"When You're Good to Mama"
- And now ladies and gentlemen -
- The Keeper of the keys,
- The Countess of the clink,
- The mistress of Murderess Row,
- Matron Mama Morton!
- Ask any of the chickies in my pen,
- They'll tell you I'm the biggest Motha...Hen
- I love them all and all of them love me;
- Because the system works,
- the system called, reciprocity!
- Got a little motto
- Always sees me through..
- When you're good to Mama,
- Mama's good to you!
- There's a lot of favors,
- I'm prepared to do..
- You do one for Mama,
- She'll do one for you!
- They say that life is tit for tat,
- And that's the way I live.
- So I deserve a lot of tat,
- For what I've got to give!
- Don't you know that this hand
- Washes that one too..
- When you're good to Mama,
- Mama's good to you!
- If you want my gravy,
- Pepper my raggoo..
- Spice it up for Mama,
- She'll get hot for you!
- When they pass that basket,
- Folks contribute too..
- You put in for Mama,
- She'll put out for you!
- The folks atop the ladder,
- Are the ones the world adores..
- So boost me up my ladder, kid,
- And I'll boost you up yours!
- Let's all stroke together,
- Like the Princeton crew..
- When you're strokin' Mama
- Mama's strokin' you!
- So what's the one conclusion
- I can bring this number to?
- When you're good to Mama,
- Mama's good to you!!!
