Let's Clean Up the Ghetto-Philadelphia Rock Band

[ti:Let's Clean Up the Ghetto] [ar:Philadelphia Rock Band] [al:Sonido Philadelphia] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Let's Clean Up the Ghetto - Philadelphia Rock Band [00:06.47]You know I was in New York City a few months ago [00:08.90] [00:09.44]And the garbage and the trash men were on strike [00:11.83] [00:12.55]I'm tellin' the maintenance people of the city [00:14.39] [00:14.97]What they were tryin' to do was [00:16.16]They were tryin' to get a little more money [00:18.10]You know get a little raise in pay [00:19.75] [00:20.43]But at that particular time the city was broke [00:22.59] [00:23.29]They were about ready to declare default [00:25.05] [00:25.87]I tell you the garbage in some places [00:28.00]Was stacked up two three stories high [00:29.49] [00:30.34]At night ha ha boy at night it weren't even safe to walk the street [00:34.58] [00:35.41]'Cause they caught the rats the roaches and the water bugs [00:38.12] [00:38.67]I mean they were hustlin' baby tryin' to get somethin' to eat see [00:42.40]And let met tell you somethin' it was stinkin' [00:44.46]And it was all kind of diseases in there you know [00:48.91]But it only brought to mind the fact that [00:50.83]You can no longer depend on the man downtown [00:52.69] [00:53.39]To take your business [00:54.42] [00:54.97]When he's supposed to [00:55.85] [00:56.66]If all of us would get it like it's supposed to be [01:00.41] [01:00.96]As far as cleanliness you know and safety [01:04.01] [01:04.68]We gotta get together and do it for ourselves [01:07.13] [01:08.09]That's the only way it's gonna be done [01:09.91] [01:10.52]And you know what I'm talkin' about [01:12.50]Let me tell you what I mean [01:13.88] [01:14.48]Clean it up clean it up well y'all [01:17.36] [01:18.19]Clean it up clean it up you gotta get it [01:21.21] [01:22.18]Clean it up clean it up yes [01:24.39] [01:26.13]Clean it up clean it up [01:27.76] [01:30.12]Ghetto ghetto ghetto is our home [01:38.04] [01:41.05]That's where we live where we live [01:43.11] [01:46.21]Get your paint fetch your hammer your nails [01:48.74] [01:49.99]Get your brooms your mop and your pail [01:52.71] [01:53.87]We're gonna wash it polish and make it all clean [01:58.04] [01:58.93]Let's wash away all of the sins [02:01.60] [02:05.62]Time for a new life to begin in the ghetto [02:09.81] [02:12.59]I said clean it up clean it up [02:14.86] [02:16.45]I said we're gonna clean it up clean it up [02:18.72] [02:20.34]Because the ghetto I said the ghetto ghetto is our home [02:28.95] [02:31.95]That's where we live where we live [02:34.23] [02:36.98]Let's paint the signs everybody can read [02:39.74] [02:40.85]Let's get rid of everything we don't need [02:43.58] [02:44.81]Pushers the dealers [02:46.33]The pocket book snatchers and thieves aha [02:50.00] [02:52.69]Let's make the streets safe for women to walk [02:55.69] [02:56.61]Let's get rid of all the foul talk [02:59.26] [03:00.46]We gonna do it and all of us shall survive [03:04.11] [03:06.49]I said we're gonna clean it up clean it up hey [03:11.20] [03:12.09]Clean it up clean it up hey [03:14.62] [03:15.95]Ghetto ghetto ghetto is our home [03:23.82] [03:26.89]That's where we live where we live [03:29.00] [03:31.85]All of your brothers that live on the mainline [03:34.30] [03:35.84]You lived in the ghetto once upon a time [03:38.43] [03:39.61]We need everybody to lend a hand [03:43.13] [03:47.62]Now you've helped everybody else [03:50.19] [03:51.53]Now's the time for you to help yourself [03:54.33] [03:55.24]Yeah we can't depend on where we tell wa [04:00.60] [04:02.75]Clean it up clean it up [04:04.17] [04:06.53]Clean it up clean it up [04:08.10] [04:09.72]Yeah ghetto ghetto ghetto is our home [04:18.69] [04:21.14]That's where we live where we live [04:23.22] [04:25.93]Clean it up clean it up [04:27.45] [04:29.67]Clean it up clean it up