Mama (Stripped Down Version) - Empire Cast/Jussie Smollett

Written by：Rodney Jerkins/Marvin "Tony" Hemmings/Charles Hilton, Jr./Diarra Wilkerson

Listen mama so many words to describe you

Strong would be an understatement warrior would

Soldier so much better cause you've been fighting

She was just turning 16 daddy left her out in the cold street

He wasn't having it he found all the cents underneath her mattress

Then suddenly her daddy abandoned her but still she sees her father

There in Lucious eyes

Mama oh mama for everything you've been through

There's nothing that I won't do for you

Mama oh mama see you deserve the best of what this world

Can offer to you

Mama I love you mama mama mama I do love you

Mama I love you mama mama

In love with the thought of becoming queen

She never told she did seventeen

She gave it all so one selfish thieve and she did it all just

For loyalty that's my mama

I never knew someone to sacrifice everything for love

Even gave up their whole live

Oh mama for everything you've been through nothing

That I won't do for you

Ooh mama see you deserve the best of what this world

Can offer

Your the reason for my being here mama I'm so grateful

Yes I am I'm gone be the one to guide your heart

Although Lucious raised us you still made us from the

Suuuuuuuuun

Mama oh mama for everything you've been through

There's nothing that I wouldn't do for you

Oh mama see you deserve the best of what this world

Can offer to you