Harry Belafonte - Mama Look a Boo Boo

      
 
 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.