The Baby lyrics

My brother said that I was rotten to the core.
I was the youngest child so I got by with more.
I guess she was tired by the time I came along.
She'd laugh until she cried I could do no wrong.
She would always save me because I was her baby.

I worked a factory in Ohio, a shrimp boat in the Bayou,
I drove a truck in Birmingham. I turned 21 in Cincinnati,
I called home to mom and daddy, I said. ''Your boy is now a man.''
She said, ''I don't care if you're 8