Chicago Soundtrack When You`re Good To Mama Lyrics

When You`re Good To Mama Lyrics

[MATRON]

 Ask any of the chickies in my pen

 They'll tell you I'm the biggest mother hen

 I love 'em 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

 Folk contribut to

 You out in for Mama

 She'll put out for you

 

 The folks atop 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!