Karaoké Ghetto Life Rick James

When I was a young boy

Growing up in the ghetto

Hanging out on corners

Singin' 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

Didn't know what my life would be

I was dumb and

Oh, so lazy

Something had a spell on me

You wanna know what I'm talking 'bout

Ghetto life

You wanna know what I'm singing 'bout

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

She laid her pigtails down on me

And I was young and

Oh, so sneaky

I had to see what love could be

Listen now

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

Did you think

I was smart enough

Did you think

I was strong enough

Did you think that I'd work it out

Sing it 'till you feel it when you say

Ghetto life

You got to get on over

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

Hey hey hey

Ghetto life, baby

Ghetto life

La la la la

Life

People we got to get over

Talking 'bout the life

Where's the place we funk

Say where's the place we funk

Oh

That's the place we like to funk

Where's the place we like to funk