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Village Ghetto Land

This version of Village Ghetto Land was released by Stevie Wonder in 1976.

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Would you like to go with me
Down my dead end street
Would you like to come with me
To Village Ghetto Land

See the people lock their doors
While robbers laugh and steal
Beggars watch and eat their meal -from garbage cans

Broken glass is everywhere
It’s a bloody scene
Killing plagues the citizens
Unless they own police

Children play with rusted cars
Sores cover their hands
Politicians laugh and drink-drunk to all demands

Families buying dog food now
Starvation roams the streets
Babies die before they’re born
Infected by the grief

Now some folks say that we should be
Glad for what we have
Tell me would you be happy in Village Ghetto Land

Village Ghetto Land

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Village Ghetto Land, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1976 song by Stevie Wonder. Some of the lyrics to Village Ghetto Land have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Stevie Wonder and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Village Ghetto Land if you take apart the structure of the words. 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 Village Ghetto Land" means the words set to the music of Village Ghetto Land, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Stevie Wonder. 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 Village Ghetto Land and the lyrics to Village Ghetto Land are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Stevie Wonder who came here looking just for the lyrics to Village Ghetto Land, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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