It Took An Older Woman (To Make A Man Out Of Me)

by Bob Malone
From “The Darkest Part Of The Night” (1996)

My old lady really is an old lady
But she’s so well preserved
It’s taken me a long, long time to teach me everything she knows
But I’ve been so willing to learn
Now I don’t chase young girls no more
That’s no longer what I’m looking for
It took an older woman to make a man out of me…

I can’t lie when I look her in the eye
‘Cause she’s heard all the lines
And she won’t stand for no slack in the sack
I got to keep her satisfied
My momma’s had her cradle robbed and man, is she pissed
But it wasn’t just her caught unprepared for this
I’m not the way I used to be
It took an older woman to make a man out of me…

Now the young ones were fun, but since I found me a woman
They’re just a disappointing memory
They haven’t put in the time that puts a woman in her prime
It takes experience to bring a man to his knees
Now boys you ain’t been down and dirty
‘Till you’ve made it with a woman on the dark side of thirty
I was blind but now I see
It took an older woman to make a man out of me…