Gil Scott-Heron — Sex Education: Ghetto Style lyrics

Lyrics

I was doing it when I was a colored boy of eight or nine or ten
I had never heard of Sigmund Freud, but, hell, I was doing it then
I was doing it in my teenaged years when I was running the ghetto street
Now I had never seen me no ink blot test, but it still felt good to me
I was doing it when I arrived in college, searching for my degree
But Lord knows a degree wasn’t all I got, and that’s the way it’s supposed to be
I hope that when I have kids of my own, they really don’t get shook
When I tell them that there are things they’ve got to learn that can’t be found
in books