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When I was a young boy |
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Growing up in the ghetto |
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Hanging out on corners |
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Singin' with the fellas |
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Lookin' for the cute chicks |
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Trying to find a bit of fun |
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Looking for some trouble |
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Or anyone who'll give me some |
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I was young and crazy |
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(In the ghetto) |
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Didn't know what my life would be |
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(In the ghetto) |
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I was dumb and, oh, so lazy |
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(In the ghetto) |
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Something had a spell on me |
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(In the ghetto) |
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You wanna know what I'm talkin' bout? |
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(Talkin' 'bout ghetto life) |
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Ghetto life |
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You wanna know what I'm singin' 'bout? |
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(Talkin' 'bout ghetto life) |
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Ghetto life |
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When I was a young man |
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Kind of free and fancy |
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Met this little cute girl |
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She said, her name was Nancy |
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She had pigtails to her shoulders |
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She couldn't have been much older |
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She taught me what I had to know |
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To make a girl not want to go |
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She was very kinky |
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(In the ghetto) |
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She laid her pigtails down on me |
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(In the ghetto) |
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And I was feeling, oh, so sneaky |
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(In the ghetto) |
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I had to see what love could be, yes now |
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(In the ghetto) |
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I knew it all along |
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That my game was strong |
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But I was wrong that time |
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I knew, I had to pray |
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And give myself away |
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Did you think I was man enough? Yeah |
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Did you think I was smart enough? Yeah |
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Did you think I was strong enough? Yeah |
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Did you think I'd work it out of the ghetto life? |
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Sing it to ya, hit it, baby, say, ghetto life |
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(Talkin' 'bout ghetto life) |
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You got to get on over, ghetto life |
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(Talkin' 'bout ghetto life) |
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When I was a young boy |
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Tenements, slums and corner bums |
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Playing tag with winos |
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The only way to have some fun |
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One thing 'bout the ghetto |
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You don't have to hurry |
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It'll be there tomorrow |
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So brother, don't you worry |
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Ghetto life |
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(Talkin' 'bout ghetto life) |
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Talking 'bout ghetto life |
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Ghetto life, baby |
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(Talkin' 'bout ghetto life) |
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Life, life |
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Ghetto life, la la, la la, life |
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(Talkin' 'bout ghetto life) |
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(Shoop shoop, shoop shoop) |
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(Shoop be doop in the ghetto) |
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People we got to get over |
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(Shoop shoop, shoop shoop) |
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(Shoop be doop in the ghetto) |
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Talkin' 'bout the life |
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(Shoop shoop, shoop shoop) |
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(Shoop be doop in the ghetto life) |
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Where's the place we funk? |
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(Ghetto Land that's the place where we funk) |
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(The place we like to funk) |
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(Ghetto Land that's the place where we funk) |
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(The place we like to funk) |
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Say, where the place we funk |
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(Ghetto Land that's the place where we funk) |
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(The place we like to funk) |
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(Ghetto Land that's the place where we funk) |
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Ho |
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(The place we like to funk) |
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Where's the place, we like to funk |
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(Ghetto Land that's the place where we funk) |
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(The place we like to funk) |
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Where's the place, we like to funk |
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(Ghetto Land that's the place where we funk) |
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(The place we like to funk) |
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Ghetto Land, that's the place |
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Where we funk from day to day |
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Ghetto Land, Ghetto Land |