Little Child Runnin' Wild Lyrics - Curtis Mayfield

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