Woman Of The Ghetto - Marlena Shaw

[00:00.0]Woman Of The Ghetto - Marlena Shaw
[00:20.22]La-la-la-la-la-la-la
[00:20.73]I was born raised in a ghetto
[00:25.56]I was born and raised in a ghetto
[00:30.34]I'm a woman of the ghetto
[00:32.22]Won't you listen won't you listen to me legislator
[00:42.68]Ging gi-gi-gi-gi-ging
[00:44.48]How do you raise your kids in a ghetto
[00:49.25]How do you raise your kids in a ghetto
[00:53.94]Do you feed one child and starve another
[00:58.68]Won't you tell me legislator
[01:04.34]Enthralled through
[01:06.82]I know that my eyes ain't blue
[01:08.53]But you see I'm a woman
[01:10.6]Of the ghetto
[01:13.31]I'm proud free
[01:15.45]Black that is me
[01:18.68]But I'm a woman of the ghetto
[01:22.88]Ging gi-gi-gi-gi-ging
[01:23.7]How does your heart feel late at night
[01:28.83]How does your heart feel late at night
[01:32.520004]Does it beat with shame or does it beat with pride
[01:37.869995]Won't you tell me legislator
[01:41.64]Na-na-na-na-na-na-na
[01:41.82]Puts me in the mind of
[01:46.93]Come and cross the water in a boat
[01:56.39]Chained tied together
[01:57.509995]They said no no they're really not man and women
[02:01.41]Just chain 'em up tie 'em up chain 'em up tie 'em up
[02:05.93]Chain 'em up tie 'em up work work work
[02:08.15]There's where the movement came from
[02:09.82]Say no no
[02:15.45]My children learned just the same as yours
[02:19.04001]As long as nobody tries to close the door
[02:24.99]They cry with pain when the knife cuts deep
[02:29.16]They even close their eyes when they wanna sleep
[02:33.25]Now peace you say
[02:38.98]Is all that you ask
[02:40.62]But self-respect is a separate task
[02:43.27]You may be sitting up there
[02:46.26]In your ivory tower
[02:48.70999]60 stories tall
[02:49.72]I know that you may have checked out at least one ghetto
[02:54.23]But I wonder have you lived there at all
[03:03.07]Places like Watts
[03:04.74]Ah Holland tell me
[03:07.75]Chicago ah tell me
[03:10.28]Washington got some too
[03:11.92]I have been up on the mountains I
[03:16.55]And I'm free at last
[03:17.95999]I say I'm free at last
[03:26.63]I've seen the children dying
[03:29.65]And I've been one of the mothers who was crying
[03:39.53]Ging gi-gi-gi-gi-ging
[03:40.08]I am a woman
[03:43.1]I am a woman
[03:51.76]I am a woman yes I
[03:55.20999]I said that I am
[04:00.28]I mean that I am
[04:04.89]I'm the woman I'm the woman I'm the woman of the ghetto
[04:12.76]Strong true
[04:13.93]A woman
[04:15.13]A woman
[04:15.95]You can walk through the streets of the ghetto at night
[04:21.2]Whole lotta pretty some ugly sites
[04:24.62]Along comes the sleek limousine
[04:31.16]Say hey baby I got ten
[04:33.81]Look at me I'm clean
[04:35.45]So she takes a little d**e
[04:38.22]What the hell everybody got to go
[04:41.23]I got a baby
[04:43.28]I got a baby
[04:48.66998]I got a baby I want to feed and I'm not really giving it all
[05:00.21]Up just a little ten-cent piece or two
[05:03.62]Ah the black woman
[05:06.35]But I ain't gonna raise your babies no more
[05:12.93]I got a few on my own
[05:17.62]I wanna keep strolling
[05:20.28]I say I am a woman
[05:22.28]Gi-gi-gi-gi-ging I am
[05:25.17]I
[05:25.43]I am
[05:29.49]I am
[05:29.84]Remember me
[05:30.84]I'm the one who had your babies I
[05:34.6]Gi-gi-gi-gi-ging I am
[05:35.49]I am
[05:36.85]I am a woman
[05:39.09]Of the ghetto
[05:40.07]Woman
[05:40.53]I'm a woman yeah yeah yeah
[05:43.63]Just a woman