Top Songs By Meg Johnson
Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Meg Johnson
Vocals
Ute Lemper
Speaker
Alistair David
Speaker
Chicago Orchestra (1996)
Performer
Gareth Valentine
Conductor
Walter Bobbie
Conductor
Tom Wakeley
Conductor
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
John Kander
Composer
Fred Ebb
Lyrics
Michael Gibson
Orchestrator
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Thomas Z. Shepard
Producer
Mary Jo Little
Additional Producer
Mike Ross-Trevor
Recording Engineer
Dave Clarke
Assistant Engineer
Simon Changer
Assistant Engineer
Jason Westbrook
Assistant Engineer
Rob Bowman
Additional Producer
Lyrics
(And now Ladies and Gentlemen
The keeper of the keys
The countess of the clink
The mistress of murderer's row
Matron Mama Morton)
Ask any of the chickies in my pen
They'll tell you I'm the biggest mutha hen
I love them 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 lotta 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 Ragu
Spice it up for Mama
She'll get hot for you
When they pass that basket
Folks contribute to
You put 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 srtoke 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
Aww Yeah!
Writer(s): Fred Ebb, John Kander
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