The Staple Singers - The Ghetto lyrics
[The Staple Singers - The Ghetto lyrics]
If you've ever lived in a ghetto
It may be at the close of your day
On your front porch you hear
The sound of a jukebox
From a neighborhood café
At noon you may hear neighbors cussing
When a kid breaks a window pane, yeah
At night, at night, at night, ooh
You may be wakened
By the sound of an outbound train
Outsiders they refuse to help us, yes they do
And they down us for living the way we do
Mmh
But when you're born the child, the
Child of a poor man
Ooh
They say the ghetto is the only place for you
But if there's such thing as hereafter
And I'm satisfied, satisfied oh
That there will be
Ooh
When they build, when they build
When they build New Jerusalem
There won't be no more
Ghetto, ghetto for me
No there won't
There won't be no more
Ghetto, ghetto for me
Believe what I said one more time
Listen
There won't be
(never, never, never) no more
Ghetto, ghetto for me
Mmm hmm
It may be at the close of your day
On your front porch you hear
The sound of a jukebox
From a neighborhood café
At noon you may hear neighbors cussing
When a kid breaks a window pane, yeah
At night, at night, at night, ooh
You may be wakened
By the sound of an outbound train
Outsiders they refuse to help us, yes they do
And they down us for living the way we do
Mmh
But when you're born the child, the
Child of a poor man
Ooh
They say the ghetto is the only place for you
But if there's such thing as hereafter
And I'm satisfied, satisfied oh
That there will be
Ooh
When they build, when they build
When they build New Jerusalem
There won't be no more
Ghetto, ghetto for me
No there won't
There won't be no more
Ghetto, ghetto for me
Believe what I said one more time
Listen
There won't be
(never, never, never) no more
Ghetto, ghetto for me
Mmm hmm