Lyrics

UNDERCOVER MOTHER MALONE

She gets up in the morning long before the rooster sings
Puts on her false eyelashes, straightens up her bouffant wig
Buttons up her uniform, pins on her shiny badge
She's loading up her pistol in her green cadillac

‘Cause she’s a mother - Undercover mother
You dont wanna mess around
‘Cause she’ll take you downtown, brother
Oh, undercover mother

Before she was a deputy, winning police awards
She made bullet casings in her effort for the war
When her soldier husband came home, she found he was a drunk
So she said goodbye and took the kids and learned to shoot a gun CH

She told me about the time She caught a woman trying to steal a TV
Underneath her muumuu Squeezing it between her knees

Now that she’s retired, she’s the queen of dominos
Holding court and telling stories with cautionary anecdotes
‘Bout being a single parent and life during the depression
Chasing thieves and robbers
How she would catch ‘em and arrest ‘em like a CH CH

Don’t you mess around with her
She’s gonna take you down
‘Cause she’s a bad mother
She did the best she could