“My Mama talked-a to me, tried to tell me how to live.
But I don’t listen to her cause my head’s like a sieve.”
- Cheech and Chong’s “Earache My Eye” featuring Alice Bowie
“All About That Bass” by Megan Trainor
Does “Papa Was a Rolling Stone” count?
Mama wasn’t really dispensing advice, but she was setting her son straight about the kind of man his father was.
Johnny B. Goode’s mama gave him some good career counseling.
“Mama always told me not to look into the eyes of the sun
But mama, that’s where the fun is…”
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band.
“Blinded By The Light”
“Ah want tae be a punk rocker but ma mammy wullny let me,
She says if ah’m a punk she’ll throw me oot and hit me”
Walkaway Joe by Trisha Yearwood
Mama told her baby girl take it real slow
Girl told her momma hey I really gotta go
He’s waiting in the car
Mama said girl you won’t get far
How appropriate that I saw this thread after reading a post in another thread about Andy Summers…
*Well I hear my mother calling,
But I don’t need her as a friend.
Well every girl I go out with
Becomes my mother in the end.
Oh, Oh mother
Oh mother dear please listen
And don’t devour me.
Oh mother dear please listen
Don’t devour me.*
Mother, The Police
Mama Leone left a note on the door, saying “sonny, move out to the country.”
Eat a lot, sleep a lot
Brush 'em like crazy
Run a lot, do a lot
Never be lazy
Another notable exception would be “Mother” by Danzig:
“Mother…tell your children not to look my way. Tell your children not to hear my words…what they mean, what they say.”
And so on through the lyrics.
Killdozer’s maternal epiphany in “Hamburger Martyr”:
“For I think now I finally understand what mama meant to me,
When she would say that I was one of God’s special ones…”
kills me that I can’t find a link for this. The way it started was nice.
“I Hope You Dance” by Lee Ann Womack. It sure sounds like advice from a mother to her son, but I could be misreading.