《Woman Of The Ghetto》歌词

[00:06:04] Woman Of The Ghetto - Marlena Shaw

[00:06:04] (ging, gi-gi-gi-gi-ging...)

[00:06:04] (la-la-la-la-la-la-la, ...)

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[00:06:04] I was born, raised in a ghetto

[00:06:04] I was born and raised in a ghetto

[00:06:04] I'm a woman, of the ghetto

[00:06:04] Won't you listen, won't you listen to me, legislator?

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[00:06:04] (ging, gi-gi-gi-gi-ging...)

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[00:06:04] How do you raise your kids in a ghetto?

[00:06:04] How do you raise your kids in a ghetto?

[00:06:04] Do you feed one child and starve another?

[00:06:04] Won't you tell me, legislator?

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[00:06:04] Enthralled through

[00:06:04] I know that my eyes ain't blue

[00:06:04] But you see I'm a woman

[00:06:04] Of the ghetto

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[00:06:04] I'm proud, free,

[00:06:04] Black, that is me

[00:06:04] But I'm a woman of the ghetto

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[00:06:04] (ging, gi-gi-gi-gi-ging...)

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[00:06:04] How does your heart feel late at night?

[00:06:04] How does your heart feel late at night?

[00:06:04] Does it beat with shame, or does it beat with pride?

[00:06:04] Won't you tell me, legislator?

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[00:06:04] (na-na-na-na-na-na-na, ...)

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[00:06:04] Puts me in the mind of,

[00:06:04] come and cross the water in a boat

[00:06:04] Chained, tied, together

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[00:06:04] They said, "no, no, they're really not man, and women,

[00:06:04] just chain 'em up, tie 'em up, chain 'em up, tie 'em up,

[00:06:04] chain 'em up, tie 'em up, work, work, work"

[00:06:04] There's where the movement came from

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[00:06:04] Say no, no...

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[00:06:04] My children learned just the same as yours

[00:06:04] As long as nobody tries to close the door

[00:06:04] They cry with pain when the knife cuts deep

[00:06:04] They even close their eyes when they wanna sleep

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[00:06:04] Now peace, you say

[00:06:04] is all that you ask

[00:06:04] But self-respect is a separate task

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[00:06:04] You may be sitting up there

[00:06:04] in your ivory tower

[00:06:04] 60 stories tall

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[00:06:04] I know that you may have checked out at least one ghetto

[00:06:04] But I wonder have you lived there at all?

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[00:06:04] Places like Watts,

[00:06:04] ah, Holland, tell me

[00:06:04] Chicago, ah tell me

[00:06:04] Washington got some too

[00:06:04] I have been up on the mountains, I

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[00:06:04] And I'm free at last

[00:06:04] I say I'm free at last

[00:06:04] I've seen the children dying

[00:06:04] And I've been one of the mothers who was crying

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[00:06:04] (ging, gi-gi-gi-gi-ging...)

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[00:06:04] I am a woman

[00:06:04] I am a woman

[00:06:04] I am a woman, yes I

[00:06:04] I said that I am,

[00:06:04] I mean that I am,

[00:06:04] I'm the woman, I'm the woman, I'm the woman of the ghetto

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[00:06:04] Strong, true,

[00:06:04] A woman

[00:06:04] A woman

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[00:06:04] You can walk through the streets of the ghetto at night

[00:06:04] Whole lotta pretty, some ugly sites

[00:06:04] Along comes the sleek limousine

[00:06:04] Say "hey baby I got ten...

[00:06:04] Look at me, I'm clean"

[00:06:04] So she takes a little dope

[00:06:04] What the hell everybody got to go

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[00:06:04] I got a baby

[00:06:04] I got a baby

[00:06:04] I got a baby i want to feed and I'm not really giving it all

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[00:06:04] up, just a little ten-cent piece or two

[00:06:04] Ah, the black woman...

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[00:06:04] But I ain't gonna raise your babies no more

[00:06:04] I got a few on my own,

[00:06:04] I wanna keep strolling,

[00:06:04] I say I am a woman

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[00:06:04] gi-gi-gi-gi-ging, I am

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[00:06:04] I

[00:06:04] I am

[00:06:04] I am

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[00:06:04] Remember me

[00:06:04] I'm the one who had your babies, I

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[00:06:04] gi-gi-gi-gi-ging, I am

[00:06:04] I am

[00:06:04] I am a woman

[00:06:04] Of the ghetto

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[00:06:04] Woman,

[00:06:04] I'm a woman, yeah yeah yeah

[00:06:04] Just a woman...