When You're Good to Mama

[ciroccoj]

Need to get these lyrics out of my head, but they're rather sticky. Hopefully devoting an entire lj entry to them will exorcise them.

Queen Latifah takes crudeness to a higher plane with this song. As Chris said, it's chock full of single-entendres. And Latifah's so... huge. You know when people point out that you don't need to be a Size 2 to be sexy? I don't know what size Queen Latifah is, but it's nowhere near Size 2. Yet she pulls off her size very, very well.


MC: And now ladies and gentlemen -
the Keeper of the keys,
the Countess of the clink,
the mistress of Murderess Row,
Matron Mama Morton!

Mama:
Ask any of the chickies in my pen
They'll tell you I'm the biggest Mutha... 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 ragout -
Spice it up for Mama
She'll get hot for you!

When they pass that basket
Folks contribute to -
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 the 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!!