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Papa Mau Mau

from Full of the Moon by Beautifully Mad

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    My Kind of Angel was awarded Best Song at the 2009 Australian Songwriting Awards in the Acoustic/Singer Songwriter category. This album was recorded in 1997 and was the second album by Beautifully Mad (formerly Makin' Whoopee)

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about

Written with the wonderful late and much missed Gully Smith who wrote "Touch of paradise" and was a great guy. I really loved writing with him and we only got to write 2 songs together before he passed away. We both have a love of New Orleans music which was expressed in this song.

lyrics

Papa Papa Mau Mau © G.Smith & T.King August 1995

The devil eats the angel cake
Gabriel eats there too
the only thing they agree on is Papa Mau Mau’s stew

There’s a fire in the Gumbo...
Only size you get is a Jumbo...
Your life ain’t worth livin’...’less you eat what you’re given
at Papa Mau Mau’s Kitchen.

Papa Papa Mau Mau
Papa Papa Mau Mau
oh oh oh oh oh ..
Papa Mau Mau’s Kitchen
oh oh oh oh oh ..
Papa Mau Mau’s Kitchen

A skinny guy came in for afternoon tea
six months thereabout....
And now he’s in a fat man ..Trying his best to get out!
In the kitchen there’s a big ol’ Rat and a health inspector eatin’
Throughout Louisianna.. his Gumbo can’t be beaten.

Papa Papa Mau Mau
Papa Papa Mau Mau
oh oh oh oh oh ..
Papa Mau Mau’s Kitchen
oh oh oh oh oh ..
Papa Mau Mau’s Kitchen

The band never do no singing..
The doorbell’s always ringing
You can fire a gun ..it won’t scare anyone ..they’ll just keep right on eating

Yeah yeah yeah yeah
Preachers come out gambling
Gamblers come out cured
People follow the smell of his cooking.. right around the world
If you don’t eat meat heÕll give you beans
the flavour will have you jumpin’ out your jeans
They all pack in like a can of sardines...at Papa Mau Mau/s Kitchen.

Papa Papa Mau Mau
Papa Papa Mau Mau
oh oh oh oh oh ..
Papa Mau Mau’s Kitchen
Papa Papa Mau Mau
Papa Papa Mau Mau
oh oh oh oh oh ..
Papa Mau Mau’s Kitchen

credits

from Full of the Moon, released January 1, 1997
Lyrics and Music by Gullifer Smith and Tony King
Lead Vocals Nina Vox
Trumpet Jiri Kripac
All other instruments Tony King
Recorded at Moonlight Cactus Music & Trackdown Studios by Tony King
Mixed at Trackdown Studios by Simon Leadley &Tony King
Mastered by Simon Leadley Trackdown Studios 1997

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Beautifully Mad Sydney, Australia

Breathtaking original music reminiscent of the beauty of James Taylor, some honey from Melody Gardot, a lyrical spice of Cohen washed down with some Waits-like humour. A musical flame that licks at the heels of Folk and Jazz

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