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- "About a maid I'll sing a song/ who didn't have her family long/Not only did she do them wrong/ she did every one of them in..." -- The Irish Ballad -- Tom Lehrer
- "You're trying to tell ma that I've got a f*cked up family -- my sister is a junkie and my brother is a rapist, a racist, a murderer, my family cannot take this. If you really are my brother I'ma gonna tell Mom." -- Not My Brotha -- Me Phi Me
- "Mamaaaaaa" -- Movin' Out (Anthony's Song) -- Billy Joel
- "Mother's" -- Zombie -- the Cranberries
- "My sweet mama" -- The Gospel According to Darkness -- Jane Siberry
- "Hates her mom, hates the old man." -- Sleazy Come, Easy Go -- LA Guns
- "I was your dad/ now I'm you mom." -- Now I'm Your Mom -- David Byrne
- "His parents give him love." -- Living for the City -- Stevie Wonder
- "My pappy never told me...." -- Runnin' -- Pharcyde
- "This *thing* is not your father..." -- The Phantom of the Opera
- "Papa said oy" -- Me & Julio... -- Simon and Garfunkel
- "Who give a kcuf about a goddamn grammy" -- Terminator X to the Edge of Panic -- Public Enemy
- "Grandmother screaming" -- Synchronicity II -- the Police
- "Son" -- Solsbury Hill -- Peter Gabriel
- "Sunny" -- Sunny Came Home -- Shawn Colvin
- "You too, son." -- Into the Woods (Bernadette Peters)
- "Mercy on the children" -- Legend in My Living Room -- Annie Lennox
- "Food for her kids" -- Black Boys on Mopeds -- Sinead O'Connor
- "Sister Jan"(?) -- Tweeter & the Monkey Man -- The Traveling Wilburys
(we played with so many cuts from "Tweeter" but I think we ended up with Sister Jan. Don't hold me to it.)
- "Sister's ex-husband" -- Yer So Bad -- Tom Petty
- "A brotha like myself" -- Black Steel -- Tricky (Public Enemy cover)
- "My new brother" -- Gin -- Drew Bunting (williamsiana)
- "Prodigal daughter" -- You and Me of the 10,000 Wars -- Indigo Girls
- "Hey little sister" -- No Woman, No Cry -- the Fugees
- "Aunt Bertha" -- Hello Mudduh, Hello Faddah! -- Allan Sherman
- "Uncle Jam Wants You!" -- Uncle Jam Wants You -- Funkadelic
- "Uncle Sam and Uncle Joe" -- My Sister Rose -- 10,000 Maniacs
- "Cousin Florence" -- I Almost Had a Weakness -- Elvis Costello (and the Brodsky Quintet)
- "Youe cousin's not a Christian" -- The Christians and the Pagans -- Dar Williams
- "Oh, my child" -- Silent Legacy -- Melissa Etheridge
- "A lover, or a spouse" -- Out of Range -- Ani DiFranco
- "I have grown to know my father" -- The Me That Was Your Son -- Poi Dog Pondering
- "A man and his wife" -- Behind the Wall -- Tracy Chapman
- "He's just a poor boy/ from a poor family/ spare him his life from this monstrosity." -- Bohemian Rhapsody -- Queen