# My Mama Told Me... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 28, 2011, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mama-told-me/576312 "2011-03-28T20:55:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mama-told-me/576312/21 "2011-03-28T22:45:15Z")
“What you thought was your daddy was nothing but a… …While you were sitting home alone at age 13, your real daddy was dying Sorry you didn’t see him But I’m glad we talked” -Pearl Jam ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mama-told-me/576312/22 "2011-03-28T23:38:52Z")
“And I turned twenty-one in prison doing life without parole. No-one could steer me right but Mama tried, Mama tried. Mama tried to raise me better, but her pleading, I denied. That leaves only me to blame 'cos Mama tried.” – Merle Haggard ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mama-told-me/576312/23 "2011-03-28T23:43:21Z")
> [@cjepson](#): > > … if I was good-y, that she would buy me a rubber dolly. > > (The Clapping Song) Also quoted by Iggy Pop in the opening of “Loco Mosquito”. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mama-told-me/576312/24 "2011-03-28T23:48:53Z")
Here’s what she said to me: > [@](#): > > Que sera, sera. > Whatever will be, will be. > The future’s not ours to see. > Que sera, sera. > What will be, will be. ---
**Author:** ![Shark\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Shark\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark_Sandwich)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mama-told-me/576312/25 "2011-03-28T23:50:34Z")
Mamma never actually _told_ me anything, but goddamn she played that fuggin’ squeeze box all night long. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Prize](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@Sir\_Prize](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Prize)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mama-told-me/576312/26 "2011-03-28T23:56:22Z")
I heard your mother now she’s going out the door Did she go to work or just go to the store All those things she said, I told you to ignore. Blondie ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mama-told-me/576312/27 "2011-03-29T00:21:33Z")
So you think you know how to wipe your own nose So you think you know how to button your clothes You don’t know shit if you haven’t already guessed You’re just a bump on the log of life 'cuz Mother knows best Richard Thompson [Mother Knows Best](http://lyrics.wikia.com/Richard_Thompson:Mother_Knows_Best) ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mama-told-me/576312/28 "2011-03-29T00:48:14Z")
_she don’t like my kick pleat skirt she don’t like my eyelids painted green_ Joni Mitchell, Let the Wind Carry Me ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mama-told-me/576312/29 "2011-03-29T00:56:05Z")
\*It sounded like somebody else that was talkin’ Askin’, “Mama, what do I do?” She said,“Just be nice to the gentlemen, Fancy” “They’ll be nice to you” She said, “Here’s your chance Fancy, don’t let me down Here’s your one chance Fancy, don’t let me down” Lord, forgive me for what I do, but if you want out Well, it’s up to you, and don’t let me down Now your mama’s gonna move you uptown\* Reba McEntire ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mama-told-me/576312/30 "2011-03-29T00:57:20Z")
Mom was a woman of few words. But Daddy said, “son you’re gonna drive me to drinkin’ of you don’t stop driving that hot rod Lincoln.” mmm ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mama-told-me/576312/31 "2011-03-29T01:01:29Z")
Mama says you only fall in love once ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mama-told-me/576312/32 "2011-03-29T01:02:22Z")
Well, this is just a little Peyton Place and you’re all Harper Valley hypocrites! ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mama-told-me/576312/33 "2011-03-29T01:13:46Z")
Wish I had listened to what Mama said. Then I wouldn’t be here tryin’ to sleep in this cold iron bed. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mama-told-me/576312/34 "2011-03-29T01:15:09Z")
Many of my favorites have been covered but… Metallica Told me when I’s young Son, your life’s an open book Don’t close it 'fore it’s done And of course Pink Floyd Mama’s gonna make all of your nightmares come true Mama’s gonna put all of her fears into you ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mama-told-me/576312/35 "2011-03-29T01:29:35Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Well, this is just a little Peyton Place and you’re all Harper Valley hypocrites! Damn you, **kunilou**! I thought I’d successfully scrubbed that from my brain! As a kid, I used to have the album by Jeannie C. Reilly, and I wore it out. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mama-told-me/576312/36 "2011-03-29T01:30:45Z")
Well, the old folks say that you gotta end your date by 10pm. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mama-told-me/576312/37 "2011-03-29T01:39:20Z")
From **Little Shop of Horrors** : _That’s when my mama said (What did she say?) She said, "My boy, I think someday You’ll find a way To make your natural tendencies pay You’ll be a dentist You have a talent for causin’ things pain Son, be a dentist People will pay you to be inhumane Your temperament’s wrong for the priesthood And teaching would suit you still less Son, be a dentist You’ll be a success_ ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mama-told-me/576312/38 "2011-03-29T01:42:39Z")
Mama told me not to come She said, that ain’t the way to have fun, son That ain’t the way to have fun, son Three Dog Night (Wolfgang Press has a better version) ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mama-told-me/576312/39 "2011-03-29T01:46:27Z")
My mama told me someday you will be a man! You will be the leader of a big ol’ band, many people comin from miles around to hear you play your music when the sun goes down! Maybe someday your name will be in lights sayin’ “Johnny B Goode Tonight!” ---
**Author:** ![KinkiNipponTourist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e9bcb4/32.png) [@KinkiNipponTourist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KinkiNipponTourist)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mama-told-me/576312/40 "2011-03-29T01:52:24Z")
“Child, what’s happened to your appetite? I been cookin’ all mornin’ and you haven’t touched a single bite!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mama-told-me/576312.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mama-told-me/576312.md?page=3)