Songwriter: Laura Nyro
Producer: Nickolas Ashford Valerie Simpson
I was born from love
And my poor mother worked the mines
I was raised on the Good Book Jesus
Till I read between the lines
Now I don't believe I wanna see the morning
Going down the stoney end
I never wanted to go down the stoney end
Mama, let me start all over
Cradle me, mama, cradle me again
(Cradle me, mama, cradle me again)
I can still remember him
With love light in his eyes
But the light flickered out and parted
As the sun began to rise
Now I don't believe I wanna see the morning
Going down the stoney end
I never wanted to go down the stoney end
Mama, let me start all over
Cradle me, mama, cradle me again
(Cradle me, mama, cradle me again)
Never mind the forecast
'Cause the sky has lost control
'Cause the fury and the broken thunders
Come to match my ragin' soul
Now I don't believe I want to see the morning
Going down the stoney end
I never wanted to go down the stoney end
Mama, let me start all over
Cradle me, mama, cradle me
Going down the stoney end
I never wanted to go down the stoney end
Mama, let me start all over
Cradle me, mama, cradle me again
(Cradle me)
Going down the stoney end
I never wanted to go down the stoney end
Mama, let me start all over
Cradle me, mama, cradle me again
(Cradle me)
Going down the stoney end
I never wanted to go down the stoney end
And my poor mother worked the mines
I was raised on the Good Book Jesus
Till I read between the lines
Now I don't believe I wanna see the morning
Going down the stoney end
I never wanted to go down the stoney end
Mama, let me start all over
Cradle me, mama, cradle me again
(Cradle me, mama, cradle me again)
I can still remember him
With love light in his eyes
But the light flickered out and parted
As the sun began to rise
Now I don't believe I wanna see the morning
Going down the stoney end
I never wanted to go down the stoney end
Mama, let me start all over
Cradle me, mama, cradle me again
(Cradle me, mama, cradle me again)
Never mind the forecast
'Cause the sky has lost control
'Cause the fury and the broken thunders
Come to match my ragin' soul
Now I don't believe I want to see the morning
Going down the stoney end
I never wanted to go down the stoney end
Mama, let me start all over
Cradle me, mama, cradle me
Going down the stoney end
I never wanted to go down the stoney end
Mama, let me start all over
Cradle me, mama, cradle me again
(Cradle me)
Going down the stoney end
I never wanted to go down the stoney end
Mama, let me start all over
Cradle me, mama, cradle me again
(Cradle me)
Going down the stoney end
I never wanted to go down the stoney end
more tracks from the album
Diana Ross (1970)
- Reach Out and Touch (Somebody’s Hand)
- Now That There’s You (Alternate vocal version)
- These Things Will Keep Me Loving You
- Ain’t No Mountain High Enough (Alternate mix)
- Love’s Lines, Angles and Rhymes
- Keep an Eye
- Dark Side of the World
- Can’t It Wait Until Tomorrow
- Now That There’s You
- Time and Love
- The Interim
- Stoney End
- I Wouldn’t Change the Man He Is
- You’re All I Need to Get By
- Something on My Mind (Live)
- Something on My Mind
- Where There Was Darkness
- Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
- These Things Will Keep Me Loving You (Alternate mix)
From the album
- Diana Ross (1970) (1970)
Diana Ross popular songs
- I’m Coming Out
- Upside Down
- Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
- Ease on Down the Road #1
- It’s Your Move
- If We Hold On Together
- The Boss
- Missing You
- Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You’re Going To)
- When You Tell Me That You Love Me
- Chain Reaction
- He Lives in You
- Love Hangover
- Touch Me in the Morning
- Do You Know Where Youre Going To
- It’s My House
- I’m Still Waiting
- A Brand New Day
- Always and Forever
- If You’re Not Gonna Love Me Right (Crenshaw Records version)
- Once in the Morning
- That’s How You Start Over
- Love Me (Japanese quadraphonic edition)
- Ain’t Nothin’ But a Maybe