This isn't a Yo Mama insult song. But it's definitely a parent insult song.

I remember my mother telling my sisters and me not to sing this song. I suppose we had heard it on the radio or maybe even on television and we really liked the tune and the chorus. And we liked to dance a kind of calypso-can can dance while we sang the chorus. But my mother said that it wasn't a nice song and it would hurt our father's feelings if he heard us singing it. It wasn't until I was older that I figured out what the words to this song really meant and why my mother didn't want us to sing it at all and especially not around our father. What song am I talking about? Here it is:

MAMA LOOK A BOO BOO

{as sung by Harry Belafonte}

I wonder why nobody don't like me
IOr is it the fact that I'm ugly?
I wonder why nobody don't like me
Or is it the fact that I'm ugly?

I leave my whole house and home
My children don't want me no more
Bad talk into the house they bring
And when I talk they start to sing

"Mama look at Boo Boo" they shout.
Their mama tell them "Shut up your mouth!"
That is your daddy.:
"Oh no, my daddy can't be ugly so."

Chorus:
shut your mouth. Go away.
Mama look at boo boo day.
shut your mouth. Go away.
Mama look at boo boo day.

-snip-

This is how I remember singing this song, and the words are almost right.

Here's a link to the YouTube video of the original Belafonte recording:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBUGtPn7eQo&feature=related