Little girl standin' on the corner

Somebody please won't you lend a hand

I'm just the ghetto child

In this so-called, in this so-called free land



Somebody, somebody somewhere

Somebody please won't you give a dime

My mother she's sick, in the bed almost dying

And I ain't seen, I ain't seen my daddy in a long time



Now that this is the part that move me so much right here

She said I know, I knoooooow I oughta be in school

But I went to school one mornin'

and the teacher she told me

When you come back child, have on some shoes



I'm just the ghetto child

Somebody please please help the ghetto child

I'm just the ghetto child

In this so-called, in this so-called free land