Heart Of The City Lyrics - Blue Cheer

(Dr. Richard Peddicord) 

My mama told me when I was born 

She said the city is gonna be your soil 

Raise all eight children 

Work all your life 

Pray you don't die by some stranger's knife. 

You're living in the heart 

Yeah, the heart of the city 

Yeah! 

We all live on that city floor 

Winos, widows, hags, and whores 

You butcher bankers and you millionaires 

We all know what goes on down there. 

You're living in the heart 

Yeah, the heart of the city 

You're living in the heart 

Yeah, the heart of the city. 

Things get tough, I just don't care 

I let the night time take me anywhere 

Yeah, take me anywhere, I don't care, no. 

Things get rough, I just don't care 

I let the night time take me anywhere 

No, take me downtown, take me to the heart of the city, baby. 

No, you tell in your cold slip 

Your mind has snapped and your heart goes in 

You know it's real and it ain't no shit 

When you get down to the heart of it. 

You're living in the heart 

Yeah, the heart of the city 

Yeah baby, go down to the heart 

Yeah, the heart of the city 

OW! 

You're living in the heart 

Yeah, the heart of the city 

Straight from the heart 

Straight from the heart of the cityyyyyyyy!