Sex Education: Ghetto Style

by Gil Scott-Heron

From the album: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Track 2 of 11 on The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (1974).

Duration: 0:51

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This is called "Sex Education: Ghetto Style" I was doin' it when I was a colored boy of eight or nine or ten I had never heard of Sigmund Freud, but hell I was doin' it then I was doin' it in my teenaged years when I was running the ghetto streets Now, I had never seen me no inkblot test, but it still felt good to me I was doin' it when I arrived in college searching for my degree But Lord knows, a degree wasn't all I got And that's the way it's supposed to be I hope that when I have kids of my own, they really don't get shook When I tell them that there are things they've got to learn That can't be found in books

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