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Sex Education: Ghetto Style

This version of Sex Education: Ghetto Style was released by Gil Scott-Heron in 1972.

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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 ink blot 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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The lyrics for Sex Education: Ghetto Style are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1972 song by Gil Scott-Heron. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Sex Education: Ghetto Style have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Sex Education: Ghetto Style - Gil Scott-Heron and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Sex Education: Ghetto Style by Gil Scott-Heron in multiple ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Sex Education: Ghetto Style" means the words set to the music of Sex Education: Ghetto Style, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Gil Scott-Heron. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Sex Education: Ghetto Style and the lyrics to Sex Education: Ghetto Style are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Gil Scott-Heron who came here looking just for the lyrics to Sex Education: Ghetto Style, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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