You could hardly hope to please me   You haven't got that voice   A man just needs his mother back   A woman's got a choice   A little boy means strife and joy   In sickness and in health   A man's got to have his mother back   A woman's got herself, oh a woman's got herself      Will you help me, will you hold me   Will you miss me when I've gone?   A woman's got to have her mother's boy   So that her man is on his own   Will you excuse my little weakness   Will you tell me, "That's all right"   A woman's got to have her mother's boy   So that her man comes back each night   Oh that man comes home each night