Living For The City-Stevie Wonder

[ti:Living For The City] [ar:Stevie Wonder] [al:Best Of] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.84]Living For The City [00:05.16] [00:10.53]A boy is born in hard time mississippi [00:15.47]Surrounded by four walls that ain’t so pretty [00:20.22]His parents give him love and affection [00:25.16]To keep him strong moving in the right direction [00:29.28]Living just enough just enough for the city ee ha [00:39.78]His father works some days for fourteen hours [00:44.66]And you can bet he barely makes a dollar [00:49.53]His mother goes to scrub the floors for many [00:53.85]And you’d best believe she hardly gets a penny [00:58.28]Living just enough just enough for the city yeah [01:09.03] [01:26.10]His sister’s black but she is sho’nuff pretty [01:30.85]Her skirt is short but lord her legs are sturdy [01:35.66]To walk to school she’s got to get up early [01:40.47]Her clothes are old but never are they dirty [01:44.60]Living just enough just enough for the city um hum [01:55.35]Her brother’s smart he’s got more sense than many [02:00.16]His patience’s long but soon he won’t have any [02:04.97]To find a job is like a haystack needle [02:09.85]Cause where he lives they don’t use colored people [02:13.91]Living just enough just enough for the city [02:27.04] [02:51.90]Living just enough For the city