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Saturday, July 9, 2011

Little Child Runnin' Wild - Curtis Mayfield

 
Little Child Runnin' Wild
Little child runnin' wild
Watch a while, you see he never smiles

Broken home, father gone
Mama tired, so he's all alone

Kind of sad, kind of mad
Ghetto child, thinkin' he's been had

In the back of his mind, he's sayin'

Didn't have to be here
You didn't have to love for me
While I was just a nothin' child
Why couldn't they just let me be
Let me be, let me be, let me be

One room shack, on the alley-back 
Control, I'm told from across the track

Where is the mayor
Who'll make all things fair
He lives outside
Our polluted air

And I didn't have to be here
You didn't have to love for me
While I was just a nothin' child
Why couldn't they just let me be
Let me be, let me be, let me be

I got a Jones, runnin' through ma' bones
I'm sorry, son
All your money's gone

Painful rip in my upper hip
I guess it's time to take another trip

Don't care what nobody say
I got to take the pain away
It's getting worser day by day
And all my life has been this way
Can't reason with the pusherman
Finance is all that he understands
'You junkie, mama cries, you know'
Would rip her, but I love her so
Love her so, now