mama, mama filipina i never meant to give you up i had to move to america mama, mama filipina i never meant to give you up i had to move to america listen everybody i got somethin to say about the place where i came from back in the days how we used to run around outside in the rain and we didn't have much but we had everything i'm reminiscing how we used to be fresh fruits, blue sand but no equality where the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor but if you look inside there's so much more now it's a simple life can't forget what it's like weather so warm you can even swim in the night but we still want to taste that american life, life american life mama, mama filipina i never meant to give you up i had to move to america mama, mama filipina i never meant to give you up i had to move to america i remember how we used to be growing up in the land of poverty now you gotta leave home to feed the family gotta make it in the land of opportunity politician corrupting the economy how they plan to buy the lies of the currencies and they fail to see the sight and the real beleif of my philippine island, beaches with white sands hot springs made from volcanoes erupting how people make life from nothing to something filipina mama raising me right for she still wanna taste that american life mama, mama filipina i never meant to give you up i had to move to america mama, mama filipina i never meant to give you up i had to move to america i just wanna show you that i missed ya i just gotta show you that i missed ya miss ya, miss ya i just wanna show you that i missed ya i just gotta show you that i missed ya miss ya, miss ya and i never gonna let you goooo.. mama, mama filipina i never meant to give you up i had to move to america mama, mama filipina i never meant to give you up i had to move to america mama, mama filipina i never meant to give you up i had to move to americamama, mama filipina i never meant to give you up i had to move to america