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.