mama, mama filipina   i never meant to give you up   i had to move to america   mama, mama filipina   i never meant to give you up   i had to move to america      listen everybody i got somethin to say   about the place where i came from back in the days   how we used to run around outside in the rain   and we didn't have much but we had everything      i'm reminiscing how we used to be   fresh fruits, blue sand but no equality   where the rich stay rich    and the poor stay poor   but if you look inside there's so much more      now it's a simple life   can't forget what it's like   weather so warm you can even swim in the night   but we still want to taste that american life, life   american life      mama, mama filipina   i never meant to give you up   i had to move to america   mama, mama filipina   i never meant to give you up   i had to move to america      i remember how we used to be   growing up in the land of poverty   now you gotta leave home   to feed the family   gotta make it in the land of opportunity       politician corrupting the economy   how they plan to buy the lies of the currencies   and they fail to see the sight and the real beleif    of my philippine island, beaches with white sands   hot springs made from volcanoes erupting    how people make life from nothing to something   filipina mama raising me right    for she still wanna taste that american life      mama, mama filipina   i never meant to give you up   i had to move to america   mama, mama filipina   i never meant to give you up   i had to move to america      i just wanna show you that i missed ya   i just gotta show you that i missed ya   miss ya, miss ya   i just wanna show you that i missed ya   i just gotta show you that i missed ya   miss ya, miss ya   and i never gonna let you goooo..      mama, mama filipina   i never meant to give you up   i had to move to america   mama, mama filipina   i never meant to give you up   i had to move to america   mama, mama filipina   i never meant to give you up   i had to move to americamama, mama filipina   i never meant to give you up   i had to move to america