Curtis Mayfield Little Child Runnin` Wild Lyrics

Little Child Runnin` Wild Lyrics

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