Mother may I may refer to:
Mother May I is a children's game, also known as "Captain May I" and "Father May I".
One player plays the "mother", "father" or "captain". The other players are the "children" or "crewmembers". To begin the game, the mother or father stands at one end of a room and turns around facing away, while all the children line up at the other end. The children take turns asking "Mother/Father, may I ____?" and makes a movement suggestion. For example, one might ask, "Mother/Father, may I take five steps forward?" The mother/father either replies "Yes, you may" or "No, you may not do that, but you may _____ instead" and inserts his/her own suggestion. The players usually move closer to the mother/father but are sometimes led farther away. Even if the mother/father makes an unfavorable suggestion, the child must still perform it. The first of the children to reach the location of the mother/father wins the game. That child then becomes the mother/father himself, the original mother/father becomes a child, and a new round begins.
Mother May I was an alternative pop/rock band formed in 1990, best known for their songs "Birthday Wish" and "Meet You There".
Mother May I was formed in 1990 by two former members of the Washington, DC band The Wolves. With the addition of bassist Graham McCulloch, formerly of Negative Approach and The Meatmen, the band released a 7" Single featuring the tracks "Birthday Wish" and "In A Box", both of which would later be re-recorded for their debut album.
The inclusion of "Birthday Wish" on a New Music Seminar 1992 sampler cassette got the then-unsigned band an early mention in Billboard Magazine.
In September 1994, the band released Use Your Appetite For Spaghetti, an EP including "Meet You There", a track which would become their signature song, and a cover version of The Association's "Never My Love". Soon after, the band was picked up by Columbia Records, signed by the same man who also discovered Soul Asylum, Chalk Farm and Primitive Radio Gods. Before the group entered the studio to record their debut album, bassist Graham McCulloch left the group and joined Earth 18. He was replaced by David Swafford of Best Kissers in the World.
Mother Mother May I
Sit back and tell you how I feel up inside
Of how you rised me from a kid where only tha strong survive
You gave me discipline for consequence you gave me punishment
But I stilled disobeyed you hard head and know I'm suffering
Now look where I'm at but it's to late to look back
On all tha times you showed me love and tryed to cut me some slack
I took advance of that
And try to take it upon myself do it my way
And I learned tha hard way to live tha right way
I believe that all tha time it took for me to go to jail
And realize what you used to say
But mother may I apologize
Tha stuff you used to say to me was true I had to recognize
But mother could you just accept my apology
I'm sorry for all tha wrong that I done you'll never lie to me
[Hook]
I love you, I love you
Mamma I love you
I do all that you
Gave me
Up in this life I been a naughty lil child
Gave you a hand full of problems commin up as a juvenile
So every night I'm on bendin knees up in praise
Askin tha lord to forgive hopin to see better days
From the beginnin to tha end mamma you were my best friend
You always stood right by my side and watch me live this life of sin
So i reward you with this Mother Of Tha Year
Mother Of Tha Century, hopin everybody up here listen to me
Remember when I told you, you could find a better man
Cause I knew you can, now becomes tha day for you to marry this man
Congratulations, see your destination
He proposed and showed his love without no hesitation
Now we wonderin is there gone be a lot of change
Problem solvin in relationships
Let's make some rearrangin, I hear tha birds singin