Harry Belafonte Mama Look A Boo Boo Lyrics

Mama Look A Boo Boo Lyrics

I wonder why nobody don't like me

 Or is it the fact that I'm ugly?

 I wonder why nobody don't like me

 Or is it the fact that I'm ugly?

 

 I leave my whole house and home

 My children don't want me no more

 Bad talk inside de house dey bring

 And when I talk they start to sing:

 

 Mama, look a boo-boo they shout

 Their mother tell them shut up your mout' 

 That is your daddy, oh, no

 My daddy can't be ugly so

 

 Shut your mout', Go away

 Mama, look at boo-boo dey 

 Shut your mout', Go away

 Mama, look at boo-boo dey 

 

 I couldn't even digest me supper

 Due to the children's behavior

 John (Yes, pa)-come here a moment

 Bring de belt, you're much too impudent

 John says it's James who started first

 James tells the story in reverse

 I drag my belt from off me waist

 You should hear them screamin' round de place

 

 Mama, look at boo-boo they shout

 Their mother tell them shut up your mout'

 That is your daddy, oh, no

 My daddy can't be ugly so

 

 Shut your mout', Go away

 Mama, look at boo-boo dey (uh)

 Shut your mout', Go away

 Mama, look at boo-boo dey (uh)

 

 So I began to question the mother

 These children ain't got no behavior

 So I began to question the mother

 These children ain't got no behavior

 

 They're playing with you my wife declared

 You should be proud of them, my dear

 These children were taught too bloomin' slack

 That ain't no kind of joke to crack

 

 Mama, look at boo-boo they shout

 Their mother tell them shut up your mout' 

 That is your daddy, oh, no

 My daddy can't be ugly so

 

 Shut your mout', Go away

 Mama, look at boo-boo dey (uh)

 Shut your mout', Go away

 Mama, look at boo-boo dey (uh)

 Shut your mout', Go away