Look What They've Done To My Song, Ma Lyrics

Hello mama, hello mama it's me
How you feeling mama?
Hm-hmm, that's alright
I've got something I want to talk to you about
If you don't mind
And I ain't mad, mama, no, no no no
Wait a minute, listen mama

Look what they done to my song, ma
Look what they done to my song, ma
The only thing I could do half right and now it's turning out all wrong, mama
Look what they done to my song
Now listen if you please

Wish I could find a good book, I'd like to live in the thing now
Wish I could find a good book, now, hey hey hey
If I could find a real good book, you know I,
I'd never have to come out and look
At what they done to my song

Look what they done to my brain, ma
Look what they done to my brain
Oh mama, it's a shame, you won't believe this, but it's true
They picked it like a chicken bone and I'm-ah, just about to go insane mama
Look what they done to my brain

Now girls, if you don't mind, I'd like to hear that some French

Ils ont change ma chanson, ma
(ooh, not bad)
Ils ont change ma chanson
(uh-huh. Let me see here {franglish gibberish})
Ils ont change ma chanson
(My French must be pretty bad, I better do this in English)

Look what they done to my song, ma
Look what they done to my song ma
Put it in a plastic bag and they turned the bag upside down ma
Look what they done to my song

(scat)
Maybe it's alright
Maybe it's OK, I don't know
But I tell ya
If my tears were money, I'd be a millionaire today
You know, the only thing I get to have right, now it's turning out all wrong, mama
You can't believe what they've done to my song ma, that I wrote myself
They put it in a plastic bag and they turned the bag upside down, mama

Lord, if I could find a good book,
I'd never have to come out and look at, uh
What they trying to do to my brain
It's a shame mama, you see they
They done pick it like a chicken bone
And I'm-ah just about to go insane
I'm insane, insane, mama
I'm going crazy, mama, that's what it is

Lord knows I don't care what they done to my song
No, I don't care about that, but see
The main thing, mama
What they trying to do to me

You see, well they stole everything I had, mama
And they made a million with it, and you know that hurts
But oh, I'm gonna keep on working on the building,
Just like you taught me, mama
Whoah, yes I will, yes I will, yeah

(scat, fade to end)

Ray Charles - Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection

Sep 1997

1. Confession Blues - The Maxin Trio
2. Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand - Ray Charles Trio
3. Kissa Me Baby
4. It Should've Been Me
5. I've Got A Woman
6. What'd I Say Parts l & ll
7. My Baby! (I Love Her, Yes I Do)
8. Sticks And Stones
9. I Wonder
10. Them That Got
11. Ruby
12. Hardhearted Hannah
13. The Danger Zone
14. But On The Other Hand Baby
15. Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye - Ray Charles/Betty Carter
16. At The Club
17. Hid 'Nor Hair
18. Your Cheating Heart
19. Take These Chains From My Heart
20. The Brightest Smile In Town
21. Without Love (There Is Nothing)
22. Ol' Man River
23. Smack Dab In The Middle
24. Makin' Whoopee
25. Without A Song (Parts 1 & 2)
26. The Cincinnati Kid
27. I Chose To Sing The Blues
28. Together Again
29. Yesterday
30. Understanding
31. Drifting Blues
32. In The Heat Of The Night
33. Gee, Baby Ain't I Good To You
34. I Didn't Know What Time It Was
35. If It Wasn't For Bad Luck - Ray Charles/Jimmy Lewis
36. We Can Make It
37. Con't Change On Me
38. Feel So Bad
39. Look What They've Done To My Song, Ma
40. Spirit In The Dark (Reprise) - Ray CharlesAretha Franklin
41. Booty Butt
42. I Can Make It Thru The Days (But Oh Those Lonely..
43. America The Beautiful/ (Hidden Track)Coca Cola Commercial
44. Living For The City
45. Till There Was You
46. How Long Has This Been Going On
47. The Jealous Kind
48. Is There Anyone Out There?
49. Don't You Love Me Anymore?
50. One Of These Days
51. Seven Spanish Angels - Ray Charles/Willie Nelson
52. We Didn't See A Thing - Ray Charles/George Jones
53. Two Old Cats Like Us - Ray Charles/Hank Williams, Jr.
54. Shake Your Tallfeather - Ray Charles/The Blues Brothers
55. I'll Be Good To You - Quincy Jones
56. That's Where It's At - Lou Rawls/Ray Charles
57. Still Crazy After All These Years/ (Hidden Track)Olympia Beer Commercial