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When You re Good To Mama lyrics

And now ladies and gentlemen -
The Keeper of the keys,
The Countess of the clink,
The mistress of Murderers Row,
Matron Mama Morton!

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 ragu -
Spice it up for Mama
She ll get hot for you!

When they pass that basket
Folks conribute to -
You put in for Mama
She ll put out for you!

The folks a top 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!!
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