marlena shaw《Woman of the Ghetto》[MP3_LRC]

[00:00.00]90听音乐网 www.90T8.com  [00:02.60](ging, gi-gi-gi-gi-ging...) [00:17.52](la-la-la-la-la-la-la, ...) [00:25.62]I was born, raised in a ghetto [00:34.00]I was born and raised in a ghetto, a haha [00:39.00]I'm a woman, of the ghetto [00:42.81]Won't you listen, won't you listen to me, legislator [00:51.84](ging, gi-gi-gi-gi-ging...) [00:59.25]How do you raise your kids in a ghetto [01:03.95]How do you raise your kids in a ghetto [01:08.40]Do you feed one child and starve another [01:13.36]Won't you tell me, legislator [01:17.92]Enthralled through [01:20.86]I know that my eyes ain't blue [01:23.02]But you see I'm a woman [01:25.97]Of the ghetto [01:27.89]I'm proud, free, [01:31.17]Black that is me [01:33.39]Yeah I'm a woman of the ghetto [01:38.31](ging, gi-gi-gi-gi-ging...) [01:49.46]How does your heart feel late at night [01:54.49]How does your heart feel late at night [01:57.99]Does it beat with shame, a haha [02:00.97]And does it beat with pride [02:03.04]Won't you tell me, tell me, legislator [02:09.32](na-na-na-na-na-na-na, ...) [02:18.83]ging, a haha [02:21.05]ging [02:32.95]Puts me in the mind of [02:36.62]come and cross the water [02:40.77]In a boat a ha [02:44.43]Chained, tied, together [02:53.65]They said, no, no, they're really not man, and women [02:59.10]just chain 'em up, tie 'em up, chain 'em up, tie 'em up [03:02.01]chain 'em up, tie 'em up, work, work, work [03:05.44]There's where the movement came from [03:12.12]Say no, no [03:22.99]My children learned just the same as yours [03:27.39]As long as nobody tries to close the door [03:32.25]They cry with pain when the knife cuts deep [03:37.44]They even close their eyes when they wanna sleep [03:42.09]Now peace, you say [03:44.49]is all that you ask [03:47.07]But self-respect is a separate task [03:51.24]You may be sitting up there [03:53.40]in your ivory tower [03:56.93]60 stories tall [04:01.34]I know that you may have checked out at least one ghetto [04:06.71]But I wonder have you lived there at all [04:10.64]Places like Watts, [04:12.87]ah, Holland, tell me [04:16.02]Chicago, ah tell me [04:18.88]Washington got some too [04:21.46]I have been up on the mountains, I [04:25.86]And I'm free at last [04:28.35]I say I'm free at last [04:31.54]I've seen [04:35.82]The children dying [04:41.20]And I've been one of the mothers who was crying [04:48.34](ging, gi-gi-gi-gi-ging...) [05:06.80]I am a woman [05:09.29]I am a woman [05:11.78]I am a woman, yes I [05:14.81]I said that I am [05:17.12]I mean that I am [05:19.82]I'm the woman [05:20.69]I'm the woman [05:21.92]I'm the woman of the ghetto [05:26.63]Strong, true, [05:31.21]A woman [05:36.15]A woman [05:39.69]You can walk through the streets of the ghetto at night [05:43.61]Whole lotta pretty [05:47.20]some ugly sites [05:50.69]Along comes the sleek limousine [05:55.92]Say hey baby I got ten [06:01.21]Look at me, I'm clean [06:04.44]So she takes a little dope [06:07.52]What the hell everybody got to go [06:10.44]I got a baby [06:12.52]I got a baby [06:15.42]I got a baby i want to feed and I'm not really giving it all [06:20.55]up, just a little ten-cent piece or two [06:27.30]Ah, the black woman [06:30.00]But I ain't gonna raise your babies no more [06:36.68]I got a few on my own [06:38.00]I wanna keep strolling [06:38.96]I say I am a woman [06:45.95]gi-gi-gi-gi-ging, I am [06:50.63]I [06:54.13]I am [07:03.74]I am [07:11.84]Remember me [07:14.71]I'm the one who had your babies, I [07:19.84]gi-gi-gi-gi-ging, I am [07:26.79]I am [07:29.99]I am a woman [07:31.76]Of the ghetto [07:39.71]Woman, [07:40.13]I'm a woman, yeah yeah yeah [07:44.36]Just a woman