所属专辑:Verve Unmixed: The First Ladies
歌手: Marlena Shaw
时长: 06:04
Woman Of The Ghetto - Marlena Shaw[00:06:04]
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(la-la-la-la-la-la-la, ...)[00:06:04]
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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?[00:06:04]
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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?[00:06:04]
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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[00:06:04]
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I'm proud, free,[00:06:04]
Black, that is me[00:06:04]
But I'm a woman of the ghetto[00:06:04]
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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?[00:06:04]
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(na-na-na-na-na-na-na, ...)[00:06:04]
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Puts me in the mind of,[00:06:04]
come and cross the water in a boat[00:06:04]
Chained, tied, together[00:06:04]
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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[00:06:04]
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Say no, no...[00:06:04]
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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[00:06:04]
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Now peace, you say[00:06:04]
is all that you ask[00:06:04]
But self-respect is a separate task[00:06:04]
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You may be sitting up there[00:06:04]
in your ivory tower[00:06:04]
60 stories tall[00:06:04]
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I know that you may have checked out at least one ghetto[00:06:04]
But I wonder have you lived there at all?[00:06:04]
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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[00:06:04]
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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[00:06:04]
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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[00:06:04]
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Strong, true,[00:06:04]
A woman[00:06:04]
A woman[00:06:04]
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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[00:06:04]
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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[00:06:04]
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up, just a little ten-cent piece or two[00:06:04]
Ah, the black woman...[00:06:04]
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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[00:06:04]
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gi-gi-gi-gi-ging, I am[00:06:04]
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I[00:06:04]
I am[00:06:04]
I am[00:06:04]
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Remember me[00:06:04]
I'm the one who had your babies, I[00:06:04]
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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[00:06:04]
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Woman,[00:06:04]
I'm a woman, yeah yeah yeah[00:06:04]
Just a woman...[00:06:04]