It was twenty-five years ago when I began my life The second child of a woman who tried hard to raise us right   She married a man when I was just a babe   Who treated me just like his own even giving me his name   I never knew my father I only knew his name   I never knew the way he moved   How he talked or what he said   Now I'm grown and mama says "You're like your daddy just the same"               Sometimes I got to wondering about this man I never knew When I'd find myself into something just the way he used to do   Heard stories all my life of how he loved to sing   And how he would take apart and fix most anything  I never knew my father I only knew his name   I never knew the way he moved   How he talked or what he said   Now I'm grown and mama says "You're like your daddy just the same" I can't say that I don't care that he died before I was born I get to asking why he did and I'll probably ask some more   My life's been good and I can't say that I've had it bad   But now I'm seeing years that my dad never had    I never knew my father I only knew his name   I never knew the way he moved   How he talked or what he said   Now I'm grown and my mama says "You're like your daddy just the same"