{"id":494,"date":"2014-12-05T10:34:12","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T18:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/?p=494"},"modified":"2024-05-12T13:19:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T20:19:26","slug":"living-for-the-city-still-relevant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/?p=494","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Living for the City&#8217; Still Relevant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VX6lJmxVLtY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more-->&#8220;Living For The City&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A boy is born in hard time Mississippi<br \/>\nSurrounded by four walls that ain&#8217;t so pretty<br \/>\nHis parents give him love and affection<br \/>\nTo keep him strong moving in the right direction<br \/>\nLiving just enough, just enough for the city&#8230;ee ha!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">His father works some days for fourteen hours<br \/>\nAnd you can bet he barely makes a dollar<br \/>\nHis mother goes to scrub the floor for many<br \/>\nAnd you&#8217;d best believe she hardly gets a penny<br \/>\nLiving just enough, just enough for the city&#8230;yeah<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">His sister&#8217;s black but she is sho &#8217;nuff pretty<br \/>\nHer skirt is short but Lord her legs are sturdy<br \/>\nTo walk to school she&#8217;s got to get up early<br \/>\nHer clothes are old but never are they dirty<br \/>\nLiving just enough, just enough for the city&#8230;um hum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Her brother&#8217;s smart he&#8217;s got more sense than many<br \/>\nHis patience&#8217;s long but soon he won&#8217;t have any<br \/>\nTo find a job is like a haystack needle<br \/>\nCause where he lives they don&#8217;t use colored people<br \/>\nLiving just enough, just enough for the city&#8230;<br \/>\nLiving just enough&#8230;<br \/>\nFor the city&#8230;ooh,ooh<br \/>\n[repeat several times]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">His hair is long, his feet are hard and gritty<br \/>\nHe spends his love walking the streets of New York City<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s almost dead from breathing on air pollution<br \/>\nHe tried to vote but to him there&#8217;s no solution<br \/>\nLiving just enough, just enough for the city&#8230;yeah, yeah, yeah!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I hope you hear inside my voice of sorrow<br \/>\nAnd that it motivates you to make a better tomorrow<br \/>\nThis place is cruel no where could be much colder<br \/>\nIf we don&#8217;t change the world will soon be over<br \/>\nLiving just enough, just enough for the city!!!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">La, la, la, la, la, la,<br \/>\nDa Ba Da Da Da Da Da Da<br \/>\nDa Da Da Da Da Da<br \/>\nDa Ba Da Da Da Da Da Da Da<br \/>\n[Repeat to end]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,16,14,13,7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-civil-protest","category-equal-opportunity","category-featured","category-first-amendment-rights","category-music","category-racism","category-social-change","wpcat-4-id","wpcat-8-id","wpcat-16-id","wpcat-14-id","wpcat-13-id","wpcat-7-id","wpcat-17-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}