If Your Mother Only Knew - Smokey Robinson, The Miracles

Yeah, hey baby

As anyone can plainly see

Your mother don’t want me to have your love

Why don’t she want you with me?

Why don’t she want you with me?

Oh baby, I’m sure your mother means no harm

It’s just that she’s so alarmed

To think of her baby in someone else’s arms

Someone else’s arms

Is it only me, or is the same thing true

With every guy who gives you the eye?

My life depends on what she tells you to do

Oh baby baby, I’m sure that if she knew

How much I really care for you

She’d say, «My son, I’m gonna give her to you

I know your loving is true»

Ooh, baby, I’m sure that if she knew

How much I really care for you

She’d say, «My son, I’m gonna give her to you

I know your loving is true»

If she only knew how much I love you

I’m sure she wouldn’t hesitate

Girl, to let me take you on a date

Ooh hoo, she cares so much for you

I cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha