Paint It Black Lyrics & Tabs by Gil Scott-Heron

Paint It Black

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Gil Scott-Heron

Picture a man of nearly thirty
Who seemed 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.