The Man That Turned My Mama On

"The Man That Turned My Mama On" is a song written by Ed Bruce, and recorded by American country music artist Tanya Tucker. It was released in June 1974 as the second single from the album Would You Lay with Me (In a Field of Stone). The song reached #4 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.

Content

The song speaks of the narrator's wish that she could have known more about her father, a traveling salesman who met her mother and quickly married her (the lyrics indicate that the quick marriage was more of an elopement than a shotgun marriage, since "Grandma Kate" – the narrator's grandmother who raised her mother to be a proper lady – likely would not have approved of the relationship).

Unlike other songs where the father is absent due to abandonment, in this song the father died of illness when she was only five.

Chart performance

Chart (1974)	Peak position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)	4
US Billboard Hot 100	86
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	10

Other versions

Songwriter Ed Bruce recorded the song for his own 1978 album "Cowboys and Dreamers"; released as a single, it made number 70 on the country charts.

References

Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 357.
"Tanya Tucker Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
"Tanya Tucker Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.

v t e Tanya Tucker singles
Albums Singles Songs
1970s	"Delta Dawn" "Love's the Answer"/"The Jamestown Ferry" "What's Your Mama's Name" "Blood Red and Goin' Down" "Would You Lay with Me (In a Field of Stone)" "The Man That Turned My Mama On" "I Believe the South Is Gonna Rise Again" "Lizzie and the Rainman" "Spring" "San Antonio Stroll" "Greener Than the Grass (We Laid On)" "Don't Believe My Heart Can Stand Another You" "You've Got Me to Hold On To" "Here's Some Love" "Ridin' Rainbows" "It's a Cowboy Lovin' Night" "You Are So Beautiful" "Dancing the Night Away" "Not Fade Away"/"Texas (When I Die)" "I'm the Singer, You're the Song" "Lay Back in the Arms of Someone"
1980s	"Pecos Promenade" "Dream Lover" (with Glen Campbell) "Can I See You Tonight" "Love Knows We Tried" "Should I Do It" "Feel Right" "Baby I'm Yours" "One Love at a Time" "Just Another Love" "I'll Come Back as Another Woman" "It's Only Over for You" "Love Me Like You Used To" "I Won't Take Less Than Your Love" (with Paul Davis and Paul Overstreet) "If It Don't Come Easy" "Strong Enough to Bend" "Highway Robbery" "Call on Me" "Daddy and Home" "My Arms Stay Open All Night"
1990s	"Walking Shoes" "Don't Go Out" (with T. Graham Brown) "It Won't Be Me" "Oh What It Did to Me" "Down to My Last Teardrop" "(Without You) What Do I Do with Me" "Some Kind of Trouble" "If Your Heart Ain't Busy Tonight" "Two Sparrows in a Hurricane" "It's a Little Too Late" "Tell Me About It" (with Delbert McClinton) "Soon" "We Don't Have to Do This" "Hangin' In" "You Just Watch Me" "Between the Two of Them" "Find Out What's Happenin'" "Little Things"
2000s-2020s	"A Memory Like I'm Gonna Be" "Love's Gonna Live Here" (with Jim Lauderdale) "Bring My Flowers Now" "The House That Built Me" "Ready as I'll Never Be"
Featured singles	"Romeo" (credited as Dolly Parton and Friends) "You Ain't Woman Enough" (with Loretta Lynn)

v t e Ed Bruce
Albums	If I Could Just Go Home (1968) Ed Bruce (1976) Ed Bruce (1980) One to One (1981) I Write It Down (1982) You're Not Leavin' Here Tonight (1983) Homecoming (1984) Night Things (1986)
Singles	"Last Train to Clarksville" "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" "Texas (When I Die)" "The Man That Turned My Mama On" "Girls, Women and Ladies" "(When You Fall in Love) Everything's a Waltz" "You're the Best Break This Old Heart Ever Had" "Love's Found You and Me" "Ever, Never Lovin' You" "My First Taste of Texas" "After All" "You Turn Me On (Like a Radio)" "Nights"
Related topics	Discography Trey Bruce Lynn Anderson Bret Maverick Fire Down Below

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