Woman of the Ghetto - Marlena Shaw

[00:00.0]Woman Of The Ghetto - Marlena Shaw
[00:09.85]La-la-la-la-la-la-la
[00:19.71]I was born raised in a ghetto
[00:24.54]I was born and raised in a ghetto
[00:29.32]I'm a woman of the ghetto
[00:31.2]Won't you listen won't you listen to me legislator
[00:41.66]Ging gi-gi-gi-gi-ging
[00:43.46]How do you raise your kids in a ghetto
[00:48.23]How do you raise your kids in a ghetto
[00:52.92]Do you feed one child and starve another
[00:57.66]Won't you tell me legislator
[01:03.33]Enthralled through
[01:05.8]I know that my eyes ain't blue
[01:07.51]But you see I'm a woman
[01:09.58]Of the ghetto
[01:12.29]I'm proud free
[01:14.43]Black that is me
[01:17.66]But I'm a woman of the ghetto
[01:21.86]Ging gi-gi-gi-gi-ging
[01:22.68]How does your heart feel late at night
[01:27.81]How does your heart feel late at night
[01:31.5]Does it beat with shame or does it beat with pride
[01:36.85]Won't you tell me legislator
[01:40.619995]Na-na-na-na-na-na-na
[01:40.8]Puts me in the mind of
[01:45.91]Come and cross the water in a boat
[01:55.369995]Chained tied together
[01:56.490005]They said no no they're really not man and women
[02:00.39]Just chain 'em up tie 'em up chain 'em up tie 'em up
[02:04.91]Chain 'em up tie 'em up work work work
[02:07.13]There's where the movement came from
[02:08.8]Say no no
[02:14.43]My children learned just the same as yours
[02:18.02]As long as nobody tries to close the door
[02:23.97]They cry with pain when the knife cuts deep
[02:28.14]They even close their eyes when they wanna sleep
[02:32.23]Now peace you say
[02:37.95999]Is all that you ask
[02:39.6]But self-respect is a separate task
[02:42.25]You may be sitting up there
[02:45.24]In your ivory tower
[02:47.69]60 stories tall
[02:48.7]I know that you may have checked out at least one ghetto
[02:53.20999]But I wonder have you lived there at all
[03:02.05]Places like Watts
[03:03.72]Ah Holland tell me
[03:06.73]Chicago ah tell me
[03:09.26]Washington got some too
[03:10.9]I have been up on the mountains I
[03:15.53]And I'm free at last
[03:16.94]I say I'm free at last
[03:25.61]I've seen the children dying
[03:28.63]And I've been one of the mothers who was crying
[03:38.51]Ging gi-gi-gi-gi-ging
[03:39.06]I am a woman
[03:42.08]I am a woman
[03:50.74]I am a woman yes I
[03:54.19]I said that I am
[03:59.26]I mean that I am
[04:03.87]I'm the woman I'm the woman I'm the woman of the ghetto
[04:11.74]Strong true
[04:12.91]A woman
[04:14.11]A woman
[04:14.93]You can walk through the streets of the ghetto at night
[04:20.18]Whole lotta pretty some ugly sites
[04:23.6]Along comes the sleek limousine
[04:30.14]Say hey baby I got ten
[04:32.79]Look at me I'm clean
[04:34.43]So she takes a little d**e
[04:37.2]What the hell everybody got to go
[04:40.21]I got a baby
[04:42.26]I got a baby
[04:47.65]I got a baby I want to feed and I'm not really giving it all
[04:59.19]Up just a little ten-cent piece or two
[05:02.6]Ah the black woman
[05:05.33]But I ain't gonna raise your babies no more
[05:11.91]I got a few on my own
[05:16.6]I wanna keep strolling
[05:19.26]I say I am a woman
[05:21.26]Gi-gi-gi-gi-ging I am
[05:24.15]I
[05:24.41]I am
[05:28.47]I am
[05:28.82]Remember me
[05:29.82]I'm the one who had your babies I
[05:33.58002]Gi-gi-gi-gi-ging I am
[05:34.47]I am
[05:35.83002]I am a woman
[05:38.07]Of the ghetto
[05:39.05]Woman
[05:39.51]I'm a woman yeah yeah yeah
[05:42.61]Just a woman