Ghetto Life

When I was a young boy

Growing up in the ghetto

Hanging out on corners

Singin' with the fellas

Lookin' for the cute chicks

Tryna find me 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 talkin' bout? (talkin' 'bout ghetto life)

Ghetto life

You wanna know what I'm singin' 'bout? (talkin' 'bout ghetto life)

Ghetto life

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)

I knew it all along that my game was strong

But I was wrong that time

I knew I had to play, had to get 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 I wouldn't get out? (doo-doo-doo-doo-doo, doo-doo, doo)

(Of the Ghetto Life)

Sing it to 'til you feel it when you say

(Talkin 'bout) ghetto life

You got to get on over, (talkin 'bout) 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 tommorow

So, brother, don't you worry

Ghetto life (talking 'bout ghetto life)

Talking 'bout ghetto life

Ghetto life, baby

(Talkin' 'bout ghetto life)

(Life)

(Life) ghetto life (talkin' 'bout ghetto life)

La-la-la-la, life (shoop, shoop, shoop, shoop, shoop bee doop, in the ghetto)

People, we got to get over (shoop, shoop, shoop, shoop, shoop bee doop, in the ghetto)

Talkin' 'bout the life (shoop, shoop, shoop, shoop, shoop bee doop, in the ghetto)

(Life)

Where's the place we funk? (Ghetto Land, that's the place we funk)

(Place we like to funk, Ghetto Land, that's the place where we funk)

Say, where the place we funk? (Ghetto Land, that's the place where we funk)

(Place we like to funk, Ghetto Land) ho!

(That's the place where we funk, place we like to funk)

Where's the place we like to funk? Where's 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