When You're Good To Mama Lyrics - Singles - Chicago Soundtrack

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 mother 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 

Fezzle my Ragu 

Spice it up for Mama 

She'll get hot for you 

When the pass that basket 

Folks contribute to 

You put in for Mama 

She'll put out for you 

The folks that stop 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