Living For The City-Ike & Tina Turner

[ti:Living For The City] [ar:Ike & Tina Turner] [al:Back To Back: Ray Charles & Ike & Tina Turner] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Living For The City - Ike & Tina Turner [00:11.26]A boy is born in hard time Mississippi [00:15.68] [00:16.31]Surrounded by four walls that ain't so pretty [00:20.43] [00:21.12]His parents give him love and affection [00:24.90] [00:25.79]To keep him strong moving in the right direction [00:29.08] [00:30.15]Living just enough just enough for the city ee ha [00:40.43]His father works some days for fourteen hours [00:45.15]And you can bet he barely makes a dollar [00:48.91] [00:50.07]His mother goes to scrub the floors for many [00:53.60] [00:54.37]And you'd best believe she hardly gets a penny [00:58.63]Living just enough just enough for the city yeah [01:06.48] [01:25.71]His sister's black but she is sho'nuff pretty [01:29.74]Her skirt is short but Lord her legs are sturdy [01:33.89] [01:34.52]To walk to school she's got to get up early [01:38.66] [01:39.61]Her clothes are old but never are they dirty [01:43.09] [01:44.87]Living just enough just enough for the city um hum [01:52.23] [01:54.40]Her brother's smart he's got more sense than many [01:58.47] [01:59.58]His patience's long but soon he won't have any [02:03.41] [02:04.34]To find a job is like a haystack needle [02:07.87] [02:08.67]Cause where he lives they don't use colored people [02:12.43] [02:13.43]Living just enough just enough for the city