there was an old lady she lived in a shoe 

she got a whole lot of kids 

you can't miss em when you's coming through 

cause she be shacked up with little boy blue 

but half them kids 

ain't seen their pops since like 1982 

but down the street next to the swap meet 

that's the spot where the 3 little pigs 

yo they be catching beef 

they took tweedledee 

and knocked out his front teeth 

and left tweedledum just straight bleeding 

on the back seat 

I live on the corner man next to Jack and Jill 

you know them two brother and sisters 

who be acting ill 

I tell em to step back and chill 

but they'll smack ya grill 

now let me tell you straight up 

now you can catch the deal 

you know Humpty dumpty man 

they straight played him 

knocked him off the wall scrambled him up 

now and ate him 

see I aint playing where I live 

I got to stay praying 

and every time I come around 

y'all can hear me saying 



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Mary had a little lamb case you didn't know 

that little lamb took my sin made it white as snow 

and every where that the lamb will go 

that's the place I got to go man 

I got to see the streets of gold 



Sitting on the corner 

with my tape recorder and Jack Horner 

kicking freestyle raps for scraps of spare change 

to change my money range and cry like Danny Ainge 

till I make enough checks 

to win back my ex girl friend 

I can't pretend I didn't wish 

that I'd never seen her ill demeanor 

and this fly dish 

and the spoon ran away broke out to Santa Fe 

left me cold aint seen her since Saturday 

but hey I got to say I been dissed since way back 

bought a girl a knick knack but patty was wack 

in fact I'll get em all back using my rap sheet 

and make em outcast singing bah with the black sheep 

and take them to phat beats and show them my work 

and have them say I'm the man 

and play them out like a jerk 

and flirt with a wink and eyebrow on tilt 

and leave them there while I go 

to the house that Jack built singing.



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Don't get me started on Jack be Nimble 

I mean that cat's the kind of dude 

who just always seems to stay in trouble 

he always got to hustle kicking it 

with the 3 blind mice 

on the corner selling magic beans rolling dice 

now I be giving him advice 

but he can't understand 

Patty Cake? she used to chill w/ the bakers man 

she got God in her life now 

and if you see her right now 

it's a whole another sight now 

see I be quite proud 

just to see how Christ showed and blowed up 

and just turned her whole life around 

sometime I'm wishing I was living in a nicer town 

you know a place where London bridge 

ain't always falling down 

ya boy Old McDonald he's a little older now 

he had a farm but well it's kind of gone for now 

but see I'm a hold it down cause I got to stay praying 

and every time I come around yall can hear me saying 



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