《Let’s Clean Up the Ghetto》歌词

[00:00:00] Let's Clean Up the Ghetto - The Philadelphia Band

[00:00:06] You know i was in new york city a few months ago

[00:00:08] And the garbage and the trash men were on strike

[00:00:12] I'm tellin' the maintenance people of the city

[00:00:14] What they were tryin' to do was

[00:00:16] They were tryin' to get a little more money

[00:00:18] You know get a little raise in pay

[00:00:20] But at that particular time the city was broke

[00:00:23] They were about ready to declare default

[00:00:25] I tell you the garbage in some places

[00:00:27] Was stacked up two three stories high

[00:00:30] At night ha ha boy at night it weren't even safe to walk the street

[00:00:35] 'Cause they caught the rats the roaches and the water bugs

[00:00:38] I mean they were hustlin' baby tryin' to get somethin' to eat see

[00:00:42] And let met tell you somethin' it was stinkin'

[00:00:45] And it was all kind of diseases in there you know

[00:00:48] But it only brought to mind the fact that

[00:00:51] You can no longer depend on the man downtown

[00:00:52] To take your business

[00:00:54] When he's supposed to

[00:00:56] If all of us would get it like it's supposed to be

[00:01:01] As far as cleanliness you know and safety

[00:01:04] We gotta get together and do it for ourselves

[00:01:08] That's the only way it's gonna be done

[00:01:10] And you know what i'm talkin' about

[00:01:12] Let me tell you what i mean

[00:01:14] Clean it up clean it up well y'all office

[00:01:18] Clean it up clean it up you gotta get it

[00:01:22] Clean it up clean it up get it

[00:01:26] Clean it up clean it up

[00:01:30] Ghetto ghetto ghetto is our home

[00:01:41] That's where we live where we live

[00:01:46] Get your paint fetch your hammer your nails

[00:01:50] Get your brooms your mop and your pail

[00:01:53] We're gonna wash it polish and make it all clean

[00:01:58] Let's wash away all of the sins

[00:02:05] Time for a new life to begin in the ghetto

[00:02:12] I said clean it up clean it up

[00:02:16] I said we're gonna clean it up clean it up

[00:02:20] Because the ghetto i said the ghetto ghetto is our home

[00:02:31] That's where we live where we live

[00:02:36] Let's paint the signs everybody can read

[00:02:40] Let's get rid of everything we don't need

[00:02:44] Pushers the dealers

[00:02:46] The pocket book snatchers and thieves aha

[00:02:52] Let's make the streets safe for women to walk

[00:02:56] Let's get rid of all the foul talk

[00:03:00] We gonna do it and all of us shall survive

[00:03:06] I said we're gonna clean it up clean it up

[00:03:08] Clean it up yeah

[00:03:12] Clean it up clean it up yeah

[00:03:16] Ghetto ghetto ghetto is our home

[00:03:26] That's where we live where we live

[00:03:31] All of your brothers that live on the mainline

[00:03:35] You lived in the ghetto once upon a time

[00:03:39] We need everybody to lend a hand

[00:03:47] Now you've helped everybody else

[00:03:51] Now's the time for you to help yourself

[00:03:55] Yeah we can't depend on where we tell wa

[00:04:02] Clean it up clean it up

[00:04:06] Clean it up clean it up

[00:04:09] Yeah ghetto ghetto ghetto is our home

[00:04:21] That's where we live where we live

[00:04:26] Clean it up clean it up

[00:04:28] Clean it up clean it up