TELL MAMA Yeah! Yeah! Whoa, yeah! Thought you had found yourself a good girl - one who would love you and give you the world. Then you find, babe, that you've been misused. Come to me, honey. I'll do what you choose. I want you to (chorus) tell Mama. all about it. Tell Mama what you need. Tell your Mama, babe, what you want. Tell your Mama, dear, what you need, what you want, what you need, what you want, yeah, and I'll make everything alright. That girl you had didn't have no sense, babe. Wasn't worth all the time that you spent. That same man throwed you outdoors I just heard that he quartered your clothes. Hey! (chorus) Daddy, I swear! That girl you had didn't have no sense, dear. Wasn't worth all the time that you spent. Hey, that same man that throwed you outdoors I just heard that he stole all your clothes. Hey! Now tell Mama all about it. Tell Mama what you need. Tell your Mama, babe, what you want. Tell your Mama, babe, what you want, what you need, what you want, what you need. Anything I can do Anything I can do for you, babe, Tell Mama, babe Tell Mama, babe " " " Hey! Every time you get lonely lonely lonely every time you get lonely sometime every time you get lonely lonely lonely every time you get lonely sometime everybody gets...sometime-time " " Well I tell you, dear, if you're a woman I can only assume that you already know what you want. If you're lookin'...if you're lonely... if you're lookin'...if you're lonely... well I know what you're lookin' for. Man I figured it out at 14 years old. And I been lookin' for it ever since, too. However, if you happen to be a very young man, preferably a young man, I tell you what you need, man. When you wake up,man...it doesn't feel right, nothin' feels right, your head don't feel right, I tell you what you need. You need a sweet lovin' mama, babe... sweet talkin' mama, babe. You need a sweet lovin' mama, babe. You need someone to listen to you... someone to talk to you... someone to hear you... someone to want you... someone to need you... someone to use you... someone to hold you... want it, talk, listen, hold you, want you, need you, hold you, need you, want you, need you, hold you want you mama mama mama mama, babe, hey now mama mama mama mama mama, babe, lord mama mama mama mama mama, babe, hey mama mama mama mama mama, babe, Tell Mama all about it. Tell Mama all about it. What you need, what you want, what you need, what you want. Anything I can do, anything,baby, I can do for you. Tell your Mama, babe oh Mama, babe oh Mama, babe " " " And I'll make everything alright!