Woman Of The Ghetto(Akshin Alizadeh Remix) - Marlena Shaw

[05:02.0]Woman of the Ghetto (Live) - Marlena Shaw
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[05:02.0]I was born raised in a ghetto
[05:02.0]I was born and raised in a ghetto
[05:02.0]I'm a woman of the ghetto
[05:02.0]Won't you listen won't you listen to me legislator
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[05:02.0]How do you raise your kids in a ghetto
[05:02.0]How do you raise your kids in a ghetto
[05:02.0]Do you feed one child and starve another
[05:02.0]Won't you tell me legislator
[05:02.0]Enthralled through
[05:02.0]I know that my eyes ain't blue
[05:02.0]But you see I'm a woman
[05:02.0]Of the ghetto
[05:02.0]I'm proud free
[05:02.0]Black that is me
[05:02.0]But I'm a woman of the ghetto
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[05:02.0]How does your heart feel late at night
[05:02.0]How does your heart feel late at night
[05:02.0]Does it beat with shame or does it beat with pride
[05:02.0]I won't you tell me tell me legislator
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[05:02.0]Puts me in the mind of
[05:02.0]Come and cross the water in a boat
[05:02.0]Chained tied together
[05:02.0]They said "no no they're really not man and women
[05:02.0]Just chain 'em up tie 'em up chain 'em up tie 'em up
[05:02.0]Chain 'em up tie 'em up work work work"
[05:02.0]There's where the movement came from
[05:02.0]Say no no
[05:02.0]My children learned just the same as yours
[05:02.0]As long as nobody tries to close the door
[05:02.0]They cry with pain when the knife cuts deep
[05:02.0]They even close their eyes when they wanna sleep
[05:02.0]Now peace you say
[05:02.0]Is all that you ask
[05:02.0]But self-respect is a separate task
[05:02.0]You may be sitting up there
[05:02.0]In your ivory tower
[05:02.0]60 stories tall
[05:02.0]I know that you may have checked out at least one ghetto
[05:02.0]But I wonder have you lived there at all
[05:02.0]Places like Watts
[05:02.0]Ah Holland tell me
[05:02.0]Chicago ah tell me
[05:02.0]Washington got some too
[05:02.0]I have been up on the mountains I
[05:02.0]And I'm free at last
[05:02.0]I say I'm free at last
[05:02.0]I've seen the children dying
[05:02.0]And I've been one of the mothers who was crying
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[05:02.0]I am a woman
[05:02.0]I am a woman
[05:02.0]I am a woman yes I
[05:02.0]I said that I am
[05:02.0]I mean that I am
[05:02.0]I'm the woman I'm the woman I'm the woman of the ghetto
[05:02.0]Strong true
[05:02.0]A woman
[05:02.0]A woman
[05:02.0]You can walk through the streets of the ghetto at night
[05:02.0]Whole lotta pretty some ugly sites
[05:02.0]Along comes the sleek limousine
[05:02.0]Say "hey baby I got ten
[05:02.0]Look at me I'm clean"
[05:02.0]So she takes a little dope
[05:02.0]What the hell everybody got to go
[05:02.0]I got a baby
[05:02.0]I got a baby
[05:02.0]I got a baby i want to feed and I'm not really giving it all
[05:02.0]Up just a little ten-cent piece or two
[05:02.0]Ah the black woman
[05:02.0]But I ain't gonna raise your babies no more
[05:02.0]I got a few on my own
[05:02.0]I wanna keep strolling
[05:02.0]I say I am a woman
[05:02.0]Gi-gi-gi-gi-ging I am
[05:02.0]I
[05:02.0]I am
[05:02.0]I am
[05:02.0]Remember me
[05:02.0]I'm the one who had your babies I
[05:02.0]Gi-gi-gi-gi-ging I am
[05:02.0]I am a woman
[05:02.0]Of the ghetto
[05:02.0]Woman
[05:02.0]I'm a woman yeah yeah yeah
[05:02.0]Just a woman