World Gone Crazy

Working real hard in the heart of the city
 Noon day sun feeling hot and sweaty
 Trying to make my pay, trying to make my monthly rent
 Working real hard for the US dollar
 Living real poor gonna make me holler
 I don't wanna live in the street like some folks do.
 I was raised up on the corner
 In front of a grocery store
 Shining shoes with the Daily News
 For two pence on the floor
 Given a chance I'd go back to the days of a simpler time
 Cause this old world's gone crazy
 And I'm about to lose my mind
 Working real hard in the heart of the city
 Noon day sun feeling hot and sweaty
 Trying to make my pay, trying to make my monthly rent
 Working real hard for the US dollar
 Living real poor gonna make me holler
 I don't wanna live in the street like some folks do.
 My brother drives delivery right down on Dolphin Street
 Has a little house by the railroad track
 Kinda small but it was neat
 The police came and got him for robbing a liquor store
 And even though he didn't do it
 They got what they came for
 Working real hard in the heart of the city
 Noon day sun feeling hot and sweaty
 Trying to make my pay, trying to make my monthly rent
 Working real hard for the US dollar
 Living real poor gonna make me holler
 I don't wanna live in the street like some folks do.
 It's a poor man but life is bitter sweet
 Doesn't wanna lose that good thing that he's got
 But the same old government that pays you every week
 Will come and take your home away and put you in the street
 Working real hard in the heart of the city
 Noon day sun feeling hot and sweaty
 Trying to make my pay, trying to make my monthly rent
 Working real hard for the US dollar
 Living real poor gonna make me holler
 I don't wanna live in the street like some folks do.