Mama Look-A Boo-Boo (Cifras)

Mama Look A-Boo-Boo:Harry Belafonte.

#11 on Pop charts on RCA Records in 1956.



INTRO: F# Bb F# Bb



#1.

F#             B               C#  F#

I wonder why nobody don't like me..or is it 

    B             C#

the fact that I'm ugly?

F#             B               C#  F#

I wonder why nobody don't like me..or is it 

    B             C#

the fact that I'm ugly?



#2.

F#         C#              F#

I leave my whole house and home..my children 

C#               F#

don't want me no more.

           C#                F#

Bad talk inside de house dey bring..and when I 

C#                 F#

talk they start to sing..



CHORUS:

F#

Mama, look a-boo-boo!! they shout..their mother 

G#m

tell them shut up your mouth.

             F#                G#m         C#       F#

That is your daddy..oh, no..my daddy can't be ugly, so!!

F#                                     G#m     C#

Shut your mouth, go away..Mama, look a-boo-boo dey.

F#                                     G#m     F#

Shut your mouth, go away..Mama, look a-boo-boo dey.



#2.

F#                B       C#      F#         B

I couldn't even digest me supper..due to the children's 

  F#

behavior.

F#               B           C#      F#

John..(yes, pa)..come here a moment..bring de belt, you're 

B          C#

much too impudent.

F#              C#                F#

John says, it's James who started first..James tells the 

C#         F#

story in reverse.

          C#               F#

I drag my belt from off me waist..you should hear them 

C#                 F#

screamin' round de place.



CHORUS:

F#

Mama, look a-boo-boo!! they shout..their mother 

G#m

tell them shut up your mouth.

             F#                G#m         C#       F#

That is your daddy..oh, no..my daddy can't be ugly, so!!

F#                                     G#m     C#

Shut your mouth, go away..Mama, look a-boo-boo dey.

F#                                     G#m     C#

Shut your mouth, go away..Mama, look a-boo-boo dey.



#3.

F#             B            C#      F#

So, I began to question the mother..these children ain't 

B        C#

got no behavior.

F#             B            C#      F#

So, I began to question the mother..these children ain't 

B        C#

got no behavior.



#4.

F#                     C#             F#

They're making fun, my wife declared..you should be 

C#                F#

proud of them, my dear!!

F#                  C#                  F#

These children were taught too bloomin' slack..that ain't 

   C#              F#

no kind of joke to crack!!



CHORUS:

F#

Mama, look a-boo-boo!! they shout..their mother 

G#m

tell them shut up your mouth.

             F#                G#m         C#       F#

That is your daddy..oh, no..my daddy can't be ugly, so!!

F#                                     G#m     C#

Shut your mouth, go away..Mama, look a-boo-boo dey.

F#                                     G#m     C#

Shut your mouth, go away..Mama, look a-boo-boo dey.



OUTRO:

F#                                     G#m     C#

Shut your mouth, go away..Mama, look a-boo-boo dey.

F#                                     G#m     C#

Shut your mouth, go away..Mama, look a-boo-boo dey.

F#                                     G#m     C#

Shut your mouth, go away..Mama, look a-boo-boo dey.

F#                                     G#m     C#

Shut your mouth, go away..Mama, look a-boo-boo dey.

F#                                     G#m     C#

Shut your mouth, go away..Mama, look a-boo-boo dey.

F#                                     G#m     C#

Shut your mouth, go away..Mama, look a-boo-boo dey..(Fade.)





A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.