Etta James - Tell Mama Lyrics
You thought you had found a good girl,
One to love you and give you the world
Now you find that you been misused,
Talk to me, I'll do what you choose.
Tell Mama, all about it, tell Mama, what you need
Tell Mama, what you want and I'll make everything all right
That girl you had didn't have no sense,
She wasn't worth all the time you spent
She had another man throw you outdoors,
Now the same man is wearing your clothes.
Tell Mama, all about it, tell Mama, what you need
Tell Mama, what you want and I'll make everything all right
She would embarrass you anywhere,
She let everybody know she didn't care
Give me a chance I been begging you
I just wanna take care of you.
I want you to
Tell Mama, all about it, tell Mama, what you need
Tell Mama, what you want, tell Mama
What you want right now, tell me
Tell your Mam... [fade]
Tell your Mama, what you got to have
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Etta James Tell Mama Comments
The master copies of all her recordings destroyed in UMG music vault fire at Universal studios on 01 June 2008.
Monster In Law brought me here... Lmao
Wuanderful, maravillosa Etta James!!
Love this woman, brilliant voice, cracking songs
Etta>Aretha
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
YEP...... ALRIGHT!!!!
Smiling
¿Somebody listening this at 2019?
Yessssss!
yes, WVKR college radio has a blues show
😘🎶🎵
She’s my spirit human 🥰
Yeah, Baby!
Classic bring me so much memories!
Studio backing by the Swampers. The funkiest white boys ever!
what a lost!Explendid voice!
2019 still here
Love the horns in this. Recorded at Rick Halls Fame studio im Muscle Shoals rather than Chess Chicago where she generally recorded!
I have good memories with this song
She hated singing this song, but it’s so amazing..
What’s wrong baby? 😎🥃💋
Produced in Muscle Shoals rather than in CHICAGO produced at RICK HALL,s FAME SUDIO
How Could The "Blues Brothers" have overlooked this?
They had Aretha!
Wonderful Etta
A versão da janis Joplin ficou ficou muito boa também
Goddess voice!!!
REMEMBERING JAMESETTA HAWKINS "ETTA JAMES"
(JANUARY 25, 1938 - JANUARY 20, 2012) [01/25/2019]
This song makes me wanna get up and move! Fuck yes!
when I was young in middle school this song came out, it reminds me of the Battle of the Bands every year at Garfield Park I had a friend in the New Breed Band he played sax and another that played piano
Music makes us better.
Immortal!
Love it 😀👍✌️
Etta is my Queen
Etta James recorded this in muscle Shoals Alabama back in the late 60s. Great vocal.
At FAME Recording Studio...
Billy Hanback 👍
Etta saudades que não passa só aumenta. ...
The pick me up song. Rebound girl on the tumultuous dead end marriage.
I remember playing this on the southside of Chicago on wvon radio grown folks music Stone Cold Jam
Just amazing after all these years. If you haven’t seen the “Muscle Shoals” documentary you’ll love it. Amazing history behind it all. RIH Etta.
73 people won’t tell mama
Etta is Awesome...
Music is Great.. Love her Voice..
🤗❤❤🙋♀️
powerful soul music!
I luv! This Song!
I never tire of listening to Etta James! I luv her Blues!
I love the horn section 🎷🎺
Vaai Ettaa I love you
I sho nuff like me some Etta James!
Génial, super voix et de la bonne zik ❤❤❤❤
Etta James original songs blow
In that paint she looks like lil kim
One of the most powerful song
RIP Rick Hall
Etta told it first and best.
The Swampers were the greatest recorded R&B rythym section of all time. This record is straight fire.
She is one of the great Singer..... She is deserves the title of queen of soul.
Do Aretha Franklin get a say in this?
