Let's Clean Up the Ghetto

Let's Clean Up the Ghetto - The Philadelphia International All-Stars

Written by：Gamble Kenny/Huff Leon/Gilbert Cary Grant

You know I was in New York City a few months ago

And the garbage and the trash men were on strike

I'm tellin' the maintenance people of the city

What they were tryin' to do was

They were tryin' to get a little more money

You know get a little raise in pay

But at that particular time the city was broke

They were about to declare default

I tell you the garbage in some places

Was stacked up two three stories high

At night haha boy at night it weren't even safe to walk the street

'Cause they caught the rats the roaches and the water bugs

I mean they were hustlin' baby tryin' to get somethin' to eat see

And let met tell you somethin' it was stinkin'

And it was all kind of diseases in there you know

But it only brought to mind the fact that

You can no longer depend on the man downtown

To take care of business like he's supposed to

When he's supposed to

If all of us would get it like it's supposed to be

As far as cleanliness you know and safety

We gotta get together and do it for ourselves

That's the only way it's gonna be done

And you know what I'm talkin' about

Let me tell you what I mean

Clean it up clean it up well y'all

Clean it up clean it up you gotta get it

Clean it up clean it up yes gonna get it

Clean it up clean it up

Ghetto

Talkin' 'bout the ghetto

Ghetto is our home

That's where we live where we live

Get some paint fetch your hammer your nails

Get your brooms your mop and your pail

We're gonna wash it polish and make it all clean

Let's wash away all of the sins

Time for a new life to begin in the ghetto

I said clean it up clean it up

I said we're gonna clean it up clean it up

Because the Ghetto

I said the Ghetto

Ghetto is our home

That's where we live where we live

Let's paint the signs everybody can read

Let's get rid of everything we don't need

Pushers the dealers

The pocket book snatchers and thieves aha

Let's make the streets safe for women to walk

Let's get rid of all the foul talk

We gonna do it and all of us shall survive

I said we're gonna clean it up clean it up do it

We got to clean it up clean it up hey

Ghetto said the ghetto

Ghetto

Ghetto is our home

That's where we live from day to day

Where we live where we live

All of your brothers that live on the mainline

You lived in the ghetto once upon a time

We need everybody to lend a hand

Now you've helped everybody else

Now's the time for you to help yourself

We can't depend depend on the people no no

Well well get it up get it up

Clean it up well well ya

Clean it up clean it up hey hey hey

Ghetto ghetto

Ghetto is our home

Yeah that's where we live where we live

I said clean it up clean it up

Come on y'all let's clean it up clean it up

Come on y'all let's clean it up clean it up

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