And now ladies and gentlemen -   the Keeper of the keys,    the Countess of the clink,   the mistress of Murderers Row,   Matron Mama Morton!      Ask any of the chickies in my pen    They'll tell you I'm the biggest Mutha. . . .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 ragu -    Spice it up for Mama    She'll get hot for you!       When they pass that basket    Folks conribute to -    You put in for Mama   She'll put out for you!       The folks a top 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!!