Help the Children-M.C. Hammer

[ti:Help The Children] [ar:MC Hammer] [al:Platinum] [by:] [offset:0] [00:14.14]Will you let them be [00:16.63] [00:19.39]Will you help the children live to see [00:24.12] [00:24.99]A generation's trying [00:26.87] [00:27.43]Oh how we're dying [00:31.92] [00:35.29]Will you let them be [00:38.23] [00:40.60]Will you help the children live to see [00:45.54] [00:46.60]To keep our lives going [00:50.85] [00:54.33]Life is here and then it's gone [00:56.51]And what seems right can be oh-so wrong [00:59.07]Let's protect and not molest a young girl [01:01.81]And help them live to see this world [01:04.24] [01:04.81]Clearly as it is [01:07.30]And pray for the mother with kids [01:09.48] [01:09.99]Who's lost control but not her soul [01:12.67]Many kids will die before they're 20 years old [01:15.79] [01:17.92]Will you let them be [01:20.54] [01:23.28]Will you help the children live to see [01:27.77] [01:28.76]A generation's trying [01:29.85] [01:34.28]Oh how we're dying [01:36.16] [01:39.15]Will you let them be [01:42.14] [01:44.52]Will you help the children live to see [01:49.32] [01:50.07]A better day is coming [01:53.12]To keep our lives going [01:56.96] [01:58.39]Popswhere in the world have you gone [02:00.58]I see Momma by the telephone [02:03.39]Waiting but you don't call [02:05.88]Tears on her face and I see them fall [02:08.32]It hurts but will go on [02:11.25]You're just another brother who's left his home [02:13.74]And family yeah we cry [02:16.56]Momma says she love you and I don't even know why [02:20.35] [02:22.04]Will you let them be [02:24.98] [02:27.10]Will you help the children live to see [02:31.90] [02:32.78]A generation's trying [02:34.53] [02:35.34]Oh how we're dying [02:40.13] [02:43.38](Dance help them) [02:44.32]Will you let them be [02:46.50] [02:48.44]Will you help the children live to see [02:54.12]A better day is coming [02:56.55]To keep our lives going [03:02.23]Money and death the lie the truth [03:04.29]A dime bag of crack the end of you [03:06.92]Black and white a constant fight [03:09.42]Years and years and day and night [03:12.10]There was a right I've got to stand [03:14.98]To make a better way for a young black man [03:17.60]In a land where the people smile [03:20.46]Been holding me back for such a long while [03:23.89] [03:25.70]Will you let them be [03:28.32] [03:31.01]Will you help the children live to see [03:36.62]A generation's trying [03:38.19] [03:40.12]Oh how we're dying [03:43.55] [03:47.05]Will you let them be [03:49.85] [03:52.35]Will you help the children live to see [03:57.09] [03:57.77]A better day is coming [04:01.02]To keep our lives going [04:05.70] [04:08.63]Help them will you let them be [04:12.32] [04:13.13]Children don't be fooled [04:14.44]And learn about the way that man was ruled [04:16.56]This country where we live [04:19.00]And read about the sixties and what they did [04:21.36]So that we won't forget [04:24.74]And love one another and give respect [04:26.80]When I see a man who's old [04:29.66]A woman who's grey it touches my soul [04:32.16]Because I know they paved the way [04:35.04]So we could be here and live this way [04:37.68]There was a time not long ago [04:40.24]When in the-front-of-the-bus into the back I had to go [04:44.56]It appears that things have changed [04:46.12]Maybe it's in the method but it's still the same game [04:49.74] [04:50.93]Will you let them be [04:54.29] [04:56.47]Will you help the children live to see [05:01.78]A generation's trying