《Woman Of The Ghetto》歌词

[00:00:00] Woman Of The Ghetto - Marlena Shaw

[00:00:10] La-la-la-la-la-la-la

[00:00:20] I was born raised in a ghetto

[00:00:25] I was born and raised in a ghetto

[00:00:30] I'm a woman of the ghetto

[00:00:32] Won't you listen won't you listen to me legislator

[00:00:42] Ging gi-gi-gi-gi-ging

[00:00:44] How do you raise your kids in a ghetto

[00:00:49] How do you raise your kids in a ghetto

[00:00:53] Do you feed one child and starve another

[00:00:58] Won't you tell me legislator

[00:01:04] Enthralled through

[00:01:06] I know that my eyes ain't blue

[00:01:08] But you see I'm a woman

[00:01:10] Of the ghetto

[00:01:13] I'm proud free

[00:01:15] Black that is me

[00:01:18] But I'm a woman of the ghetto

[00:01:22] Ging gi-gi-gi-gi-ging

[00:01:23] How does your heart feel late at night

[00:01:28] How does your heart feel late at night

[00:01:32] Does it beat with shame or does it beat with pride

[00:01:37] Won't you tell me legislator

[00:01:41] Na-na-na-na-na-na-na

[00:01:41] Puts me in the mind of

[00:01:46] Come and cross the water in a boat

[00:01:56] Chained tied together

[00:01:57] They said no no they're really not man and women

[00:02:01] Just chain 'em up tie 'em up chain 'em up tie 'em up

[00:02:05] Chain 'em up tie 'em up work work work

[00:02:08] There's where the movement came from

[00:02:09] Say no no

[00:02:15] My children learned just the same as yours

[00:02:19] As long as nobody tries to close the door

[00:02:24] They cry with pain when the knife cuts deep

[00:02:29] They even close their eyes when they wanna sleep

[00:02:33] Now peace you say

[00:02:38] Is all that you ask

[00:02:40] But self-respect is a separate task

[00:02:43] You may be sitting up there

[00:02:46] In your ivory tower

[00:02:48] 60 stories tall

[00:02:49] I know that you may have checked out at least one ghetto

[00:02:54] But I wonder have you lived there at all

[00:03:03] Places like Watts

[00:03:04] Ah Holland tell me

[00:03:07] Chicago ah tell me

[00:03:10] Washington got some too

[00:03:11] I have been up on the mountains I

[00:03:16] And I'm free at last

[00:03:17] I say I'm free at last

[00:03:26] I've seen the children dying

[00:03:29] And I've been one of the mothers who was crying

[00:03:39] Ging gi-gi-gi-gi-ging

[00:03:40] I am a woman

[00:03:43] I am a woman

[00:03:51] I am a woman yes I

[00:03:55] I said that I am

[00:04:00] I mean that I am

[00:04:04] I'm the woman I'm the woman I'm the woman of the ghetto

[00:04:12] Strong true

[00:04:13] A woman

[00:04:15] A woman

[00:04:15] You can walk through the streets of the ghetto at night

[00:04:21] Whole lotta pretty some ugly sites

[00:04:24] Along comes the sleek limousine

[00:04:31] Say hey baby I got ten

[00:04:33] Look at me I'm clean

[00:04:35] So she takes a little d**e

[00:04:38] What the hell everybody got to go

[00:04:41] I got a baby

[00:04:43] I got a baby

[00:04:48] I got a baby I want to feed and I'm not really giving it all

[00:05:00] Up just a little ten-cent piece or two

[00:05:03] Ah the black woman

[00:05:06] But I ain't gonna raise your babies no more

[00:05:12] I got a few on my own

[00:05:17] I wanna keep strolling

[00:05:20] I say I am a woman

[00:05:22] Gi-gi-gi-gi-ging I am

[00:05:25] I

[00:05:25] I am

[00:05:29] I am

[00:05:29] Remember me

[00:05:30] I'm the one who had your babies I

[00:05:34] Gi-gi-gi-gi-ging I am

[00:05:35] I am

[00:05:36] I am a woman

[00:05:39] Of the ghetto

[00:05:40] Woman

[00:05:40] I'm a woman yeah yeah yeah

[00:05:43] Just a woman