《Woman Of The Ghetto》歌词

[00:05:58] Woman Of The Ghetto - Marlena Shaw

[00:05:58] (ging, gi-gi-gi-gi-ging...)

[00:05:58] (la-la-la-la-la-la-la, ...)

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[00:05:58] I was born, raised in a ghetto

[00:05:58] I was born and raised in a ghetto

[00:05:58] I'm a woman, of the ghetto

[00:05:58] Won't you listen, won't you listen to me, legislator?

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[00:05:58] (ging, gi-gi-gi-gi-ging...)

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[00:05:58] How do you raise your kids in a ghetto?

[00:05:58] How do you raise your kids in a ghetto?

[00:05:58] Do you feed one child and starve another?

[00:05:58] Won't you tell me, legislator?

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[00:05:58] Enthralled through

[00:05:58] I know that my eyes ain't blue

[00:05:58] But you see I'm a woman

[00:05:58] Of the ghetto

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[00:05:58] I'm proud, free,

[00:05:58] Black, that is me

[00:05:58] But I'm a woman of the ghetto

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[00:05:58] (ging, gi-gi-gi-gi-ging...)

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[00:05:58] How does your heart feel late at night?

[00:05:58] How does your heart feel late at night?

[00:05:58] Does it beat with shame, or does it beat with pride?

[00:05:58] Won't you tell me, legislator?

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[00:05:58] (na-na-na-na-na-na-na, ...)

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[00:05:58] Puts me in the mind of,

[00:05:58] come and cross the water in a boat

[00:05:58] Chained, tied, together

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[00:05:58] They said, "no, no, they're really not man, and women,

[00:05:58] just chain 'em up, tie 'em up, chain 'em up, tie 'em up,

[00:05:58] chain 'em up, tie 'em up, work, work, work"

[00:05:58] There's where the movement came from

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[00:05:58] Say no, no...

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[00:05:58] My children learned just the same as yours

[00:05:58] As long as nobody tries to close the door

[00:05:58] They cry with pain when the knife cuts deep

[00:05:58] They even close their eyes when they wanna sleep

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[00:05:58] Now peace, you say

[00:05:58] is all that you ask

[00:05:58] But self-respect is a separate task

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[00:05:58] You may be sitting up there

[00:05:58] in your ivory tower

[00:05:58] 60 stories tall

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[00:05:58] I know that you may have checked out at least one ghetto

[00:05:58] But I wonder have you lived there at all?

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[00:05:58] Places like Watts,

[00:05:58] ah, Holland, tell me

[00:05:58] Chicago, ah tell me

[00:05:58] Washington got some too

[00:05:58] I have been up on the mountains, I

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[00:05:58] And I'm free at last

[00:05:58] I say I'm free at last

[00:05:58] I've seen the children dying

[00:05:58] And I've been one of the mothers who was crying

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[00:05:58] (ging, gi-gi-gi-gi-ging...)

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[00:05:58] I am a woman

[00:05:58] I am a woman

[00:05:58] I am a woman, yes I

[00:05:58] I said that I am,

[00:05:58] I mean that I am,

[00:05:58] I'm the woman, I'm the woman, I'm the woman of the ghetto

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[00:05:58] Strong, true,

[00:05:58] A woman

[00:05:58] A woman

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[00:05:58] You can walk through the streets of the ghetto at night

[00:05:58] Whole lotta pretty, some ugly sites

[00:05:58] Along comes the sleek limousine

[00:05:58] Say "hey baby I got ten...

[00:05:58] Look at me, I'm clean"

[00:05:58] So she takes a little dope

[00:05:58] What the hell everybody got to go

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[00:05:58] I got a baby

[00:05:58] I got a baby

[00:05:58] I got a baby i want to feed and I'm not really giving it all

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[00:05:58] up, just a little ten-cent piece or two

[00:05:58] Ah, the black woman...

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[00:05:58] But I ain't gonna raise your babies no more

[00:05:58] I got a few on my own,

[00:05:58] I wanna keep strolling,

[00:05:58] I say I am a woman

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[00:05:58] gi-gi-gi-gi-ging, I am

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[00:05:58] I

[00:05:58] I am

[00:05:58] I am

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[00:05:58] Remember me

[00:05:58] I'm the one who had your babies, I

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[00:05:58] gi-gi-gi-gi-ging, I am

[00:05:58] I am

[00:05:58] I am a woman

[00:05:58] Of the ghetto

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[00:05:58] Woman,

[00:05:58] I'm a woman, yeah yeah yeah

[00:05:58] Just a woman...