Baltimore Songtext
von Nina Simone

Beat-up little seagull
On a marble stair

Tryna find the ocean
Lookin′ everywhere

Hard times in the city
In a hard town by the sea

Ain't nowhere to run to
There ain′t nothin' here for free

Hooker on the corner
Waiting for a train

Drunk, lying on the sidewalk
Sleeping in the rain

And the people hide their faces
And they hide their eyes

'Cause the city′s dyin′
And they don't know why


Oh, Baltimore
Ain′t it hard just to live?
Oh, Baltimore
Ain't it hard just to live?
Just to live

Get my sister Sandy
And my little brother Ray

Buy a big old wagon
To haul us all away

Live out in the country
Where the mountain′s high

Never gonna come back here
'Til the day I die

Oh, Baltimore
Ain′t it hard just to live?

Oh, Baltimore
Ain't it hard just to live?
Just to live