2272 University Avenue

Duration

3:46

Genres

Folk

Description

Lyrics

a robber fell six stories to the ground a picket fence impaled his leg that's what you get for robbing my mama while daddy was out working hard to bring home the bread University Avenue up in the Bronx on the slope of one of them long Bronx hills where everyday somebody was getting jacked up or somebody was getting killed it is still the case as a baby i was being baby sat in the room farthest from our apartment entrance when a man came in and robbed us blind all in all he robbed us a total of five times they knew his face the police don't care when you're a spic on the line dialing 911, they're taking their sweet time so consider us lucky or consider us not surviving on a street that was rough and rotting and hot nobody wants to go there nobody wants to go back there don't remember exactly what the headline read i think he came out alive but remained half dead he made one of the pages of the Daily News and we moved into Brooklyn far away from those blues and life went on the way life goes on, life went on on 2272 University Avenue known as Dr. Martin Luther King avenue too 2272 University Avenue on the slope of one of them long Bronx hills.