Got To See If I Can’t Get Mommy (To Come Back Home)

[Intro]

[Verse 1: Jimmy Ruffin]
Before it was ripe
Way before it was time
To pick the grapes from the vine
Love that poured from my heart made me see

[Verse 2: David Ruffin]
So, I borrowed my mother's wedding bang
Found a shack and a piece of land
Oh, Lord, what else could make my life complete?

[Bridge: Jimmy Ruffin]
Afraid of everybody told, each baby boy
No tears or streams of awful pain
Back to the fields before she was healed
And never, never complained

[Refrain]
I can't go through life in misery alone
I gotta go see if I can't get your momma' to come back home

[Spoken Interlude]
Little Susie, come here
Now, here's a chance for you to show daddy what a big girl you can be
Now here's what I want you to do
I want you to take good care of little Davy, and the twins
And if I don't get back tonight, and bounce 'em on my knee
Oh, Lord, how do you make a little boy a man?
When he's only three

[Verse 3: David Ruffin]
A house divided, broken in two
Can't stand the test when the wind blows through
Oh, Lord, I can't hold it together by myself

[Verse 4: Both]
So I headed for town, where I thought she'd be
Prayed the right word would come to me
Tryin' to make her see we needed her

[Bridge]
Now, I got to the ridge
There was a crowd on the bridge
Where she fell to a watery grave
Somebody said, "We did all we could but she couldn't be saved"

[Refrain]
Ooh, I can remember the words I told Susie when I left her all alone:
"Gotta go see if I can't get your momma' to come back home"

[Outro]
See if I can't get your momma' to come back home
Gotta go see if I can't get your momma' to come back home (That's all that we need)
Gotta see if I can't get your momma' to come back home
(I gotta, gotta, gotta) Go see if I can't get your momma to come back home...