The song lyrics were written by the band Van Halen, as they were asked to write a song for the 1979 movie "Over the Edge" starring Matt Dillon. The movie (and the lyrics, although more obliquely) are about bored, rebellious youth with nothing better to do than get into trouble. If you see the movie, these lyrics will make more sense. It's a great movie if you grew up in the 70s/80s you'll definitely remember some of these characters from your own life. Fun fact, after writing the song, Van Halen decided not to let the movie use it.
Mahogany Team Queens up on the rise
Be careful, watch your back, blackbirds don't wear disguise
How we coming, coming hard, can't move too slow
Stick up kids do anything, hustlers keep loot to show (what?)
The game is hot you could never be a winner
Just begun a game so considered a beginner
Masada for real, this shorty here is here to stay
Mahogany go platinum after after that we just parlay
I'm from the Bricks we get kicks, off a loud gun shot licks
Fuck stones and sticks, loudmouths get nixed
This life is plus I be the bill-be-board, Scarface want
Italiano, I'm the real McCoy, nigga what?
Can't be a joke I've been through too many games
Niggas laugh, but my expression wasn't hardly the same
Show me respect 'cause it's due, you keep the fear
Cause I'll get over and believe I'll come back at you
Mamacita
Papadonna
Mamacita
Papadonna
Mamacita
Papadonna
Mamacita
Papadonna
Yo, now
You and your nigga shit shaky
And at the time your heart feel down and broke like Achy Breaky
Lump in your throat, feel like a trachea, oh dummy
The pain that's in your chest done made it's way down to your tummy
You wide open, you start smoking wit' ya girl
She nigga bashing saying you don't need 'em in your world
Niggas all dogs? If niggas all dogs, then what you call broads?
Felines in heat, meowing for some yarn balls
Now you and her done got to dranking
Oh now it's really crunk, 'cause y'all silly drunk
And your girl done got to thinking
She talking bout, "Girl you look so beautiful"
You say thank you being nice you try to change the subject
Want some beans and rice? But she's back at you like a pit
Mixed with a chihuahua how much meaner can you get?
Don't let her have her way with you she's gonna have a fit
You're the candy apple of her eye and 'bout to get bit
Here's what you do, you
Grab her by her neck, throw her on the wall
Say, "Bitch don't ever disrespect me, never not at all"
These simple words can put a pause to half of the applause
Them black ball laws of balance at all cost
Mamacita
Papadonna
Mamacita
Papadonna
Mamacita
Papadonna
Mamacita
Papadonna (que pasa, que pasa?)
Check this out
Quiet nights like this, might twist one for the moda
On the balcony, I got a sofa
Nights like this is perfect, for this Spanish Fly
Can you come over? Something, I wanna show ya
Told ya once we was gon' take a trip, touch you
With my lips where you like it, it's time, don't fight it
Piggy-back ride to the sofa, in the microwave
I got your favorite Stouffer's, lasagna, that's how much I want ya
Fuck flowers
The ceremony starts from the shower with the water
I got somebody's daughter in the Doctor headquarters, chilling
Prepare for this sex drilling, she said something in Spanish
Got me feeling mannish, me and you finna vanish
Real quick, feel this shit, got cheese, tryin to make cheese
To get you pregnant overseas
Maybe make sho' that's my seed
Quiet nights like this, bachelor like me is single
Talking to you Miss Bilingual
Let's mingle in the crowd, watch them show, pop some Moet
Trying to get you so wet, never been to Spain
Never been a lame, horny, ever since I been a tiny
Fucking with niggas with ageless bodies
Talking to me, while I squeeze it bare
Let me talk to you while I run my fingers through your hair
Mamacita
Papadonna
Mamacita
Papadonna
Mamacita
Papadonna
Mamacita
Papadonna
Friday night boy, breaking the old school out, boy we cruising
'Bout fo' niggas and fo' hoes, it ain't goin' be nobody losing
But they choosing
Better get in where you fit in 'cause it's crucial
I'm trying to cut 'bout two of them girls
'Cause that just what I'm used to
I mean that, the first that look my way
Just gon' get splack packed
To the front to the back there's Cognac
Got my throat, burning like burlap
Everybody cheesing, knowing these hoes gon' cut like pleasers
These hookers they praising my crew
Like Reverend Hodo be praising Jesus
The easiest was the meanest, but the skeezer was a beanie
She thought we was some motherfucking genies
So I checked her, like the king I am, no disrespect intended
Told her, and her silly friends
"Get out" before they got offended
To the Laquinta we went, laying them hoes down
On the freestyle tip, yeah
Mamacita
Papadonna
Mamacita
Papadonna
Mamacita
Papadonna
Mamacita
Papadonna
Mamacita
Papadonna
Mamacita
Papadonna
Mamacita (ay, ay, ay)
Papadonna
Mamacita
Papadonna
Permecito, senorita, mamacita
Mira mira, what's your name? Maria
Same as mi tia, de Colombia
I don't, in Atlanta, Georgia
And you don't think I got nothing for ya?
