Lyrics

Do Right By Your Mama
Words & Music by Diana Di Gioia

Do right by your Mama, she gives you honey from the bees
She gives you sweet watermelon and that cool ocean breeze
But the days are long gone when we do anything we please
You gotta do right by your Mama, or we all feel the pain

Well for at least 4 billion years we have been crawling from the ooze
It was survival of the fittest, with no time to sing the blues
We know velociraptors rose and fell, but they never got to choose
You gotta do right by your Mama, or we all gonna feel the pain

Chorus

Do right by your Mama, for our children's children's sake
Or the water's gonna rise and the earth is gonna quake
While the governments refuse to comprehend what is at stake
We gotta do right by our Mama from now on, whoa, ohhh ---
Because the days of fossil fuels have come and gone


Do right by your Mama, put down that petrol gun
Whether you pump it by the gallon, or burn it by the ton
We can frack our way to hell and back, or we can see what must be done
You gotta do right by your Mama, or we all feel the pain

Do right by your Mama, leave it in the ground
No Matter what the profit, no matter where it’s found
If we don’t do right by Mama, she will surely bring us down
You gotta do right by your Mama, or we all gonna feel the pain


Do right by your Mama, can you imagine such a place
Where the sun, wind and waves power the whole human race
Where we return our living earth to her intended state of grace
We gotta do right by our Mama, or we all feel the pain

Repeat chorus