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Oingo Boingo – Mama (1988) | Track profile | Dork

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Mama

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Mama

Release date: 26th September 1988

From Boingo Alive

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About This Track

"Mama" is a track by Oingo Boingo, from the album Boingo Alive, released 26th September 1988. Full lyrics are available below.

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Lyrics

Mama

[Verse 1]

Mama

Please be good, please be good to me

Mama

Please be good, please be good to me

Mama

Hovering over me at night

Mama

Comfort me; make me feel all right

[Pre-Chorus]

I walk alone and

See what boys should never

See in their lifetime

[Chorus]

I live in the world of spirits

And I talk to the walls

Deliver me from

This little hell

Deliver me from

This little hell

Deliver me from

[Verse 2]

Mama

Come and take, come and take my hand

Mama

Try and see, try to understand

Mama

Looking through, looking through my eyes

Mama

Everywhere, always in disguise

[Pre-Chorus]

I walk alone and

See what boys should never

See in their lifetime

I live in the world of spirits

And I talk to the walls

Deliver me from

This little hell

Deliver me from

This little hell

Deliver me from

[Guitar Solo]

[Verse 3]

Mama

Please be good, please be good to me

Mama

Please be good, please be good to me

[Pre-Chorus]

I walk alone and

See what boys should never see

I hear what boys should never hear

In their lifetime

[Chorus]

I live in the world of spirits

And I talk to the walls

Deliver me from

This little hell

Deliver me from

This little hell

Deliver me from

[Outro]

Mama

Please be good, please be good to me

Mama

Please be good, please be good to me...

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Track details

From Boingo Alive

1988

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Album

Release year

1988

—Winning Side
—Mama
—Country Sweat
—Gratitude
—Violent Love [Boingo Alive]
—My Life
—Elevator Man
—Stay
—Dead Man's Party
—No One Lives Forever
—Sweat
—No Spill Blood
—Goodbye-Goodbye
—Wild Sex (In the Working Class)
—Capitalism
—Only a Lad
—Cinderella Undercover
—Home Again
—It Only Makes Me Laugh [Boingo Alive]
—Grey Matter [Boingo Alive]
—Nothing To Fear (But Fear Itself)
—Return Of The Dead Man 2
—Return Of The Dead Man
—On the Outside
—Who Do You Want to Be
—Help Me
—Dead Or Alive

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Credits

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Writer: Danny Elfman
Producer: Danny Elfman, Steve Bartek