[MATRON]
Ask any of the chickies in my pen
They'll tell you I'm the biggest mother hen
I love 'em 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
Folk contribut to
You out 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!
Ask any of the chickies in my pen
They'll tell you I'm the biggest mother hen
I love 'em 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
Folk contribut to
You out 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!
[VELMA]
While truckin' down the road of life, although all hope seems gone,
I just move on.
[ROXIE]
When I can't find a single star to hang my wish upon, I just move on,
I move on.
[VELMA]
I run so fast, a shotgun blast can hurt me not one bit.
[ROXIE]
I'm on my toes cause heaven knows a moving target's hard to hit.
[VELMA & ROXIE]
So as we play in life's ballet, we're not the dying swans, we just move on,
we move on.
[ROXIE]
Just when it seems we're out of dreams, and things have got us down.
[VELMA]
We don't despair, we don't go there, we hang our bonnets out of town.
[VELMA & ROXIE]
So there's no doubt we're well cut out to run life's marathon, we just move on,
we just move on.
So fleet of foot, we can't stay put, we just move on.
Yes, we move on!
While truckin' down the road of life, although all hope seems gone,
I just move on.
[ROXIE]
When I can't find a single star to hang my wish upon, I just move on,
I move on.
[VELMA]
I run so fast, a shotgun blast can hurt me not one bit.
[ROXIE]
I'm on my toes cause heaven knows a moving target's hard to hit.
[VELMA & ROXIE]
So as we play in life's ballet, we're not the dying swans, we just move on,
we move on.
[ROXIE]
Just when it seems we're out of dreams, and things have got us down.
[VELMA]
We don't despair, we don't go there, we hang our bonnets out of town.
[VELMA & ROXIE]
So there's no doubt we're well cut out to run life's marathon, we just move on,
we just move on.
So fleet of foot, we can't stay put, we just move on.
Yes, we move on!
