She's as sweet as the honey in the tummy of a big old grizzly bear He had the grizzly mean temper of the tummy of a honey-less bear Though she's a delicate flower, she had the power to make a man of the beast Mama made a man out of Daddy Daddy made a man out of me I would've whooped like the whooping crane Whooped by the whooping cane After whipping up some trouble around town Mama, in her wisdom, talked my Daddy into whooping me With his hand and put the whooping cane down Though there was tenderness there in that old grizzly bear She just brought it out for the whole world to see Mama made a man out of Daddy Daddy made a man out of me Yeah, Mama made a man out of Daddy Daddy made a man out of me