When You're Good to Mama

MASTER OF CEREMONIES:
 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 lot of 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,
 Pepper my ragout.
 Spice it up for Mama,
 She'll get hot for you.
 When they pass that basket,
 Folks contribute to
 You put in for Mama,
 She'll put out for you.
 The folks atop 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 stroke 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!