MOMMY, GIMME A DRINKA WATER
(Milton Schafer)


Danny Kaye - 1958


Mommy, Mommy
Gimme a drinka water
I’m thirsty
I wanna drinka water
NO, NOW, NOT LATER, NOW!

Mommy, what are you doing?
I wanna tell you something
First come and then I’ll tell you
It’s a secret
It’s about Willy and the teacher
And he called her a stupid dope, ha-ha-ha

Mommy, do you hear me?
Gimme a drinka water

Mommy, turn the light on
I can’t see
The chair’s moving
There’s a funny animal on the wall
You comin', Ma?
There’s an airplane in the room
And it’s flying all around
It’s flying in my head!

Mommy, Mommy,
Gimme a drinka water
Seymour’s mother always gives him water
He told me
And sometimes his mother lets him get it himself
And that crazy Barbara in school today
She scratched me
It hurts, too
D'you want to see it, Ma?
I need to bandage it up

Mommy, oh, Mommy, tell me a story
The one about the king who lived in the woods
And he killed the wicked dragon with his magic sword
That’s the one I like, tell me that one
Tell me, Mommy, tell me
I’m gonna tell Daddy you’re not a good Mommy
You never listen to me
You bad, naughty Mommy!

Mommy, gimme a drinka water
Gimme a cookie too
Turn the light on
Tell me a story
The one about the, you know, Mommy
Tell me
Tell me a drinka water 



(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - February 2017)