When You're Good to Mama

Chicago The Musical: When You're Good to Mama

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!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Chicago
• The
• Musical:
• When
• You're
• Good
• to
• Mama
• Queen
• Latifah

[robbspin]

@angiibbbby the whole point of Chicago is Roxie placing every character into her world of Jazz bars. The song is describing Mama's reciprocity in the context of a jazz bar, in which the favors would be sexual favors. The song is about prostitution as a metaphor for receiving bribes for legal services.

[maleficentdiva]

this song reminds me of Ursula's song Poor Unfortunate Souls, from Little Mermaid, it has the same feeling and sound! NO QUESTION! LOVE IT!

[Faeryunknow]

@maitkoiha It's okay =)

[maitkoiha]

@Faeryunknow i do apologize, i didn't see anyone else's comment. i only saw yours. my apologies.

[Faeryunknow]

@maitkoiha OH GOD! Can't you people read? It's like the fourth time... I just reported what another user said a while ago. This is getting irritating. >_<

[maitkoiha]

@Faeryunknow correct, but the song is supposed to sound suggestive.

[GodoFFayt]

She play this part So fawking well LOVE YOU QUEEN<3

[sfaheem98]

@staboymalibu94 you probably know this by know, but if you copy the persons name (Ex.angiibbbby) then go to "view all comments," press "ctrl" and "f" and enter in the name youtube will find the person for you. :)

[christina4859]

@Faeryunknow i just went through all the comments trying to find what angiibbbby said and then after i found it, saw that you had told him what they said -_- fml

[Panicroom89]

If I went to prison I'd want to be a chicky in her pen :D

[Faeryunknow]

@TOHOFIEND54 Just reported what @angiibbbby said a while ago.