Female James Brown
EJ forever
Those horns and that bass is something! I like Janis but this version is sick
In a Parallel Universe Etta James collabarated with Don Rendell
and together with a new lyricist instead of the song "Tell Mamma"
they wrote "Hey Mr. Snowman" https://youtu.be/6lN4g8LIsVg
Turns out Etta James did not like singing this song at shows, as she disagreed with the philosophy it expressed. Great music, great recording, though
Gorgeous !
Get goosebumps whenever I hear this song...Etta is a true godess
I love listening to Tell Mama by Etta James. R.I.P Etta James
Jimmy Johnson, David Hood, Spooner Oldham, Roger Hawkins et al. As Al Bell of Stax Records fame called them, the "mighty pale' Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section.
Tell Mama I love this song
カッコＥーゎ😁
I never heard this version, I like it, but I think that Janis Joplin is better.
etta james é das minhas cantoras americanas favoritas! a rainha do soul!
essa é à verdadeira rainha do soul senhoras e senhores! mrs etta James!
I say Beyonce played her well
wish today's music was as good like it truly was back in the day ! xoxo my generation doesn't even know !
I had no idea Etta sang this tune, only knew Janis version. Cool I can appreciate both now :)
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this lady got some primo pipes! Had the honor of seeing her perform at Russian River blues fest in late 80's, she killed it. Swampers sounding tight here
I idolizes Etta James yes ma'am
This is smokin' good. I love Janis Joplin's psychedelic fueled version too.
Me encanta !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks Ms.James
Etta James herself later said of the song:[4]
"There are folks who think "Tell Mama" is the Golden Moment of the Golden Age of Soul; they rant and rave about the snappy horn chart and the deep-pocket guitar groove, about how I sang the shit out of it. I wish I could agree. Sure, the song made me money. It warmed Leonard Chess's heart to see the thing cross over to the pop charts, where it lingered for a long while. You might even say it became a classic. But I have to confess that it was never a favorite of mine. Never liked it. Never liked singing it - not then, not now. I almost never perform it. It's not that I don't admire the chart and the songwriter. Clarence Carter... is great. Maybe it's just that I didn't like being cast in the role of the Great Earth Mother, the gal you come to for comfort and easy sex. Nothing was easy back then...."
I dk the feelings or the background, but I liked it...still do...and, i know it made $$...she can sing...HNY...TC...
To her credit she did a helluva job on this, and for that I thank her. RIP Etta...love ya!
May be true, but whatever she did, she put everything into it...she's a natch...talent, talent, talent, and charisma...HNY...
Of course, i wasn't there, but in the beginning, i never really listened to the words, and just liked the song and just burned the dance floor....plus, i just thought it was a "love song" about a young lady who was letting her man know she was there for him...still a great song...(and, i still burn the dance floor...don't tell anyone)....or, I'm gonna tell mama....
TC
OneTruthInc the song belongs to Janis Joplin because she actually lives some of those lyrics. Dig it.
talk to me.. I'll do what you choose.. tell mama. !!! this song never gets old to me!!!
Do You Know what Nemesis Means?.....In French!
BOLD, SEXY & BRASSY AS HELL!!! THIS WAS A KNOCK YOUR ASS OUT LADY IN THE 1960's!!!! MISS THIS SASSY BEAUTY!!!!
last time i told mama...☺
she whooped my ass. 😣😭
MrReaperofDead
... You must be a bad boy.
REMEMBERING JAMESETTA HAWKINS "ETTA JAMES"
(JANUARY 25, 1938 – JANUARY 20, 2012) [01/25/2017]
I love Janis version too much but this is awesome too, i love it.
Etta can make it alright. just tell her what you need
that horn Section is hittin it
Need more horns these days!
Sho-nuff
Ges X for sure!
verdadera y auténtica artista es una Muy buena canción
I'm gonna go tell Mama right now!
i told mama, not to tell mama. ...she told her anyway. 😟😣
the struggles real fellas....😭
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The message, the trumpets, the vocals! I love it!!
Aint she something?
surely is!
Yeah Etta!
great!!
great horns & Ms.Etta Together!Say no more,This is Great!!
y'all tell mama