Men are men in Missouri Men are men up in Maine But in Chattanooga I met one sweet thing Easy to want But harder to get Is this lovin' baby But I'll keep taunting him, always a-haunting him Till I get him, maybe Chattanooga man If you will, you can Make me happy night and day Drive my weary blues away Please don't maybe me Treat me lovingly Gimme a kiss, turn on the bliss Don't let mama beg like this I've been craving all my life, it seems For a certain kind of affection That's the way my disposition leans You can fill the bill to perfection Nobody else in old Tennessee Ever could make a fool out of me Like my sugar Chattanooga man Gals in Tennessee chase him Follow him all around And sometimes they crave him From another town Fools with them all But how he would stall When they speak of marriage He's not the kind of man No woman ever can make him push her carriage Chattanooga man If you will, you can Make me happy night and day Drive my weary blues away Please don't maybe me Treat me lovingly Gimme a kiss, turn on the bliss Don't let mama beg like this I've been craving all my life, it seems For a certain kind of affection That's the way my disposition leans You can fill the bill to perfection Chickens will cluck, and roosters will crow But how to love don't nobody know Like my sugar Chattanooga man