You can't tell every book by its cover Every girl that you meet won't treat you like your mother. They'll say this is real Turn around and call you a heel, And hand you your hat Mother wouldn't do that. Last night I caught my baby with an other. I said, now honey, you aint treating me like my mother. You've been all up and down, this swinging old town with some other cat. Mother wouldn't do that. Now this thing that we have got Must work two ways. And if things don't change I'm a leavin' some of these days Well woman your so mean, that you take all of the lean and leave me the fat. Mother wouldn't do that.