If you’ve got nothing good to say
Don’t say nothing at all
That’s what my mama she used to tell me
Way back when I was small
Well we didn’t listen much
In fact we didn’t listen at all
If there was a joker in the crowd
We’d laugh real loud or we wouldn’t laugh at all
Billy boy was very good friend of mine
Way back before he started drinking too much wine
Well everybody said he’d go insane
We all saw it coming one day
I just hope he isn’t feeling too much pain
I wonder now could it have been the night
That we told him that his Mama died
And he put on his cowboy hat and he began to dance
He was feeling fine he started drinking wine
And that began the whole romance
If you’ve got nothing good to say
Don’t say nothing at all
That’s what my mama she used to tell me
Way back when I was small
Well we didn’t listen much
In fact we didn’t listen at all
If there was a joker in the crowd
We’d laugh real loud or we wouldn’t laugh at all
I girl I used to know let’s say her name was Claire
She had big brown eyes she had dark black silky hair
Everything it was going fine until I pissed her off one night
I started saying things I know just weren’t right
The next day I told all my friends she was a loser in the end
Although I knew it was a lie
I could not bring myself to tell the truth
I started singing my song now Claire is gone
And I blamed it on my youth
If you’ve got nothing good to say
Don’t say nothing at all
That’s what my mama she used to tell me
Way back when I was small
Well we didn’t listen much
In fact we didn’t listen at all
If there was a joker in the crowd
We’d laugh real loud or we wouldn’t laugh at all
