[00:00.000] 作曲 : Smokey Robinson/M. Tarplin
[00:26.026]Clerks at the hotels don't take a chance
[00:29.576]Rooms for three dollars pay in advance
[00:33.676]Sleep on a mattress, you might get a sheet
[00:37.876]But you'd be surprised at the people you meet
[00:42.076]Telling their tales of trouble and woe
[00:46.026]'Bout how they got down here to skid row
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[00:52.576]Minnie the moocher begging for dimes
[00:56.676]Her life has fallen on difficult times
[01:00.626]She was a teacher, got strung out on crack
[01:04.876]Went out so far 'til she never got back
[01:08.976]When she started teaching, she didn't know
[01:12.826]'Bout the school of hard knocks down on skid row
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[01:19.550]Willie the wino, now ain't it a shame
[01:23.635]Sleeping in doorways, he don't know his name
[01:27.785]Was a surgical doctor, the top of his class
[01:32.009]'Til he started finding his nerve in a glass
[01:36.035]A little nip now and then began to grow and grow
[01:40.085]He's a missing physician on skid row
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[01:47.585]Skid row, anywhere USA
[01:51.385]You can find them there
[01:55.585]Lost sheep who have gone astray
[01:59.135]We gotta lift them up in prayer
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[02:49.467]Larry and Lisa, three kids and all
[02:53.307]Nowhere to go and no one to call
[02:57.507]Larry was working, he was laid off
[03:01.707]Lived in a house that wasn't paid off
[03:05.807]Went into foreclosure and they had to go
[03:09.607]Now they live on the streets down on skid row
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[03:16.007]Well, well, skid row, anywhere USA
[03:20.857]You can find them there
[03:24.507]The numbers growing higher everyday
[03:28.807]We gotta show them somebody cares
[03:33.507]Well, skid row, anywhere USA
[03:37.581]You can find them there
[03:41.681]Lost sheep who have gone astray
[03:45.557]We gotta lift them up in prayer...