Mama always told me
be careful who you love.
and be careful what you say because the lie becomes the truth.
At other times…
mother told me, yeah she told me,
there’d be girls like you.
She also told me stay away,
you never know what you’ll catch.
My mama said that your life is a gift
and my mama said there’s much weight you will lift
and my mama said leave those bad boys alone
and my mama said be home before the dawn
and my mama said you can be rich or poor
but my mama said you can be big or small!
But i’m always on the run!
My mama, she done told me
Papa done told me too
“Son, that gal you’re fooling with
She ain’t no good for you”
(But that’s all right, mama)
Called your mama, 'bout three or four nights ago
Called your mama, 'bout three or four nights ago
Your mama said “Son, don’t call my daughter no more.”
Eminem, “My Dad’s Gone Crazy:”
It’s like my mother always told me
rana rana rana rana rana
and codeine and goddamit, you little motherfucker
If you ain’t got nothin’ nice to say then don’t say nothin’
(followed by several seconds of silence)
Later I tried to call you
Your mama told me you weren’t there
She told me don’t bother to call again
Unless I cut off all my hair
I get so tired of sneakin’ around
Just to get to your back door
I crawled past the garbage and
Your mama jumped out, screamin’
“Don’t come back no more”
Frank Zappa- My guitar wants to kill your mamma.
And mama used to say: “Take your time young man”
And mama used to say: “Don’t you rush to get old”
And mama used to say: “Take it in your stride”
And mama used to say: “Live your life, Live your life, Live your life, oh…!”
Thank you, Junior Giscombe, wherever you are…
Reba covered it. It was written by the oh so sultry Bobbie Gentry, who also wrote Ode to Billie Joe.
I was her sunshine, her only sunshine…
Oh…mama songs…
“mama say, mama sah, ma-ma cu-sah”
<slinks away>
Otherwise, all that springs to mind immediately is the Genesis song, but I can’t remember any lyrics except ‘MAMA!!’ so I don’t know if she SAID anything or just got sang at really dramatically.
Oh, my mama loves me, she loves me
She get down on her knees and hugs me, oh she loves me like a rock
She rocks me like the Rock of Ages
She love me, love me, love me, love me
~Paul Simon
I tried to tell my mama, but she told me “This is one for your dad”
It’s taken this long to mention this one?
You can’t hurry love.
No, you’ll just have to wait.
Love don’t come easy,
it’s a game of give and take.
Sylvia’s mother says Sylvia’s busy, too busy to come to the phone…
My momma she once told me “now don’tcha love you any man
Just take what they may give you and give out what you can
And you can sing in the sunshine you’ll laugh every day you can sing in the sunshine, and then be on your way.”
Of course “my mother told me to pick the very best one, peach pear apple plum and you are not IT”
Since Tangent paved the way for musical theatre contributions, from Footloose:
Mama says don’t use a toaster while standing in the shower
Now who can argue with that
Mama says don’t hold your breath for longer than an hour
The woman knows where it’s at
…
Mama says don’t buy a chandelier 'less you got a ceiling
I don’t know what that’s about
Mama says don’t chew on tinfoil unless you like that feeling
Somehow she figured that out
well, I don’t care what mama don’t allow
gonna play my guitar anyhow
but mama don’t allow no guitar playin’ round here
Ah, my mama said the time would come
When I would find myself in love with you
Paul McCartney, Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five
My mama had some great advice, so I put it in the words of this song. I can still hear the lady saying:
“Boy, I see you sitting out there all alone
Crying your eyes out cos the woman you love is gone.
There’s gonna be a whole lotta trouble in your life
But listen to me, get up off your knees, cos only the strong survive.”
Last night I heard my Mama singing this song:
Mama always told me not to look into the sights of the sun
But, mama, that’s where the fun is
See post #20