Woman of the Ghetto (Live)-Marlena Shaw

[ti:Woman of the Ghetto (Live)] [ar:Marlena Shaw] [al:The Blue Note Years] [offset:0] [00:02.56]Woman of the Ghetto (Live) - Marlena Shaw [01:32.66](ging, gi-gi-gi-gi-ging...) [01:47.36](la-la-la-la-la-la-la, ...) [01:59.03]I was born, raised in a ghetto [02:03.78]I was born and raised in a ghetto [02:07.50] [02:08.78]I'm a woman, of the ghetto [02:12.72]Won't you listen, won't you listen to me, legislator? [02:14.69] [02:17.70](ging, gi-gi-gi-gi-ging...) [02:29.36]How do you raise your kids in a ghetto? [02:33.72]How do you raise your kids in a ghetto? [02:38.26]Do you feed one child and starve another? [02:43.19]Won't you tell me, legislator? [02:47.45]Enthralled through [02:50.73]I know that my eyes ain't blue [02:53.33]But you see I'm a woman [02:55.74]Of the ghetto [02:57.66]I'm proud, free, [03:00.78]Black, that is me [03:03.28]But I'm a woman of the ghetto [03:07.67](ging, gi-gi-gi-gi-ging...) [03:19.28]How does your heart feel late at night? [03:23.54]How does your heart feel late at night? [03:27.85]Does it beat with shame, or does it beat with pride? [03:32.62]I won't you tell me, tell me, legislator? [03:36.71] [03:38.27](na-na-na-na-na-na-na, ...) [03:47.68] [04:02.95]Puts me in the mind of, [04:06.67]Come and cross the water in a boat [04:14.38]Chained, tied, together [04:23.54]They said, "no, no, they're really not man, and women, [04:28.92]Just chain 'em up, tie 'em up, chain 'em up, tie 'em up, [04:30.90]Chain 'em up, tie 'em up, work, work, work" [04:35.35]There's where the movement came from [04:37.84] [04:41.99]Say no, no... [04:52.92]My children learned just the same as yours [04:57.20]As long as nobody tries to close the door [05:02.11]They cry with pain when the knife cuts deep [05:07.30]They even close their eyes when they wanna sleep [05:11.94]Now peace, you say [05:14.20]Is all that you ask [05:16.91]But self-respect is a separate task [05:21.02]You may be sitting up there [05:23.17]In your ivory tower [05:27.52]60 stories tall [05:31.14]I know that you may have checked out at least one ghetto [05:36.66]But I wonder have you lived there at all? [05:39.50] [05:40.43]Places like Watts, [05:42.26]Ah, Holland, tell me [05:44.70] [05:45.88]Chicago, ah tell me [05:48.57]Washington got some too [05:51.20]I have been up on the mountains, I [05:55.63]And I'm free at last [05:58.23]I say I'm free at last [06:01.29]I've seen the children dying [06:11.04]And I've been one of the mothers who was crying [06:18.20](ging, gi-gi-gi-gi-ging...) [06:36.75]I am a woman [06:39.08]I am a woman [06:41.53]I am a woman, yes I [06:44.55]I said that I am, [06:47.09]I mean that I am, [06:49.47]I'm the woman, I'm the woman, I'm the woman of the ghetto [06:54.26] [06:56.45]Strong, true, [07:01.15]A woman [07:05.94]A woman [07:09.49]You can walk through the streets of the ghetto at night [07:12.68] [07:13.33]Whole lotta pretty, some ugly sites [07:20.52]Along comes the sleek limousine [07:25.71]Say "hey baby I got ten... [07:31.02]Look at me, I'm clean" [07:34.25]So she takes a little dope [07:37.33]What the hell everybody got to go [07:40.23]I got a baby [07:42.30]I got a baby [07:45.18]I got a baby i want to feed and I'm not really giving it all [07:49.88] [07:50.39]Up, just a little ten-cent piece or two [07:55.54]Ah, the black woman... [08:03.79]But I ain't gonna raise your babies no more [08:06.61]I got a few on my own, [08:08.23]I wanna keep strolling, [08:09.16] [08:11.12]I say I am a woman [08:15.51]Gi-gi-gi-gi-ging, I am [08:23.97]I [08:31.34]I am [08:33.59]I am [08:41.81]Remember me [08:44.51]I'm the one who had your babies, I [08:50.69]Gi-gi-gi-gi-ging, I am [08:59.78]I am a woman [09:04.84]Of the ghetto [09:07.58] [09:09.49]Woman, [09:11.74]I'm a woman, yeah yeah yeah [09:14.21]Just a woman...