Song: The Family Tree ~~ 1969 ~~ 3:14
Artist: Patti Austin
LP/CD: Unavailable ~~ United Artists
Composers: Gloria Nissenson~Marcia DeFren

What’s my mama gonna do
When mama hears I’ve chosen you
Sister’s gonna have a fit
I’ll never hear the end of it

They’ll yell and holler through the night
Tell me I’m not doin’ right
But baby, you and me
We don’t need no pedigree

We’ll rock the family tree
We’ll shake it and break it ‘cause we’re gonna make it alone

Gonna be an avalanche, yeah, yeah, yeah
When I tell my cousin Blanche
It wouldn’t matter who you were
‘Cause nobody’s good enough for her

And Uncle Joe, he gonna stroke his chin
And pass around the aspirin
But baby, you and me
Oh, don’t you know that we don’t need no pedigree, no, no

We’re gonna rock that family tree
We’ll shake it and break it ‘cause we’re gonna make it alone

My brother’s gonna hold his head
Grandma gonna straight to bed
My papa’s gonna say, “What are you doin’ now
That boy’s gonna lead you right to ruin”

They’re gonna make an awful fuss
And they’re gonna try to talk me out of us
But baby, you and me
I said we don’t need no pedigree

We’re gonna rock the family tree
We’ll shake it and break it ‘cause we’re gonna make it alone

We’re gonna make it, oh, ho, oh you wait and see
And if they don’t like it, well, we’re gonna have to say bye-bye to the whole family
‘Cause baby, you and me
Oh, we don’t need, we don’t need no pedigree

We’re gonna rock that tree ‘cause
We’ll shake it, break it, we’re gonna make it, woo

Baby, you and me
You know we don’t need a no pedigree

We’re gonna, woo...ooh...uh
We’re gonna shake it, break it, make it, uh
You and me, we don’t need, we don’t need, we don’t need nobody
We’re gonna make it, just you wait and see

Transcribed by: Char Star
Uploaded on: December 18, 2001