Lyrics to
Sugar Mama

This version of Sugar Mama was released by Bonnie Raitt in 1975.

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Sittin here worryin’
While your lookin to find yourself
Somebody else
Me lovin’ you and wantin’ you baby
And you not knowin’ what you want yourself
Why do you treat me so mean
It hurts so bad
All you wanna do is just sit around and jive
You dont’ even know this woman’s alive
Sittin’ here worryin’
Knowin’ your liikin’ to find yourself

Ain’t gonna be no sugar mama no more
You can’t have love when your keepin’ score
All you pretty boys used to catch my eye
I just want a man I can satisfy
Ain’t gonna be no sugar mama no more

Ain’t gonna be no sugar mama no more
You can’t have love when your keepin’ score
All you pretty boys used to catch my eye
I just want a man I can satisfy
Ain’t gonna be no sugar mama no more

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About Lyrics and Sugar Mama by Bonnie Raitt

The lyrics for Sugar Mama are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1975 song by Bonnie Raitt. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Sugar Mama have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Sugar Mama - Bonnie Raitt and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Sugar Mama by Bonnie Raitt in multiple ways. 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 Sugar Mama" means the words set to the music of Sugar Mama, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Bonnie Raitt. 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 Sugar Mama and the lyrics to Sugar Mama are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Bonnie Raitt who came here looking just for the lyrics to Sugar Mama, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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