Woman of the Ghetto (Live)-Marlena Shaw

[ti:Woman of the Ghetto (Live)] [ar:Marlena Shaw] [al:The Blue Note Years] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]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] [04:41.98]Say no no [04:52.91]My children learned just the same as yours [04:57.19]As long as nobody tries to close the door [05:02.10]They cry with pain when the knife cuts deep [05:07.29]They even close their eyes when they wanna sleep [05:11.93]Now peace you say [05:14.19]Is all that you ask [05:16.90]But self-respect is a separate task [05:21.01]You may be sitting up there [05:23.16]In your ivory tower [05:27.51]60 stories tall [05:31.13]I know that you may have checked out at least one ghetto [05:36.65]But I wonder have you lived there at all [05:39.49] [05:40.43]Places like Watts [05:42.25]Ah Holland tell me [05:44.69] [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 [08:23.96]I [08:31.33]I am [08:33.58]I am [08:41.80]Remember me [08:44.50]I'm the one who had your babies I [08:50.68]Gi-gi-gi-gi-ging I am [08:59.77]I am a woman [09:04.83]Of the ghetto [09:07.57] [09:09.48]Woman [09:11.73]I'm a woman yeah yeah yeah [09:14.20]Just a woman