| It’s a hard rain in the ghetto
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| Blues are gonna take their toll
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| It’s a hard rain in the ghetto baby
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| Blues are gonna take their toll
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| And this city’s full of heartache
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| Remedy no man knows
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| Yeah you’re livin' by the people baby
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| No time bein' on your own
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| Yeah livin' by the people baby
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| No time bein' on your own
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| It’s a hard rain in the ghetto baby
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| Hard rain’s where you’re comin' from, yeah
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| You may be lyin' in the gutter
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| A man look down his nose on you
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| You may be lyin' in the gutter
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| A man look down his nose on you
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| It’s a hard rain in the ghetto baby
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| What else can you s’posed to do
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| It’s a hard rain in the ghetto
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| Blues are gonna take their toll, yeah
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| It’s a hard rain in the ghetto baby
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| Blues are gonna take their toll
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| And this city’s full of heartache
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| Remedy no man knows
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| Oh tell me brother, yeah |