Living For The City-Ike & Tina Turner

[00:11.07]A boy is born in hard time Mississippi [00:16.10]Surrounded by four walls that ain't so pretty [00:20.92]His parents give him love and affection [00:25.62]To keep him strong moving in the right direction [00:29.93]Living just enough just enough for the city [00:39.69]His father works some days for fourteen hours [00:44.83]And you can bet he barely makes a dollar [00:49.80]His mother goes to scrub the floor for many [00:54.21]And you'd best believe she hardly gets a penny [00:58.68]Living just enough just enough for the city [01:05.61] [01:24.52]His sister's black but she is sho nuff pretty [01:29.20]Her skirt is short but Lord her legs are sturdy [01:34.51]To walk to school she's got to get up early [01:39.42]Her clothes are old but never are they dirty [01:44.30]Living just enough just enough for the city [01:53.90]Her brother's smart he's got more sense than many [01:59.28]His patience's long but soon he won't have any [02:04.10]To find a job is like a haystack needle [02:08.30]Cause where he lives they don't use colored people [02:13.15]Living just enough just enough for the city [02:22.86]Ohhhhhh ah [02:28.60]Ahhhhhh yeah [02:38.45]Cause living just enough [02:42.86]Cause they ain't yet enough [02:47.86]Propable start you ain't get no start [02:53.86]Give that lode one rode can't get shut [02:57.86]What is hole they'll hold you every know [03:03.66]One day somebody gonna come on [03:07.66]Gonna take their children speel their hole [03:11.85]Oh yeah holy just you just know [03:18.85]Some just even know [03:21.85]They can living enough [03:26.05]Living just probablily start [03:30.05]