse 2]
I used to stay out evenings
Stay out too late some evenings
And Momma would be there seething
Back home
Momma, she sat and waited
Sat in the hall and waited
Now I know why she hated
That phone

[Pre-Chorus]
And when I came in she'd grab me
Right by the arm she'd grab me
And Lord, when she finished with me
I'd cry, oh, I'd cry

[Chorus]
But Momma she never told me a lie
Momma she never told me a lie

[Pre-Chorus]
Oh how she could control me
And when I was bad she'd scold me
Sometimes she wouldn't hold me
And I'd cry

[Chorus]
But Momma she never told me a lie
Momma she never promised the sky
Momma she never told me a lie

Robert Clark “Bob” Seger (born May 6, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist. As a locally successful Detroit-area artist, he performed and recorded as Bob Seger and the Last Heard and Bob Seger System throughout the 1960s. By the early 1970s, he had dropped the “System” from his recordings and continued to strive for broader success with various other bands. In 1973, he put together the Silver Bullet Band, with a group of Detroit-area musicians, with whom he became most successful on the national level with the album Live Bullet, recorded live with the Silver Bullet Band in 1975 at Cobo Hall in Detroit, Michigan. On his studio albums, he also worked extensively with the Alabama-based Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, which appeared on several of Seger’s best-selling singles and albums.

In 1976, he achieved a national breakout with the studio album Night Moves. The Night Moves title track became his first Billboard Top 5 single and the album started a string six consecutive albums landing in the Billbaord Top 10. The 1980 album, Against the Wind, topped the charts.

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