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Little Child Runnin Wild lyrics
Songwriters: Mayfield, Curtis;

Little child
Runnin wild
Watch a while
You see he never smiles

Broken home
Father gone
Mama tired
So he s all alone

Kind of sad
Kind of mad
Ghetto child
Thinkin he s been had

In the back of his mind he s sayin
Didn t have to be here
You didn t have to love for me
While I was just a nothin child
Why couldn t they just let me be
Let me be, let me be, let me be

One room shack
On the alley-back
Control, I m told
From across the track

Where is the mayor
Who ll make all things fair
He lives outside
Our polluted air

And I didn t have to be here
You didn t have to love for me
While I was just a nothin child
Why couldn t they just let me be
Let me be, let me be, let me be

I got a Jones
Runnin through ma bones
I m sorry son
All your money s gone

Painful rip
In my upper hip
I guess it s time
To take another trip

Don t care what nobody say
I got to take the pain away
It s getting worser day by day
And all my life has been this way

Can t reason with the pusher man
Finance is all that he understands
You junkie, mama cries, you know
Would rip her, but I love her so
Love her so, now
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