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Paint It Black Lyrics

Album Name : The Revolution Begins: The Flying Dutchman Masters
Release Date : 2012-11-26
Song Duration : 00:32

Gil Scott-heron Paint It Black


Picture a man of nearly thirty
Who seems twice as old with clothes torn and dirty
Give him a job shining shoes
Or cleaning out toilets with bus station crews
Give him six children with nothing to eat
Expose them to life on a ghetto street
Tie an old rag around his wife's head
And have her pregnant and lying in bed
Stuff them all in a Harlem house
And then tell them how bad things are down South.



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