Rich Get Richer - The O'Jays

作词：Kenneth Gamble/Leon Huff

作曲：Kenneth Gamble/Leon Huff

I want everybody to listen

I want to talk about the rich and the super rich

The poor and the super poor

Come on

Come on

Come on

Come on

Come on

Let's talk about it

Talk about it

Talk about it

Talk about it

Talk about it

You tell 'em

You tell 'em

The people who live on the hill

Don't have time for the ghetto no

No they don't

Wait listen

But they make money

From the people who live

In the ghetto

Yeah

Yes they do

And you see 'em you see 'em you see 'em

And every time you see them they're stylin profiling

Always trying to get more than they give

Hold that little man down

Why don't they why don't they let him live

Ooooo let him live let him live

And the rich get richer

And the poor poor

Keep on

Keep on

Keep on getting poorer

Yes they do

There's only sixteen families

That control the whole world

What you say

I read that in a book y'all

I said sixteen families

That control this whole world

People like the Mellons

The Gettys

The Duponts

The Rockefellers

Howard Hughes

They always win how in the world can they lose

Ooooooo

They never lose never lose

Because the rich get richer

And the poor

Keep on

Keep on

Keep on getting poorer

Talk about it talk about it

You tell 'em

You say it

Ain't nothing wrong with being rich well well

Just be rich through and through

Don't get caught up in that spotlight

Please don't let money turn you

There's an old friend of mine

He's doing good real good matter of fact

He don't know me now

But I can take him way way way way back

Now don't forget where you come from

Don't forget where you come from

You've got to know

That ain't right

Some people have more than enough

When you got you got you got people starving

Babies crying

People living just for dollars

That's tough tough luck that's what they say man

I know there's got to be a better way

People living in one room shacks

Sleeping on top off each other's backs

Now that's tough tough luck

That's what they say

I know I know there's got to be a better way

The rich well the super rich lord

The poor well the super poor

The homeless

Don't forget where you come from

Don't forget where you come from