Little girl standin' on the corner

Somebody somebody please won't you lend a hand

I'm just the ghetto child

In this so-called in this so-called free land

Somebody somebody somewhere

Somebody somebody please won't you give a dime

My mother she's sick in the bed almost dying

And I ain't seen my daddy in a long time

Now this is the part that move me so much right here

He said 'I know he said I know

He said I know I ought a be in school

But I went to school one mornin' and the teacher she told

When you come back child try to have on your shoes'