Total
Momsense: links to the famous mother's overture by
Christian comedienne Anita Renfroe.
Living
Momisms: "Night of the Living Momisms", all those infamous sayings that only a mom could think up.
In Tha Muthahood: Anita Renfroe's sequel to "Total Momsense", this time rapping the ups and downs of motherhood.
Total Momsense
song lyrics written and performed by Anita
Renfroe from Special Features, May 2008
You are looking at the most popular article in
the history of our website, more popular than our Bible studies or even
our other Lutheran Laughs. To this day we still get several hits a
month for who can affectionately be called The Lone Ranger Mom:
Christian comedienne Anita
Renfroe.
Her song "Total Momsense" took the nation and world by
storm (no, more like a hurricane) when it first popped up on YouTube in
2007. She came up with a hysterical, nearly three-minute set of famous
momisms sung in rapid-fire tempo to the tune of the "William Tell
Overture", also known as the theme song from "The Lone Ranger". Although the official released title of the song is appropriately "Momisms", it was a track on Renfroe's CD "Total Momsense" and it's better known by that name instead.
How popular is The Lone Ranger Mom? Well, when we
originally posted this page as part of our Mother's Day section
"Celebrate Mom" in 2008, it immediately rivaled the children's skit "The Three Trees" and
Pastor Okubo's study notes on "The
Passion of the Christ", both from 2004, in all-time
popularity. Our web traffic records suddenly surged with dozens of hits
to this page for "Lone Ranger", "momisms" and "momsense". It has since
far and away surpassed all our other articles in visits and
search results.
With 15 million hits on the YouTube video and counting,
"Total Momsense" was performed live by Renfroe on ABC's "Good Morning
America" in October 2007, and had such a wildly popular response that
she is now a featured reporter on the morning news show, looking at the
lighter side of motherhood in a segment called "Bad Hair Days".
Renfroe
has since done "equal time" for fathers with "Dadsense" and an official follow-up to "Momsense" as part of an internet ad
campaign for Luvs diapers nicknamed "Total
Momsense 2" on YouTube. For Mother's Day 2011 she did an updated hip-hop/rap version of momisms called "In Tha Muthahood" complete with sports jerseys and ball caps representing the town she proudly calls home: Atlanta, Georgia.
And
lucky you... you can follow along to the lyrics
while watching "Total Momsense" on the original YouTube video right
here.
My mama told me this is true... this page was updated on January 8, 2012.
Now fasten your seat belts, kids; the lyrics are as
follows:
Get up now
Get up now
Get up out of bed
Wash your face
Brush your teeth
Comb your sleepy head
Here’s your clothes
And your shoes
Hear the words I said
Get up now
Get up and make your bed
Are you hot?
Are you cold?
Are you wearing that?
Where’s your books and your lunch and your homework at?
Grab your coat and your gloves and your scarf and hat
Don’t forget you got to feed the cat
Eat your breakfast
The experts tell us it’s the most important meal of all
Take your vitamins so you will grow up one day to be big and tall
Please remember the orthodontist will be seeing you at three today
Don’t forget your piano lesson is this afternoon
So you must play
Don’t shovel
Chew slowly
But hurry
The bus is here
Be careful
Come back here
Did you wash behind your ears?
Play outside
Don’t play rough
Would you just play fair?
Be polite
Make a friend
Don’t forget to share
Work it out
Wait your turn
Never take a dare
Get along
Don’t make me come down there
Clean your room
Fold your clothes
Put your stuff away
Make your bed
Do it now
Do we have all day?
Were you born in a barn?
Would you like some hay?
Can you even hear a word I say?
Answer the phone
Get off the phone
Don’t sit so close
Turn it down
No texting at the table
No more computer time tonight
Your iPod’s my iPod if you don’t listen up
Where you going and with whom and what time do you
think you’re coming home?
Saying thank you, please, excuse me
Makes you welcome everywhere you roam
You’ll appreciate my wisdom
Someday when you’re older and you’re grown
Can’t wait ‘til you have a couple little children of your own
You’ll thank me for the counsel I gave you so willingly
But right now
I thank you NOT to roll your eyes at me
Close your mouth when you chew
Would appreciate
Take a bite
Maybe two
Of the stuff you hate
Use your fork
Don't you burp
Or I’ll set you straight
Eat the food I put upon your plate
Get an A, get the door
Don’t get smart with me
Get a grip
Get up here I’ll count to three
Get a job
Get a life
Get a PhD
Get a dose of...
I don’t care who started it
You’re grounded until your 36
Get your story straight
And tell the truth for once for heaven’s sake
And if all your friends jumped off a cliff
Would you jump too?
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said at least a THOUSAND times before that...
You’re too old to act this way
It must be your father’s DNA
Look at me when I am talking
Stand up straighter when you walk
A place for everything
And everything must be in place
Stop crying or I’ll give you something REAL to cry
about—Oh!
Brush your teeth
Wash your face
Get your PJs on
Get in bed
Get a hug
Say a prayer with Mom
Don’t forget
I love you
**KISS**
And tomorrow we will do this all again
Because a mom’s
work never ends
You don’t need the reason why
Because
Because
Because
Because
I said so
I said so
I said so
I said so
I’m the Mom
The Mom
The Mom
The Mom
The Mom
Ta-da
And tomorrow we will do this all again