Mother Popcorn

Album: It's A Mother (1969)
Charted: 11
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  • Yeah, yeah,yeah
    Yeah, yeah, yeah
    Popcorn, yeah, yeah, yeah popcorn!

    Some like 'em fat and some like em tall
    Some like 'em short
    Skinny legs and all
    I like 'em tall
    I like 'em proud
    And when they walk
    You know they draw a crowd!
    See, you gotta have a mutha for me
    Yeah, yeah, yeah ah come on!

    A look-a-here!
    There was a time when I was all alone
    I had a secret thought I was gone
    Somebody done me!
    Said now I see
    What you are doin', brother
    To stay ahead of me
    And when I get burndt ha! I use some salve
    And when I want some lovin'
    A mother she got to have
    See, you got to have a mother for me

    Yeah! Popcorn! oh! uh!
    Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
    Yeah! Eeee yeah!
    Do the popcorn hu!
    Ooooooooh!
    Ooooooooh!
    Popcorn! uh!
    Yeah-yeah-yeah

    Look-a-here! ha! good lord!
    Hu! hu!
    Look-a-here!

    Do the popcorn and do the horse
    Show everybody where you at!
    You gotta be boss
    The way you do your little thing
    Step in a small ring
    And jump back baby!
    James brown gonna do his thing!
    Popcorn! yeah! yeah! yeah!

    Sometime sometime I'm feelin' low
    Sometime I'm feelin' low
    I call another brother
    Talkin about Maceo!
    Maceo! blow your horn!
    Don't talk no trash hu!
    Play me some popcorn!
    Maceo! come on! uh!

    Popcorn hu! ah! Writer/s: Alfred James Ellis, James Brown
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn June 8th 1969, "Mother Popcorn (You Got to Have a Mother for Me)" entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #80; six weeks later on July 20th, 1969 it would peak at #11{for 2 weeks} and it stayed on the chart for 12 weeks...
    And on July 27th, 1969 it reached #1 {for 2 weeks} on Billboard's R&B Singles...
    It was directly preceded on the Top 100 by "The Popcorn" {#30 Top 100 & #11 R&B} and then succeeded by "Lowdown Popcorn" {#41 Top 100 and #16 R&B}...
    And later in 1969 on Nov. 2nd his “Let a Man Come In and Do the Popcorn (Part 1)” would peak at #21 on the Top 100 {#2 on the R&B chart}
    'The Godfather of Soul' passed away on Christmas Day of 2006 at the age of 73...
    May he R.I.P.
  • Terry from Wickford, RiAerosmith, of course, did a notable cover of this tune on their "Live:Bootleg" album
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