Lyrics to Ma Baker - Decade Lyrics

This version of Ma Baker was released by Boney M in 1977.

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FREEZE! I’m Ma Baker – put your hands in the air,
gimme all your money

– This is the story of Ma Baker, the meanest cat
from ol’ Chicago town

She was the meanest cat
In old Chicago town
She was the meanest cat
She really moved them down
She had no heart at all
No no no heart at all

She was the meanest cat
Oh she was really tough
She left her husband flat
He wasn’t tough enough
She took her boys along
‘cos they were mean and strong

Ma Ma Ma Ma – Ma Baker – she taught her four sons
Ma Ma Ma Ma – Ma Baker – to handle their guns
Ma Ma Ma Ma – Ma Baker – she never could cry
Ma Ma Ma Ma – Ma Baker – but she knew how to die

They left a trail of crime
Across the U.S.A.
And when one boy was killed
She really made them pay
She had no heart at all
No no no heart at all

she met a man she liked
she thought she’d stay with him
one day he formed with them
they did away with him
she didn’t care at all
just didn’t care at all

– Here is a special bulletin.
Ma Baker is the FBI’s most wanted woman.
Her photo is hanging on every post office wall.
If you have any information about this woman,
please contact the nearest police station…

– Don’t anybody move! The money or your lives!

One day they robbed a bank
it was their last foray
the cops appeared too soon
they couldn’t get away
and all the loot they had
it made them mighty mad
and so they shot it out
Ma Baker and her sons
they didn’t want to hang
they died with blazing guns
and so the story ends
of one who left no friends

About Lyrics and Ma Baker by Boney M

The lyrics to Ma Baker are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Boney M used when the song was created in 1977. The lyrics to Ma Baker have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Boney M and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Ma Baker by Boney M. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Ma Baker" means the words set to the music of Ma Baker, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Boney M. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Ma Baker and the lyrics to Ma Baker are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Boney M who came here looking just for the lyrics to Ma Baker, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.