You must be crazy
I'm out here trying to feed my baby
Lil Bre, can't you see? Shit
Do it one more time, shit
This is Moany Moan on the Wheels of Steel
Straight outta Zone 3 we had the group Southside
Live for old heads at Twenty Grand
Freak, freak y'all
Be careful, watch your back, blackbirds don't wear disguise
How we coming, coming hard, can't move too slow
Stick up kids do anything, hustlers keep loot to show (what?)
The game is hot you could never be a winner
Just begun a game so considered a beginner
Masada for real, this shorty here is here to stay
Mahogany go platinum after after that we just parlay
I'm from the Bricks we get kicks, off a loud gun shot licks
Fuck stones and sticks, loudmouths get nixed
This life is plus I be the bill-be-board, Scarface want
Italiano, I'm the real McCoy, nigga what?
Can't be a joke I've been through too many games
Niggas laugh, but my expression wasn't hardly the same
Show me respect 'cause it's due, you keep the fear
Cause I'll get over and believe I'll come back at you
Mamacita
Papadonna
Mamacita
Papadonna
Mamacita
Papadonna
Mamacita
Papadonna
Yo, now
You and your nigga shit shaky
And at the time your heart feel down and broke like Achy Breaky
Lump in your throat, feel like a trachea, oh dummy
The pain that's in your chest done made it's way down to your tummy
You wide open, you start smoking wit' ya girl
She nigga bashing saying you don't need 'em in your world
Niggas all dogs? If niggas all dogs, then what you call broads?
Felines in heat, meowing for some yarn balls
Now you and her done got to dranking
Oh now it's really crunk, 'cause y'all silly drunk
And your girl done got to thinking
She talking bout, "Girl you look so beautiful"
You say thank you being nice you try to change the subject
Want some beans and rice? But she's back at you like a pit
Mixed with a chihuahua how much meaner can you get?
Don't let her have her way with you she's gonna have a fit
You're the candy apple of her eye and 'bout to get bit
Here's what you do, you
Grab her by her neck, throw her on the wall
Say, "Bitch don't ever disrespect me, never not at all"
These simple words can put a pause to half of the applause
Them black ball laws of balance at all cost
Mamacita
Papadonna
Mamacita
Papadonna
Mamacita
Papadonna
Mamacita
Papadonna (que pasa, que pasa?)
Check this out
Quiet nights like this, might twist one for the moda
On the balcony, I got a sofa
Nights like this is perfect, for this Spanish Fly
Can you come over? Something, I wanna show ya
Told ya once we was gon' take a trip, touch you
With my lips where you like it, it's time, don't fight it
Piggy-back ride to the sofa, in the microwave
I got your favorite Stouffer's, lasagna, that's how much I want ya
Fuck flowers
The ceremony starts from the shower with the water
I got somebody's daughter in the Doctor headquarters, chilling
Prepare for this sex drilling, she said something in Spanish
Got me feeling mannish, me and you finna vanish
Real quick, feel this shit, got cheese, tryin to make cheese
To get you pregnant overseas
Maybe make sho' that's my seed
Quiet nights like this, bachelor like me is single
Talking to you Miss Bilingual
Let's mingle in the crowd, watch them show, pop some Moet
Trying to get you so wet, never been to Spain
Never been a lame, horny, ever since I been a tiny
Fucking with niggas with ageless bodies
Talking to me, while I squeeze it bare
Let me talk to you while I run my fingers through your hair
Mamacita
Papadonna
Mamacita
Papadonna
Mamacita
Papadonna
Mamacita
Papadonna
Friday night boy, breaking the old school out, boy we cruising
'Bout fo' niggas and fo' hoes, it ain't goin' be nobody losing
But they choosing
Better get in where you fit in 'cause it's crucial
I'm trying to cut 'bout two of them girls
'Cause that just what I'm used to
I mean that, the first that look my way
Just gon' get splack packed
To the front to the back there's Cognac
Got my throat, burning like burlap
Everybody cheesing, knowing these hoes gon' cut like pleasers
These hookers they praising my crew
Like Reverend Hodo be praising Jesus
The easiest was the meanest, but the skeezer was a beanie
She thought we was some motherfucking genies
So I checked her, like the king I am, no disrespect intended
Told her, and her silly friends
"Get out" before they got offended
To the Laquinta we went, laying them hoes down
On the freestyle tip, yeah
Mamacita
Papadonna
Mamacita
Papadonna
Mamacita
Papadonna
Mamacita
Papadonna
Mamacita
Papadonna
Mamacita
Papadonna
Mamacita (ay, ay, ay)
Papadonna
Mamacita
Papadonna
Permecito, senorita, mamacita
Mira mira, what's your name? Maria
Same as mi tia, de Colombia
I don't, in Atlanta, Georgia
And you don't think I got nothing for ya?
You must be crazy
I'm out here trying to feed my baby
Lil Bre, can't you see? Shit
Do it one more time, shit
This is Moany Moan on the Wheels of Steel
Straight outta Zone 3 we had the group Southside
Live for old heads at Twenty Grand
Freak, freak y'all
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