Mama Sang Bass
Ray Stevens

When I was kid in my home town


People would come from miles around


Just to get a job at the Pharmaceutical factory


Making strong medicines of all descriptions


Now every time I get a new prescription


It brings a dose of old memories back to me


Now daddy was assigned to birth control pills


Breathing that air that was hormone filled


And mama made body building steroids all day long


And when Sundays came they sang in the choir


And even the angels had to admire


make the hair stand up when they sang a song


Mama sang bass, daddy sang tenor


You wouldn't think she had it in her


But her voice got deeper and deeper every week


Daddy sang tenor, mama sang bass


She had strength and he had grace


It's kind of like they traded places so to speak




Well the preacher said folks, I recognize your talents


But you see this choir 's out of balance


And the bass sounds better when it's coming from the


other side


Well mama's patience never was the greatest


And daddy wouldn't think of sitting with the ladies


So the only thing to do was give their hormones a ride


Now the factory was a working on this DNA


that programs molecules in such a way



That anything wrong can sometimes be reversed


So they made um up a shot


put it in their veins


Waited all week till Sunday came


To see if that injection was a blessing or a curse




The media coverage was so intense


it made the OJ trial seem like a non event


The church was filled up to the brim


Just to hear that opening hymn


Then...... Mama sang.... bass.....


Daddy sang tenor..........


She got stronger


He got thinner


That's what you get


for trying to hard to please


Daddy sang tenor


Mama sang bass


He makes dinner


while she shaves her face


Now what else do you want to know


about the birds and the bees




You know I got a powerful urge to scratch and spit


I loveeee to watch baseball


baseball, well mama you used to love to knit


what happened to that?


knit! let's go to the wrestling matches


wrestling, let's arm wrestle


Oh no!


hey, you ait got any red man on ya do ya


red man!


I know, let's go cow tippin


Cow tippin!


listen ma, you just about wore ole bossy out


Quite, you might wake her up


Rock a-bye bossy


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