Ghetto Life

When I was a young boy

Growing up in the ghetto

Hanging out on corners

Singing with the fellas

Looking for the cute chicks

Tryna find the big fun

Looking for some trouble

Or anyone who'll give me some

I was young and crazy

In the ghetto

Didn't know what my life would be

In the ghetto

I was dumb and oh so lazy

In the ghetto

Something had a spell on me

In the ghetto

You wanna know what I'm talking 'bout?

Talking 'bout ghetto life

Ghetto life

You wanna know what I'm singing 'bout?

Talking 'bout ghetto life

Ghetto life[Verse 2: Rick James,

Mary Jane Girls

]

When I was a young man

Kind of free and fancy

Met this little cute girl

She said her name was Nancy

She had pigtails to her shoulders

She couldn't have been much older

She taught me what I had to know

To make a girl not wanna go

She was young and kinky

In the ghetto

She laid her pigtails down on me

In the ghetto

And I was young and oh so sneaky

In the ghetto

I had to see what love could be

In the ghetto

Listen

I knew it all along

That my game was strong

But I was wrong that time

I knew I had to play

And give myself away

Did you think I was man enough?

Yeah

Did you think I was smart enough?

Yeah

Did you think I was strong enough?

Yeah

Did you think that I'd work it out?For the ghetto life

Sing it 'til you feel it when you say

Talking 'bout ghetto life

Ghetto life, you got to get on over

Talking 'bout ghetto life

Ghetto life

When I was a young boy

Tenements, slums and corner bums

Playing tag with winos

The only way to have some fun

One thing 'bout the ghetto

You don't have to hurry

It'll be there tomorrow

So brother don't you worry

Ghetto life

Talking 'bout ghetto life

Talking 'bout ghetto life

Ghetto life, baby

Talking 'bout ghetto life[Outro: Rick James,

Mary Jane Girls

,

The Temptations

]

Life

Life

Ghetto life

Talking 'bout ghetto life

La, la-la-la-la, life

Life

Shoop-shoop-shoop-shoop, shoo-doop in the ghetto

People, we gotta get over

Shoop-shoop-shoop-shoop, shoo-doop in the ghetto

Talking 'bout the life

Shoop-shoop-shoop-shoop, shoo-doop in the ghetto

Life

Where's the place we funk?

Ghetto land, that's the place we funk

(The place we like to funk)

Ghetto land, that's the place we funk

Say where's the place we funk?

Ghetto land, that's the place we funk

(The place we like to funk)

Ghetto land

(Ho!),

that's the place we funk

(The place we like to funk)

Ghetto land, that's the place we funk

That's the place we like to funk

(The place we like to funk)

Where's the place we like to funk?

Ghetto land, that's the place we funk

(The place we like to funk)

Ghetto land, that's the place

Where we funk from day to day

Ghetto land, ghetto land

Ghetto land, that's the place

Where we funk from day to day

Ghetto land