| Yo listen
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| I met this girl on Baltic Ave.
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| And you can tell how she steps on boardwalk,
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| She was park place
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| I asked what she was doing on this side of town
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| She said she had some taxes to pay
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| I figure I’d take a chance and advance to go And find out more about
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| Cause there more to know than the way she ways
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| And the way that she wears her clothes,
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| Or the way she plays this game (so cold)
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| She said she came up rough
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| And one income was not enough
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| There’d be nights she’d go to sleep hungry
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| Cause her mom was always short on food and money
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| See people used to joke a lot
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| Tease her bout her clothes not being in style
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| Dressed in dingy skirts and dirty sneakers
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| From the finest second hand down Oriental Ave.
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| But now look at her
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| She got this game on lock
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| Anything she ever wanted now she got it And I’ve gotta say
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| And I’m proud to see
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| That someone like her is in central
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| Womanopoly
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| Once she graduated junior high she started working overtime
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| Scrubbing floors or working on assembly lines
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| Just so she could help her mother out and
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| After college they moved into Marvin Gardens
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| And she got a job working at the city water department
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| To raise enough cash
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| In move into community chest condos on Pennsylvania Ave
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| She fell in love with this dude named ray
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| Who was a small time hustler from St. Charles place
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| And he was known for always bein in and out of trouble
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| But the problem was that he was never on her level
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| She argued with her mom about ray’s work
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| Til he was sent upstate on the same day that she gave birth
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| But see the baby never made it, it drove her nearly crazy
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| And she couldn’t take it
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| (Listen) see where she came from
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| Many people find it hard just to hang on You often find them in the same place complaining
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| Instead of finding a better way of maintain
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| She could have balled up and cry
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| Wished that she would die
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| And just gave up on tryin
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| Instead she grind from the bottom
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| Just to make it to the bottom now shes flying |