Little Child Runnin Wild chords by
Curtis Mayfield
Curtis Mayfield

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Key: F# minor•

Intro 1

F#m

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Verse 1

Little child

Runnin' wild

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Watch a while

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You see he never smiles

Verse 2
F#m F#m 2
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Broken home
Father gone
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Mama tired
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So he's all alone

Verse 3
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Kind  of sad
Kind of mad
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Ghetto child
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Thinkin' he's been had

Verse 4

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In the back of his mind he's sayin'

Verse 5
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Didn't have to be    here
You didn't have to love for me
While I was just a nothin' child
Why couldn't they just let me be
Let me be, let me be,

Interlude 1

let me be

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Verse 6

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One room shack

On the alley- back

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Control, I'm told

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From across the track

Verse 7
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Where is the mayor
Who'll make all things fair
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He lives outside
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Our polluted air

Verse 8
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And I didn't have to be here
You didn't have to love for me
While I was just a nothin' child
Why couldn't they just let me be
Let me be, let me be,

Interlude 2

let me be

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Verse 9

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I got a jones

Runnin' through ma' bones

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I'm sorry son

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All your money's gone

Verse 10
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Painful rip
In my upper hip
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I guess it's time
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To take another trip

Verse 11
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Don't care what nobody say
I got to take the pain away
It's getting worser day by day
And all my life has been this way
Can't reason with the pusherman
Finance is all that he understands
'You junkie, mama cries, you know'
Would rip her, but I love her so