Mama Look-a Boo-boo ukulele

Mama Look-a Boo-boo

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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.  

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